June 2005 - May 2006

• Bambi Brewer May 2006 (Matsuoka) Visual Feedback Manipulation for Hand Rehabilitation in a Robotic Environment
  University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
  Department of Rehabilitation Science and Technology

• Aaron Courville May 2006 (Touretzky) A Latent Cause Model of Classical Conditioning
  Universite de Montreal, Canada

• Cristian Dima May 2006 (Hebert / Stentz) Active Learning for Outdoor Perception
  Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
  NREC Commercialization Specialist
  csd@cmu.edu

• Jiayong Zhang May 2006 (Collins / Liu) Statistical Modeling and Localization of Nonrigid and Articulated Shapes
  Google, Inc., Santa Monica, CA
  Software Engineer

• Thomas Ault December 2005 (Siegel) In Vivo Measurement and Visualization of Pelvic Position and Orientation and Changes in Soft Tissue Shape and Thickness with Respect to Changes in Seating Surface Shape
  Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
  Visiting Researcher, Language Technologies Institute
  tomault@cs.cmu.edu

• Jeremy Kubica December 2005 (Moore) Efficient Discovery of Spacial Associations and Structure with Application to Asteroid Tracking
  Google, Inc., Pittsburgh, PA

• Wen-Chieh Lin December 2005 (Liu) A Lattice-based MRF model for Dynamic Near-regular Texture Tracking and Manipulation
  National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan
  Assistant Professor
  wenchieh@gmail.com

• George Lopez Subrebost December 2005 (Fedder) Silicon-based microdialysis chip with integrated fraction collection and biofouling control
  Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh PA
  ICES: Institute for Complex Engineered Systems
  Postdoctoral Fellow

• Carl Wellington December 2005 (Stentz) Learning a Terrain Model for Autonomous Navigation in Rough Terrain
  Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
  NREC Commercialization Specialist
  carl@wellington.name

• Daniel Wilson December 2005 (Atkeson) Assistive Intelligent Environments for Automatic Health Monitoring
  http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dwilson/

• Matthew Deans August 2005 (Hebert) Bearings-Only Localization and Mapping
  NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field CA

• Rosemary Emery-Montemerlo August 2005 (Schneider / Thrun) Game-Theoretic Control for Robot Teams
  Google, Inc., Mountain View, CA
  Software Engineer

• Sanjiv Kumar August 2005 (Hebert) Models for Learning Spatial Interactions in Natural Images for Context-Based Classification
  Google Inc., New York, NY

• Bartholomeus Nabbe August 2005 (Hebert) Extending the Path-planning Horizon

• Yuriy Nevmyvaka August 2005 (Sycara / Seppi) Normative Approach to Market Microstructure Analysis
  Lehman Brothers, New York, NY
  Associate, Equity Proprietary Trading

• Siddhartha Srinivasa August 2005 (Erdmann / Mason) Control Synthesis for Dynamic Contact Manipulation
  Intel Research, Pittsburgh, PA
  Research Scientist
  siddh@cs.cmu.edu

June 2004 - May 2005

• Pragyana Mishra May 2005 (Amidi / Kanade) Image and Depth Coherent Surface Description
  Microsoft Corporation, Redmond WA

• Paul Tompkins May 2005 (Whittaker) Mission-Directed Path Planning for Planetary Rover Exploration
  Lead Flight Director
  NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA
  pdtompkins@gmail.com

• Christopher Urmson May 2005 (Simmons / Whittaker) Navigation Regimes for Off-Road Autonomy
  SAIC, Pittsburgh, PA

• Vandana Verma May 2005 (Simmons) Tractable Particle Filters for Robot Fault Diagnosis
  NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena CA
  vandee@gmail.com

• Jing Xiao May 2005 (Kanade) Reconstruction, Registration, and Modeling of Deformable Object Shapes
  Epson Palo Alto Laboratory, Palo Alto, CA
  jing.xiaoj@gmail.com

• James Bagnell December 2004 (Schneider) Learning Decisions: Robustness, Uncertainty, and Approximation
  Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
  Research Scientist
  bagnell2@andrew.cmu.edu
  http://www.ri.cmu.edu/people/bagnell_james.html

• Curt Bererton December 2004 (Khosla) Multi-Robot Coordination and Competition Using Mixed Integer and Linear Programs
  iKuni, Palo Alto, CA
  AI Researcher
  junk.bererton@gmail.com

• Kiran Bhat December 2004 (Khosla) Creating Realistic Animations Using Video
  Epson Palo Alto Laboratory, Palo Alto, CA

• Devin Balkcom August 2004 (Mason) Robotic Origami Folding
  Dartmouth University, Hanover NH
  Assistant Professor
  devin@cs.dartmouth.edu

• Soshi Iba August 2004 (Khosla) Interactive Multi-Modal Robot Programming
  Honda R&D Wako Research Center, Japan
  iba@ieee.org

• Joelle Pineau August 2004 (Thrun / Gordon) Tractable Planning Under Uncertainty: Exploiting Structure
  McGill University
  Assistant Professor
  jpineau@cs.mcgill.ca

June 2003 - May 2004

• Wei-Tech Ang May 2004 (Khosla / Riviere) Active Tremor Compensation in Handheld Instrument for Microsurgery
  Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
  Assistant Professor
  wtang@ntu.edu.sg

