People: add alumni Rithvika Iyer (MS), Aditya Rai, Benjamin Oommen, Masaad Khan and Sree Duggirala (undergrad), with photos and LinkedIn

Author: oguzhan-baser

_people/aditya_rai.md

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+name: Aditya Rai
+title: Aditya Rai
+position: alumni
+avatar: aditya_rai.jpg
+degree: undergrad
+start_year: 2022
+end_year: 2022
+placement: Veris
+linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/raiaditya1/
+---
+
+- _Bachelor's Student, Computer Science, UT Austin_<br>
+
+<span class="sc">**Aditya Rai**</span> was an undergraduate researcher in the Swarm Lab in 2022 while pursuing a BS in Computer Science at UT Austin. Aditya then co-founded the startup Veris and is now a software engineer in autonomy and perception at Saronic Technologies.

_people/benjamin_oommen.md

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+name: Benjamin Oommen
+title: Benjamin Oommen
+position: alumni
+avatar: benjamin_oommen.jpg
+degree: undergrad
+start_year: 2022
+end_year: 2022
+placement: Etched
+linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/benjamin-oommen/
+---
+
+- _Bachelor's Student, Computer Science (Turing Scholars Honors), UT Austin_<br>
+
+<span class="sc">**Benjamin Oommen**</span> was an undergraduate researcher in the Swarm Lab in 2022 while pursuing a BS in Computer Science (Turing Scholars Honors) at UT Austin. Benjamin co-authored the lab's control-theoretic approach to blockchain token economies, published as ControlPay at IEEE Blockchain 2024. After internships at AMD and Etched, Benjamin joined Etched as a Member of Technical Staff working on architecture and RTL.

_people/masaad_khan.md

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+name: Masaad Khan
+title: Masaad Khan
+position: alumni
+avatar: masaad_khan.jpg
+degree: undergrad
+start_year: 2023
+end_year: 2023
+placement: Tesla
+linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/masaad-khan/
+---
+
+- _Bachelor's Student, Electrical and Computer Engineering, UT Austin_<br>
+
+<span class="sc">**Masaad Khan**</span> was an undergraduate researcher in the Swarm Lab while pursuing a BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering at UT Austin, and co-authored "Dynamic Selection of Perception Models for Robotic Control". Masaad then joined Tesla as a hardware design engineer, moved to Enfabrica, and is now a Member of Technical Staff at Etched.

_people/rithvika_iyer.md

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+name: Rithvika Iyer
+title: Rithvika Iyer
+position: alumni
+avatar: rithvika_iyer.jpg
+degree: ms
+start_year: 2023
+end_year: 2024
+interests: Large language models, deep learning, computer vision
+placement: NVIDIA
+linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rithvika-iyer-b93513154/
+---
+
+- _MS Student, Computer Science, UT Austin_<br>
+
+<span class="sc">**Rithvika Iyer**</span> was a Master's student in Computer Science at UT Austin and a graduate research assistant in the Swarm Lab from 2023 to 2024, with internships at MathWorks and Intel during the degree. Before UT, Rithvika was a machine learning engineer at Jio. Rithvika then joined NVIDIA and is now a Senior System Design Engineer there.

_people/sree_duggirala.md

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+name: Sree Duggirala
+title: Sree Duggirala
+position: alumni
+avatar: sree_duggirala.jpg
+degree: undergrad
+start_year: 2023
+end_year: 2023
+placement: Flowdesk
+linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sreevanthduggirala/
+---
+
+- _Bachelor's Student, Electrical and Computer Engineering, UT Austin_<br>
+
+<span class="sc">**Sree Duggirala**</span> was an undergraduate researcher in the Swarm Lab in 2023 while pursuing a BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering at UT Austin, where Sree founded and later led Texas Blockchain. After internships at Foundry, Digital Currency Group and Artemis, Sree joined Flowdesk as a quantitative trading analyst.