People

Faculty

• Ralph Hollis, Research Professor, Director

Administrative Coordinator

• Stephanie Matvey

Visiting Faculty

• Masaaki Kumagai, (Associate Professor, Tohoku Gakuin University, 2009-10 AY)

Graduate Students

• Hanns Tappeiner (Robotics)
• Umashankar Nagarajan (Robotics)
• Luo (Jack) Yi (Mechanical Engineering)
• Byungjun Kim (Mechanical Engineering)

Visiting Student Scholars

• Yu Ge (Beihang University, 2009-10 AY)
• Yuan Sun (Beijing Institute of Technology, 2009-10 AY)

Postdoctoral Fellows

• Bing Wu

Project Scientists

Project Visitors

Research Staff

Associated Faculty and Staff

• George Kantor, Systems Scientist
• Benjamin Brown, Project Scientist
• Roberta Klatzky, Professor, Dept. of Psychology
• Howie Choset, Associate Professor
• George Stetten, Research Professor

Undergraduate Students

MSL Graduates

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  Bertram Unger, Ph.D., Robotics, 2008

  Psychophysics of Virtual Texture Perception

  Assistant Professor, Faculty of Medicine, University of Manitoba

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  Jonathan Hurst, Ph.D., Robotics, 2008

  The Role and Implementation of Compliance in Legged Locomotion

  Assistant Professor, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR

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  Galen Clark Haynes, Ph.D., Robotics, 2008

  Gait Regulation Control Techniques for Robust Legged Locomotions

  Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

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  David Conner, Ph.D., Robotics, 2007

  Integrating Planning and Control for Constrained Dynamical Systems

  Research Scientist, TORC Technologies, Blacksburg VA

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  Vinithra Varadharajan, M.S., Robotics, 2007

  Haptic Rendering and Psychophysical Evaluation of a Virtual 3-Dimensional Helical Spring

  Software Engineer, Endeca Technologies, Cambridge, MA

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  Sarjoun Skaff, Ph.D., Robotics, 2006

  Context-Based State Estimation for Hybrid Systems with Intermittent Dynamics

  CTO, Bossa Nova Concepts

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  Anish Mampetta, M.S., Robotics, 2006

  Automatic Transition of Ballbot from Statically Stable State to Dynamically Stable State

  Engineer, MAKO Surgical, Inc.

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Eric Schearer, M.S., Robotics, 2006

Modeling Dynamics and Exploring Control of a Single-Wheeled Dynamically Stable Mobile Robot with Arms

United States Air Force

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  Kevin Oishi, M.S., Robotics, 2005

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  Aaron Greenfield, M.S., Robotics, 2005

  United Technologies

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  Rob Schlender, M.S., Robotics, 2005

  Calibrating Courier / Overhead Manipulator Pairs in Minifactory

  Engineer, Lockheed Martin

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  David Maiwand, MS., Robotics, 2003

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  Richard DeLuca, M.S. , Robotics, 2000

  Force-Based Interaction for Distributed Precision Assembly

  Engineer, Stryker

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  Zack J. Butler, Ph.D., Robotics, 2000

  Distributed Coverage of Rectilinear Environments

  Assistant Professor, Rochester Institute of Technology

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  Arthur E. Quaid, Ph.D., Robotics, 2000

  A Planar Robot for High-Performance Manipulation

  Director of Research and Development, MAKO Surgical, Inc.

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  Michael L. Chen, M.S. , ECE, 1999

  Visually Guided Coordination for Distributed Precision Assembly

  Volunteer, Americorp
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  Peter J. Berkelman, Ph.D. , Robotics, 1999

  Tool-Based Haptic Interaction with Dynamic Physical Simulations using Lorentz Magnetic Levitation

  Assistant Professor, University of Hawaii

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  Gregory Fries, M.S., Robotics, 1998

  Fluorescent Dye Based Optical Position Sensing for Planar Linear Motors

  Engineer, Federal Express

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  Wing-Choi (Jimmy) Ma, M.S. , ECE, 1998

  Optical Coordination Sensor for Precision Cooperating Robots

  Engineer, GE Medical Systems

Additional Distinguished Alumni

• Kei Usui (Robotics Software Engineer)
• Can Erdogun (CS)
• Derrick McKee (Physics)
• Jun Xian Leong (Physics)
• Fazhen Yi, Visiting Scholar
• Kathryn Rivard (Robotics)
• Mark Dzmura, Visiting Senior Programmer
• Maximilian Heinig (Technical University of Munich)
• Martin Oberhuber (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich)
• Suresh Nidhiry (Computer Science)
• Mike Seok (ECE)
• Sam Tetruashvili (Computer Science)
• Jared Goerner (ECE, CS)
• Joe Liang (ECE)
• Tomas Szabo (Technical University of Munich)
• Al Rizzi (Boston Dynamics)
• Jacob Thomas (ECE)
• Mike Cozza (Converge Robotics)
• Christoph Bergler (Technical University of Munich)
• Cornelius Niemeyer (ETH, Zurich)
• Kalicharan Karthikeyan
• Joey Quansheng Liang
• Dan O'Halloran
• Matt Pucevich
• Patrick Muir
• Ruth Wiehagen
• Maria Sensi (Mechanical Engineering)
• Shinji Kume (Mitsubishi Corp.)
• Constantine Scarvelis (Mechanical Engineering, summer 1999)
• Chip Jansen (U. Michigan)
• Alex Nicolaidis
• Stephen Korner (ETH, Zurich)
• Anita Connelly
• Storm Orion (Business)
• Stella Yu, Robotics Ph.D. Program
• Benjamin Hollis, Carnegie Mellon CS Program
• Jeremy Horner, ECE Department
• Jeanne Bennardo
• John Kim, BSME '96
• Todd Okimoto, BSME '96, Ford Motor Company
• Jeroen Vos, Delft University
• Yasuyoshi Yokokohji, Kyoto University
• Laura Cassenti , Robotics Institute
• Chris Donohue, University of Delaware Mechanical Engineering
• Mike Currie, Electrical and Computer Engineering
• Michael Ehrenstrasser, Technical University of Munich (Summer 2002)
• Marc Endress, Technical University of Munich (Spring 2003)
• Andreas Best, Technical University of Munich (Fall 2003)
• Jay Gowdy
• Nagi Salloum, American University of Beirut (summer 2002)
• George Chelala, American University of Beirut (summer 2002)
• Zachery Edmondson (Eectrical and Computer Engineering)
• Michael Kummer, ETH Zurich
• Uluc Saranli (Postdoctoral Fellow)
• Ian Friedman
• Keetak Hong
• Tom Lauwers

A really old photo (c. 1994)...