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Portrait of Christopher Timperley
Christopher Timperley
Senior Systems Scientist
Top Research Interests:
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J. Andrew (Drew) Bagnell
Consulting Professor
Top Research Interests:
  • Field & Service Robotics
  • Intelligent Transportation Systems
  • Robotics Foundations
  • AI Reasoning for Multi-Robot Systems
  • AI Reasoning for Robotics
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Portrait of Jeffrey Ichnowski
Jeffrey Ichnowski
Assistant Professor
Top Research Interests:
  • Grasping
  • Motion Planning
  • Deep Learning
  • Manipulation & Interfaces
  • Robotics Foundations
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Portrait of Guanya Shi
Guanya Shi
Assistant Professor
Top Research Interests:
  • Control Theory
  • Deep Learning
  • Reinforcement Learning
  • Multi-Robot Planning & Coordination
  • Motion Planning
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Portrait of Andrea Bajcsy
Andrea Bajcsy
Assistant Professor
Top Research Interests:
  • Safety for Physical Human-Robot Interaction
  • AI Reasoning for Robotics
  • Control Theory
  • Deep Learning
  • Machine Learning Embedded in Systems
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Portrait of Jiaoyang Li
Jiaoyang Li
Assistant Professor
Top Research Interests:
  • Multi-Robot Planning & Coordination
  • AI Reasoning for Multi-Robot Systems
  • Motion Planning
  • Planning & Scheduling
  • AI Reasoning for Robotics
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Portrait of Matthew Johnson-Roberson
Matthew Johnson-Roberson
Professor / Director of RI
Top Research Interests:
  • Field & Service Robotics
  • Intelligent Transportation Systems
  • Underwater Robotics
  • Graphics & Creative Tools
  • Simulation
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Portrait of Zackory Erickson
Zackory Erickson
Assistant Professor
Top Research Interests:
  • Human-Robot Interaction
  • Rehabilitation and Health Care Robotics
  • Simulation
  • Haptics
  • Deep Learning
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Portrait of Shubham Tulsiani
Shubham Tulsiani
Assistant Professor
Top Research Interests:
  • Computer Vision
  • 3-D Vision and Recognition
  • World Modeling
  • Robot Learning for Manipulation
  • Robotics Foundations
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Portrait of Zachary Manchester
Zachary Manchester
Assistant Professor
Top Research Interests:
  • Motion Planning
  • Motion Control
  • Space Robots and Systems
  • Field & Service Robotics
  • Manipulation & Interfaces
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Portrait of Melisa Orta Martinez
Melisa Orta Martinez
Assistant Professor
Top Research Interests:
  • Haptics
  • Mechanisms and Actuation
  • Robots for Education
  • Roboethics: Social and Ethical Implications of Robotics
  • Social Robots
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Portrait of Jun-Yan Zhu
Jun-Yan Zhu
Michael B. Donohue Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Robotics
Top Research Interests:
  • Graphics & Creative Tools
  • Robotics Foundations
  • Computer Vision
  • Learning and Classification
  • Sensing & Perception
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Portrait of Deepak Pathak
Deepak Pathak
Raj Reddy Assistant Professor in Robotics
Top Research Interests:
  • Deep Learning
  • Computer Vision
  • Reinforcement Learning
  • Robot Learning for Manipulation
  • Robot Hands
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Portrait of Zeynep Temel
Zeynep Temel
Assistant Professor
Top Research Interests:
  • Biologically Inspired and Evolutionary Robotics
  • Micro/Nanorobots
  • Robots with Flexible Elements
  • Parallel Mechanism and Robots
  • Medical Robotics and Computer-Integrated Surgery
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Portrait of Matthew O’Toole
Matthew O’Toole
Associate Professor
Top Research Interests:
  • Imaging
  • 3-D Vision and Recognition
  • Sensing and Estimation
  • Computer Vision
  • Rendering
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Portrait of Changliu Liu
Changliu Liu
Assistant Professor
Top Research Interests:
  • Human Robot Collaboration
  • Safety for Physical Human-Robot Interaction
  • Human-Robot Interaction
  • Motion Planning
  • Motion Control
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Portrait of Wenshan Wang
Wenshan Wang
Systems Scientist
Top Research Interests:
  • Reinforcement Learning
  • Deep Learning
  • Control Theory
  • Machine Learning Embedded in Systems
  • Robotics Foundations
