Rate My Professor Gautham Das

Gautham P. Das is a Senior Lecturer in Agri-Robotics at the Lincoln Agri-Robotics centre (LAR) of the University of Lincoln, UK. He is affiliated with the School of Agri-Food Technology & Manufacturing and the Lincoln Institute for Agri-Food Technology (LIAT). His research specializations encompass multi-robot systems, agri-robotics, machine learning, computational modelling, and optimisation techniques. These interests guide his work towards scalable and efficient autonomous robotic fleets for agricultural applications, including precision farming tasks such as soil mapping and crop management. Previously, Das held the position of Lecturer in Agri-Robotics at LIAT from January 2020 to August 2020, served as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Lincoln from 2018 to 2019, and worked as a Research Associate at the Intelligent Systems Research Group.

Das has published several key papers advancing multi-robot coordination in agriculture. Notable among them is "CRH*: A Deadlock Free Framework for Scalable Prioritised Path Planning in Multi-Robot Systems" (2021, co-authored with James R. Heselden), which develops a rescheduling algorithm for decoupled prioritised planning, ensuring deadlock-free operations in shared workspaces like farms. In 2023, he contributed to "Smart Parking System Using Heuristic Optimization For Autonomous Transportation Robots In Agriculture" (with Andrew Perrett, Marc Hanheide, James Heselden, and others), formulating optimisation for agrobot parking. Recent publications include "Kriging-Variance-Informed Multi-Robot Path Planning and Task Allocation for Efficient Mapping of Soil Properties" (with Laurence Roberts-Elliott and Grzegorz Cielniak) and "A Unified Topological Representation for Robotic Fleets in Agricultural Environments" (2025, with Grzegorz Cielniak, James Heselden, Simon Pearson, and others). An earlier highly cited work is "Hydro thermal scheduling using particle swarm optimization" (cited by 54). His research has garnered over 834 citations on Google Scholar, influencing robust multi-robot systems for sustainable agriculture. Das is involved with the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Agri-Food Robotics: AgriFoRwArdS.