Dr. Sreenatha Anavatti is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Engineering and Technology at UNSW Canberra, University of New South Wales. His academic career began at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, where he served as Assistant Professor from 1991 to 1997 and Associate Professor from 1997 to 1998. In 1998, he joined UNSW at the Australian Defence Force Academy campus as a Lecturer, advancing to Senior Lecturer in 2001, a position he holds today. Throughout his tenure at UNSW, Anavatti has taught courses in flight mechanics, flight control systems, missile guidance, spacecraft dynamics, orbital mechanics, classical control theory, and modern control theory. His consulting interests include flight dynamics, design of autopilots for aircraft and missiles, flexible spacecraft dynamics and control, active vibration control, and applications of fuzzy logic and neural networks.

Anavatti's research specializes in the application of fuzzy logic and neural networks to aerospace applications, such as wing rock suppression, attitude controllers for flexible spacecraft, control of flexible robotic arms, and design and analysis of robust autopilots for aircraft and missiles. Additional focus areas encompass flight dynamics, flexible spacecraft dynamics and control, active vibration control, and practical implementations of fuzzy and neural networks. He has authored or co-authored numerous influential publications, including the highly cited 'PANFIS: A novel incremental learning machine' (2013, over 300 citations), 'Multimodal fusion for objective assessment of cognitive workload: A review' (2019, 243 citations), 'Towards real-time monocular depth estimation for robotics: A survey' (2022, 219 citations), 'GENEFIS: Toward an effective localist network' (2013, 200 citations), and 'State-of-the-art intelligent flight control systems in unmanned aerial vehicles' (2017, 189 citations). Other notable contributions include 'Electroencephalographic workload indicators during teleoperation of an unmanned aerial vehicle shepherding a swarm of unmanned ground vehicles in contested environments' (2020, 132 citations), 'Visual–inertial navigation systems for aerial robotics: Sensor fusion and technology' (2016, 132 citations), and 'Design and construction of an autonomous underwater vehicle' (2014, 127 citations). Book chapters cover topics like scalable adversarial online continual learning (2023), tuning swarm behavior for environmental sensing (2022), and modeling quadrotor UAVs using type-2 fuzzy systems (2021). His work has significantly impacted fields like autonomous systems, UAV control, human-swarm teaming, and robotics through extensive collaborations and high citation counts.

Professional Email: s.anavatti@adfa.edu.au