• Mary Bernardine Dias May 2004 (Stentz) TraderBots: A New Paradigm for Robust and Efficient Multirobot Coordination in Dynamic Environments
  Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh PA
  Robotics Institute, Research Scientist
  Founder and Director, TechBridgeWorld
  Co-Founder and Co-Director, rCommerce Lab
  mbdias@ri.cmu.edu

• Chieh-Chih Wang May 2004 (Thorpe) Simultaneous Localization, Mapping and Moving Object Tracking
  National Taiwan University, Taiwan
  Assistant Professor

• Huadong Wu May 2004 (Siegel) Sensor Fusion for Context-Aware Computing Using Dempster-Shafer Theory
  Postdoctoral Scholar
  UPitt Magee Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA
  whd@cs.cmu.edu

• Owen Carmichael December 2003 (Hebert) Discriminative Techniques For The Recognition Of Complex-Shaped Objects
  Assistant Professor
  The University of California, Davis
  http://rope.ucdavis.edu/~owenc/research.htm
  ocarmichael AT ucdavis.edu

• Kong Man Cheung December 2003 (Kanade) Visual Hull Construction, Alignment and Refinement for Human Kinematic Modeling, Motion Tracking and Rendering
  Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
  Postdoctoral Fellow
  german@ux2.sp.cs.cmu.edu

• Yanghai Tsin December 2003 (Kanade) Kernel Correlation as an Affinity Measure in Point-Sampled Vision Problems
  Siemens Corporate Research
  Member of Technical Staff
  yanghai.tsin@scr.siemens.com

• Brigham Anderson August 2003 (Moore) Nonparametric Optimization and Galactic Morphology
  Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
  Postdoctoral Fellow
  brigham@cmu.edu

• Vincent Cicirello August 2003 (Smith) Boosting Stochastic Problem Solvers Through Online Self-Analysis of Performance
  Assistant Professor
  Richard Stockton College of NJ, Pomona NJ
  cicrelv@stockton.edu

• Michael Montemerlo August 2003 (Whittaker / Thrun) FastSLAM: A Factored Solution to the Simultaneous Localization and Mapping Problem with Unknown Data Association
  Senior Research Engineer
  Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA

• Nicholas Roy August 2003 (Thrun / Mitchell) Finding Approximate POMDP solutions Through Belief Compression
  Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, MA
  Assistant Professor
  nickroy@mit.edu

• Peter Staritz August 2003 (Whittaker) Force Guided Assembly Under Bias
  General Dynamics Robotic Systems, Owings Mills, MD
  pstaritz@gdrs.com

• Ashley Stroupe August 2003 (Balch) Collaborative Execution of Exploration and Tracking using Move Value Estimation for Robot Teams (MVERT)
  Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
  Staff Engineer
  Ashley.Stroupe@jpl.nasa.gov

June 2002 - May 2003

• Jeffrey Smith May 2003 (Oppenheim) Three Applications of Optimization in Computer Graphics
  Softimage, Montreal, Canada
  Research Programmer
  jeffreys@softimage.com

• Stella Xingxing Yu May 2003 (T.S. Lee / Shi) Computational Models of Perceptual Organization
  University of California, Berkeley, CA
  Postdoctoral Fellow
  stellayu@eecs.berkeley.edu

• Charles L. Zitnick May 2003 (Kanade) Computing Conditional Probabilities in Large Domains by Maximizing Rényi's Quadratic Entropy
  Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA
  larryz@microsoft.com

• Alvaro Soto September 2002 (Khosla) A Probabilistic Approach for the Adaptive Integration of Multiple Visual Cues Using an Agent Framework
  Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Santiago Chile
  Associate Professor
  asoto@ing.puc.cl

• Peng Chang July 2002 (Hebert) Robust Tracking and Structure from Motion with Sampling Method
  Sarnoff Corporation, Princeton NJ
  Technical Staff
  pchang@sarnoff.com

• Daniel Huber July 2002 (Hebert) Automatic Three-Dimensional Modeling from Reality
  Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
  Systems Scientist
  http://www.ri.cmu.edu/people/huber_daniel.html
  dhuber@cs.cmu.edu

June 2001 - May 2002

• Alex Foessel January 2002 (Whittaker) Scene Modeling from Motion-Free Radar Sensing
  John Deere Company

• J. Ryan Miller January 2002 (Amidi) A 3D Color Terrain Modeling System for Small Autonomous Helicopters
  NREC Commercialization Specialist
  Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
  http://www.ri.cmu.edu/people/miller_james.html
  jmce+@ri.cmu.edu

• Daniel Nikovski January 2002 (Nourbakhsh) State-Aggregation Algorithms for Learning Probabilistic Models for Robot Control
  Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs, Cambridge, MA
  Research Scientist
  http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~danieln/
  nikovski@merl.com

• Terrence Fong November 2001 (Thorpe) Collaborative Control: A Robot-Centric Model for Vehicle Teleoperation
  NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA
  Group Lead, Intelligent Robotics Group
  terry.fong@nasa.gov

• Andrew B. Mor October 2001 (Kanade) Progressive Cutting with Minimal New Element Creation of Soft Tissue Models for Interactive Surgical Simulation
  currently not employed
  abm760@gmail.com

