Graduated PhD Students
- Rachel Holladay (Computer Science, August, 2024)
Thesis: Leveraging Mechanics for Multi-step Robotic Manipulation Planning
Current Job: Assistant Professor, University of Pennsylvania
- Anthony Simeonov (Computer Science, August, 2024)
Thesis: Geometric Learning for Manipulating Scenes and Objects
Current Job: Research Scientist at Boston Dynamics
- Sangwoon Kim (Mechanical Engineering, April, 2024)
Thesis: TEXterity: Tactile Extrinsic deXterity
Current Job: Research Scientist at TRI
- Yen-Chen Lin (Computer Science, June, 2023)
Thesis: Neural Fields for Robotic Manipulation
Current Job: Research Scientist at NVIDIA
- Orion Taylor (Mechanical Engineering, May, 2023)
Thesis: Manipulation of Unknown Objects via Contact Configuration Regulation
Current Job: TBA
- Bernardo Aceituno (Mechanical Engineering, December, 2022)
Thesis: An Optimization Approach to Certified Manipulation
Current Job: CTO at Stack
- Maria Bauza (Mechanical Engineering, August, 2022)
Thesis: Visuo-Tactile Perception for Dexterous Manipulation
Current Job: Researcher at Deepmind
- Siyuan Dong (Computer Science, December, 2020)
Thesis: High-resolution Tactile Sensing for Reactive Robotic Manipulation
Current Job: Post-Doctoral Researcher at the UW Robot Learning Laboratory
- Francois Hogan (Mechanical Engineering, December, 2019)
Thesis: Reactive Manipulation with Contact Models and Tactile Feedback
Current Job: Senior AI Researcher at Samsung Research
- Nikhil Chavan-Dafle (Mechanical Engineering, December, 2019)
Thesis: Dexterous Manipulation with Simple Grippers
Current Job: Staff Researcher and Tech Lead at Samsung Research
Nima Fazeli (Mechanical Engineering, August, 2019)
Thesis: Inference and Learning for Rigid-Body Models of Manipulation
Current Job: Assistant Professor at University of Michigan
- Peter Yu (Computer Science, June, 2018)
Thesis: Realtime State Estimation for Contact Manipulation
Current Job: Co-founder and CTO of XYZ Robotics
Other Alumni
- Maria Ramos Gonzalez (Post-Doc, transitioned to Post-Doc at the Interactive Robotics Group at MIT)
- Lisa Mayer (Lab Administrative Assistant, transitioned to Events team at MIT's Media Lab)
- Eric Wang (Masters Student MechE, transitioned to Meche PhD student at MIT working with John Leonard)
- Antonia Bronars (Masters Student MechE, transitioned to Meche PhD student at MIT working with Pulkit Agragal)
- Rebecca Jiang (Masters Student, transitioned to AeroAstro PhD Student at MIT working with Russ Tedrake)
- Ian Taylor (Technical Associate, transitioned to Staff Research Engineer at Boston Dynamics)
- Neel Doshi (Post-Doc, transitioned to Applied Scientist at Amazon Robotics AI)
- Daolin Ma (Post-Doc, transitioned to Associate Professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University)
- Eric Valls (Visiting Undergraduate, transitioned to Independent Entrepreneur)
- Elizabeth Vasquez (Undergraduate Researcher, transitioned to Mechanical Engineering PhD at Stanford)
- Jose Ballester (Visiting Undergraduate, transitioned to Independent Entrepreneur)
- Miquel Oller Oliveras (Visiting Undergraduate, transitioned to Visiting Researcher at UPMC)
- Oleguer Canal (Visiting Undergraduate, transitioned to Engineer at XYZ Robotics)
- Elliott Donlon (Research Assistant, transitioned to Mechanical Engineering Masters Student at MIT)
- Selam Gano (Undergraduate Researcher, transitioned to Mechatronics Engineer at XYZ Robotics)
- Melody Liu (Research Assistant, transitioned to at the Schwarzman Scholars Program)
- Eudald Romo Grau (Visiting Undergraduate, transitioned to at Xanadu Trading Limited)
- Isabella Morona (Summer Intern, transitioned to high school student at Phillips Academy)
- Ian Taylor (Summer Intern, transitioned to college student at Washington University in St Louis)
- Ferran Alet (Visiting Undergraduate, transitioned to Computer Science PhD Student at MIT)
- Roman Kolbert (Visiting Masters Student, transitioned to Junior Researcher at Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft)
- Guillermo Fabian Diaz Lankenau (Masters Student, transitioned to Mechanical Engineering Masters Student at MIT)
