Ajay Suresha Sathya

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Hall of Mirrors, Versailles Palace, Paris.

I am a Marie-Curie post-doctoral fellow in the Willow Research Team at Inria Paris and the Computer Science Department of ENS Paris, where my research is done in collaboration with Justin Carpentier and Stéphane Caron. My current research focus lies in advancing model-based control and dynamics algorithms with applications in locomotion and manipulation.

I previously obtained my PhD in Mechanical Engineering from KU Leuven in the MECO Research Team supervised by Jan Swevers, Goele Pipeleers and Wilm Decré.

news

Dec 01, 2025 Served as an Associate Editor for ICRA, Humanoids and IROS in 2025.
Jun 01, 2025 IEEE RA-L Best Paper 2024.
Jun 01, 2025 Deeply honored to have received the best paper award for the year 2024 from IEEE RAS TC on Model-Based Optimization.
May 01, 2025 Starting as a Marie-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at Inria Paris.

selected publications

  1. Constrained Articulated Body Dynamics Algorithms for Closed-Loop Mechanisms
    Ajay Suresha Sathya, and Justin Carpentier
    IEEE Transactions on Robotics (Accepted for Publication), 2025
  2. Constrained Articulated Body Dynamics Algorithms
    Ajay Suresha Sathya, and Justin Carpentier
    IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 2025
  3. Efficient Constrained Dynamics Algorithms Based on an Equivalent LQR Formulation Using Gauss’ Principle of Least Constraint
    Ajay Suresha Sathya, Herman Bruyninckx, Wilm Decré, and Goele Pipeleers
    IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 2024