• Martin C. Martin September 2001 (Moravec) The Simulated Evolution of Robot Perception
  Panjiva.com, Cambridge, MA
  Senior Computer Scientist

• Sundar Vedula September 2001 (Kanade) Image Based Spatio-Temporal Modeling and View Interpolation of Dynamic Events
  YesVideo, Santa Clara, CA
  http://www.yesvideo.com

• Stewart John Moorehead August 2001 (Whittaker) Autonomous Surface Exploration for Mobile Robots
  John Deere, Moline, IL
  stewartm@ieee.org

• Liang Zhao June 2001 (Thorpe) Dressed Human Modeling, Detection, and Parts Localization
  University of Maryland, College Park MD
  Research Scientist
  http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/people/researchfaculty.htm
  lzhao@umiacs.umd.edu

June 2000 - May 2001

• Daniel Morris March 2001 (Kanade) Gauge Freedoms and Uncertainty Modeling for 3D Computer Vision
  Northrop Grumman Corporation, PA
  R&D Engineer
  http://www.northropgrumman.com/
  Daniel_D_Morris@mail.northgrum.com

• Mei Han February 2001 (Kanade) Linear and Bilinear Subspace Methods for Structure from Motion
  NEC Laboratories America, Cupertino, CA
  Research Staff Member
  http://www.nec-labs.com/organization.html
  meihan@sv.nec-labs.com

• Jay Willard Gowdy December 2000 (Thorpe) Emergent Architectures: A Case Study for Outdoor Mobile Robots
  Cognex Corporationhttp://www.cognex.com/

• Liam Pedersen November 2000 (Hebert) Robotic Rock Classification and Autonomous Exploration
  NASA Ames Research Center, San Jose, CA
  Senior Robotics Engineer
  http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~pedersen
  pedersen@email.arc.nasa.gov

• Kimberly Shillcutt October 2000 (Whittaker) Solar Based Navigational Planning for Robotic Explorers
  NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX
  Computer Engineer
  robotkim@yahoo.com

• Zack Butler August 2000 (Hollis) Distributed Coverage of Rectilinear Environment
  Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY
  Assistant Professor
  http://www.cs.rit.edu/~zjb/research.html

• Arthur E. Quaid III July 2000 (Hollis) A Planar Robot for High-Performance Manipulation
  Z-KAT, Inc., Hollywood, FL
  Director of Research & Development
  http://www.z-kat.com/
  aquaid@bellsouth.net

June 1999 - May 2000

• Parag Batavia September 1999 (Thorpe / Pomerleau) Driver-Adaptive Lane Departure Warning Systems
  Applied Perception, Inc., Pittsburgh PA
  QinetiQ North America Technology Solutions Group
  Director of Projects and Operations
  pbatavia@foster-miller.com

• Peter Berkelman June 1999 (Hollis) Tool-Based Haptic Interaction with Dynamic Physical Simulations using Lorentz Magnetic Levitation
  Assistant Professor
  University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI
  http://www.me.hawaii.edu/faculty/berkelman.htm

• Mei Chen July 1999 (Kanade / Pomerleau) 3-D Deformable Registration Using a Statistical Atlas with Applications in Medicine
  Senior Scientist
  Intel Research, Pittsburgh PA
  http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~meichen/

• Stephen Chen August 1999 (Smith) Is the Common Good? A New Perspective in Genetic Algorithms and Genetics
  Associate Professor
  York University, Toronto, Ontario CANADA
  http://www.atkinson.yorku.ca/~sychen/
  sychen@yorku.ca

• Murali Krishna August 1999 (Bares) Optimal Motion Computational for Hydraulic Robots
  Senior Automation Engineer
  Intel Corporation, Hillsboro, OR
  murali.krishna@intel.com

• Keith Norman Lay May 2000 (Stentz) Incremental Object Recognition Using Range Sensors
  Senior Research Engineer
  Caterpillar Inc., Peoria, IL
  Laynk@CAT.com

• Christopher Lee May 2000 (Xu) Learning Reduced-Dimension Models of Human Actions
  Boston Dynamics, Waltham MA
  Senior Research Engineer

• Chris Leger December 1999 (Bares) Automated Synthesis and Optimization of Robot Configurations: An Automated Approach
  Member of Engineering Staff
  Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
  http://robotics.jpl.nasa.gov/people/cleger/homepage.html
  chris.leger@jpl.nasa.gov

• Lisa Saksida August 1999 (McClelland) The Interaction of Perception and Cognition: A Competitive Connectionist Model of the Effects of Experience on Perceptual Representations
  University of Cambridge, Cambridge UNITED KINGDOM
  Lecturer, Principal Investigator
  http://research.psychol.cam.ac.uk/~csnlab/

• Henry Schneiderman May 2000 (Kanade) A Statistical Approach to 3D Object Detection Applied to Faces and Cars
  Research Scientist
  Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
  http://www.ri.cmu.edu/people/schneiderman_henry.html
  hws@ux1.sp.cs.cmu.edu

• Garth Zeglin October 1999 (Mason) The Bow Leg Hopping Robot
  Project Scientist
  Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
  http://www.ri.cmu.edu/people/zeglin_garth.html
  garthz+@ux4.sp.cs.cmu.edu

