Ashwin Ashok is an Associate Professor and Associate Graduate Director in the Department of Computer Science, and Office of Faculty Affairs Faculty Associate for Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity at Georgia State University (GSU). He directs the MORSE Studio laboratory where his group focuses on systems research in emerging technologies in Mobile and Robotic Systems through experiential work. He received the NSF CAREER award in 2022 for advancing mobile visible light (optical wireless) communication.
His research interest spans areas in communications and networking, autonomous and robotic systems, precision agriculture and environmental systems, mobile health and animal behavior. Before starting at GSU in Fall 2016, he completed his postdoctoral research from Carnegie Mellon University and doctoral research from Wireless Information Network Lab (WINLAB) earning the Ph.D. degree from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rutgers University. He serves on the program committee for several ACM and IEEE conferences and journals, and currently as an Editor for Elsevier Vehicular Communications (VEHCOM) and vice-chair for IEEE P1920.2 (Vehicle to Vehicle Communications for Unmanned Aircraft Systems) standard working group committee. He currently is the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (RAS) Atlanta Chapter President and is an advisor for multiple student clubs including GSU IEEE Student branch, Girls-Who-Code, Tech4Creatives, Robotics, and Rocket Technologies. He enjoys playing cricket at the competitive level, singing, playing the mridangam (an Indian classical percussion instrument), traveling, movies, and food-hopping.