Sensing &amp; Perception

Robot Programming by Demonstration

Humanoids

Applications

Soft Robotics

Exoskeletons

Personal Agents

Medical Robotics

Personal and Assistive Robotics

Rehabilitation Robotics

David Bourne

Principal Systems Scientist, RI

Office: NSH 1612C

Research Interests

Manufacturing Robotics

Machine Learning Embedded in Systems

Business and Robotics

Applications

Manufacturing

Fernando De la Torre Frade

Associate Research Professor, RI

Office: EDSH 222

Research Interests

Facial Recognition

Applications

Personal and Assistive Robotics

Gary K. Fedder

Adjunct Faculty, RI

Office: REH 249

Research Interests

John Galeotti

Senior Systems Scientist, RI

Office: NSH A525

Research Interests

Machine Learning Embedded in Systems

Applications

Medical Robotics

Biomedical Imaging

Robotic Surgery

Augmented Reality for Medical Robotics

Ioannis Gkioulekas

Assistant Professor, RI

Office: EDSH 225

Research Interests

Rendering

Applications

Biomedical Imaging

Medical 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

Deep Learning

Social Robots

Martial Hebert

Dean and University Professor of Robotics, School of Computer Science, RI

Office: GHC 6105

Research Interests

Robot Programming by Demonstration

Applications

Transportation

Field Robotics

Smart Cities

David Held

Assistant Professor, RI

Office: EDSH 213

Research Interests

Perceptual Robotics

Neurorobotics

Deep Learning

Applications

Robots in the Home

Companion Robotics

Modular Manufacturing

Manufacturing

Transportation

Personal and Assistive Robotics

Self-Driving Cars & Vehicles

Ralph Hollis

Professor Emeritus, RI

Office: EDSH 112

Research Interests

Dynamics

Safety for Physical Human-Robot Interaction

Motion Control

Wheeled Robots

Parallel Mechanism and Robots

Inertial Sensors, GPS, and Odometry

Laszlo Attila Jeni

Systems Scientist, RI

Office: EDSH 219

Research Interests

Geometric Algorithms

Matthew Johnson-Roberson

Professor / Director of RI, RI

Office: NSH 4113

Research Interests

Simulation

Applications

Community, Education and Entertainment

Big Data Visualization

Transportation

Self-Driving Cars & Vehicles

Michael Kaess

Associate Professor, RI

Office: NSH 1617

Research Interests

Inertial Sensors, GPS, and Odometry

Applications

Field Robotics

Takeo Kanade

U.A. and Helen Whitaker
University Professor

Research Interests

Facial Recognition

Humanoids

Applications

Field Robotics

Surveillance & Security

Medical Robotics

Robotic Surgery

George A. Kantor

Research Professor / Associate Director of Education, RI

Office: NSH 1101

Research Interests

Applications

Field Robotics

Agriculture

Transportation

Alonzo Kelly

Professor, RI

Office: NSH 2204A

Research Interests

Robots for Education

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

Motion for Manipulation Tasks

Robot Programming by Demonstration

Grasping

World Modeling

Contact Modeling and Manipulation

Domestic Robotics

Applications

Robots in the Home

Companion Robotics

Modular Manufacturing

Personal and Assistive Robotics

Manufacturing

Simon Lucey

Adjunct Faculty, RI

Research Interests

Computer-Aided Fabrication

Planning & Scheduling

Applications

Computer-Aided Fabrication

Transportation

Manufacturing

Personal Mobile & Embedded Computing

Self-Driving Cars & Vehicles

Personal and Assistive Robotics

Carmel Majidi

Courtesy Faculty, MechE

Office: HH B210

Research Interests

Simulation

Applications

Soft Robotics

Personal and Assistive Robotics

Nathan Michael

Associate Research Professor, RI

Office: NSH 1103

Research Interests

Robotics in Hazardous Application

Applications

Field Robotics

Infrastructure

Srinivasa G. Narasimhan

Professor, RI

Office: EDSH 223

Research Interests

Applications

Biomedical Imaging

Agriculture

Smart Cities

Field Robotics

Medical Robotics

Transportation

Matthew O’Toole

Assistant Professor

Office: EDSH 215