• Dongmei Zhang December 1999 (Hebert) Harmonic Shape Images: A Representation for 3-D Free-Form Surfaces and its Application in Surface Matching
  Research Manager
  Microsoft Research, Inc., One Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA 98052
  dongmeizhang@hotmail.com

June 1998 - May 1999

• Kan Deng January 1999 (Moore)OMEGA: On-line Memory-based General Purpose System Detector
  Telenav, Beijing CHINA
  Manager
  http://www.telenav.com/

• John Arthur Hancock January 1999 (Thorpe / Hebert) Laser Intensity Based Obstacle Detection and Tracking
  Programmer
  LucasArts Entertainment Company, San Rafael, CA
  http://www.lucasarts.com/
  jhancock@lucasarts.com

• Patrick Sean Rowe January 1999 (Stentz) Adaptive Motion Planning for Autonomous Mass Excavation
  Vice President, Research & Development
  Robotics Engineering Excellence (RE2), Pittsburgh, PA
  http://www.resquared.com/
  patrick.rowe@resquared.com

• Todd Andrew Williamson September 1998 (Thorpe) A High-Performance Stereo Vision System for Obstacle Detection
  ITA Software, Inc., Cambridge MA
  Principal Computer Scientist
  http://www.itasoftware.com
  toddw@ieee.org

June 1997 - May 1998

• Dimitrios Sokratis Apostolopoulos May 1998 (Whittaker) Analytical Configuration of Wheeled Robotic Locomotion
  Senior Systems Scientist
  Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
  http://www.ri.cmu.edu/people/apostolopoulos_dimitrios.html
  da1v@ri.cmu.edu
  

• Deepak Bapna February 1998 (Bares) Payload Pointing from Mobile Robots
  Director, Product Management
  Microsoft Corporation, Redmond WA

• Barry Lowell Brumitt January 1998 (Stentz) A Mission Planning System for Multiple Mobile Robots in Unknown, Unstructured, and Changing Environments
  Google, Inc., Kirkland WA
  Software Engineer

• Fabio Gagliardi Cozman December 1997 (Krotkov) Decision Making Based on Convex Sets of Probability Distributions: Quasi-Bayesian Networks and Outdoor Visual Position Estimation
  Assistant Professor
  Escola Politécnica da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, BRAZIL
  http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~fgcozman/home.html
  fgcozman@usp.br

• Kevin J. Dowling December 1997 (Whittaker) Limbless Locomotion: Learning to Crawl with a Snake Robot
  VP Strategic Technologies
  Color Kinetics, Boston, MA
  http://corp.colorkinetics.com/about/people

• Wesley H. Huang August 1997 (Mason) Impulsive Manipulation
  Foster-Miller QinetiQ North America, Waltham MA
  Senior Research Scientist
  whuang@foster-miller.com

• Yan-Bin Jia December 1997 (Erdmann) Geometric and Dynamic Sensing: Observation of Pose and Motion through Contact
  Associate Professor
  Iowa State University, Ames, IA
  http://www.cs.iastate.edu/~jia/
  jia@cs.iastate.edu

• Andrew Edie Johnson August 1997 (Hebert) Spin-Images: A Representation for 3D Surface Matching
  Principal Member of Technical Staff
  Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
  http://www-robotics.jpl.nasa.gov/people/Andrew_Johnson/
  aej@jpl.nasa.gov

• Lalitesh Kumar Katragadda December 1997 (Whittaker) Synergy: A Language and Framework for Robot Design
  Chief Executive Officer
  Astrobotics Inc., San Jose, CA
  http://www.astrobotics.com
  lalitesh@astrobotics.com

• John R. Murphy May 1998 (Whittaker) Panospheric Video for Robotic Telexploration
  Astrobotics, Inc., San Jose, CA
  http://www.astrobotics.com/
  john@astrobotics.com

• Michael Christian Nechyba May 1998 (Y. Xu) Learning and Validation of Human Control Strategies
  Assistant Professor
  University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
  http://mil.ufl.edu/people/nechyba/
  nechyba@mil.ufl.edu

• Mark Daniel Ollis August 1997 (Stentz) Perception Algorithms for a Harvesting Robot
  Lockheed Martin, Denver CO
  Systems Engineer

• George Vikram Paul November 1997 (Ikeuchi) Kinematics of Objects in Contact using Dual Vectors and its Applications
  MobileRobots, Inc., Amherst NH
  Senior Roboticist

• Richard Meredith Voyles August 1997 (Khosla) Toward Gesture-Based Programming: Agent-Based Haptic Skill Acquisition and Interpretation
  Assistant Professor
  University of Denver, Denver, CO
  http://mysite.du.edu/~rvoyles/
  rvoyles@du.edu

• Cheng-Hua Wang September 1997 (Bourne) Manufacturabiltiy-Driven Decomposition of Sheet Metal Products
  Postdoctoral Fellow
  Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
  http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~cwwang/

June 1996 - May 1997

• Srinivas Akella December 1996 (Mason) Robotic Manipulation for Parts Transfer and Orienting: Mechanics, Planning, and Shape Uncertainty
  Assistant Professor
  Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
  http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~sakella/
  sakella@cs.rpi.edu

