Human-Centered Robotics

Applications

Robots in the Home

Companion Robotics

Manufacturing

Community, Education and Entertainment

Personal and Assistive Robotics

Chris Atkeson

Professor, RI/HCII

Office: NSH A527

Research Interests

Applications

Soft Robotics

Exoskeletons

Personal Agents

Medical Robotics

Personal and Assistive Robotics

Rehabilitation Robotics

Andrea Bajcsy

Assistant Professor, RI

Research Interests

Applications

Personal and Assistive Robotics

Personal Agents

Robots in the Home

Transportation

Self-Driving Cars & Vehicles

David Bourne

Principal Systems Scientist, RI

Office: NSH 1612C

Research Interests

Business and Robotics

Applications

Manufacturing

Howie Choset

Kavcic-Moura Professor of Computer Science, RI

Office: NSH 3205

Research Interests

Full Stack Autonomy

Applications

Manufacturing

Modular Manufacturing

Medical Robotics

Robotic Surgery

Fernando De la Torre Frade

Associate Research Professor, RI

Office: EDSH 222

Research Interests

Facial Recognition

Applications

Personal and Assistive Robotics

Artur W. Dubrawski

Alumni Research Professor of Computer Science, RI

Office: NSH 3121

Research Interests

Applications

Data-driven Analytics

Manufacturing

Medical Robotics

Zackory Erickson

Assistant Professor, RI

Office: NSH 4627

Research Interests

Simulation

Applications

Personal and Assistive Robotics

Physical Assistance

Robots in the Home

Companion Robotics

Gary K. Fedder

Adjunct Faculty, RI

Office: REH 249

Research Interests

John Galeotti

Senior Systems Scientist, RI

Office: NSH A525

Research Interests

Simultaneous Localization and Mapping

Applications

Medical Robotics

Biomedical Imaging

Robotic Surgery

Augmented Reality for Medical Robotics

Hartmut Geyer

Associate Professor, RI

Office: NSH 4517

Research Interests

Legged Robots

Applications

Medical Robotics

Rehabilitation Robotics

Personal and Assistive Robotics

Eni Halilaj

Courtesy Faculty

Office: WEH 5319

Research Interests

Simulation

Applications

Medical Robotics

Biomedical Imaging

Zakia Hammal

Systems Scientist, RI

Office: NSH 4623

Research Interests

Facial Recognition

David Held

Assistant Professor, RI

Office: EDSH 213

Research Interests

Perceptual Robotics

Neurorobotics

Applications

Robots in the Home

Companion Robotics

Modular Manufacturing

Manufacturing

Transportation

Personal and Assistive Robotics

Self-Driving Cars & Vehicles

Jessica K. Hodgins

Allen Newell University Professor of Computer Science and Robotics

Office: NSH 4207

Research Interests

Computer-Aided Fabrication

Applications

CGI for Movies and Simulation

Community, Education and Entertainment

Ralph Hollis

Professor Emeritus, RI

Office: EDSH 112

Research Interests

Wheeled Robots

Parallel Mechanism and Robots

Inertial Sensors, GPS, and Odometry

Laszlo Attila Jeni

Systems Scientist, RI

Office: EDSH 219

Research Interests

Geometric Algorithms

Aaron M. Johnson

Courtesy Faculty, MechE

Office: WEH 1309

Research Interests

Robotics in Hazardous Application

Contact Modeling and Manipulation

Applications

Field Robotics

Space Exploration

Surveillance & Security

Urban Search and Rescue

Takeo Kanade

U.A. and Helen Whitaker
University Professor

Research Interests

Facial Recognition

Applications

Field Robotics

Surveillance & Security

Medical Robotics

Robotic Surgery

George A. Kantor

Research Professor / Associate Director of Education, RI

Office: NSH 1101

Research Interests

Robotics in Agriculture and Forestry

Applications

Field Robotics

Agriculture

Transportation

Alonzo Kelly

Professor, RI

Office: NSH 3209

Research Interests

Simultaneous Localization and Mapping

Applications

Field Robotics

Kris M. Kitani

Associate Research Professor, RI

Office: EDSH 211

Research Interests

First-Person Vision

Applications

Augmented / Virtual Reality

Self-Driving Cars & Vehicles

Personal and Assistive Robotics

Transportation

Community, Education and Entertainment

Oliver Kroemer

Assistant Professor, RI

Office: NSH 4531

Research Interests

Grasping

World Modeling

Contact Modeling and Manipulation

Applications

Robots in the Home

Companion Robotics

Modular Manufacturing

Personal and Assistive Robotics

Manufacturing

Jiaoyang Li

Assistant Professor, RI

Office: NSH 4625

Research Interests

Planning & Scheduling

Industrial Robotics

Robotics in Construction

Distributed and Cellular Robots

Applications

Manufacturing

Transportation

Self-Driving Cars & Vehicles

Human Robot Collaborative Manufacturing

Personal and Assistive Robotics

Maxim Likhachev

Associate Professor, RI

Office: NSH 3211

Research Interests

AI Reasoning for Articulated Systems

Industrial Robotics

Legged Robots

Applications

Manufacturing

Robots in the Home

Field Robotics

