Faculty

Visiting Scholars and Postdoctoral Fellows

Dr. Justin Yim (Postdoctoral Researcher 2020-2022) - Professor at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Dr. George Council (Postdoctoral Researcher 2020-2021) - Ford

Dr. Vahidreza Molazadeh (Postdoctoral Fellow 2020) - National Institutes of Health, GM

Dr. Amir Patel (Visiting Scholar 2018) - University College London, University of Cape Town

Ph.D Students

Dr. Paul Nadan (Robotics 2025)

Dr. J. Joe Payne (Mechanical Engineering 2024) - Relativity Space

Dr. James Zhu (Mechanical Engineering 2024) - LAAS-CNRS

Dr. Sean Wang (Mechanical Engineering 2024) - Zoox

Dr. Catherine Pavlov (Mechanical Engineering 2023) - Collaborative Robotics, NASA JPL

Dr. Nathan Kong (Mechanical Engineering 2022) - Amazon Robotics

Dr. Joseph Norby (Mechanical Engineering 2022) - Apptronik

Dr. Ankit Bhatia (Robotics 2022) - Amazon Robotics

Masters Students

Nate Klein (Mechanical Engineering 2025)

Honghao Zhu (Mechanical Engineering 2024)

Selvin Garcia Gonzalez (Mechanical Engineering 2024) - Boeing, Air Force Research Labs

Ian Krause (Mechanical Engineering 2024) - ARM Automation

Daniela Castleberg (Mechanical Engineering 2023) - Microsoft

Nikhil Chinnalapatti Gopinath (Mechanical Engineering 2023) - Walmart Robotics

Shane Deng (Mechanical Engineering 2023) - PhD Student at Northwestern

James Kyle (Mechanical Engineering 2023) - Holocene

Judson Kyle (Mechanical Engineering 2023) - Noah Medical

Hao Luo (Mechanical Engineering 2023) - PhD Student at Notre Dame

Jiming Ren (Mechanical Engineering 2023) - PhD Student at Georgia Tech

Alex Stutt (Mechanical Engineering 2023)

Yanhao Yang (Mechanical Engineering 2022) - PhD Student at Oregon State University

Qishun Yu (Mechanical Engineering 2022) - Plus.ai

Kamal Carter (Mechanical Engineering 2021) - Hebi Robotics, Boston Dynamics

Nathan Esantsi (Mechanical Engineering 2021) - NASA Goddard

Nikolai Flowers (Mechanical Engineering 2021) - Waymo

Jen-Hung Ho (Mechanical Engineering 2021) - Volvo

Nicholas Jones (Mechanical Engineering 2021) - SpaceX

Akshit Mishra (Mechanical Engineering 2021) - Serve Robotics, Near Earth Autonomy

Ardalan Tajbakhsh (Mechanical Engineering 2021) - Zebra Technologies, PhD Student at CMU

Mike Turski (Mechanical Engineering 2021) - GM

Yu-Chun Chen (Mechanical Engineering 2020) - Amazon Lab126

Morgan Montalvo (Mechanical Engineering 2020) - NASA JPL

Wooshik Kim (Mechanical Engineering 2019) - Mathworks

Peter Li (Mechanical Engineering 2019) - HG Tech, PhD Student at University of Toronto

Barrett Werner (Mechanical Engineering 2019) - Czero

Adam Zeloof (Mechanical Engineering 2019) - Boston Dynamics

Vivaan Bahl (Electrical Engineering 2019) - Apple

Cameron Selby (Mechanical Engineering 2018) - BriteLab

Wei Wang (Mechanical Engineering 2018) - Pony.ai

Tim Jung (Mechanical Engineering 2017) NASA JPL, Amazon Robotics, Zoox

Xiaohan Jin (Computer Vision 2017) - Waymo

Yifan Xing (Computer Vision 2017) - Amazon

Undergraduate Students

Jai Kumar (Electrical & Computer Engineering and Computer Science) - SpaceX

Riley Krzywda (Computer Science 2025)

Kim Hansen (Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering 2026)

Anoushka Shrivastava (Artificial Intelligence 2025)

Matthew Hyatt (Mechanical Engineering 2024)

Christopher Keefe (Mechanical Engineering 2024)

Chiara Rissola (Mechanical Engineering 2024)

Fayyad Zakaria (Mechanical Engineering 2024)