• Lin Lawrance Chase April 1997 (Reddy / Rosenfeld) Error-Responsive Feedback Mechanisms for Speech Recognizers
  Director
  Accenture Technology Labs, Bangalore INDIA
  http://www.accenture.com/home/

• Herman Herman May 1997 (Stentz) Robotic Subsurface Mapping Using Ground Penetrating Radar
  Senior NREC Commercialization Specialist
  Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
  http://www.ri.cmu.edu/people/herman_herman.html
  herman@frc2.frc.ri.cmu.edu

• Dirk Thomas Langer January 1997 (Thorpe / Hebert) An Integrated MMW Radar System for Outdoor Navigation
  President & CEO
  Z&F US, Inc., Duquesne, PA
  http://www.zf-usa.com/
  langer+@ri.cmu.edu

• Bruce Allen Maxwell July 1996 (Shafer) Segmentation and Interpretation Using Multiple Physical Hypotheses of Image Formation
  Colby College, Waterville ME
  Associate Professor and Chair
  http://www.cs.colby.edu/maxwell/

• James Daniel Morrow May 1997 (Khosla) Sensorimotor Primitives for Programming Robotic Assembly Skills
  Principal Member of Technical Staff
  Sandia National Laboratories
  dmorrow@ieee.org

• Julio K. Rosenblatt January 1997 (Thorpe) DAMN: A Distributed Architecture for Mobile Navigation
  Senior Research Associate
  University of Sydney, Sydney, AUSTRALIA
  http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~julio/
  julio@cs.umd.edu

• Yoichi Sato January 1997 (Ikeuchi) Object Shape and Reflectance Modeling from Color Image Sequence
  Associate Professor
  The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, JAPAN
  http://jpn.hci.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~ysato/
  sato@iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp

• Heung-Yeung Shum July 1996 (Reddy) Modeling from Reality: Representation and Integration
  Research Manager
  Microsoft Research, Inc., Redmond, WA
  http://www.research.microsoft.com/users/hshum/
  hshum@microsoft.com

• David A. Simon December 1996 (Kanade) Fast and Accurate Shape-Based Registration
  Chief Technology Officer
  Medtronic Navigation, Louisville, CO
  david.simon@medtronic.com

• Rahul Sukthankar January 1997 (Thorpe/Pomerleau) Situation Awareness for Tactical Driving
  Intel Research, Pittsburgh PA
  Senior Principal Researcher
  http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rahuls
  rahuls@cs.cmu.edu

• Nina Barrameda Zumel January 1997 (Erdmann) A Nonprehensile Method for Reliable Parts Orienting
  Quimba Software, San Mateo, CA
  Co-Founder and Owner
  http://www.quimba.com/
  http://www.mzlabs.com/NBZumel/

June 1995 - May 1996

• Vladimir M. Brajovic January 1996 (Kanade) Computational Sensors for Global Operations in Vision
  Research Scientist
  Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
  http://www.ri.cmu.edu/people/brajovic_vladimir.html
  brajovic@cs.cmu.edu

• R. Craig Coulter March 1996 (Whittaker) Autonomous Speed Control for Conventional Vehicles
  Founder
  HyperActive Technologies
  rcoulter@hyperactivetechnologies.com

• Ian Lane Davis April 1996 (Siegel / Stentz) A Modular Neural Network Approach to Autonomous Navigation
  Chief Executive Officer
  Mad Doc Software LLC, Lawrence, MA
  http://www.maddocsoftware.com
  mad_dr_i@maddocsoftware.com

• Alonzo James Kelly August 1995 (Stentz) An Intelligent, Predictive Control Approach to the High-Speed, Cross-Country Autonomous Navigation Problem
  Research Scientist
  Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
  http://www.frc.ri.cmu.edu/~alonzo
  alonzo@cs.cmu.edu

• Jyi Shane Liu April 1996 (Sycara) Coordination of Multiple Agents in Distributed Manufacturing Scheduling
  Associate Professor
  National ChengChi University, Taipei, TAIWAN
  http://www.nccu.edu.tw/english/main.html
  jsliu@cs.nccu.edu.tw

• Kevin Michael Lynch March 1996 (Mason) Nonprehensile Robotic Manipulation: Controllability and Planning
  Assistant Professor
  Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
  http://lims.mech.nwu.edu/~lynch

• Bradley James Nelson August 1995 (Khosla) Object Schemas and Port-Based Agents for Assimilating Disparate Sensory Feedback
  ETH, Zurich
  Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Systems
  Professor
  http://www.iris.ethz.ch/msrl/people/brad_n.php

• Gary K. Shaffer October 1995 (Stentz) Two-Dimensional Mapping of Expansive Unknown Areas
  Hewlitt-Packard Co. HG, NC

• Fredric Joel Solomon May 1996 (Ikeuchi) Illumination Planning for Photometric Measurements
  Senior Automation Project Engineer
  Merck & Co. Inc., Rahway, NJ
  fred_solomon@merck.com

• David S. Wettergreen December 1995 (Whittaker / Thorpe) Robotic Walking in Natural Terrain
  Research Scientist
  Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
  http://www.ri.cmu.edu/people/wettergreen_david.html
  dsw@ri.cmu.edu

