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  • (listed in alphabetical order by last name)

  • Garratt Gallagher (MS)

    Expected Completion: August 2009
    Advisor: Drew Bagnell, Siddharth Srinivasa
    Thesis Title: Gatmo: A Generalized Approach to Tracking Movable Objects
    Research Interests: Indoor mobile robotics, tracking and mapping in dynamic environments, assistive robotics, online supervised learning
    Vitae

  • Geoffrey Hollinger (PhD)

    Expected Completion: May 2010
    Advisor: Sanjiv Singh
    Thesis Title: Search in the Physical World
    Research Interests: multi-robot coordination, mobile robotics, approximation algorithms, distributed systems, pursuit/evasion, robotic search, target tracking
    Vitae

  • Rachel Kirby (PhD)

    Expected Completion: May 2010
    Advisors: Reid Simmons, Jodi Forlizzi
    Thesis Title: Robot Navigation for Social Tasks (tentative)
    Research Interests: social robots, human-robot interaction, mobile robots
    Vitae

  • Erik Pasternak (MS)

    Expected Completion: August 2009
    Advisor: llah Nourbakhsh
    Thesis Title: NYA
    Research Interests: Educational and consumer robotics
    Vitae

  • Sajid Siddiqi (PhD)

    Expected Completion: October 2009
    Advisor: Geoffrey J. Gordon
    Thesis Title: Latent Variable and Predictive Models of Dynamical Systems
    Research Interests: statistical machine learning and data mining, time series modeling+prediction+classification, mobile robotics, computer vision, control theory, matrix analysis, convex optimization
    Vitae

  • Thomas Stepleton (PhD)

    Expected Completion: August 2009
    Advisor: Tai Sing Lee
    Thesis Title: (not yet announced)
    Research Interests: computational and biological vision, object learning and recognition, unsupervised learning, nonparametric Bayesian statistics,and information technologies for developing communities.
    Vitae

  • Bryan Wagenknecht (MS)

    Expected Completion: December 2009
    Advisor: Dimi Apostolopoulos
    Thesis Title: Mobility Characterization and Control of a 12-Legged Spherical Robot (tentative)
    Research Interests: Mobile robots, non-linear control, mechatronic system design
    Vitae

  • Kevin Yoon (MS)

    Completion: May 2007
    Advisor: Paul Rybski
    Thesis Title: Teaching Task Flow Through Dialog and Observation
    Research Interests: mobile robots, motion planning, localization, machine learning, computer vision
    Vitae

  • Matt Zucker (PhD)

    Completion: June 2010
    Advisor: James Kuffner
    Thesis Title: A Data-Driven Approach to High Level Planning
    Research Interests: Robotics, motion planning, navigation, manipulation, obstacle avoidance, dynamic simulation, machine learning, numerical optimization, computer graphics
    Vitae

The Robotics Institute is part of the School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University.
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