People

Lab Founder and Director

Charles C. Kemp, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering Adjunct Associate Professor, School of Interactive Computing Adjunct Associate Professor, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Current Members

	Patrick Grady Robotics Ph.D. Student School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
	Naveen Balaji Robotics Ph.D. Student School of Aerospace Engineering
	Matthew Lamsey Robotics Ph.D. Student School of Mechanical Engineering
	Jeremy Collins M.S. in Robotics Student
	You Liang Tan M.S. Computer Science Student
	Cody Houff  M.S. in Robotics Student
	Samantha Mutiti Undergraduate Student Department of Biomedical Engineering

Honorary Lab Members

	Henry Evans Collaborator
	Jane Evans Collaborator

Alumni – Ph.D.

	Henry Clever Robotics Ph.D.  – 2021 Applied Research Engineer, Simulation and AI at NVIDIA
	Zackory Erickson Robotics Ph.D.  – 2021 Assistant Professor at CMU in the Robotics Institute
	Ariel “Ari”  Kapusta Robotics Ph.D. – 2018 Autonomous Systems Engineer, Lead – MITRE
	Daehyung Park Robotics Ph.D. – 2018 Assistant Professor at KAIST in the School of Computing
	Phillip M. Grice Robotics Ph.D.  –  2017 Senior Principal Robotics Software Engineer at iRobot
	Tapomayukh “Tapo” Bhattacharjee Robotics Ph.D.  –  2017 Assistant Professor at Cornell in the Department of Computer Science
	Tiffany Chen, Ph.D. Robotics Ph.D.  –  2014 Manager, Toyota Research Institute (TRI)
	Hai Nguyen, Ph.D. Robotics Ph.D.  –  2014 First employee at Mayfield Robotics (RIP) Sofware Engineer at Aurora, a self-driving technology company
	Marc Killpack, Ph.D. Robotics Ph.D.  –  2013 Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Brigham Young University (BYU)
	Advait Jain, Ph.D. Robotics Ph.D.  –  2012 Co-founded a robotics company that was acquired by Google Senior Software Engineer at Google
	Travis Deyle, Ph.D. Electrical and Computer Engineering Ph.D.  –  2011 CEO of Cobalt Robotics MIT Technology Review’s 35 under 35 Innovator  –  2015
	Young Sang Choi, Ph.D. Industrial and Systems Engineering Ph.D.  –  2009 Vice President, Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology

Alumni – Postdoc & Visiting Faculty

	Aaron King, Ph.D. Former Post-Doc Engineering Manager, New Product Development, ThyssenKrupp
	Mohamed Sahbi Bellamine, Ph.D. Former Visiting Fullbright Scholar Carthage University, Tunisia

Alumni – Graduate

Pratyusha Karnati Esther (Yijun) Gu Joshua Wade Yash Chitalia Ashwin A. Shenoi Kevin Chow Jeff Hawke Kelsey Hawkins Victor Emeli Jason Okerman Elaine Short Zhengqin Fan Zhe Xu Martin Schuster Cressel Anderson

Master’s Student Master’s Student Master’s Student Ph.D. Student Master’s Student Master’s Student Master’s Student Master’s Student Ph.D. Student Master’s Student Visiting Ph.D. Student (from Maja J Mataric’s lab at USC) Ph.D. Student Master’s Student Master’s Student Master’s Student

Alumni – Undergraduate

David Williams Eliot Xing Kavya Puthuveetil Holden Schaffer Vamsee Gangaram Bharat Srirangam Brenna Fankell Katie Sosnowski Mallak Taleb Ho Keun Kim Haoping “Felix” Bai Haofeng “Alex” Chen Austin Jang Yuuna Hoshi Nathan Luskey Ryan Williams Rohith Krishnan Maggie Collier Chansu Kim Linda Komnang Liezu You-Keun Kim Megan Rich Hyder Hasnian Zackory Erikson Christopher Birmingham Caleb Little Sarvagya “Survy” Vaish Jacquelyn Borinski Kayode Sanni Alex McNeely Carlos Torres Sugandha Arora Kristina Falkenstrom Mrinal “Neil” Rath Joel Mathew Ishwarya Venkatachalam