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He is advised by Arijit Raychowdhury, an ECE associate professor and ON Semiconductor Junior Professor.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAnwar\u0026rsquo;s paper is titled \u0026ldquo;NAVREN-RL: Learning to Fly in Real Environment via End-To-End Deep Reinforcement Learning Using Monocular Images.\u0026rdquo; The paper focuses on the challenges posed by the implementation of reinforcement learning for the autonomous navigation of low cost drones with limited computational capability in real environments, without incurring any extra hardware cost.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThis work was supported by the SRC and DARPA-sponsored Center for Brain-inspired Computing Enabling Autonomous Intelligence. As a part of this project, Anwar and his colleagues in ICSRL are exploring hardware designs and architectures to enable ubiquitous intelligence from autonomous edge devices to the cloud.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EECE Ph.D. student\u0026nbsp;Aqeel Anwar won the Best Student Paper Award at the 25th IEEE Conference on Mechatronics and Machine Vision in Practice (M2VIP), held November 20-22, 2018 in Stuttgart, Germany.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"ECE Ph.D. student\u00a0Aqeel Anwar won the Best Student Paper Award at the 25th IEEE Conference on Mechatronics and Machine Vision in Practice (M2VIP), held November 20-22, 2018 in Stuttgart, Germany.\u00a0"}],"uid":"27241","created_gmt":"2018-12-03 15:59:51","changed_gmt":"2018-12-04 19:40:51","author":"Jackie Nemeth","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2018-12-03T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2018-12-03T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"614950":{"id":"614950","type":"image","title":"Aqeel Anwar","body":null,"created":"1543952404","gmt_created":"2018-12-04 19:40:04","changed":"1543952404","gmt_changed":"2018-12-04 19:40:04","alt":"photograph of Aqeel Anwar with the Ramblin\u0027 Wreck from Georgia Tech.","file":{"fid":"234163","name":"17834770_10208909358470613_1876107663761838543_o.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/17834770_10208909358470613_1876107663761838543_o.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/17834770_10208909358470613_1876107663761838543_o.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":562975,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/17834770_10208909358470613_1876107663761838543_o.jpg?itok=eTB2gdvb"}},"614875":{"id":"614875","type":"image","title":"Aqeel Anwar","body":null,"created":"1543852280","gmt_created":"2018-12-03 15:51:20","changed":"1543852280","gmt_changed":"2018-12-03 15:51:20","alt":"photograph of Aqeel Anwar","file":{"fid":"234137","name":"aqeel_anwar.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/aqeel_anwar.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/aqeel_anwar.png","mime":"image\/png","size":83959,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/aqeel_anwar.png?itok=valGSzZC"}}},"media_ids":["614950","614875"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/icsrl.ece.gatech.edu","title":"Integrated Circuits and Systems Research Lab"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu","title":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.gatech.edu","title":"Georgia Tech"},{"url":"https:\/\/m2vip-conference.org","title":"25th IEEE Conference on Mechatronics and Machine Vision in Practice (M2VIP)"},{"url":"https:\/\/engineering.purdue.edu\/C-BRIC","title":"Center for Brain-inspired Computing Enabling Autonomous Intelligence"}],"groups":[{"id":"1255","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"8862","name":"Student Research"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"147","name":"Military Technology"},{"id":"149","name":"Nanotechnology and Nanoscience"},{"id":"150","name":"Physics and Physical Sciences"},{"id":"152","name":"Robotics"}],"keywords":[{"id":"179889","name":"Aqeel Anwar"},{"id":"139771","name":"Arijit Raychowdhury"},{"id":"179890","name":"IEEE Conference on Mechatronics and Machine Vision in Practice (M2VIP)"},{"id":"139781","name":"Integrated Circuits and Systems Research Lab"},{"id":"179891","name":"reinforcement learning"},{"id":"179892","name":"autonomous navigation"},{"id":"34141","name":"Drones"},{"id":"166954","name":"SRC"},{"id":"690","name":"darpa"},{"id":"179893","name":"Center for Brain-inspired Computing Enabling Autonomous Intelligence"},{"id":"179894","name":"hardware design"},{"id":"179895","name":"hardware architecture"},{"id":"179896","name":"autonomous edge devices"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39451","name":"Electronics and Nanotechnology"},{"id":"39481","name":"National Security"},{"id":"39521","name":"Robotics"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJackie Nemeth\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESchool of Electrical and Computer Engineering\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E404-894-2906\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["jackie.nemeth@ece.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}