Personal and Assistive Robotics

Changliu Liu

Assistant Professor

Office: NSH 4525

Research Interests

Industrial Robotics

Applications

Human Robot Collaborative Manufacturing

Manufacturing

Self-Driving Cars & Vehicles

Smart Cities

Transportation

Jack Mostow

Research Professor Emeritus, RI

Office: NSH 3113

Research Interests

Applications

Community, Education and Entertainment

Intelligent Tutors

Srinivasa G. Narasimhan

Professor, RI

Office: EDSH 223

Research Interests

Applications

Biomedical Imaging

Agriculture

Smart Cities

Field Robotics

Medical Robotics

Transportation

Illah Nourbakhsh

Professor, RI

Office: NSH 3105

Research Interests

Applications

Community Empowerment

Technology Fluency & Education

Big Data Visualization

Community, Education and Entertainment

Jean Hyaejin Oh

Associate Research Professor, RI

Office: 1723 Murray Ave

Research Interests

Natural Language Processing

Applications

Companion Robotics

Personal Agents

Robots in the Home

Transportation

Personal and Assistive Robotics

Self-Driving Cars & Vehicles

Melisa Orta Martinez

Melisa Orta Martinez

Assistant Professor, RI

Office: NSH 3101

Research Interests

Robots with Flexible Elements

Force Control

Applications

Technology Fluency & Education

Intelligent Tutors

Soft Robotics

Companion Robotics

Physical Assistance

Community, Education and Entertainment

Personal and Assistive Robotics

Deepak Pathak

Assistant Professor

Office: EDSH 218

Research Interests

Applications

Personal and Assistive Robotics

Robots in the Home

Companion Robotics

Manufacturing

Deva Kannan Ramanan

Professor, RI

Office: EDSH 221

Research Interests

Neurorobotics

First-Person Vision

Applications

Data-driven Analytics

Manufacturing

Self-Driving Cars & Vehicles

Biomedical Imaging

Transportation

Medical Robotics

Cameron Riviere

Research Professor, RI

Office: NSH 3107

Research Interests

Applications

Medical Robotics

Robotic Surgery

Personal and Assistive Robotics

Soft Robotics

Yaser Ajmal Sheikh

Consulting Professor, RI

Office: EDSH 231

Research Interests

Applications

Personal and Assistive Robotics

Companion Robotics

Robots in the Home

Reid Simmons

Research Professor

Office: NSH 3213

Research Interests

Stephen Smith

Research Professor, RI

Office: NSH 4213

Research Interests

Planning & Scheduling

Applications

Smart Cities

Transportation

Aaron Steinfeld

Research Professor / Head of Faculty Mentoring, RI

Office: NSH 4533

Research Interests

Applications

Transportation

Smart Cities

Self-Driving Cars & Vehicles

George D. Stetten

Adjunct Faculty, RI

Office: NSH A525

Research Interests

Applications

Medical Robotics

Katia Sycara

Edward Fredkin Research Professor / Associate Director of Faculty, RI

Office: NSH 1602D

Research Interests

Networked Robots

Behavior-based Systems

AI Reasoning for Articulated Systems

Wennie Tabib

Systems Scientist, RI

Office: NSH 1103

Research Interests

Simultaneous Localization and Mapping

Applications

Aerial Robotics

Space Exploration

Urban Search and Rescue

Companion Robotics

Inspection and Remediation

Field Robotics

Personal and Assistive Robotics

Zeynep Temel

Assistant Professor, RI

Office: NSH 4527

Research Interests

Robots with Flexible Elements

Micro/Nanorobots

Parallel Mechanism and Robots

Kinematics

Contact Modeling and Manipulation

Applications

Medical Robotics

Robotic Surgery

Computer-Aided Fabrication

Community, Education and Entertainment

Modular Manufacturing

Field Robotics

Agriculture

Inspection and Remediation

Urban Search and Rescue

Manufacturing

Rehabilitation Robotics

Matthew J. Travers

Senior Systems Scientist, RI

Office: NSH 3207

Research Interests

Force Control

Micro/Nanorobots

Kinematically Redundant Manipulators

Robotic Systems Architectures and Programming

Robots with Flexible Elements

Kinematics

Robotics in Agriculture and Forestry

Robotics in Construction

Robotics in Hazardous Application

Underwater Robotics

Perceptual Robotics

Behavior-based Systems

Cooperative Manipulators

Parallel Mechanism and Robots

Legged Robots

Model Identification

Wheeled Robots

AI Reasoning for Articulated Systems

Geometric Algorithms

Full Stack Autonomy

Applications

Agriculture

Soft Robotics

Robotic Surgery

Medical Robotics

Manufacturing

Field Robotics

Infrastructure

Personal and Assistive Robotics

Urban Search and Rescue

David Wettergreen

Research Professor / Director of the PhD Program, RI

Office: NSH 2115

Research Interests

Robotics in Agriculture and Forestry

Underwater Robotics

Robotic Systems Architectures and Programming

Applications

Space Exploration

Field Robotics

Agriculture

Self-Driving Cars & Vehicles

Transportation

Ding Zhao

Courtesy Faculty, MechE

Office: WEH 5315

Research Interests