Alumni
Completed Programs:
Completed Program:
Program: MRSD
Date Completed: December 2013
Completed Program:
Program: PhD
Date Completed: September 2002
Advisors: Pradeep Khosla
Samantha Speer
Current Title: PhD Student
Completed Programs:
Program: Additional Robotics Major
Date Completed: May 2018
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Program: PhD
Date Completed: January 2022
Advisors: Nathan Michael
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Program: MRSD
Date Completed: May 2024
Completed Program:
Program: Additional Robotics Major
Date Completed: May 2017
Completed Program:
Program: MSR
Date Completed: May 2006
Advisors: James Kuffner
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Program: MSCV
Date Completed: December 2023
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Completed Program:
Program: MRSD
Date Completed: May 2023
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Program: MSCV
Date Completed: December 2022
Completed Program:
Program: MSR
Date Completed: August 2017
Thesis: Efficient, Multi-Fidelity Perceptual Representations via Hierarchical Gaussian Mixture Models
Advisors: Nathan Michael
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Program: MSR
Date Completed: December 2007
Advisors: John Bares
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Completed Program:
Program: PhD
Date Completed: September 2009
Thesis: Planning to Fail: Incorporating Reliability into Design and Mission Planning for Mobile Robots
Advisors: John M. Dolan
Completed Program:
Program: PhD
Date Completed: August 2003
Thesis: Force Guided Assembly Under Bias
Advisors: William (Red) L. Whittaker
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Program: PhD
Date Completed: April 2010
Advisors: Tai-Sing Lee
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Program: MSR
Date Completed: May 2007
Advisors: Paul Rybski
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Program: PhD
Date Completed: August 2003
Advisors: Tucker Balch
Completed Program:
Program: PhD
Date Completed: July 2008
Thesis: Robot-Proxy Grounding
Advisors: Illah Nourbakhsh
, David Wettergreen
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Completed Program:
Program: MRSD
Date Completed: May 2014
Completed Program:
Program: MSCV
Date Completed: December 2018
Completed Program:
Program: MSIT-RT
Date Completed: May 2006
Completed Program:
Program: MSCV
Date Completed: December 2023
Completed Program:
Completed Program:
Program: MRSD
Date Completed: May 2023
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Program: PhD
Date Completed: January 1997
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Completed Program:
Program: Additional Robotics Major
Date Completed: May 2020
Completed Program:
Program: MRSD
Date Completed: December 2014
Completed Program:
Completed Program:
Program: PhD
Date Completed: June 2019
Thesis: Towards Generalization and Efficiency in Reinforcement Learning
Advisors: J. Andrew (Drew) Bagnell
Completed Programs:
Program: Additional Robotics Major
Date Completed: December 2018
Completed Program:
Program: MS-RT
Date Completed: May 2016
Completed Program:
Program: MSR
Date Completed: August 2024
Thesis: 2024 Leveraging Vision, Force Sensing, and Language Feedback for Deformable Object Manipulation
Advisors: David Held
Completed Program:
Program: MSR
Date Completed: August 2018
Thesis: Transparency in Deep Reinforcement Learning Networks
Advisors: Katia Sycara
Completed Programs:
Program: MSR
Completed Program:
Program: MRSD
Date Completed: December 2012
Completed Program:
Program: MRSD
Date Completed: December 2018
Completed Programs:
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Completed Program:
Program: MRSD
Date Completed: December 2012
Completed Program:
Completed Program:
Program: MRSD
Date Completed: December 2018
Alexander Swerdlow
Current Title: MSR Students
Completed Program:
Program: MSR
Date Completed: May 2025
Thesis: Unified Vision-Language Modeling
Advisors: Katerina Fragkiadaki
Completed Program:
Program: MRSD
Date Completed: May 2025
Completed Program:
Program: MRSD
Date Completed: December 2018
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Completed Program:
Program: Additional Robotics Major
Date Completed: May 2021
Completed Program:
Program: MRSD
Date Completed: May 2024
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Completed Program:
Program: MRSD
Date Completed: December 2014
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Program: MSCV
Date Completed: December 2023
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Completed Program:
Program: MS-RT
Date Completed: May 2015
Completed Program:
Completed Program:
Program: MS-RT
Date Completed: May 2018
Completed Program:
Program: MSR
Date Completed: August 2025
Thesis: Incrementally Learned Shared Autonomy and Intelligent Mode Switching for Assistive Teleoperation
Advisors: Zackory Erickson
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Program: Additional Robotics Major
Date Completed: May 2019
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Program: MSR
Date Completed: August 2025
Thesis: Correcting Nominal Models with Learned Residuals for Real-Time Control
Advisors: Aaron M. Johnson
Completed Program:
Program: MRSD
Date Completed: May 2019
Completed Program:
Completed Program:
Program: MRSD
Date Completed: December 2016
Completed Program:
Program: MRSD
Date Completed: December 2018
Completed Program:
Completed Program:
Program: MRSD
Date Completed: May 2024
Completed Program:
Program: MSIT-RT
Date Completed: May 2006
Completed Program:
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Completed Program:
Program: MRSD
Date Completed: May 2021
Completed Program:
Program: MSIT-RT
Date Completed: May 2006
Completed Program:
Program: MS-RT
Date Completed: May 2018
Completed Program:
Completed Programs:
Program: MSR
Date Completed: May 2025
Thesis: Localization and Mapping through Multi-Sensor Fusion for Pipe Inspection: From Theory To Deployment
Advisors: Howie Choset
Program: Additional Robotics Major
Date Completed: May 2022
Completed Program:
Completed Program:
Program: MRSD
Date Completed: December 2013