Ph.D. Students

Current

Benjamin Wong (Co-advised with Prof. Santosh Devasia)

Department: Mechanical Engineering

Projects: Active Planning for Multi-Robot Inspection of Confined Spaces & Supervisory Control of Multi-Robot Aerospace Assembly Workstations

Marina Ruediger

Department: Mechanical Engineering

Project: Autonomous Multi-Robot Inspection of Submerged Vessels

Xingjian Yang

Department: Mechanical Engineering

Projects: Multimodal Ergonomic Risk Assessment for Hand (Composites) Layup Operations & Real-Time 6D Object Pose Estimation in Cluttered Indoor Scenes

Vamsi Jonnalagadda

Department: Mechanical Engineering

Project: Decentralized Mapping of Cluttered Indoor Environments Using a Team of Low-Cost Mobile Robots

Sami Park (co-advised with Prof. Linda Ng Boyle)

Department: Industrial & Systems Engineering

Project: Enhancing Safety and Trust Through Interpretable Driver Situational Awareness Prediction Models

Chris Salazar

Department: Industrial & Systems Engineering

Project: Investigation of Machine Learning Models for Time Series Forecasting

Graduated

Ekta Samani

Department: Mechanical Engineering

Dissertation: Topological Representations for Visual Object Recognition in Unseen Indoor Environments (2023)

Current Position: Postdoctoral Scientist at Amazon

Jundi Liu (co-advised with Prof. Linda Ng Boyle)

Department: Industrial & Systems Engineering

Dissertation: Customized Vehicle Automation Using Human-in-the-Loop Reinforcement Learning (2022)

Current Position: Assistant Professor at Iowa State University

Behnoosh Parsa

Department: Mechanical Engineering

Dissertation: Deep Learning Methods for Video-Based Human Activity Recognition in Industrial Settings (2020)

Current Position: Sr. Applied Scientist at Amazon

Steven Hwang (Co-advised with Prof. Linda Ng Boyle)

Department: Industrial & Systems Engineering

Dissertation: Take-Over Time Modeling and Prediction for Conditional Driving Automation (2020)

Current Position: Senior Data Scientist at ByteDance

Veniamin (Ben) Tereshchuk (Co-advised with Prof. Santosh Devasia)

Department: Mechanical Engineering

Dissertation: Multi-Robot Task Allocation and Scheduling for Efficient Aircraft Structure Assembly (2020)

Current Position: Robotics Research Engineer at The Boeing Company

Wei Guo

Department: Industrial & Systems Engineering

Dissertation: Feature Extraction Using Topological Data Analysis for Machine Learning and Network Science Applications (2019)

Current Position: Engineering Data Scientist II at the Boeing Company

Visting Scholars and Research Scientists

Past

Heena Ugale

Department: Industrial & Systems Engineering

Project: Imputation of Insulin Response Data in Patients with Type II Diabetes (2021)

Current Position: Associate Principal AI Scientist at AstraZeneca

Alberto Badias

Department: Mechanical Engineering

Project: Mathematical Analysis of Deep Learning Models (2019)

Current Position: Associate Professor at the Polytechnic University of Madrid, Spain

M.S. Students

Current

Tommy Zhang

Department: Mechanical Engineering

Project: Optical Tweezers Automation

Apoorva Patil

Department: Mechanical Engineering

Project: Anomaly Detection in Confined Spaces

Chaitanya K. Mullapudi

Department: Electrical & Computer Engineering

Project: Active Perception in Cluttered Indoor Environments

Graduated

Ivan Stepanov

Department: Mechanical Engineering

Project: Machine Learning for Automated Fiber Placement (2023)

Current Position: Pursuing Ph.D. at the University of Washington, Seattle, WA

Astrid Haig

Department: Mechanical Engineering

Project: Machine Learning for Automated Fiber Placement (2023)

Current Position: Pursuing Ph.D. at the University of Washington, Seattle, WA

Nikolay Bykov

Department: Mechanical Engineering

Project: Multi-Robot Cooperation (2023)

Current Position: Software Development Engineer at Amazon

John Stewart

Department: Mechanical Engineering

Project: Thermoplastic Composites Processing (2021)

Current Position: Engineer at Magic Metals

Ankur Jay

Department: Mechanical Engineering

Thesis: Y.A.R.M. - YARM's Another Random Motion Planner: Enabling Multiple Mobile Robots to Remove Debris in Industrial Environments (2020)

Current Position: Robotics Engineer at May Mobility

Niyousha Rahimi

Department: Mechanical Engineering

Thesis: Multi-Agent Consensus Optimization in Large-Scale Supply Networks (2018)

Current Position: Pursuing Ph.D. in Aeronautics & Astronautics at the University of Washington, Seattle, WA

Keshav Rajasekaran

Department: Mechanical Engineering

Thesis: Stochastic Dynamics Modeling and Motion Control of Optically Trapped Microspheres (2017)

Current Position: Pursuing Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Maryland, College Park, MD

Manasa Bollavaram

Department: Mechanical Engineering

Project: Optical Patterning of Biological Cells (2017)

Current Position: Senior Software Engineer at AMD

Rohit Rajagopal

Department: Mechanical Engineering

Project: Multivariate Regression of Time Series Data (2017)

Current Position: Manufacturing Engineer at Vulcan Global Manufacturing Solutions

Amanda Dalstam

Department: Industrial & Systems Engineering (Visiting Student)

Current Position: Digital Lead at Permanova, Sweden

Undergraduate Researchers

Current

  • Nicole Michelle Werner: Junior in Environmental Science
  • Ryan Lee: Sophomore in Electrical & Computer Engineering
  • Previous

  • Shankruth Balasubramaniyam: Summer intern from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India
  • Saniya Patwardhan: Summer intern from the Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar, India
  • Tommy Zhang: B.S. in Industrial & Systems Engineering
  • Viveka Ramanathan: Junior in Industrial & Systems Engineering
  • Nikolay Bykov: B.S. in Mechanical Engineering
  • William Locatelli: B.S. in Industrial & Systems Engineering
  • Karthik Karvaje: Summer intern from the Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar, India
  • Pushpakraj Shyamappa: Summer intern from Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar, India
  • Yuxi Xu: B.S. in Industrial & Systems Engineering
  • Quinlan Ferguson: B.S. in Applied Physics
  • Lukas Wavrin: B.S. in Mechanical Engineering
  • Jordan Nelson: B.S. in Materials Science & Engineering
  • John Stewart: B.S. in Industrial & Systems Engineering
  • Shashi Mohan Singh: Summer intern from the Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar, India
  • Prasanna Raut: Summer intern from the Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar, India
  • Ekta Samani: Summer intern from the Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar, India
  • Siripong Somboon: B.S. in Industrial & Systems Engineering