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 | 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