Faculty

Ye Zhao
Assistant Professor in Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering
Director, Laboratory for Intelligent Decision and Autonomous Robots
Georgia Tech
Ph.D.: UT Austin
Postdoc: Harvard
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Postdoc

Wei Zhu
Ph.D.: Tohoku University
B.S. & M.S.: Nankai University
Spring 2024 ~ present
Hobby: Basketball, snowboarding, hiking
Research Interest: Reinforcement learning and social navigation
Xuan Lin
Ph.D. & M.S.: UCLA
B.S.: Harbin Institute of Technology
Summer 2024 ~ present
Hobby: Hiking, Swimming, Video gaming
Research Interest: Humanoid locomotion and manipulation
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Lab Manager

Chaitanya Mehta
M.S..: Georgia Tech 
B.S.: Indian Institute of Technology Indore
Fall 2022~present
Hobbies: Trekking, DJ, EDM
Research Interest: Tactile sensing for dexterous manipulation, Bio-inspired legged robotics

Graduate Student

Abdulaziz Shamsah
ME Ph.D. Student
M.S.: University of Pennsylvania
B.S.: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Summer 2020~present
Research Interest: Safety-assured bipedal locomotion, Social navigation
Personal Website
Ziyi Zhou
ECE Ph.D. student
M.S.: Georgia Tech
B.S.: Northeastern University
Hobby: Basketball, Football
Spring 2019~present
Research Interest: Distributed trajectory optimization for dynamic locomotion, Formal control synthesis
Personal website
Zhaoyuan Gu
Robotics Ph.D. Student
M.S.: Carnegie Mellon University
B.S.: Tsinghua University
Spring 2021~present
Research Interest: Experimental locomotion, Planning for robust locomotion, Humanoid loco-manipulation
Personal website
Jesse Jiang
ECE PHD Student
B.S.: Georgia Tech
Fall 2021~present
co-advised with Dr. Samuel Coogan
Hobby: Hiking, Photography
Research Interest: Abstraction-based verification and synthesis methods for legged systems, Formal control methods
Personal Website
Maxwell Asselmeier
Robotics Ph.D. Student
B.S.: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Fall 2021~present
co-advised with
Dr. Patricio Vela
Hobby: Embroidery, Basketball, Soccer, Movies
Research Interest: Perception-informed planning for quadrupedal locomotion
Personal website
Feiyang Wu
ML PhD student
M.S.: Georgia Tech 
B.S.: Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
Spring 2023~present
Research Interest: Optimization, Theoretical Reinforcement Learning and Machine Learning
Personal Website
Zhigen Zhao
Robotics Ph.D. Student
B.S.: Georgia Tech
Fall 2019~present
Hobby: Cooking, Race cars
Research Interest: Task and motion planning of long-horizon manipulation, Adversarial learning, Diffusion for humanoid robots
 
Personal Website
Ziwon Yoon
ROBOTICS PH.D. STUDENT
B.S.: Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology
Fall 2023~present
Research Interest: Safe locomotion navigation, Uncertainty-aware planning, Deformable terrain locomotion
Personal Website
Amelie-Minji Kim
Robotics PhD student
M.S.: Seoul National University
B.S.: Seoul National University
Fall 2023~present
Research Interest: Contact-rich manipulation, Risk-sensitive trajectory optimization
Personal Website
Fukang Liu
Robotics Ph.D. Student
M.S.: Tsinghua University, Carnegie Mellon University
B.S.: Tongji University
Fall 2023~present
co-advised with Drs. Yue Chen and Danfei Xu
Research Interest: Flexible and cooperative manipulation, Reinforcement learning for humanoids
Personal Website
Jiming Ren
Robotics PhD student
M.S.: Carnegie Mellon University
B.S.: Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Fall 2023~present
Research Interest: Safety-critical legged navigation, Formal control methods
Personal Website
Jaehwi Jang
Robotics PhD student
M.S. & B.S.: Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology (KAIST)
Fall 2024~present
Research Interest: Safe reinforcement learning, Learning from demonstration.
Personal Website
Junnosuke Kamohara
Robotics PhD student
BS: Tohoku University
Hobby: Workout, Photography, Traveling
Fall 2024~present
co-advised with Dr. Seth A. Hutchinson
Research interest: Risk-aware navigation, Locomotion on deformable terrain, Robust reinforcement learning
Personal Website
Yuntian Zhao
ECE M.S./Ph.D. Student
B.S.: Southern University of Science and Technology
Fall 2023~present
Hobbies: Hiking
Research Interest: Dynamics and control of legged locomotion, Adaptive robot foot design and sensing
Personal Website
Abirath Raju
Robotics M.S. Student
B.S.: National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli
Fall 2023~present
Hobby: Badminton, E-sports, Formula 1
Research Interests: Social navigation, Computer vision, Robot learning
Haris Miller
ROBOTICS M.S. STUDENT
B.S.: Georgia Tech
Fall 2023~present
Hobbies: Tennis, RC Aircraft
Research Interest: Safe UAV autonomy and planning, and multi-agent systems
Kasidit Muenprasitivej
AE M.S. Student
B.S.: Purdue University
Fall 2023~present
Research Interest: Uncertainty-aware locomotion control, Optimization and learning methods, 
Xavier Nal
Visiting student
M.S. & B.S.: EPFL
Hobbies: European Football, Climbing
Research Interest: Reinforcement learning for robot locomotion and manipulation
Digit
Second-year Robot
Georgia Tech (joint host with Seth Hutchinson's lab)
Hobby: Unified locomotion and manipulation
Buzzy Cassie
Fourth-year Robot
Georgia Tech ME
Hobby: Dynamic walking
Gelsight
Second-YEAR ROBOT
(special credit to Edward Adelson's lab at MIT and Yu She from Purdue)
Hobby: Tactile sensing and deformable contact estimation
Kuka IIWA
Fourth-year Robot
Georgia Tech ME
Hobby: Dynamic and robust manipulation
Unitree A1
Third-year Robot
Georgia Tech ME
Hobby: Autonomous navigation and surveillance
Unitree B1 + Z1
First-year Robot
Georgia Tech ME (joint host with Fan Zhang's lab)
Hobby: Versatile locomotion and manipulation
Athena
Third-year Robot
Georgia Tech ME
Hobby: Dexterous grasping
Mini Cheetah
Second-year Robot
MIT Biomimetic Robotics Lab and Naver Labs (joint host with Sehoon Ha's lab)
Hobby: Agile Maneuvering
Kinova
Visiting Robot
GTRI
Hobby: Fruit harvesting, Mobile manipulation
Hector
First-year robot
Georgia Tech
Hobby: Dynamic locomotion in granular media
Franka
First-year robot
Georgia Tech
Hobby: Dynamic manipulation
Allegro Hand
First-year robot
Georgia Tech ME
Hobby: Dexterous grasping

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