Meet the Team

Principal Investigator

Postdoctoral and PhD Researchers

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Gabriel Bravo Palacios

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Undergraduate and Masters Researchers

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Chih Huang

Accelerated Motion Planning

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Emre Adabag

Accelerated Numerical Optimization

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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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Anupam Bhakta

Accelerated Numerical Optimization

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Brandon Pae

Tiny Robots

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Brennan McManus

Accelerated Numerical Optimization

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Cael Yasutake

Accelerated Motion Plannings

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Catherine Zhao

Accelerated Numerical Optimization

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Charles Chen

Tiny Robots

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Danelle Tuchman

Rigid Body Dynamics

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En Kai "Gino" Zhang

Tiny Robots

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Ishaan Mahajan

Robot Learning

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Justin Jiang

Accelerated Numerical Optimization

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Kai Zhang

Accelerated Numerical Optimization

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Kevin Qiu

Accelerated Numerical Optimization

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Khadija Siddiqui

Accelerated Numerical Optimization

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Louis Zheng

Accelerated Numerical Optimization

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Luci Feinberg

Tiny Robots

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Merrick Wolfley

STEM Education

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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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Shuo "Chris" Sha

Accelerated Numerical Optimization

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Skyla Cui

Accelerated Numerical Optimization

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Venkat Bitra

Tiny Robots

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Yahya ElGawady

Accelerated Numerical Optimization

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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

  • 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
  • Min Jie Kim    STEM Education    Fall 2022 - Summer 2023    Data Management @ Bloomberg
  • William Xie    Robot Learning    Spring 2023 - Summer 2023    NSF GRFP Fellow, PhD @ CU Boulder
  • Alice Diakova    Tiny Robots    Summer 2023 - Fall 2023    Software Engineer @ Pinterest
  • 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
  • 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
  • Donghan (DH) Kim    Simultaneous Localization and Mapping    Spring 2023    AI Algorithm Engineer @ UVey
  • Eric Feng    Accelerated Numerical Optimization     Spring - Summer 2024    ML Compiler Engineer @ AMD
  • Habeeba Mansour    Robot Learning    Spring 2023    Senior Associate Technical Consultant @ AHEAD
  • Han Lin    Robot Learning    Spring 2023 - Summer 2023    PhD @ UNC Chapel Hill
  • Kimiya Shahamat    Rigid Body Dynamics    Fall 2022 - Spring 2024    MS in CS @ Columbia
  • 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 in CS @ Columbia
  • Tara Bogavelli    Tiny Robots    Summer 2022    ML Engineer @ ServiceNow
  • Yana Botvinnik    Accelerated Numerical Optimization    Spring 2023 - Fall 2024    C++ Software Engineer @ Splunk
Ena Selman-HouseinXueyi BuChloe HoElizabeth FieldsZixuan (Zoey) WuAllyce ChungAnagha RamAnnie SongBarath Kumar JK,  Bonnie Yang,  Britney AparicioCarly KiangClaudia LiharEmily BurnettEris Gao,  Jennifer Luo,  Jessica ZhangJonathan NalikkaJulianna YuJustin HaddadKevin LuoKofi Meighan,  Luana Liao,  Malik EndsleyNaren LoganathanNeasha Mittal,  Nick Luo,  Samarth AgrawalTramy Dong,  Vasavi Narayana,  Vidushi JindalXian Jiang,  Xinchen Zhang,  Yizhen Zhang