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Portrait of Henny Admoni
Henny Admoni
Associate Professor
Top Research Interests:
  • Human-Robot Interaction
  • Domestic Robotics
  • Social Robots
  • Human Activity Forecasting
  • Robots for Education
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Portrait of Oliver Kroemer
Oliver Kroemer
Associate Professor
Top Research Interests:
  • Robot Learning for Manipulation
  • Motion for Manipulation Tasks
  • Learning and Classification
  • Force and Tactile Sensors
  • Grasping
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Portrait of David Held
David Held
Associate Professor
Top Research Interests:
  • Robot Programming by Demonstration
  • Active Perception
  • Robot Learning for Manipulation
  • Perceptual Robotics
  • Computer Vision
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Portrait of James McCann
James McCann
Associate Professor
Top Research Interests:
  • Textiles Manufacturing
  • Computer-Aided Fabrication
  • Simulation
  • Graphics & Creative Tools
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Portrait of Jean Hyaejin Oh
Jean Hyaejin Oh
Associate Research Professor
Top Research Interests:
  • Human Robot Collaboration
  • Human-Robot Interaction
  • Social Robots
  • Robot Programming by Demonstration
  • Learning and Classification
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Portrait of Abhisesh Silwal
Abhisesh Silwal
Systems Scientist
Top Research Interests:
  • 3-D Vision and Recognition
  • Active Perception
  • Computer Vision
  • Control Theory
  • Deep Learning
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Portrait of Wennie Tabib
Wennie Tabib
Systems Scientist
Top Research Interests:
  • Active Perception
  • Sensing and Estimation
  • Simultaneous Localization and Mapping
  • Aerial Robotics
  • Motion Planning
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Portrait of Laszlo A. Jeni
Laszlo A. Jeni
Assistant Research Professor
Top Research Interests:
  • Computer Vision
  • Deep Learning
  • Facial Recognition
  • Augmented Reality
  • 3-D Vision and Recognition
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Portrait of Zakia Hammal
Zakia Hammal
Systems Scientist
Top Research Interests:
  • Facial Recognition
  • Learning and Classification
  • Deep Learning
  • Sensing & Perception
  • Social Robots
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Portrait of Ji Zhang
Ji Zhang
Systems Scientist
Top Research Interests:
  • Simultaneous Localization and Mapping
  • Motion Planning
  • Multi-Robot Planning & Coordination
  • Full Stack Autonomy
  • 3-D Vision and Recognition
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Portrait of Mel Siegel
Mel Siegel
Professor Emeritus
Top Research Interests:
  • Sensing & Perception
  • Sensing and Estimation
  • 3-D Vision and Recognition
  • Augmented Reality
  • Haptics
All Research Interests | Lab
Portrait of Nancy Pollard
Nancy Pollard
Professor
Top Research Interests:
  • Grasping
  • Manipulation & Interfaces
  • Contact Modeling and Manipulation
  • Motion for Manipulation Tasks
  • Robot Hands
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Portrait of Tom Mitchell
Tom Mitchell
Edward Fredkin University Professor
Top Research Interests:
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Portrait of William (Red) L. Whittaker
William (Red) L. Whittaker
Founders University Research Professor Emeritus
Top Research Interests:
  • Field & Service Robotics
  • Industrial Robotics
  • Robotics for Scientific Discovery
  • Robotics in Hazardous Application
  • Space Robots and Systems
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Portrait of David Wettergreen
David Wettergreen
Research Professor / Director of the PhD Program
Top Research Interests:
  • Space Robots and Systems
  • Robotics for Scientific Discovery
  • Robotics in Agriculture and Forestry
  • Underwater Robotics
  • Learning and Classification
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Portrait of Matthew J. Travers
Matthew J. Travers
Senior Systems Scientist
Top Research Interests:
  • Biologically Inspired and Evolutionary Robotics
  • Human-Robot Interaction
  • Search and Rescue Robotics
  • Force Control
  • Micro/Nanorobots
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Portrait of Katia Sycara
Katia Sycara
Edward Fredkin Research Professor / Associate Director of Faculty
Top Research Interests:
  • AI Reasoning for Multi-Robot Systems
  • Networked Robots
  • Human Robot Collaboration
  • Field & Service Robotics
  • Social Robots
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Portrait of Stephen Smith
Stephen Smith
Research Professor
Top Research Interests:
  • Intelligent Transportation Systems
  • AI Reasoning for Multi-Robot Systems
  • Multi-Robot Planning & Coordination
  • Machine Learning Embedded in Systems
  • Biologically Inspired and Evolutionary Robotics
All Research Interests | Lab
Portrait of Aaron Steinfeld
Aaron Steinfeld
Research Professor / Head of Faculty Mentoring
Top Research Interests:
  • Field & Service Robotics
  • Intelligent Transportation Systems
  • Human-Centered Robotics
  • Human-Robot Interaction
  • Planning & Scheduling
All Research Interests | Lab
Portrait of Sanjiv Singh
Sanjiv Singh
Consulting Professor
Top Research Interests:
  • Aerial Robotics
  • Robotics in Agriculture and Forestry
  • Mining Robotics
  • 3-D Vision and Recognition
  • Sensing & Perception
All Research Interests | Lab
Portrait of Reid Simmons
Reid Simmons
Research Professor
Top Research Interests:
  • Human-Robot Interaction
  • Social Robots
  • Domestic Robotics
  • AI Reasoning for Robotics
  • AI Reasoning for Multi-Robot Systems
All Research Interests | Lab
Portrait of Yaser Ajmal Sheikh
Yaser Ajmal Sheikh
Consulting Professor
Top Research Interests:
  • Human-Centered Robotics
  • Social Robots
  • Robotics Foundations
  • Computer Vision
  • Sensing & Perception
All Research Interests | Lab
Portrait of Jeff Schneider
Jeff Schneider
Research Professor
Top Research Interests:
  • Reinforcement Learning
  • Multi-Robot Planning & Coordination
  • Deep Learning
  • Learning and Classification
  • Motion Planning
All Research Interests | Lab
Portrait of Sebastian Scherer
Sebastian Scherer
Associate Research Professor
Top Research Interests:
  • Aerial Robotics
  • Motion Planning
  • AI Reasoning for Robotics
  • Active Perception
  • 3-D Vision and Recognition
All Research Interests | Lab
Portrait of Cameron Riviere
Cameron Riviere
Research Professor
Top Research Interests:
  • Medical Robotics and Computer-Integrated Surgery
  • Rehabilitation and Health Care Robotics
  • Micro/Nanorobots
  • Motion Control
  • Force Control
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Portrait of Raj Reddy
Raj Reddy
Moza Bint Nasser University Professor
Top Research Interests:
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Portrait of Deva Kannan Ramanan
Deva Kannan Ramanan
Professor
Top Research Interests:
  • Computer Vision
  • 3-D Vision and Recognition
  • Visual Servoing and Visual Tracking
  • Neurorobotics: From Vision to Action
  • First-Person Vision
All Research Interests | Lab
Portrait of Takeo Kanade
Takeo Kanade
SCS Founders University Professor
Top Research Interests:
  • Computer Vision
  • 3-D Vision and Recognition
  • Facial Recognition
  • Multisensor Data Fusion
  • Augmented Reality
All Research Interests | Lab
Portrait of Michael Kaess
Michael Kaess
Associate Professor
Top Research Interests:
  • Simultaneous Localization and Mapping
  • Computer Vision
  • Sensing and Estimation
  • Sensing & Perception
  • Underwater Robotics
All Research Interests | Lab
Portrait of George A. Kantor
George A. Kantor
Research Professor / Associate Director of Education
Top Research Interests:
  • Field & Service Robotics
  • Robotics in Agriculture and Forestry
  • Intelligent Transportation Systems
  • Underwater Robotics
  • Mining Robotics
All Research Interests | Lab
Portrait of Alonzo Kelly
Alonzo Kelly
Faculty Emeritus
Top Research Interests:
  • Human-Robot Interaction
  • Simultaneous Localization and Mapping
  • World Modeling
  • Model Identification
  • Wheeled Robots
All Research Interests | Lab
Portrait of Kris M. Kitani
Kris M. Kitani
Associate Research Professor
Top Research Interests:
  • Computer Vision
  • Human Activity Forecasting
  • First-Person Vision
  • Reinforcement Learning
  • Sensing and Estimation
All Research Interests | Lab
Portrait of Matthew T. Mason
Matthew T. Mason
Professor Emeritus
Top Research Interests:
  • Manipulation & Interfaces
  • Contact Modeling and Manipulation
  • Grasping
  • Motion for Manipulation Tasks
  • Motion Planning
All Research Interests | Lab
Portrait of Jack Mostow
Jack Mostow
Emeritus Research Professor
Top Research Interests:
  • Robots for Education
  • Human-Robot Interaction
  • Human-Centered Robotics
All Research Interests | Lab
Portrait of Srinivasa G. Narasimhan
Srinivasa G. Narasimhan
U.A. and Helen Whitaker Professor of Robotics
Top Research Interests:
  • Computer Vision
  • Imaging
  • Active Perception
  • Medical Robotics and Computer-Integrated Surgery
  • Sensing & Perception
All Research Interests | Lab
Portrait of Maxim Likhachev
Maxim Likhachev
Professor
Top Research Interests:
  • Motion Planning
  • Machine Learning Embedded in Systems
  • AI Reasoning for Robotics
