Current Members

Faculty

Postdoctoral Researchers

Ph.D. Students

Undergraduates

Alumni

PostDoc

  • Avishai Sintov: Joined Tel-Aviv University as Assistant Professor upon completion
  • David Surovik: Joined University of Oxford as Postdoctoral Research Associate upon completion
  • Nicholas Stiffler: Joined University of Dayton, Ohio as Assistant Professor upon completion
  • Brian Ricks: Joined the University of Nebraska at Omaha as Assistant Professor upon completion

Ph.D. Students

  • Shiyang Lu: Joined Meta Reality Labs upon completion
  • Aravind Sivaramakrishnan: Joined Amazon Robotics upon completion
  • Bowen Wen: Joined NVIDIA Research upon completion
  • Rui Wang: Joined Diligent Robotics upon completion
  • Kun Wang: Joined Amazon Robotics upon completion
  • Chaitanya Mitash: Joined Amazon Robotics upon completion
  • Rahul Shome: Joined Rice University as a postdoctoral researcher upon completion – Currently a tenure track lecturer in the School of Computing at The Australian National University
  • Andrew Kimmel: Joined Amazon Robotics upon completion
  • Zakary Littlefield: Joined Uber Autonomy upon completion
  • Andrew Dobson: Joined University of Michigan, Ann Arbor as a postdoctoral researcher upon completion
  • Athanasios Krontiris: Joined Samsung Strategy and Innovation Center upon completion – Later joined Google Inc.

MS Students with Thesis

Undergraduates

  • Tasha Pais (Fall 2023 – Spring 2024)
  • Joe Doerr (Fall 2023 – Spring 2024), joined research group as a PhD student
  • Jack Lowry (Spring 2021 – Summer 2022)
  • Jasmine Flanders (Summer 2021), Project SUPER for Women in STEM
  • Daniel Boehm (Fall 2019 – Spring 2020) [Aresty fellow] Collaboration resulted in 1 conference publication with Daniel as a
    co-author.
  • Sruthi Soorian (Summer 2019 – Spring 2020), Project SUPER for Women in STEM, Collaboration resulted in 1 conference publication with Sruthi as a co-author
  • Seth Karten (Summer 2018 – Spring 2021), collaboration resulted in 1 conference publication with Seth as a co-author – Joined the MS in Robotics from Carnegie Mellon University and then continued as a PhD Candidate at Princeton University with Chi Jin
  • Patrick Meng (Summer 2017 – Spring 2021), collaboration resulted in 1 conference publication with Patrick as a first author – Joined the MS program of Columbia University and then continued as a PhD Candidate in Kostas Bekris’ group
  • Nicholas Griego (Fall 2017)
  • Han Meng (Summer 2015 – Summer 2016), Aresty Fellow and CCICADA researcher
  • Robert Gross (Summer 2014 – Summer 2016)
  • Robert Kolchmeyer (Fall 2014 – Summer 2015), Aresty Fellow, collaboration resulted in 1 conference publication with Robert as a
    first author.
  • Andrew Wells (Summer 2015), DIMACS REU Fellow – CUA student, joined Rice University as a PhD student
  • Poorva Sampat (Summer 2014 – Summer 2015), REU Fellow, CCICADA Research Assistant
  • Meera Murti (Summer 2014 – Summer 2015) CCICADA Research Assistant
  • Ainesh Bakshi (Fall 2014 – Spring 2015), Aresty Fellow
  • Gautam Venkatesan (Summer 2014), Aresty Fellow
  • Priyesh Shah (Summer 2014)
  • Grisam Shah (Summer 2014)
  • Isaac Yochelson (Summer 2013 – May 2014), Collaboration results in 1 conference publication.
  • Ellyn Thwaite (Summer 2013 – May 2014)
  • Joseph Jaeger (Summer 2013) – Joined the graduate program of UCSD.
  • Qandeel Sajid (Summer 2011 – Summer 2012) – 1 conference paper – Joined USC as graduate student upon graduation
  • Jared Rhizor (Fall 2011 – Spring 2012) – Joined LiveRamp.
  • Justin Cardoza (Fall 2011 – Spring 2012)
  • Zakary Littlefield (Fall 2010 – Summer 2011) – Joined group as a PhD student.
  • Ethan Pang (Fall 2010 – Summer 2011) – Joined Micron Technology, Inc. upon graduation
  • Andrew Dobson (Spring 2009-Spring 2010) – Joined group as a PhD student.
  • Alexis Oyama (Summer 2009-Spring 2010) – Collaboration resulted in 1 conference publication. Joined the MS program of the Entertainment Technology Center at Carnegie Mellon University