• Yalin Xiong September 1995 (Shafer) High Precision Image Matching and Shape Recovery
  Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 4800 Oak Grove Dr., M/S 125-152, Pasadena, CA 91109
  yx@robotics.jpl.nasa.gov

June 1994 - May 1995

• Sing Bing Kang December 1994 (Ikeuchi) Robot Instruction by Human Demonstration
  Researcher
  Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA
  http://research.microsoft.com/~sbkang/
  sbkang@microsoft.com

• Sanjiv Singh January 1995 (Simmons) Synthesis of Tactical Plans for Robotic Excavation
  Senior Research Scientist
  Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh PA
  http://www.ri.cmu.edu/people/singh_sanjiv.html
  ssingh@ri.cmu.edu

June 1993 - May 1994

• John Charles Krumm December 1993 (Shafer) Space/Frequency Shape Inference and Segmentation of Textured 3D Surfaces
  Researcher
  Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA
  http://research.microsoft.com/users/jckrumm/
  jckrumm@microsoft.com

June 1992 - May 1993

• Dhiraj Kumar Pathak May 1993 (Newell / Steier) Agent Design for Automatic Use of a Software System: A Case Study with a Soar Agent for Mathematica
  Glaxo Wellcome, Inc., Research Triangle Park, NC

• Sergio William Sedas-Gersey May 1993 (Whittaker) Algorithms for Automatic Sensor Placement to Acquire Complete and Accurate Information
  Tecnológico de Monterrey, Monterrey NL Mexico
  Research Faculty
  Dept. of Mechatronics and Automation
  http://www.sergiosedas.com/

• Jin-Oh Kim August 1992 (Khosla) Task Based Kinematic Design of Robot Manipulators
  Assistant Professor
  Kwangwoon University, Seoul, KOREA
  jokim@daisy.kwangwoon.ac.kr
  Also: founder and leader
  Robots and Design Co., Ltd., Seongnam, KOREA
  http://www.rnd.re.kr
  jokim@rnd.re.kr

• Kyoung Hung Kim July 1992 (Bourne) System for Automated Fixture Planning with Modular Fixtures
  Senior Robotics Engineer
  Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
  kkim@ri.cmu.edu

June 1991 - May 1992

June 1990 - May 1991

• Caroline Clarke Hayes December 1990 (Desa) Machining Planning: A Model of an Expert Planning Process
  Richard and Barbara Nelson Associate Professor
  University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
  http://www.me.umn.edu/people/faculty/Hayes.html
  hayes@me.umn.edu

• In So Kweon January 1991 (Kanade) Modeling Rugged Terrain by Mobile Robots with Multiple Sensors
  Associate Professor
  KAIST, Seoul, KOREA
  http://rcv.kaist.ac.kr/professor/professor.html
  iskweon@cais.kaist.ac.kr

Master's Degrees Awarded, Robotics Institute

• Tamara Abell December 1995 (Erdmann)

• Nathan Abraham August 2004 (Choset / Rizzi)
  General Dynamics Robotic Systems, Baltimore MD

• Charalambos N. Athanassiou August 1995 (Mitchell / Thorpe)
  Information Unknown

• Paul Bartlett May 2008 (Whittaker)

• Christopher Bartley December 2005 (Kelly)
  Senior Research Programmer
  Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh PA

• Daniel Bartz May 2006 (Whittaker)
  

• Ajinkya Bhave May 2003 (Reddy / Nourbakhsh)
  PhD Student, ECE
  Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh PA
  ajinkya@cmu.edu

• Michael Bode December 2007 (Stentz)
  Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
  Senior Robotics Engineer
  bode@rec.ri.cmu.edu

• Marc R. Boehlen April 1999 (Mason)
  marcbohlen@mailcity.com

• Jonathan Brookshire May 2004 (Singh)
  iRobot, Bedford, MA
  Senior Research Software Engineer

• Francisco Calderon May 2007 (Wettergreen)
  Mining Industry Robotics Solutions (MIRS), Santiago CHILE
  R&D Engineer

• Todd Camill May 2002 (Whittaker)
  Walt Disney Imagineering

• Howard Cannon May 1999 (Singh) Extended Earthmoving with an Autonomous Excavator
  NASA Ames Research Center, San Jose, CA
  http://home.att.net/~jhcannon/
  jhcannon@att.net

• Joseph Carsten May 2005 (Stentz)
  Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA

• Laura Cassenti May 2002 (DiGioia)
  Research Programmer
  Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
  http://www.ri.cmu.edu/people/cassenti_laura.html
  ljc@cs.cmu.edu

• Nicholas Chan August 2006 (Kuffner)
  Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh PA
  National Robotics Engineering Consortium
  Research Programmer

• Brian Chemel May 2000 (Bares)
  Groom Energy Solutions, Salem, MA
  Solid State Lighting Consultant

• Katherine Chen May 2008 (Guestrin)
  The MathWorks, Inc., Natick MA
  Application Support Engineer
  kitchenette@gmail.com

• Richard T. DeLuca December 2000 (Hollis) Force-Based Interaction for Distributed Precision Assembly
  Control Engineer
  Lynch Systems, Bainbridge, GA
  http://www.lynchsystems.com/
  benwin22@yahoo.com