  • AI Reasoning for Articulated Systems
  • Motion for Manipulation Tasks
All Research Interests | Lab
Portrait of Illah Nourbakhsh
Illah Nourbakhsh
Kavčić-Moura Professor of Computer Science
Top Research Interests:
  • Roboethics: Social and Ethical Implications of Robotics
  • Robots for Education
  • Graphics & Creative Tools
  • Human-Robot Interaction
  • Imaging
All Research Interests | Lab
Portrait of Dimitrios (Dimi) Apostolopoulos
Dimitrios (Dimi) Apostolopoulos
Principal Systems Scientist
Top Research Interests:
  • Field & Service Robotics
  • Robotics in Hazardous Application
  • Robotics for Scientific Discovery
  • Mining Robotics
  • Robotics in Agriculture and Forestry
All Research Interests | Lab
Portrait of Chris Atkeson
Chris Atkeson
Professor
Top Research Interests:
  • Force and Tactile Sensors
  • Robot Learning for Manipulation
  • Robot Programming by Demonstration
  • Humanoids
  • Soft Robotics
All Research Interests | Lab
Portrait of David Bourne
David Bourne
Principal Systems Scientist
Top Research Interests:
  • Manufacturing Robotics
  • Human-Robot Interaction
  • Business and Robotics
  • Machine Learning Embedded in Systems
  • AI Reasoning for Robotics
All Research Interests | Lab
Portrait of Howie Choset
Howie Choset
Kavcic-Moura Professor of Computer Science
Top Research Interests:
  • Field & Service Robotics
  • Manufacturing Robotics
  • Search and Rescue Robotics
  • Manipulation & Interfaces
  • Multi-Robot Planning & Coordination
All Research Interests | Lab
Portrait of Keenan Crane
Keenan Crane
Associate Professor
Top Research Interests:
  • Robotics Foundations
  • Geometric Algorithms
All Research Interests | Lab
Portrait of Fernando De la Torre Frade
Fernando De la Torre Frade
Associate Research Professor
Top Research Interests:
  • Facial Recognition
  • Computer Vision
  • Augmented Reality
  • AI Reasoning for Robotics
  • Human-Centered Robotics
All Research Interests | Lab
Portrait of John M. Dolan
John M. Dolan
Principal Systems Scientist
Top Research Interests:
  • Field & Service Robotics
  • Intelligent Transportation Systems
  • Manufacturing Robotics
  • Manipulation & Interfaces
  • Behavior-based Systems
All Research Interests | Lab
Portrait of Artur W. Dubrawski
Artur W. Dubrawski
Alumni Research Professor of Computer Science
Top Research Interests:
  • Learning and Classification
  • Human Activity Forecasting
  • AI Reasoning for Robotics
  • Machine Learning Embedded in Systems
  • Human-Centered Robotics
All Research Interests | Lab
Portrait of Michael Erdmann
Michael Erdmann
Professor
Top Research Interests:
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Portrait of John Galeotti
John Galeotti
Senior Systems Scientist
Top Research Interests:
  • Medical Robotics and Computer-Integrated Surgery
  • Computer Vision
  • Imaging
  • Augmented Reality
  • Simultaneous Localization and Mapping
All Research Interests | Lab
Portrait of Hartmut Geyer
Hartmut Geyer
Associate Professor
Top Research Interests:
  • Human-Centered Robotics
  • Biologically Inspired and Evolutionary Robotics
  • Humanoids
  • Rehabilitation and Health Care Robotics
  • Robot Structures
All Research Interests | Lab
Portrait of Ioannis Gkioulekas
Ioannis Gkioulekas
Associate Professor
Top Research Interests:
  • Imaging
  • Computer Vision
  • 3-D Vision and Recognition
  • Graphics & Creative Tools
  • Sensing & Perception
All Research Interests | Lab
Portrait of Abhinav Gupta
Abhinav Gupta
Professor
Top Research Interests:
  • Machine Learning Embedded in Systems
  • Computer Vision
  • Learning and Classification
  • AI Reasoning for Robotics
  • Graphics & Creative Tools
All Research Interests | Lab
Portrait of Martial Hebert
Martial Hebert
Dean and University Professor of Robotics, School of Computer Science
Top Research Interests:
  • Computer Vision
  • Intelligent Transportation Systems
  • Sensing & Perception
  • Field & Service Robotics
  • Robotics Foundations
All Research Interests | Lab
Portrait of Jessica K. Hodgins
Jessica K. Hodgins
Allen Newell University Professor of Computer Science and Robotics
Top Research Interests:
  • Animation
  • Humanoids
  • Legged Robots
  • Simulation
  • Graphics & Creative Tools
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Portrait of Ralph Hollis
Ralph Hollis
Professor Emeritus
Top Research Interests:
  • Dynamics
  • Haptics
  • Human Activity Forecasting
  • Safety for Physical Human-Robot Interaction
  • Motion Control
All Research Interests | Lab
Portrait of Herman Herman
Herman Herman
Principal Systems Scientist / Director, NREC
Top Research Interests:
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