Meet the Team

Principal Investigator

Postdoctoral and PhD Researchers

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Gabriel Bravo Palacios

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

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Roy Xing

PhD Student

Undergraduate and Masters Researchers

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Chih Huang

Accelerated Motion Planning

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Alex Du

Accelerated Numerical Optimization

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Alice Lin

Accelerated Numerical Optimization

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Aliya Tang

Tiny Robots

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Brandon Pae

Tiny Robots

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Cael Yasutake

Accelerated Motion Plannings

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Ishaan Mahajan

Tiny Robots

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Kai Zhang

Accelerated Numerical Optimization

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Mikul Saravanan

Accelerated Numerical Optimization

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Moises Mata

Tiny Robots

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Nicole Ineza

Accelerated Numerical Optimization

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Patarada "Pru" Yontrarak

Accelerated Numerical Optimization

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Seojin "Heidi" Yoon

Accelerated Numerical Optimization

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Seyoung Ree

Accelerated Numerical Optimization

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Shobini Iyer

Robot Learning

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Skyla Cui

Accelerated Numerical Optimization

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Venkat Bitra

Tiny Robots

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Zachary Pestrikov

Rigid Body Dynamics

Postbac and Affiliate Researchers

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Abhinav Sharma

Rigid Body Dynamics

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Elvina Wibisono

Tiny Robots

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Jiayi Wang

Robot Learning

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Kwamena Awotwi

Rigid Body Dynamics

Alumni

  • Emre Adabag    Accelerated Numerical Optimization    Fall 2022 - Spring 2025    PhD @ University of Michigan
  • Miloni Atal    Accelerated Numerical Optimization    Fall 2022 - Fall 2023    DevTech Engineer @ NVIDIA
  • 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
  • William Xie    Robot Learning    Spring 2023 - Summer 2023    NSF GRFP Fellow, PhD @ University of Colorado, Boulder
  • Antonio Aranda    Accelerated Numerical Optimization    Fall 2022 - Spring 2023    Software Development Engineer @ Amazon
  • Barkha Seth    Tiny Robots    Summer 2023 - Spring 2024    Software Development Engineer @ Amazon
  • Brennan McManus    Accelerated Numerical Optimization     Spring 2024 - Spring 2025    Software Engineer @ Microsoft
  • Catherine Ji    Rigid Body Dynamics    Fall 2022 - Spring 2024    Associate Product Manager @ Google
  • Chau (Chloe) Nguyen    Rigid Body Dynamics    Summer 2023 - Spring 2024    Software Engineer @ Wayfair
  • Claire Dawson    Accelerated Numerical Optimization     Fall 2024    Engineer @ Gecko Robotics
  • Danelle Tuchman    Rigid Body Dynamics    Spring 2023 - Spring 2025    PhD @ Tufts University
  • Eric Feng    Accelerated Numerical Optimization     Spring - Summer 2024    ML Compiler Engineer @ AMD
  • Han Lin    Robot Learning    Spring 2023 - Summer 2023    PhD @ University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
  • Kimiya Shahamat    Rigid Body Dynamics    Fall 2022 - Spring 2024    MS @ Columbia
  • Luci Feinberg    Tiny Robots    Fall 2022 - Spring 2025    Software Engineer @ Apple
  • Nadim Kanazi    Accelerated Numerical Optimization    Summer 2024 - Fall 2024    AI Research Engineer @ Accenture
  • 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
  • Srishti Srivastava    Accelerated Numerical Optimization    Spring 2023    Software Engineer @ Google
  • Susannah Abrams    Rigid Body Dynamics    Summer 2022 - Summer 2023    MS @ Columbia
  • Yana Botvinnik    Accelerated Numerical Optimization    Spring 2023 - Fall 2024    C++ Software Engineer @ Splunk
Ena Selman-Housein,  Xueyi Bu,  Chloe HoElizabeth FieldsMin Jie KimZixuan (Zoey) WuAlice DiakovaAllyce ChungAnagha RamAnnie SongAnupam BhaktaBarath Kumar JK,  Bonnie Yang,  Britney AparicioCarly KiangCatherine ZhaoCharles ChenClaudia LiharDonghan (DH) KimEmily BurnettEris GaoEn Kai "Gino" ZhangHabeeba Mansour,  Jennifer Luo,  Jessica ZhangJonathan NalikkaJulianna YuJustin Haddad,  Justin Jiang,  Kevin LuoKevin QiuKhadija SiddiquiKofi MeighanLouis Zheng,  Luana Liao,  Malik EndsleyMerrick WolfleyNaren LoganathanNeasha Mittal,  Nick Luo,  Samarth AgrawalShuo "Chris" ShaTara BogavelliTramy Dong,  Vasavi Narayana,  Vidushi JindalXian Jiang,  Xinchen Zhang,  Yahya ElGawadyYizhen Zhang