• Raghavendra Donamukkala August 2003 (Hebert) Automatic Class Selection and Prototyping for 3-D Object Databases
  Zaxel Systems Inc., Lawrenceville, PA

• Heather Dunlop August 2006 (Wettergreen)
  Digitalsmiths, Raleigh, NC
  Image Computational Engineer

• Nikhil George
  PodCurry, Seattle WA
  Founder

• Dinesh Govindaraju May 2006 (Veloso / Browning)
  Garena, Singapore
  Director, Technology
  http://www/garena.com

• Alex Gutierrez December 2005 (Whittaker)
  

• Bradley Hamner May 2006 (Singh)
  Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
  Research Programmer

• Michael Happold May 2000 (Bares) Methods for Cropline Following
  Senior Commercialization Specialist
  Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
  http://www.ri.cmu.edu/people/happold_michael.html
  happ@rec.ri.cmu.edu

• Andrew Harris May 2008 (Wettergreen)

• Paul Hsiung May 2004 (Moore)

• Anirudha Jagtap August 2004 (Riviere)
  ASML US Inc., Wilton CT
  Design Engineer
  anirudha_j@hotmail.com

• Abhinav Kalamdani August 2006 (Siegel)

• Anuj Kapuria August 2002 (Nourbakhsh)
  Research Programmer
  Carneige Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
  http://www.ri.cmu.edu/people/kapuria_anuj.html
  akapuria@andrew.cmu.edu

• Gunhee Kim May 2008 (Hebert)
  Intel Research Pittsburgh PA
  Intern

• Ivan Kirigin May 2006 (Singh)
  Tipjoy, San Francisco CA
  Co-founder and CTO
  http://tipjoy.com/
  (617) 777-4317

• Mark Kisasonak December 2001 (Nourbakhsh)
  Weld Tooling Corporation, Pittsburgh, PA
  mkisas@weld.com

• Phillip Koon May 2006 (Whittaker)
  Boeing Company, Huntsville AL
  Senior Principal Engineer
  Phillip.l.koon@boeing.com

• John Kua May 2008 (Whittaker)
  University of California, Berkeley
  Research Staff
  jkua@alumni.cmu.edu

• Derek Kurth May 2004 (Singh)
  WORDsearch, Austin, TX
  Developer

• Jun-Young Kwak August 2007 (Simmons)
  Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
  Visiting Graduate Student
  junyoung.kwak@cs.cmu.edu

• Richard LaBarca December 1999 (Kanade / Digioia)
  Clearspring, New York NY
  Product Lead

• Diana LaBelle May 2000 (Bares / Nourbakhsh)
  Currently Unemployed
  dlabelle@cs.cmu.edu

• DeWitt T. Latimer IV May 2001 (Whittaker)
  United States Air Force, Chantilly VA
  Captain
  Senior Member of the IEEE, Senior Member of the ACM
  PhD (2008) from the University of Southern California
  http://robotics.usc.edu/~dlatimer/professional/index.html

• Edward Latimer December 2003 (Thayer)
  United States Air Force, United Kingdom
  Captain

• Elizabeth Liao May 2006 (Singh)
  Applied Perception, Inc., Cranberry Twp., PA
  Senior Engineer

• Rolf Allan Luders May 2007 (Wettergreen) Control Strategies for a Multi-Legged Hopping Robot

• David Maiwand May 2003 (Rizzi)
  JPMorgan Chase, Harrow, UNITED KINGDOM
  Developer

• Anish Mampetta August 2006 (Hollis)
  MAKO Surgical Corp., Fort Lauderdale, FL
  Robotics Systems Engineer
  http://www.makosurgical.com/

• Sandra Mau May 2007 (Dolan)
  QUTbluebox, Brisbane, Australia
  Commercialization Analyst
  sandra.mau@gmail.com

• Deryck Morales May 2006 (Choset)
  AI Programmer
  Rockstar New England, Andover, MA
  http://rockstarnewengland.com
  deryck.morales@rockstarnewengland.com

• Bryan J. Nagy August 2000 (Kelly)
  NREC Computing Manager
  Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
  http://www.ri.cmu.edu/people/nagy_bryan.html
  bnagy@rec.ri.cmu.edu

• Nikhil Santosh Naikal August 2007 (Urmson)
  University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
  PhD Candidate

• Constantinos Nikou August 1999 (Jaramaz)
  Blue Belt Technologies Inc., Pittsburgh PA
  Research Programmer

• Kevin Oishi May 2006 (Rizzi)
  Doctoral Student
  University of Washington

• Nicholas Patronik Feb 2005 (Riviere) Development and Preliminary Testing of a Mobile Robot for Cardiac Intervention
  Ph.D. Student
  Carnegie Mellon University, Robotics Institute
  http://www.ri.cmu.edu/people/patronik_nicholas.html
  patronik@cmu.edu

• Jorgen David Pedersen August 1996 (Thorpe) Robust Communications for High Bandwidth Real-Time Systems
  President and CEO
  Robotics Engineering Excellence, Pittsburgh, PA
  http://www.rec.ri.cmu.edu/~jorgen/index.html
  jorgen@resqaured.com

• Thomas Pilarski December 2007 (Stentz) Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
  NREC Commercialization Specialist
  temp@rec.ri.cmu.edu

• Mikhail Pivtoraiko May 2005 (Singh)
  