Research Interests

Rendering

Applications

Biomedical Imaging

Self-Driving Cars & Vehicles

CGI for Movies and Simulation

Medical Robotics

Transportation

Community, Education and Entertainment

Melisa Orta Martinez

Melisa Orta Martinez

Assistant Professor, RI

Office: NSH 3101

Research Interests

Robots with Flexible Elements

Robots for Education

Roboethics

Social Robots

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

Deep Learning

Applications

Personal and Assistive Robotics

Robots in the Home

Companion Robotics

Manufacturing

Deva Kannan Ramanan

Professor, RI

Office: EDSH 221

Research Interests

Machine Learning Embedded in Systems

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

Sebastian Scherer

Associate Research Professor, RI

Office: 1723 Murray Ave

Research Interests

Robotics in Construction

Applications

Transportation

Surveillance & Security

Smart Cities

Field Robotics

Inspection and Remediation

Yaser Ajmal Sheikh

Consulting Professor, RI

Office: EDSH 231

Research Interests

Applications

Personal and Assistive Robotics

Companion Robotics

Robots in the Home

Mel Siegel

Professor Emeritus, RI

Office: NSH A413

Research Interests

Inertial Sensors, GPS, and Odometry

Sanjiv Singh

Consulting Professor, RI

Research Interests

Mining Robotics

Planning & Scheduling

Applications

Aerial Robotics

Agriculture

Surveillance & Security

Field Robotics

Transportation

Inspection and Remediation

George D. Stetten

Adjunct Faculty, RI

Office: NSH A525

Research Interests

Applications

Medical Robotics

Wennie Tabib

Systems Scientist, RI

Office: NSH 1103

Research Interests

Multi-Robot Planning & Coordination

Search and Rescue Robotics

Biologically Inspired and Evolutionary Robotics

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

Micro/Nanorobots

Robots with Flexible Elements

Parallel Mechanism and Robots

Kinematics

Dynamics

Robots for Education

Contact Modeling and Manipulation

Biologically Inspired and Evolutionary Robotics

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

Search and Rescue Robotics

Force Control

Micro/Nanorobots

Motion Control

Kinematically Redundant Manipulators

Robotic Systems Architectures and Programming

Robots with Flexible Elements

Kinematics

Robotics in Hazardous Application

Robotics in Construction

Domestic Robotics

Perceptual Robotics

Motion for Manipulation Tasks

Behavior-based Systems

Cooperative Manipulators

Parallel Mechanism and Robots

Legged Robots

Model Identification

Wheeled Robots

AI Reasoning for Articulated Systems

Dynamics

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

Shubham Tulsiani

Assistant Professor

Office: EDSH 230

Research Interests

World Modeling

David Wettergreen

Research Professor / Director of the PhD Program, RI

Office: NSH 2115

Research Interests

Motion Control

Robotic Systems Architectures and Programming

Applications

Space Exploration

Field Robotics

Agriculture

Self-Driving Cars & Vehicles

Transportation

William (Red) L. Whittaker

Founders University Research Professor, RI

Office: NSH 2109

Research Interests

Industrial Robotics

Robotics in Hazardous Application

Contact Modeling and Manipulation

Applications

Field Robotics

Agriculture

Infrastructure

Disaster Cleanup

Wenzhen Yuan

Assistant Professor

Office: NSH 4117

Research Interests

Applications

Manufacturing

Personal and Assistive Robotics

Robots in the Home

Soft Robotics

Ji Zhang

Systems Scientist, RI

Office: NSH 2111

Research Interests

Search and Rescue Robotics

Multi-Robot Planning & Coordination

Applications

Field Robotics

Aerial Robotics

Agriculture

Disaster Cleanup

Infrastructure

Inspection and Remediation

Surveillance & Security

Urban Search and Rescue

Transportation

Off-Road& All-Terrain Mobility Systems

Self-Driving Cars & Vehicles

Urban Air Mobility

Jun-Yan Zhu

Assistant Professor

Office: EDSH 216

Research Interests