Faculty
Graduate Student
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 dynamical systems
Research Interest: Abstraction-based verification and synthesis methods for dynamical systems
Feiyang Wu
ML PhD student
M.S.: Georgia Tech
B.S.: Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
Spring 2023~present
Research Interest: Optimization, Reinforcement learning for robotics, and Theoretical machine learning
Zhigen Zhao
Robotics Ph.D. Student
B.S.: Georgia Tech
Fall 2019~present
Hobby: Cooking, Race cars
Research Interest: Symbolic planning and differentiable optimization of long-horizon manipulation, adversarial learning
Yunhai Han
Robotics Ph.D. student
M.S.: University of California San Diego
B.S.: Yanshan University
B.S.: Yanshan University
Fall 2022~present
co-advised with Dr. Harish Ravichandar
co-advised with Dr. Harish Ravichandar
Research Interest: Learning for dexterous manipulation
Ziwon Yoon
ROBOTICS PH.D. STUDENT
B.S.: Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology
Fall 2023~present
Fall 2023~present
Research Interest: Safe locomotion control, uncertainty-aware planning, legged manipulation
Paul Blum
Robotics PhD Student
M.S.: University of Connecticut
B.S.: University of Connecticut
Fall 2023~present
Fall 2023~present
co-advised with Dr. Stephen Balakirsky
Research Interest: Task and motion planning, deep reinforcement learning, and mobile manipulation
Amelie-Minji Kim
Robotics PhD student
M.S.: Seoul National University
B.S.: Seoul National University
Fall 2023~present
Fall 2023~present
Research Interest: Contact-rich manipulation, robust trajectory optimization
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
Fall 2023~present
co-advised with Drs. Yue Chen and Danfei Xu
Research Interest: Flexible and cooperative manipulation
Jiming Ren
Robotics PhD student
M.S.: Carnegie Mellon University
B.S.: Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Fall 2023~present
Fall 2023~present
Research Interest: Safety-critical legged navigation, safe reinforcement learning
Colin Yu
CS M.S. STUDENT
B.S.: Georgia Tech
Fall 2022~present
Fall 2022~present
Hobbies: Photography, Basketball
Research Interest: Tactile Sensing, Robot Manipulation
Chaitanya Mehta
Robotics M.S. Student
B.S.: Indian Institute of Technology Indore
Fall 2022~present
Hobbies: Trekking, DJ, EDM
Fall 2022~present
Hobbies: Trekking, DJ, EDM
Research Interest: Tactile sensing for dexterous manipulation, Bio-inspired legged robotics
Kanishk
Robotics M.S. Student
B.S.: Delhi Technological University
Fall 2022~present
Fall 2022~present
Hobbies: Digital Art, Sketching, Gaming
Research Interest: Reinforcement learning for Ostrich-like robot locomotion
Qixian Wang
Visiting student
B.S.: Zhejiang University
Fall 2023~present
Fall 2023~present
Hobbies: Ping Pang, Music and Video Games
Research Interest: Bipedal locomotion foot design and contact sensing
Yash Srivastava
Robotics M.S. Student
B.S.: Vellore Institute of Technology
Fall 2022~present
Fall 2022~present
Hobbies: Cricket, Tennis, Reading
Research Interest: Safe autonomy for UAVs, multi-agent systems, indoor localization
Aaron Zhao
Robotics M.S. Student
B.S.: University of California, Berkeley
Fall 2023~present
Hobbies: Tennis, Basketball, Football, Snowboarding and Biking
Fall 2023~present
Hobbies: Tennis, Basketball, Football, Snowboarding and Biking
Research Interest: Human trajectory prediction in HRC environments
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
Franka
First-year robot
Georgia Tech
Hobby: Dynamic manipulation
Allegro Hand
First-year robot
Georgia Tech ME
Hobby: Dexterous grasping
Hobby: Dexterous grasping
Undergraduate Students
- Ronit Arora (CS 2021 September – present)
- Paul Kim (ME 2021 September – present)
- Iain MacKeith (ME 2021 September – present)
- Qize Tao (ME 2021 September – present)
- Wei Pao (William) (ME 2021 September – present, PURA awardee 2022 Spring)
