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Graduating Robotics Institute Students

(listed in alphabetical order by last name)

The students listed on this page are either nearing the completion of their degree or are actively looking for a job. They have given their permission to list information relevant to employers.

David C. Conner (PhD)

Expected Completion: December 2007
Advisors: Howie Choset and Alfred A. Rizzi
Thesis Title: Integrating Planning and Control for Constrained Dynamical Systems
Research Interests: controls, autonomous systems, hybrid control, constrained dynamical systems, symbolic planning, geometric control
Vitae: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dcconner/conner_cv_web.pdf

Clark Haynes (PhD)

Expected Completion: May 2008
Advisor: Alfred A. Rizzi
Thesis Title: Gait Regulation for Reduced Dimensionality Legged Systems
Research Interests: algorithmic approaches for hybrid control, topology for robotics, dynamic systems, legged locomotion, and mobile robotics.
Vitae: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~gch/

Jonathan Hurst (PhD)

Expected Completion: May 2008
Advisor: Alfred A. Rizzi
Thesis Title: The Role of Leg Compliance in Robotic Running
Research Interests: Mechanical Design for robots, Legged Locomotion (human and robot), Series Elasticity, highly dynamic robotic systems

Gunhee Kim (M S)

Expected Completion: May 2008
Advisor: Martial Hebert
Thesis Title: Link Analysis Techniques for Object Modeling and Recognition
Research Interests: Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Data mining, Robotics
Vitae: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~gunhee/

John Kua (MS)

Expected Completion: May 2008
Advisor:William "Red" Whittaker
Thesis Title: Pose Estimation Using Starfield Occlusion
Research Interests: Field/space robotics, perception, SLAM, and other state estimation problems
Vitae: http://john.kua.fm/cv_johnkua.pdf

Jun-young Kwak (MS)

Expected Completion: August 2007
Advisor: Reid Simmons
Thesis Title: Combining Cost and Reliability for Rough Terrain Navigation
Research Interests: Path Planning for robotics, Machine learning, Field and space robots, Multi-robot coordination, Multi-agent systems. Interested in industry positions as well.
Vitae: http://inducer.net/profile/CV.pdf

Aaron Morris (PhD)

Expected Completion: September 2007
Advisor: William "Red" Whittaker
Thesis Title: Robotic Introspection for Exploration and Mapping of Subterranean Environments
Research Interests: Mobile robots for outdoor and subterranean environments such as mines, tunnels, pipes and caves; LIDAR-base mapping and modeling; Robot architecture; Sensor fusion

Caroline Pantofaru (PhD)

Expected Completion: May 2008
Advisor: Martial Hebert
Thesis Title: Studies in Using Image Segmentation to Improve Object Recognition
Research Interests: Computer vision, machine learning, computational photography, graphics. Interested in both academic and industrial opportunities.
Vitae: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~crp/Caroline_Pantofaru_CV.pdf

Nicholas Patronik (PhD)

Expected Completion: January 2008
Advisor: Cameron Riviere
Thesis Title: Precise and Stable Robotic Navigation on the Beating Heart
Research Interests: Design of therapeutic systems for medical applications. Including: robotic system integration; mechanical design; control system design. Exploring academic and industrial opportunities.
Vitae: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~patronik/

Andrew Stein (PhD)

Expected Completion: February / March 2008
Advisor: Martial Hebert
Thesis Title: Detection and Use of Occlusion Boundaries
Research Interests: Applications involving Computer Vision, Image Processing, and Machine Learning, especially those enabling environmental/sustainability work, fundamental scientific research, space exploration, or personal assistive technologies. Interested in industry positions as well.
Vitae: http://www.andrewstein.net

Mike Stilman (PhD)

Expected Completion: October 2007
Advisors: James Kuffner and Chris Atkeson
Thesis Title: Navigation Among Movable Obstacles
Research Interests: Physical interaction between robots and their environments. Topics include: Motion Planning, Machine Learning and Humanoid Robotics.
Vitae: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~mstilman/cv.html

Martin Stolle (PhD)

Expected Completion: March 2008
Advisor: Chris Atkeson
Thesis Title: Finding and Transferring Policies
Research Interests: Learning applied to robotics. Transfer learning/reusable knowledge representation. Interested in industry positions as well.
Vitae: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~mstoll/cv.shtml

Ranjith Unnikrishnan (PhD)

Expected Completion: May 2008
Advisor: Martial Hebert
Thesis Title: Statistical Approaches to Multi-scale Point Cloud Processing
Research Interests: Computer vision, 2D image processing, 3D range data processing, statistical learning, algorithm evaluation metrics, mobile robotics
Vitae: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~ranjith/ranjith_resume.pdf

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