People
Principal Investigator
Ph.D. Students
Undergraduate Students
Postdogs
Alumni
Post Docs
Gerardo de la Torre
After Graduating: Northrop Grumman
Kathrin Flaßkamp
After Graduating: PostDoc/Research Assistant in Optimization and Optimal Group, University of Bremen
David Pekarek
After Graduating: Data Tactics
Benjamin Tovar
After Graduating: Lead Research Software Engineer at Cooperative Computing Lab, University of Notre Dame
Ph.D. Students
Thomas Berrueta
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Thesis: Robot Thermodynamics, 2024
After Graduating: Postdoc at Caltech
Milli Schlafly
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Thesis: Robot Design and Control for Human Movement and Cognition, 2024
After Graduating: Postdoc at ETH
Kyra Rudy
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Thesis: Assessment and Assistance for Dynamic and Safety-Critical Human Motion, 2023
After Graduating: AI Consultant at Outlier
Ola Kalinowska
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Thesis: Human-Machine Communication in Assistive and Rehabilitation Robotics, 2023
After Graduating: Software Engineer at Google's X, the moonshot factory
Taosha Fan
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Thesis: Efficient and Guaranteed Geometric Methods for Motion Generation and Perception, 2022
After Graduating: Research Scientist at Meta AI
Ana Pervan
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Thesis: Co-Design of Bodies and Strategies, 2021
After Graduating: Research Scientist at Wayve, Research Scientist at Fauna Robotics
Giorgos Mamakoukas
Lab Profile
Thesis: Real-Time Safe Control for Model-Based and Data-Driven Robotics, 2021
After Graduating: Research Scientist at Motional
Rebecca Abbott
Lab Profile
Thesis: Active Model-Based Inference for Muscle Strength Diagnostics, 2021
After Graduating: Assistant Professor of Physical Therapy (SOM) at University of Colorado School of Medicine
Katie Fitzsimons
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Thesis: Physical Human-Robot Interaction for Assistance and Training Using Information Metrics, 2020
After Graduating: Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Penn State
Ahalya Prabhakar
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Thesis: Communicating and Modeling Information through Motion, 2020
After Graduating: Postdoc at Learning Algorithms and Systems Lab, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL)
Ian Abraham
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Thesis: Optimal Experimental Learning and Infinite Linear Embeddings, 2020
After Graduating: Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Yale University
Emmanouil Tzorakoleftherakis
Thesis: Stable Control Synthesis for Human-in-the-Loop Systems, 2017
After Graduating: Mathworks
Anastasia Mavrommati
Thesis: Real-Time Algorithms for Symbol-Based Automation, 2017
After Graduating: Schlumberger-Doll Research; Robotics Research Scientist at Mathworks
Lauren Miller
Thesis: Optimal Ergodic Control for Active Search and Information Acquisition, 2015
After Graduating: Postdoc at Autolab, UC Berkeley; Senior Software Engineer at Marble
Alex Ansari
Thesis: Sequential Action Control: Closed-Form Optimal Feedback for Nonlinear and Hybrid Systems, 2015
After Graduating: Postdoc at Biorobotics Lab, Carnegie Mellon University 2015-2017; Uber
Andrew Wilson
Thesis: Information-based Trajectory Optimization for Active Estimation in Mechanical Systems, 2015
After Graduating: Robotics and Control Engineer at Intuitive Surgical
Jarvis Schultz
Thesis: Discrete Mechanics Computation for Real-Time Embedded Control, 2014
After Graduating: Senior Robotics Engineer at Azevtec
Vlad Seghete
Thesis: Numerical Methods for Simulation and Control of Impacting Mechanical Systems, 2014
After Graduating: Data Scientist at DataScope Analytics
Tim Caldwell
Thesis: Iterative Methods in Switched System Optimal Control, 2013
After Graduating: Postdoc at the University of Colorado at Boulder; Software Engineer at Zoox
Elizabeth Jochum
Thesis: Deux Ex Machina: Towards an Aesthetics of Autonomous and Semi-Autonomous Machines, 2013
After Graduating: Assistant Professor at Aalborg University
Elliot Johnson
Thesis: Trajectory Optimization and Regulation for Constrained Discrete Mechanical Systems, 2012
After Graduating: Southwest Research Institute
Matt Travers
Thesis: Impulse Smoothing for Data Association, 2011
After Graduating: System Scientist at Biorobotics Lab, The Robotics Institute, CMU
Brian Shucker
Thesis: Control of Distributed Robotic Macrosensors, 2006
After Graduating: MIT Lincoln Laboratories
Undergraduate and M.S. Students
Maxwell Patwardhan
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M.S. 2024
After Graduating: Sargent & Lundy
Jonathan Bosnich
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M.S. 2024
Maia Traub
B.S. 2024
After Graduating: Universal Creative
Katie Hughes
M.S. 2023
After Graduating: Boston Dynamics AI Institute
Sophia Schiffer
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B.S. 2023
After Graduating: Focal Point, LLC
Katarina Popovic
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M.S. 2023
Karalyn Baird
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B.S./M.S. 2021
After Graduating: Boeing
Alex Samland
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B.S./M.S. 2020
Jenny Kim
B.S. 2020
Andrew Kim
B.S. 2019
Chris Kim
B.S. 2019
After Graduating: Pursuing Ph.D. at University of Pennsylvania
Samuel Donis
B.S. 2019
Vismaya Walawalkar
M.S. 2017
Scott Beck
B.S. 2017
After Graduating: SpaceX
Henry Hung
B.S. 2015
After Graduating: 3M
Elliot Hevel
B.S./M.S. 2013
After Graduating: Civis Analytics
Katy Powers
B.S. 2013
After Graduating: 6 River Systems
Yoke Peng Leong
B.S./M.S. 2012
After Graduating: Ph.D. at California Institute of Technology; Mathworks
Corrina Gibson
B.S. 2012
Camaria Lehman
B.S. 2011
Matanya Horowitz
B.S. 2010
Kirk Nichols
B.S./M.S. 2010