Amen Assefa (Mechanical Engineering 2023)

Sidney Nimako-Boateng (Mechanical Engineering 2023) - DoorDash Labs, MS Student at CMU

Sarah Stapleton (Mechanical Engineering 2023) - Southwest Research Institute

Jesse Wallace (Mechanical Engineering 2023) - Planted Solar

Jessica Chan (Electrical Engineering & Computer Science 2025)

Ashira Johara (Mechanical Engineering 2025)

Alisha Patel (Mechanical Engineering 2025)

Ryan Bao (Mechanical Engineering 2024)

Alexander Hakim (Mechanical Engineering 2024)

Akshay Chekuri (Electrical Engineering & Computer Science 2023) - M.S. Student at CMU, KEF Robotics

Charles Pun (Mechanical Engineering 2023) - Geico

Sathya Subramanian (Mechanical Engineering 2023) - Caterpillar

Hannah He (Computer Science 2022) - Aurora

Edward Lu (Electrical Engineering 2022) - PhD Student at CMU

Andrew Osborn (Mechanical Engineering 2022) - Amazon Robotics

Arushi Singh (Mechanical Engineering 2022) - MS Student at CMU, Formlabs

Jeffrey Tsaw (Electrical Engineering 2022) - MS Student at CMU

Fayyaz Zaidi (Electrical Engineering 2022) - MS Student at Georgia Institute of Technology, Capital One

Adam Chung (Mechanical Engineering 2021) - HeartFlow, Vicarious Surgical, MS Student at Georgia Tech, iRobot, Renovate Robitics

Sharfin Islam (Mechanical Engineering 2021) - Ph.D Student at Columbia University

Abigail Rafter (Mechanical Engineering 2021) - Ph.D Student at University of Michigan

Eleanor Seiler (Mechanical Engineering 2021) - SpaceX

Erin Wong (Mechanical Engineering 2021) - MS Student at CMU, Telos Health

Brian Buckenham (Electrical Engineering 2021) - MS Student at CMU

Tom Scherlis (Electrical Engineering and Robotics 2022) - Zipline

Advaith Sethuraman (Robotics 2021) - Ph.D Student at University of Michigan

Kusha Maharshi (Computer Science 2021) - Bloomberg LP

Michael Huang (Computer Science 2021) - Amazon Web Services

Praxis Bays (Mechanical Engineering 2020) - SpaceX, NASA JPL

Victoria Feng (Mechanical Engineering 2020) - Tesla

Sydney Howard (Mechanical Engineering 2020) - SpaceX

Vinay Mitta (Mechanical Engineering 2020) - MS Student at CMU

Scott Phillips (Mechanical Engineering 2020) - Parsons Corporation

Andrew Rosenfeld (Mechanical Engineering 2020) - Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Erica Tsai (Mechanical Engineering 2020) - Intuitive Surgical

Alton Olson (Electrical and Computer Engineering 2020)

Monica Barragan (Mechanical Engineering 2019) - Boeing, Edge Case Research

Madelynne Long (Mechanical Engineering 2019) - NASA JPL, Honeybee Robotics

Justin Mitchell (Mechanical Engineering 2019) - Amazon Robotics

Hardik Singh (Mechanical Engineering 2019) - HEBI Robotics, MS Student at CMU, FarmX

Dhruv Khurana (Computer Science 2019) - Lyft

Michael Auda (Mechanical Engineering 2018) - Gecko Robotics, Anduril

Esther Lim (Mechanical Engineering 2018) - Google

Natha (Bam) Singhasaneh (Mechanical Engineering 2018) - Chalard, MS Student in Integrated Design and Management at MIT, CrunchLabs

Steven Palmer (Computer Science 2018) - Intuit, Google

Visiting Students

Abdel Zaro (Visitor from UC Berkeley 2022-2023)

Gargi Sadalgekar (Visitor from Princeton 2020-2021) - Ph.D. Student at JHU

Ethan Schumann (Visitor from Harvard Biodesign Lab Summer 2020) - General Dynamics Mission Systems, Digital Dream Labs

Matthew Hyatt (Visitor from Upper St. Clair HS Summer 2019) - BS Student at CMU

Letong Wang (Visitor from Shanghai Tech Summer 2019) - MS Student at CMU

Allen Ren (Visitor from Johns Hopkins Summer 2018) - Ph.D. Student at Princeton