- Achintya Mohan (CE 2021 January – present, PURA awardee 2022 Spring)
- Paul Barsa (ME 2021 January – present)
- Emily Marshall (ECE 2021 January – present)
- Abhinav Kumar (CS 2021 January – present, PURA awardee 2021 Fall)
- Vishwa Ramkumar (ME 2020 January – present, PURA awardee 2021 Fall)
- Nima Jadali (CS 2021 January – present, PURA awardee 2021 Summer)
- Chirayu Salgarkar (2021 June – present, SURE Robotics Program, co-advised with Dr. Samuel Coogan)
- Tanner Beard (ME 2019 July – present, PURA awardee 2020 Spring)
- Jerred Chen (ME 2019 Sep. – present)
- James Bunting (ME 2019 Sep. – present)
- Emil Muly (ME 2019 Oct. – present)
- Nicholas J Cich (CS 2020 January – present)
- Juo Shuen (Josh) Lee (ME 2020 January – present)
- Eric Glunn (ECE 2020 January – present)
- Brandon Woodward (ME 2020 August – present)
- Caleb Chang (ECE 2020 August – present)
- Brice Diomande (ME 2020 August – present)
- Amara Jargalsaikhan (ME 2020 August – present)
Visiting students and High School Students
- Andrew Botchwey (Drew Charter School, ENGAGES project, 2021 June – present)
- Noah Morales (BEST high school, ENGAGES project, 2021 June – present)
- Ziyan Sultan (The Gwinnett School of Mathematics, Science, and Technology, 2021 August – present)
Alumni
Graduate Students
- Jane Ivanova (M.S., ECE 2023, Now SkyMul)
- Ted Tyler (M.S., ROBO ME 2023, Now Northrop Grumman)
- Randall Kliman (M.S., Thesis Option, ECE 2022, Now John Deere)
- Luke Drnach (Ph.D. student, ROBO ECE 2022)
- Nathan Boyd (M.S., Thesis Option, ME 2022, Now Apptronik)
- Jonas Warnke (M.S., Thesis Option, ME 2021, Now Factory Automation Systems)
- Dong Jae (Danny) Lee (M.S., ME 2021, Now Boston Dynamics)
- Yuki Yoshinaga (M.S., ME 2022)
- Xiao Jing (M.S., Aero 2019, Now Ph.D. student in ASDL, Georgia Tech)
- Hongchang Zhu (M.S., ME 2020, Now Ph.D. student at Georgia Tech)
- Adarsh Sasi (M.S., ME 2020)
Visiting Students
- Keane Wei Yang Ong (B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, National University of Singapore, 2022 May – August)
- Jialin Li (University of Science and Technology of China, 2021, Now M.S. student at ETH Zürich Robotics)
- Qie Sima (Tsinghua University, 2020, Now M.S. student at Tsinghua)
- Xiaofeng Guo (Tsinghua University, 2019, Now Ph.D. student at CMU Robotics Institute)
- Junda Huang (University of Science and Technology of China, 2019, Now Ph.D. student at Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Undergraduate Students
- James Ni (ME 2022, PURA awardee 2020 Summer and 2022 Spring)
- Akash Harapanahalli (CE 2022, Now Ph.D. student at Georgia Tech)
- Matthias Heyrman (ME 2022, Now M.S. student at ETH Zürich Robotics)
- Ziyang (John) Zhang (ME 2022, PURA awardee 2020 Spring, Now M.S. student at CMU Robotics Institute)
- Dongheon Han (ME 2022, PURA awardee 2021, Now M.S. student at U Michigan)
- Austin Newland (ME 2021, Now at Hoshizaki America)
- Zhengyang (Kris) Weng (ME 2021, PURA awardee 2021, Now at Neocis)
- Marina Ahn (ME 2020, PURA awardee 2020 Fall)
- Samuel A Scheele (CS 2020, Now Georgia Tech undergraduate)
- Hogan Welch (ME 2020, Now Ph.D. student at Georgia Tech)
- Timothy Brumfiel (ME 2020, Now Ph.D. student at Georgia Tech)
- Landon M Ballard (ECE 2020, Now Georgia Tech undergraduate)
- Tanner Liu (ME 2020, Now M.S. student at U Michigan)
- William Plummer (ME 2020, Georgia Tech ME Undergraduate Richard K. Whitehead Jr. Memorial Awards, Now at Wisk Aero)
- Manzano Akhtar (ME 2020, Now at Wisk Aero)
- Ziwei (Rebecca) Zheng (ME 2020, PURA awardee 2020 Fall)
- Ahmed Reese Abouelnasr (ME 2019, Now Ph.D. student at Tufts University)
- Brittany Powell (ME 2019, Now graduate student at UC Berkeley)
- Andrew S Galassi (ME 2019, The 2020 Class of Astronaut Scholars, Now Georgia Tech undergraduate)
- Kevin Li (Lambert High School, Now Georgia Tech undergraduate in CS)