Principal Investigator
Ph.D. Students
Visiting Research Scholars
Research Engineers
Master's Students
Undergraduate Research Interns
Alumni
Ph.D. Students
Visiting Research Scholars
Ze Zhang
Ph.D. in Automation, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
Advised by Knut Åkesson — Visited Fall 2024
After Graduating: Senior AI (Robotics) Engineer at Agile Robots SE
Enrico Martini
Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of Verona, Italy
Advised by Nicola Bombieri — Visited Spring 2024
After Graduating: Postdoctoral Researcher/Lecturer at University of Verona
Research Engineers
Zizhe Zhang
M.S. Robotics, 2026
Next position: Ph.D student at Johns Hopkins University advised by Haimin Hu
Daudi Zein
M.S. MEAM, 2025
Master’s Theses
Mateusz Jaszczuk
M.S. MEAM, 2026
“Learning to Feel: Force-Aware Data-Driven Estimation and Control for Adaptive Physical Interactions”
Outstanding Master's Researcher Award in MEAM
After Graduating: Ph.D. Student at Figueroa Robotics Lab
Ekaterina Skorniakova
M.S. Robotics, 2026
“Experimental Characterization of Oscillations in Passive Dynamical System Controllers and Design Guidance”
After Graduating: Ph.D. Student at Cornell University advised by Jake Welde
Natey Kim
M.S. Robotics, 2026
“Real-time Human Limb Dynamics Tracking via HD-sEMG driven Musculoskeletal Digital Twin Modelings”
After Graduating: Research Engineer at Figueroa Robotics Lab
Yihan Li
M.S. Robotics, 2026
“RoboHockey: A Robotic Benchmark for Dynamic Whole-body Contact-rich Tasks”
After Graduating: Ph.D. student at UT Austin advised by Roberto Martin-Martin
Felix [Yuchen] Zheng
M.S. Robotics, 2026
“Predicate-Free Language-to-Plan Validation with Learnded 3D Operator World Models”
After Graduating: Ph.D. student at Georgia Tech advised by Sonia Chernova
George [Jiayuan] Gao
M.S. Robotics, 2025
“Visuomotor Object-Centric Out-Of-Distribution Recovery Policy”
Outstanding Master's Researcher Award in Robotics
After Graduating: Research Staff Member at Dyna Robotics
Paul [Sanghyub] Lee
M.S. Robotics, 2025
“Towards Real-Time Muscle Health Monitoring and Muscle-in-the-Loop Robotic Assistants via AI-Driven Wearable Ultrasound Processing”
After Graduating: Ph.D. Student at Figueroa Robotics Lab
Ho Jin Choi
M.S. MEAM, 2024
“Gaussian Process-Based Active Exploration Strategies in Vision and Touch”
Outstanding Master’s Researcher Award in MEAM
After Graduating: Ph.D. Student at Figueroa Robotics Lab
Zhiquan Zhang
M.S. ESE, 2024
“Real-Time Safety-Critical Passive Torque Control with Analytic and Learning-based Constraints”
Best Master’s Thesis in ESE
After Graduating: Ph.D. student at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign advised by Melkior Ornik
Haihui Gao
M.S. ESE & MEAM, 2024
“Advancing Dynamical Systems in Learning from Demonstration: A Novel Approach for Modeling Self-Crossing Trajectories”
After Graduating: Ph.D. student at Polytechnique Montréal advised by Bowen Yi
Satyajeet Das
M.S. ESE, 2024
“Towards Vision-based Safety: A Real-Time Approach for Generating Barrier Functions using Depth Sensors”
After Graduating: Ph.D. student at University of Southern California advised by Gaurav Sukhatme
Haoming Li
M.S. ESE, 2024
“Towards Robust SLAM with Neural Implicit Representations”
After Graduating: Ph.D. student at Arizona State University advised by ‘YZ’ Yezhou Yang
Master's Research Interns
Yicong Wang
MS. Robotics, 2026
After Graduating: Ph.D. student at Purdue University advised by Yu She
Jingshuo Li
MS. MEAM, 2026
After Graduating: Ph.D. student at George Washington University.
Lintao Zheng
MS. Robotics, 2026
After Graduating: Ph.D. student at Boston University.
Dhyey Shah
MS. Robotics, 2026
Jason Chen
M.S. MEAM, 2026
After Graduating: Fleet Root Cause Engineer at Tesla
Yuxin Li
MS. MEAM, 2025
Shaoting Peng
MS. Robotics, 2024
After Graduating: Ph.D. student at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign advised by Katherine Driggs-Campbell
Atharva Makarand Pradhan
MS. MEAM, 2024
After Graduating: Simulation Engineer at Caterpillar Inc.
Parth Sanghavi
MS. MEAM, 2024
After Graduating: Simulation Engineer at Mitek Systems.
Vaibhav Wanere
MS. MEAM, 2024
After Graduating: Manufacturing Engineer III at Caterpillar Inc.
Qi Xue
MS. CIS, 2023
Undergraduate Research Intern
Miyu Yamane
BS. MAE student at Princeton University
Advised by Anirudha Majumdar — Visited Summer 2026
Michael North
B.S. Bioengineering, 2026
After Graduating: Research Engineer at the Figueroa Robotics Lab