People

Faculty

John M. Dolan
Robotics Institute / ECE
Autonomous Vehicle, 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 AL-Sunni
ECE 2024
Safe Control, Adaptive Control, Learning-based Control

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
TODO

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 CMU Chen Fu 2018-2022 NVIDIA
Zhiqian Qiao 2016-2021 TuSimple 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 Titan Robotics
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 Spence Oliver AMD Robert Lรถsch 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.

2024

Yuning Wang (Visiting)
PhD, Tsinghua University

Fan Zhang (Visiting)
PhD, University of Houston

Paul Schulte (RISS)
BS Computer Science, RWTH Aachen University

Hojune Kim (RISS)
BS Mathematics and Engineering, Swarthmore College

Teodor Tchalakov (RISS)
BS Computer Engineering, UIUC

Chase Dunaway (RISS)
BS Mechanical Engineering, New Mexico Tech

2023

Nathan Ludlow (RISS)
MS Robotics, CMU Robotics Institute

2022

Caleb Chang (RISS)
Research Scholar, CMU Robotics Institute