Siddhartha Srinivasa
Prof. Siddhartha Srinivasa founded the Personal Robotics Lab with the goal of enabling robots to perform complex manipulation tasks under uncertainty and clutter, with and around people. Sidd is also passionate about building end-to-end systems (HERB, ADA, HRP3, CHIMP, Andy, among others) that integrate perception, planning, and control in the real world. Understanding the interplay between system components has helped produce state of the art algorithms for object recognition and pose estimation (MOPED), and dense 3D modeling (CHISEL, now used by Google Project Tango).
Taylor Kessler Faulkner
Taylor Kessler Faulkner is a postdoc in the Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington, working with Prof. Srinivasa. Her research interests include human-robot interaction and machine learning. Taylor's recent work is on developing interactive algorithms for robots learning from non-expert human teachers, and she is leading the Robot-Assisted Feeding project at PRL. Taylor received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from The University of Texas at Austin, and her B.S. in Computer Science from Denison University.
Liyiming Ke
Liyiming "Kay" Ke is a PhD student at UW advised by Siddhartha Srinivasa. She is interested in reinforcement learning and applications of artificial intelligence. Kay earned B.S. with honor in Computer Science and Economics from Vanderbilt University.
Matt Schmittle
Matt Schmittle is a PhD student at the University of Washington advised by Siddhartha Srinivasa. His research interests are in using Bayesian and online methods for model-based manipulation. Matt earned his B.S. in Computer and Information Sciences from the University of Delaware. He has previously worked as a research intern in GRASP Lab at UPenn.
Amal Nanavati
Amal Nanavati is a PhD student at the University of Washington advised by Siddhartha Srinivasa and Maya Cakmak. His research interests are in lifelong robot learning, human-robot interaction, and multiparty interactions. Amal earned his B.S. in Computer Science with an additional major in Global Studies from Carnegie Mellon University. He has previously worked as a research student at the HRI Laboratory at Kyoto University, Japan.
Bernie Zhu
Bernie Hao Zhu is a PhD student at the University of Washington advised by Siddhartha Srinivasa. His work is TRASH: Teaching Robotic Agents Skills of Human. His research interests include robotics, computer vision and machine learning. Bernie received his B.Eng. in Computer Science from Zhejiang University. Before joining UW, he was a researcher at Carnegie Mellon University.
Helen Wang
Helen Wang is a PhD student at the University of Washington advised by Siddhartha Srinivasa and Dieter Fox. Her research interests are in robot learning, vision, and planning. Helen earned her B.A.Sc in Engineering Science - Robotics Engineering from the University of Toronto.
Sidharth Talia
Sidharth Talia is a Ph.D. student at the University of washington advised by Siddhartha Srinivasa. He currently leads the MuSHR project and is interested in control and estimation for mobile robotics, leaning towards agile autonomy and field robotics. He worked remotely with the P.R.L. before his Ph.D., and has spent significant time in labs as well as start-ups incubated in IIT-Delhi while earning his Bachelors in Technology from Bharati Vidyapeeth College of Engineering Delhi.
Yunchu Zhang
Yunchu Zhang is a PhD student at the University of Washington advised by Siddhartha Srinivasa and Abhishek Gupta. He is interested in combining classic and learning methods to make robots smart. Before joining UW, he earned his M.S. from the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University.
Alumni
Students
- Ethan K. Gordon
- PhD 2023, now Postdoc at UPenn
- William Agnew
- PhD 2023, now Postdoc at CMU
- Brian Hou
- PhD 2022, now Researcher at Aurora Innovation
- Sherdil Niyaz
- PhD 2022, now Engineer at Motional
- Patrick Lancaster
- PhD 2022, now Postdoc at Meta (FAIR)
- Nansong Yi
- MS 2021, now Engineer at Amazon
- Aditya Mandalika
- PhD 2021, now Researcher at Aurora Innovation
- Gilwoo Lee
- PhD 2020, now CEO and Founder of Zordi
- Colin Summers
- MS 2020
- Matthew Rockett
- MS 2020, now Engineer at Zordi
- Johan Michalove
- MS 2019, now PhD at Cornell
- Jeongseok Lee
- MS 2018, now Research Engineer at Meta Reality Labs
- Laura Herlant
- PhD 2018, now Research Scientist at BDAII
- Zita Marinho
- PhD 2018, now Research Scientist at Sacoor Brothers
- Stefanos Nikolaidis
- PhD 2018, now Assistant Professor at USC
- Shervin Javdani
- PhD 2017, now Researcher at Aurora Innovation
- Shushman Choudhury
- MS 2017, now PhD at Stanford
- Rosario Scalise
- MS 2017, now PhD at UW
- Shen Li
- MS 2017, now PhD at MIT
- Jennifer King
- PhD 2016, now Researcher at Berkshire Grey
- Michael Koval
- PhD 2016, now Researcher at Waymo
- Chris Dellin
- PhD 2016, now Researcher at Nuro
- Matt Klingensmith
- PhD 2016, now Engineer at Boston Dynamics
- Aaron Walsman
- MS 2015, now PhD at UW
- Anca Dragan
- PhD 2015, now Assistant Professor at Berkeley
- Elizabeth Cha
- MS 2014, now at Aurora
- Mehmet Dogar
- PhD 2013, now Assistant Professor at University of Leeds
- Kyle Strabala
- MS 2012, now Scientist at Near Earth Autonomy
- Alvaro Collet
- PhD 2012, now Research Scientist at Facebook
- Dmitry Berenson
- PhD 2011, now Associate Professor at Michigan
- Garratt Gallagher
- MS 2009, now at Google Robotics
- Martin Herrmann
- MS 2009, now at TU Braunschweig
Postdoctoral Fellows
- Christoforos Mavrogiannis
- 2019-2023, now Assistant Professor at University of Michigan
- Tapomayukh Bhattacharjee
- 2017-2021, now Assistant Professor at Cornell
- Fereshteh Sadeghi
- 2019
- Sanjiban Choudhury
- 2018-2019, now Researcher at Aurora Innovation
- Matt Barnes
- 2018-2019, now at Google
- Daqing Yi
- 2016-2018, now at Google
- Oren Salzman
- 2016-2017, now Assistant Professor at the Technion
- Henny Admoni
- 2015-2017, now Assistant Professor at CMU
- Aaron Johnson
- 2015-2016, now Assistant Professor at CMU
Research Staff
- Raida Karim
- 2022-2023
- Rishabh Madan
- 2019-2020, now PhD at Cornell
- Youngsun Kim
- 2017-2019, now at Amazon
- Hanjun Song
- 2016-2019, now PhD at MIT