• Krishnan Ramnath May 2007 (Baker / Matthews) On the Multi-View Fitting and Construction of Dense Deformable Face Models

• Kristina Rohlin May 2007 (Veloso / Browning)
  LTJG Kristina Rohlin, USN
  United States Naval Officer

• Stephan Roth May 2006 (Singh)
  Sensible Machines, Pittsburgh PA
  Founder, Principal Engineer

• Marios Savvides August 2000 (Khosla)
  Ph.D. student in ECE at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
  marioss@andrew.cmu.edu

• Constantine B. Scarvelis May 2001 (Nourbakhsh)
  cbs2@alumni.carnegiemellon.edu

• Eric Schearer August 2006 (Hollis)
  United States Air Force

• Robert Schlender May 2005 (Hollis / Rizzi)
  Northrop-Grumman, Baltimore, MD
  Computer Software Consultant

• Andreas Schwarzhans August 2001 (Weiss)
  Information Unknown

• Jeremy Searock May 2005 (Veloso)
  USS Nevada, SSBN-733, Bremerton WA
  Division Officer

• Young-Woo Seo Dec 2005 (Sycara)
  Ph.D. Student
  Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University
  http://www.ri.cmu.edu/people/seo_young_woo.html
  ywseo@cs.cmu.edu

• Benjamin N. Shamah August 1998 (Whittaker) Experimental Comparison of Skid Steering Vs. Explicit Steering for a Wheeled Mobile Robot
  Automation Engineer
  Fluidigm Corporation, San Francisco, CA
  Bshamah42@yahoo.com

• Abhishek Sharma
  Mobilefusion, Inc., Pittsburgh PA
  Director of Technology and Co-founder
  abishek.sharma@gmail.com

• Kevin W. Sikorski May 2001 (Balch)
  CoroWare Technologies
  Consultant

• David Silver May 2005 (Thayer)
  Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
  Robotics Engineer, National Robotics Engineering Consortium

• Rahul Singh December 2003 (Sycara)
  Amazon.com Inc., Seattle WA
  Software Development Engineer

• Surya Singh December 2001 (Thayer)
  The University of Sydney, Australia
  Australian Centre for Field Robotics
  http://www.acfr.usyd.edu.au/

• Aakash Sinha December 2003 (Bares)
  iRobot Corporation, Boston MA
  Director Business Operations

• Preethi Srinivas Bhat May 2006 (Kuffner)
  Intel Corporation, Pittsburgh PA

• David Stager December 2007 (Bares)
  Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
  Senior Commercialization Specialist

• David Steck August 2002 (Kelly)
  Lockheed Martin, Canton OH
  Software Engineer

• Jeremy Stolarz May 2007 (Rybski)
  Disney Imagineering, Glendale CA
  jeremy.stolarz@gmail.com

• Takeshi Takahashi May 2007 (Singh) 2D Localization of Outdoor Mobile Robots Using 3D Laser Range Data

• Francesco Tamburrino May 2004 (Veloso)

• Ethan Tira-Thompson May 2004 (Touretzky) Tekkotsu: A Rapid Development Framework for Robotics

• Matthew Troup May 2002 (Bares)
  Takata, Pittsburgh PA
  Senior Design Engineer

• Kei Usui August 2007 (Atkeson)
  Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
  Extern Research Programmer
  kusui@andrew.cmu.edu

• Carlos Vallespi-Gonzalez December 2007 (Stentz)
  Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
  Research Programmer
  cvalles@cs.cmu.edu

• Mike Vande Weghe May 2002 (Khosla)
  Senior Research Engineer
  Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
  http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~vandeweg/
  vandeweg@cmu.edu

• Vinithra Varadharajan May 2007 (Hollis)
  Endeca Technologies, Boston, MA
  Software Engineer

• Aleksandar Veselinovic August 2002 (Brajovic)
  Google Inc., Mountain View, CA
  Software Engineer

• Daniel Villa August 2005 (Wettergreen)
  Sea Shepherd Conservation Society
  Engineer

• David Wilkinson May 2002 (Apostolopoulos / Matsuoka)
  Barrett Technology Inc., Cambridge, MA
  Director of Engineering

• Alex Yahja December 2000 (Stentz / Singh)
  Information Unknown

• Kevin Yoon May 2007 (Rybski) Teaching Task Flow Through Dialog and Observation
  Mobile Fusion, Pittsburgh PA
  Software Engineer

• Joshua Young May 2004 (Nourbakhsh)

• Jason Ziglar December 2007 (Whittaker)
  Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
  Robotics Engineer
  jpz@rec.ri.cmu.edu

MSIT's Degrees Awarded, Robotics Institute

• Kashyap Chandrasekar May 2005 (Siegel)

• Geetha Devarajan May 2005 (Siegel)

• Rakesh Geddam May 2005 (Siegel)

• Anandan Karunanithi May 2005 (Siegel)

• Rohit Kelkar May 2005 (Siegel)

• Vivek Mehta May 2005 (Siegel)

• Mahaneeya Raman May 2005 (Siegel)

• Prashanth Ravindran May 2005 (Siegel)

• Karthik Vaidyanathan May 2005 (Siegel)

• Prasanna Venkatesan May 2005 (Siegel)