People

Faculty

John M. Dolan
Robotics Institute / ECE
Autonomous Vehicles, Intelligent Transportation, Robot Learning

PhD Students

Juan Rodolfo Alvarez-Padilla
ECE
Learning and Optimization Based Controls, Intelligent Transportation

Simin Liu
Robotics Institute 2020-2025
Co-Advisor: Changliu Liu
Safe Controls, Motion Planning

Yiwei Lyu
ECE

Maitham F. AL-Sunni
ECE 2024
Safe Control, Adaptive Control, Autonomous Driving

Mohammed Alsakabi
ECE 2023-2027
Co-Advisor: Ozan Tonguz
Multimodal Data Fusion, AV Perception, Applied Signal Processing and Machine Learning

Master Students

Wenli Xiao
MS Robotics 2023-2025
Co-Advisor: Guanya Shi
Robot Learning, Embodied AI, Agile Control, Foundation Model

Kai S. Yun
MS Mechanical Engineering 2023-2025
Co-Advisor: Changliu Liu
Safety-Critical/Learning-Based/Optimal Control

Yogita Choudhary
MS Robotics 2023-2025
Co-Advisor: Guanya Shi
Safe Control, Learning-based Control, Multi-agent Systems

Past Students

2024

Haoru Xue
MS Robotics 2022-2024
PhD, Berkeley AI Research, UC Berkeley
Robot Learning, Embodied AI, Whole-Body Control

Dvij Kalaria
MS Robotics 2022-2024
PhD, Berkeley AI Research, UC Berkeley
Agile Robots, Embodied AI, Reinforcement Learning, Adaptive Control

Before 2024

Post-Docs

Name	Years	Affiliation
Qin Lin	2019-2022	University of Houston Faculty
Matthias Althoff	2011-2012	TUM Faculty, Germany
Luis Navarro-Serment	2005-2006	CMU Faculty
Vei-Chung Liang	2005	Law Office of Vei-Chung Liang
Erol Sahin	2003	METU Faculty, Turkey
Ashitey Trebi-Ollennu	1997-1999	Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA
Jesus Salido	1996-1998	UCLM Faculty, Spain

PhD Students

Name	Years	Affiliation	Name	Years	Affiliation
Adam Villaflor	2018-2024	Chewy	Chen Fu	2018-2022	NVIDIA
Zhiqian Qiao	2016-2021	Bot Auto	Chris Tomaszewski	2014-2020	Georgia Tech Research Institute
Chiyu Dong	2014-2019	DiDi Autonomous Driving	Wenda Xu	2013-2019	Aptiv
Tianyu Gu	2012-2017	NVIDIA	Corey Ippolito	2011-2016	NASA Ames
Junqing Wei	2008-2017	CEO KargoBot	Chris Baker	2005-2010	NREC, CMU
Steve Stancliff	2004-2009	Sirius Cybernetics, DARPA	Bryan Low	2004-2009	NUS Faculty, Singapore
Yaron Rachlin	2002-2007	MIT Faculty	Poj Tangamchit	1998-2003	KMUTT Faculty, Tiland
Luis Navarro-Serment	1997-2005	CMU Faculty	Alvaro Soto	1997-2001	UC Chile Faculty, Chile

Master Students

Name	Affiliation	Name	Affiliation	Name	Affiliation
Pranay Agrawal	Cruise	David Asikin	CTO, Coiney	Matt Bernstein	Bosch
Tom Bu	NEC Labs	Imen Borgi	KIT, Germany	Chao Cao	CMU PhD
Philip Chang	–	Yilun Chen	Apple	Aaron Huang	Zoox
Haiyue (Bruce) Li	Google	Shivesh Khaitan	InstaDeep	Sandra Mau	VP Clarivate
Christoph Killing	LMU Munich, Germany	Aman Khurana	Argo AI	Ellie Lin	–
Radhika Mohanan	John Deere	Spence Oliver	AMD	Robert Lösch	TUBAF, Germany
Yanjun Pan	DeepRoute.ai	John Porter	Neya Systems	Mahesh Saptharishi	CTO Motorola Solutions
C.J. Taylor	Amazon	Soumith Udatha	Vayu Robotics	Alok Sharma	Motional
Ker-Jiun Wang	–	Adam Werries	Blue Origin	Xiangrui Yin	Materialise China
Jing Zhao	AutoX	Zherui Zhang	Argo AI

RISS and Visiting Students

Students are listed in the order of their visiting time, with their most up-to-date institution affiliation.

Robotics Institute Summer Scholars (RISS) is a summer research program for US and international students to conduct research in robotics & AI, and apply for graduate programs in STEM.