People
Faculty
John M. Dolan
Robotics Institute / ECE
Autonomous Vehicles, Intelligent Transportation, Robot Learning
Current Members
Juan Rodolfo Alvarez-Padilla
MIT AeroAstro PhD 2026
ECE PhD 2022-2025
Co-Advisor: Zachary Manchester
Learning and Optimization-Based Controls, Intelligent Transportation
Mohammed Alsakabi
ECE PhD 2023
Co-Advisor: Ozan Tonguz
Multimodal Data Fusion, AV Perception, Applied Signal Processing and Machine Learning
Maitham F. AL-Sunni
ECE PhD 2024
Adaptive Control, Safe Control, Autonomous Driving
Henry Z. Liao
RI MS 2025
Adaptive Control, Learning-based Control
Myra Cropper
ECE MS 2025
Co-Advisor: Ozan Tonguz
AV Perception, Applied AI/ML, Sim2Real
Sebin Jung
Research Assistant 2026
MechE MS 2024-2026
Co-Advisor: Changliu Liu
Safe Control, Adaptive Control, Robot Learning
Alumni
Post-Docs
Qin Lin (2019-2022)
Affiliation: University of Houston Faculty
Luis Navarro-Serment (2005-2006)
Affiliation: CMU Faculty
Matthias Althoff (2011-2012)
Affiliation: TUM Faculty, Germany
Vei-Chung Liang (2005)
Affiliation: Law Office of Vei-Chung Liang
Erol Sahin (2003)
Affiliation: METU Faculty, Turkey
Jesus Salido (1996-1998)
Affiliation: UCLM Faculty, Spain
Ashitey Trebi-Ollennu (1997-1999)
Affiliation: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA
PhD Students
Simin Liu (RI PhD 2020-2025)
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Adam Villaflor (RI PhD 2018-2024)
Affiliation: Chewy
Yiwei Lyu (ECE PhD 2019-2025)
Affiliation: Texas A&M University Faculty
Chen Fu (ECE PhD 2018-2022)
Affiliation: NVIDIA
Zhiqian Qiao (ECE PhD 2016-2021)
Affiliation: Bot Auto
Chris Tomaszewski (RI PhD 2014-2020)
Affiliation: Georgia Tech Research Institute
Chiyu Dong (ECE PhD 2014-2019)
Affiliation: DiDi Autonomous Driving
Wenda Xu (ECE PhD 2013-2019)
Affiliation: Aptiv
Tianyu Gu (ECE PhD 2012-2017)
Affiliation: NVIDIA
Corey Ippolito (ECE PhD 2011-2016)
Affiliation: NASA Ames
Junqing Wei (ECE PhD 2008-2017)
Affiliation: CEO KargoBot
Chris Baker (RI PhD 2005-2010)
Affiliation: NREC, CMU
Steve Stancliff (PhD 2004-2009)
Affiliation: Sirius Cybernetics, DARPA
Bryan Low (ECE PhD 2004-2009)
Affiliation: NUS Faculty, Singapore
Yaron Rachlin (ECE PhD 2002-2007)
Affiliation: MIT Faculty
Poj Tangamchit (ECE PhD 1998-2003)
Affiliation: KMUTT Faculty, Thailand
Luis Navarro-Serment (ECE PhD 1997-2005)
Affiliation: CMU Faculty
Alvaro Soto (RI PhD 1997-2001)
Affiliation: UC Chile Faculty, Chile
MS Students
Yogita Choudhary (RI MS 2023-2025)
Affiliation: Georgia Tech PhD
Wenli Xiao (RI MS 2023-2025)
Affiliation: CMU PhD
Kai S. Yun (MechE MS 2023-2025)
Affiliation: MIT PhD
Dvij Kalaria (RI MS 2022-2024)
Affiliation: UC Berkeley PhD
Haoru Xue (RI MS 2022-2024)
Affiliation: UC Berkeley PhD
Tom Bu (MS)
Affiliation: NEC Labs
Pranay Agrawal (MS)
Affiliation: Cruise
Philip Chang (MS)
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Haiyue (Bruce) Li (MS)
Affiliation: Google
Radhika Mohanan (MS)
Affiliation: John Deere
Christoph Killing (MS)
Affiliation: LMU Munich, Germany
Yanjun Pan (MS)
Affiliation: DeepRoute.ai
C.J. Taylor (MS)
Affiliation: Amazon
Jing Zhao (MS)
Affiliation: AutoX
Ker-Jiun Wang (MS)
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David Asikin (MS)
Affiliation: CTO, Coiney
Imen Borgi (MS)
Affiliation: KIT, Germany
Shivesh Khaitan (MS)
Affiliation: InstaDeep
Yilun Chen (MS)
Affiliation: Apple
Aman Khurana (MS)
Affiliation: Argo AI
Spence Oliver (MS)
Affiliation: AMD
Soumith Udatha (MS)
Affiliation: Vayu Robotics
John Porter (MS)
Affiliation: Neya Systems
Adam Werries (MS)
Affiliation: Blue Origin
Zherui Zhang (MS)
Affiliation: Argo AI
Chao Cao (MS)
Affiliation: CMU PhD
Matt Bernstein (MS)
Affiliation: Bosch
Aaron Huang (MS)
Affiliation: Zoox
Sandra Mau (MS)
Affiliation: VP Clarivate
Robert Lösch (MS)
Affiliation: TUBAF, Germany
Ellie Lin (MS)
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Mahesh Saptharishi (MS)
Affiliation: CTO Motorola Solutions
Alok Sharma (MS)
Affiliation: Motional
Xiangrui Yin (MS)
Affiliation: Materialise China
Visiting Scholars
Researchers and PhD Students
Antonio Artuñedo (2026)
Tenured Scientist at CSIC, Spain
Yuning Wang (2024)
PhD, Tsinghua University, China
Naa Korkoi Addo (2025)
PhD, University of Limerick, Ireland
Fan Zhang (2024)
PhD, University of Houston
Undergraduate Students
Saba Tsirekidze (RISS 2026)
BS in Software, Data, and Technology, Constructor University, Germany
William Muckelroy III (RISS 2025)
BS in Computer Engineering,
University of Pittsburgh
Tianhao Wu (2025)
BS in Computer Science, USC
Paul Schulte (RISS 2024)
BS in Computer Science, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Teodor Tchalakov (RISS 2024)
BS in Computer Engineering, UIUC
Chase Dunaway (RISS 2024)
BS in Mechanical Engineering, New Mexico Tech
Caleb Chang (RISS 2022)
BS in Electrical Engineering, Georgia Tech
Andres Reyes (RISS 2026)
BS in Robotics Engineering,
Universidad de Guadalajara, Mexico
Timeea-Andreea Radu (RISS 2025)
BS in Robotics and Intelligent Systems, Constructor University, Germany
Devodita Chakravarty (2025)
BTech & MTech in Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India
Kevin Chen (RISS 2024-2025)
BS in Computer Science and Mathematics, Rutgers University
Hojune Kim (RISS 2024)
BS in Mathematics and Engineering, Swarthmore College
Nathan Ludlow (RISS 2023)
BS in Mechanical Engineering, Brigham Young University
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.
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