People of FRC

Faculty Post-Docs Staff Students Visitors & Affiliates Past People

Faculty

Michael Kaess

Assistant Research Professor

Top Research Interests

Simultaneous Localization and Mapping
Computer Vision
Sensing and Estimation

Statement

Perception is a fundamental challenge for mobile robots navigating through and interacting with their environment. My research focuses on 3D mapping a......

George A. Kantor

Senior Systems Scientist

Top Research Interests

Field & Service Robotics
Robotics in Agriculture and Forestry
Intelligent Transportation Systems

Statement

The control of dynamical systems becomes increasingly important as the era of robotics research dominated by quasi-static machines rapidly comes to a......

Nathan Michael

Associate Research Professor

Top Research Interests

Field & Service Robotics
Aerial Robotics
Robotics for Scientific Discovery and Exploration

Sebastian Scherer

Senior Systems Scientist

Top Research Interests

Aerial Robotics
Motion Planning
AI Reasoning for Robotics

Statement

The availability and advantages of distributed electric propulsion have led to a new design space for flying vehicles. The rise of small multi-copter......

Sanjiv Singh

Research Professor

Top Research Interests

Aerial Robotics
Robotics in Agriculture and Forestry
Mining Robotics

Statement

Autonomous Navigation. This theme is developing motion planning, state estimation and real-time control for ground and air vehicles at various scales.......

David Wettergreen

Research Professor;
Associate Director for Education
and Director of the Ph.D. Program

Top Research Interests

Space Robots and Systems
Robotics for Scientific Discovery
Robotics in Agriculture and Forestry

Statement

I am a research professor at the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. My research focuses on robotic exploration: underwater, on the s......

William (Red) L. Whittaker

Fredkin University Research Professor

Top Research Interests

Field & Service Robotics
Industrial Robotics
Robotics for Scientific Discovery

Statement

My research interests center on mobile robots in unpredictable environments, such as natural terrain and outdoor worksites, including computer archite......

Post-Docs

Yaoyu Hu

Postdoctoral Fellow

Wenshan Wang

Postdoctoral Fellow

Ji Zhang

Postdoctoral Fellow

Staff

Greg Armstrong

Senior Research Technician

Curtis Boirum

Engineer III

Ralph Boirum

Project Administrator II

Katarina Cujic

Software / Robotics Engineer

Austin Frownfelter

Research Assistant

Rohit Garg

Research Associate I

Yafei Hu

Research Associate II

Ran Ji

Research Associate II

Heather Jones

Senior Project Scientist

Nora Kazour

Administrative Assistant II

John Keller

Software / Robotics Engineer

David Kohanbash

Principal Systems / Software Engineer

Guanrui Li

Research Associate II

Lynnetta J. Miller

Administrative Assistant II

Nathan Otten

Extern

Tanvir Pal Singh Parhar

Research Associate II

Zania Pothen

Research Engineer

Theresa C. Richards

Outreach Program Manager

Patti Rote

FIRST Program Outreach Manager

Abhisesh Silwal

Project Scientist

George Skoptsov

Senior Research Engineer

Joshua Spisak

Research Assistant

James Teza

Senior Research Engineer

Warren Whittaker

Senior Field Robotics Specialist

Steven Willits

Field Test Engineer

John Yao

Principal Systems / Software Engineer

Dapeng Zhao

Research Associate II

Students

Montiel Abello

PhD Student

Vasu Agrawal

MSR Student

Daniel Arnett

MRSD Student / Research Assistant

Joseph Bartels

PhD Student

Harjatin Singh Baweja

MSR Student

Rogerio Bonatti

PhD Student

Alberto Candela Garza

PhD Student

Ellen Cappo

PhD Student

Matthew Collins

MSR Student

Micah Corah

PhD Student

Arjav Ashesh Desai

PhD Student

Eugene Fang

PhD Student

Runbo Guo

Undergraduate Teaching Assistant

Ming Hsiao

PhD Student

Azarakhsh Keipour

PhD Student

Suhit Kodgule

MSR Student

Cong Li

MSR Student

Zimo Li

MSR Student

Hanyue Liang

MSR Student

Siri Maley

Graduate Research Assistant

Daniel Maturana

PhD Student

Derek Mitchell

PhD Student

Anjana Kakecochi Nellithimaru

MSR Student

Cormac O'Meadhra

PhD Student

Kevin Pluckter

MSR Student

Travers Rhodes

MSR Student

Aaron Roth

MSR Student

Kumar Shaurya Shankar

PhD Student

Shawn (Weizhao) Shao

MSR Student

Alvin Chunmok Shek

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Paloma Sodhi

PhD Student

Alexander Spitzer

PhD Student

Sudharshan Suresh

MSR Student

Srinivasan Vijayarangan

Senior Research Programmer / Analyst

Vaibhav (Vai) Viswanathan

MSR Student

Eric Westman

PhD Student

Molly Whittaker

Graduate Research Assistant

Himanshi Yadav

MSR Student / Teaching Assistant

Jack (Yi) Yang

MSR Student

Michael Yang

MRSD Student / Research Assistant

Xuning Yang

PhD Student

Andrew Zhang

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Chun Ming Jeffrey Zhang

Robotics Additional Major / Research Assistant

Hengrui Zhang

Robotics Additional Major

Visitors & Affiliates

Meghan Chandarana

PhD Student

Huixuan Fu

Visitor

Mirko Gschwindt

Visitor

Akshay Hinduja

PhD Student

Spencer Krause

Visitor

Stephen T. Nuske

Adjunct Faculty

Statement

Full publication list and research information can be found at my personal website. My research interests are with the design of computer vision sy......

Xiangwei Wang

Visitor

Lingyun Xu

Visitor

Jiamin Ye

Visitor

Huai Yu

Intern

Weikun Zhen

PhD Student