Meet the Team

Principal Investigator

Postdoctoral and PhD Researchers

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Gabriel Bravo-Palacios

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

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Chih Huang

Incoming PhD Student

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Roland Schwan

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

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Roy Xing

PhD Student – NSF GRFP Fellow

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Jianghan Zhang

PhD Student

Visiting and Masters Thesis Researchers

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Andrea Grillo

Visiting Masters Thesis Researcher

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Ishaan Mahajan

Visiting Masters Thesis Researcher

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Kai Zhang

Visiting Undergraduate Researcher

Undergraduate, Masters, and Affiliate Researchers

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Skyla Cui

Accelerated Numerical Optimization

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Nicole Ineza

Accelerated Numerical Optimization

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Sean Mabli

Tiny Robots

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Zachary Pestrikov

Rigid Body Dynamics

Accelerated Numerical Optimization

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Seyoung Ree

Accelerated Numerical Optimization

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Cael Yasutake

Accelerated Motion Planning

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Patarada "Pru" Yontrarak

Accelerated Numerical Optimization

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Catherine Zhao

Accelerated Numerical Optimization

Alumni

Undergraduate, Masters, and Affiliate Researchers

  • Emre Adabag    Accelerated Numerical Optimization    Fall 2022 - Spring 2025    CRA Undergraduate Research Award Finalist, PhD @ University of Michigan
  • William Gerard    Accelerated Numerical Optimization     Fall 2022 - Spring 2024    NSF GRFP Honorable Mention, Senior Machine Learning Engineer @ Bain & Company
  • Lev Grossman    Robot Learning    Fall 2022 - Spring 2024    Research & AI @ Boston Dynamics
  • Han Lin    Robot Learning    Spring 2023 - Summer 2023    PhD @ University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
  • Moises Mata    Tiny Robots    Spring 2025 - Summer 2026    NSF GRFP Honorable Mention, PhD @ USC
  • Danelle Tuchman    Rigid Body Dynamics    Spring 2023 - Spring 2025    PhD @ Tufts University
  • Susannah Abrams    Rigid Body Dynamics    Summer 2022 - Summer 2023    MS @ Columbia University
  • Antonio Aranda    Accelerated Numerical Optimization    Fall 2022 - Spring 2023    Software Development Engineer @ Amazon
  • Miloni Atal    Accelerated Numerical Optimization    Fall 2022 - Fall 2023    DevTech Engineer @ NVIDIA
  • Yana Botvinnik    Accelerated Numerical Optimization    Spring 2023 - Fall 2024    C++ Software Engineer @ Splunk
  • Claire Dawson    Accelerated Numerical Optimization     Fall 2024    Engineer @ Gecko Robotics
  • Alex Du    Accelerated Numerical Optimization    Spring 2023 - Spring 2025    Full Stack Robotics Software Engineer @ Sunday Robotics
  • Luci Feinberg    Tiny Robots    Fall 2022 - Spring 2025    Software Engineer @ Apple
  • Eric Feng    Accelerated Numerical Optimization     Spring - Summer 2024    ML Compiler Engineer @ AMD
  • Catherine Ji    Rigid Body Dynamics    Fall 2022 - Spring 2024    Associate Product Manager @ Google
  • Nadim Kanazi    Accelerated Numerical Optimization    Summer 2024 - Fall 2024    AI Research Engineer @ Accenture
  • Brennan McManus    Accelerated Numerical Optimization     Spring 2024 - Spring 2025    Software Engineer @ Microsoft
  • Chau (Chloe) Nguyen    Rigid Body Dynamics    Summer 2023 - Spring 2024    Software Engineer @ Wayfair
  • Barkha Seth    Tiny Robots    Summer 2023 - Spring 2024    Software Development Engineer @ Amazon
  • Shuo "Chris" Sha    Accelerated Numerical Optimization    Spring 2024 - Fall 2025    Technical Staff @ SceniX
  • Kimiya Shahamat    Rigid Body Dynamics    Fall 2022 - Spring 2024    MS @ Columbia University
  • Abhinav Sharma    Rigid Body Dynamics    Spring 2023 - Spring 2025    MS @ UMass Amherst
  • Srishti Srivastava    Accelerated Numerical Optimization    Spring 2023    Software Engineer @ Google
  • Nick Thevenin    Tiny Robots     Spring 2024 - Fall 2024    AI/ML Software Engineer @ Microsoft
  • Nolan Tremmeling    Embedded Machine Learning    Spring 2023 - Summer 2023    AI Engineer @ Nuhom
  • William Xie    Robot Learning    Spring 2023 - Summer 2023    NSF GRFP Fellow, PhD @ University of Colorado, Boulder
  • Seojin "Heidi" Yoon    Accelerated Numerical Optimization    Spring 2023 - Spring 2025    MS @ Columbia University
Samarth AgrawalBritney AparicioKwamena AwotwiAnupam BhaktaVenkat BitraTara Bogavelli,  Xueyi Bu,  Emily BurnettCharles ChenAllyce ChungAlice DiakovaTramy DongYahya ElGawadyMalik EndsleyElizabeth FieldsEris GaoJustin HaddadChloe HoShobini Iyer,  Justin Jiang,  Xian JiangVidushi JindalBarath Kumar JKCarly KiangDonghan (DH) KimMin Jie Kim,  Luana Liao,  Claudia LiharAlice LinNaren Loganathan,  Jennifer Luo,  Kevin Luo,  Nick Luo,  Habeeba MansourKofi MeighanNeasha MittalJonathan Nalikka,  Vasavi Narayana,  Brandon PaeKevin QiuAnagha RamMikul SaravananEna Selman-HouseinKhadija SiddiquiAnnie SongAliya TangJiayi WangElvina WibisonoMerrick WolfleyZixuan (Zoey) Wu,  Bonnie Yang,  Julianna YuEn Kai "Gino" ZhangJessica Zhang,  Xinchen Zhang,  Yizhen ZhangLouis Zheng