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
Graduate Student
Zhigen Zhao
Robotics Ph.D. Student
co-advised with Dr. Tuo Zhao
B.S.: Georgia Tech
08.2019~present
Hobby: Cooking, Race cars
Research Interest: Symbolic planning and differentiable optimization of long-horizon manipulation, adversarial learning
Luke Drnach
Robotics Ph.D. Student
M.S.: Georgia Tech
B.S.: University of Pittsburgh
08.2019~present
Hobby: Piano, Baking, Swimming
Research Interest: Robust trajectory optimization and frictional contact estimation
Abdulaziz Shamsah
Ph.D. Student
M.S.: University of Pennsylvania
B.S.: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
05.2020~present
Research Interest: Safety-assured locomotion, robust sequential composition
Ziyi Zhou
Ph.D. student
B.S.: Northeastern University
Hobby: Basketball, Football
01.2019~present
Research Interest: Distributed trajectory optimization for dynamic locomotion, fast contact planning
Research Interest: Distributed trajectory optimization for dynamic locomotion, fast contact planning
Zhaoyuan Gu
Robotics Ph.D. Student
M.S.: Carnegie Mellon University
B.S.: Tsinghua University
01.2021~present
Research Interest: Experimental locomotion, decision-making and planning for robust locomotion
Jesse Jiang
PHD Student
co-advised with Dr. Samuel Coogan
B.S.: Georgia Tech
08.2021~present
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
Nathan Boyd
Master Student
Joint with GTRI
B.S.: California State University, Northridge
08.2020~present
Hobby: Making/DIY, Home Improvement, STEM Outreach
Research Interest: Whole-body predictive control and planning of unified locomotion and manipulation
Research Interest: Whole-body predictive control and planning of unified locomotion and manipulation
Maxwell Asselmeier
Robotics Ph.D. Student
co-advised with
Dr. Patricio Vela
B.S.: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
08.2021~present
Hobby: Embroidery, Basketball, Soccer, Movies
Research Interest: Perception-based learning and control, safety-assured legged locomotion
Ted Tyler
Robotics Master student
B.S. Brigham Young University
Hobby: Reading, Video games, Sports, and Anything outdoors
Research Interest: Soft terrain classification and locomotion contact sensing
Michael Park
Graduate researcher
Joint with GTRI
M.S.: Georgia Tech
B.S.: UT Austin
Hobby: Cooking, Snowboarding
Research Interest: Deformable contact modeling and learning
Buzzy Cassie
Third-year Robot
Georgia Tech ME
Hobby: Dynamic walking
Digit
First-year Robot
Georgia Tech (joint host with Seth Hutchinson's lab)
Hobby: Unified locomotion and manipulation
Kuka IIWA
Second-year Robot
Georgia Tech ME
Hobby: Dynamic and robust manipulation
A1
Second-year Robot
Georgia Tech ME
Hobby: Autonomous navigation and surveillance
Kinova
Visiting Robot
GTRI
Hobby: Fruit harvesting, Mobile manipulation
Mini Cheetah
Visiting Robot
MIT Biomimetic Robotics Lab and Naver Labs (joint host with Sehoon Ha's lab)
Hobby: Agile Maneuvering
Gelsight
FIRST-YEAR ROBOT
(special credit to Edward Adelson's lab at MIT and Yu She from Purdue)
Hobby: Tactile sensing and deformable contact estimation
Athena
Second-year Robot
Georgia Tech ME
Hobby: Dexterous grasping
Researcher
Yunhai Han
M.S.: UC San Diego
B.S.: Yanshan University
Hobby: Soccer
Research Interest: Deformable contact modeling and tactile sensing
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)
- James Ni (ME 2020 January – present, PURA awardee 2020 Summer and 2022 Spring)
- 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)
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
- 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
- Jialin Li (University of Science and Technology of China, 2021, Now Ph.D. student at ETH Zürich Robotics)
- Qie Sima (Tsinghua University, 2020, Now Master 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
- 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)