Mandyam Veerambudi Srinivasan AM FRS, also known as "Srini", (born 1948) is an Australian bioengineer and neuroscientist[1] who studies visual systems, particularly those of bees and birds.
In 1985 he returned to the ANU, and set up an interdisciplinary research group which focused on investigating how bees use their vision to navigate and land very precisely.
This broad field has applications in robotics, especially unmanned aerial vehicles because of the competing needs for autonomy and a lightweight control system.
Srinivasan has shown that many ostensibly complex flight behaviours can be attributed to the tendency of the bee to keep optic flow constant.
[12][13] In 2024, further allegations of scientific misconduct were made against at least ten of Srinivasan's papers regarding honeybee odometry and navigation, including miscalculations, reuse of images, and manipulation of data.