Meet the Team

Our intrepid leader (i.e. the PI)

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Robert Platt

Lab Director

Students

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Abhinav kumar

M.S. student, Robotics (ECE)

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Anio Zhang

M.S. student, Computer Science

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Arsh Tangri

M.S. student, Robotics (CS)

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Ashwin Ravindra Bharadwaj

M.S. student, Artificial intelligence

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Boce Hu

PhD student, CS

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Colin Kohler

PhD Student, CS

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Dian Wang

PhD student, CS, co-advised with Robin Walters

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Hai Nguyen

PhD student, CS, co-advised with Chris Amato

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Haibo Zhao

M.S. student, CS

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Haojie Huang

PhD student, CS

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Haotian Liu

Visiting student

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Heng Tian

M.S. student, Robotics (ECE)

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Javad Moein

M.S Student, AI

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Ondrej Biza

PhD student, CS, co-advised with Jan-Willem van de Meent and Lawson Wong

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Xupeng Zhu

PhD student, CS

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Yaoyao(Freax) Qian

M.S. student, Information Systems (IS)

Ph.D. Alumni

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Andreas ten Pas

Robotics Scientist at Botbuilt

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David Klee

Postdoc at Northeastern University

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Girik Malik

Applied Scientist at Amazon Web Services (AWS)

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Marcus Gualtieri

Research Scientist at Bosch

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Tarik Kelestemur

Roboticist at Boston Dynamics AI Institute

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Ulrich Viereck

Robotics Software Engineer at Berkshire Grey

Alumni News

  • Elias Mann, MS (AI), 2024. Now at Rowan.
  • Kenechi Dukor, MS (Robotics), 2024. Now at Motorola Solutions.
  • Mingxi Jia, MS (Robotics), 2023. Now a PhD student at Brown University.
  • Guanang Su, MS (Robotics), 2023. Now a PhD student at University of Minnesota.
  • Meishan Li, MS (Robotics), 2023. Now at CRRC MA.
  • Kevin Esslinger, MS (CS), 2023. Now at Flow Traders.
  • Neel Sortur, BS (CS), 2023.
  • Shuyi Lin, MS (CS), 2023.
  • Zhengyi Ou, MS (Robotics), 2021. Now at Medtronic.
  • Yida Niu, MS (Robotics), 2021.
  • Xinchao Song, MS (CS), 2021, Now a PhD student at Clarkson University
  • Jing Xie, MS (CS), 2019.
  • Kevin Doty, MS (ECE), 2019. Now at Neya Systems
  • Maozhi Liu, MS (ME), 2018. Now at Flexiv Robotics
  • Matt Corsaro, MS, 2016. Now a PhD student at Brown
  • Mordechai Rynderman, MS, 2016. Now a robotics engineer at iRobot
  • Caris Moses, MS, 2016. Now a PhD student at MIT.
  • Patrick Murphy, MS, 2016. Now an electromechanical engineer at Harvard.
  • Giulia Franchi, Visiting Student from U. Rome, 2015. Now an assistant professor at - Salisbury University
  • Swagatika Panda, MS, 2015. Now a software engineer at Amazon
  • Di Sun, MS, 2015. Now a robotics engineer at Fetch Robotics
  • Nate Roscup, MS, 2013.
  • Prahasaran Askoran, MS, 2013.
  • Julian Ryde, Research Assistant Professor. Now a Senior Research Scientist at United - Technologies Research Center (UTRC).
  • Scott Settembre, MS, 2012.