Potential students, postdocs, and visitors: please read the information below before contacting me. This information is being kept up-to-date to correctly reflect the current status of various openings in my group. Thank you for your interest!
Robotics at USC: USC has a great deal of robotics research, largely, but not
exclusively, in the Computer Science
Department. For an overview of robotics activities, look here. For more information about any
particular project or lab, please contact the relevant faculty member
or principal investigator.
PhD Students:
I am looking forward to taking new PhD students in the area of
socially
assistive robotics. Please read about the USC PhD
program admissions policy before sending me email. After that,
if you have an interest in my group, it's usually best to put together
a web page showing your relevant research and send me (and other
faculty you are interested in) the URL, instead of sending materials
as attachments.
If you are at USC already and interested in getting involved in
robotics research on a volunteer basis, you are encouraged to submit
your materials to our CRES student
database, which is used by faculty to find student help on various
projects. Follow the guidelines found here. If you are
interested in working in my group specifically, email me, supplying
the materials listed here.
MS Students:
MS students in the CS Department are not typically funded by research
grants, and CS Department rules prohibit MS students from soliciting
faculty for funding. The same rule applies to non-CS MS students.
Only if you already have a strong background in either assistive
robotics and/or activity
modeling, and/or have taken my CS 584
course and gotten an A in it, or have taken courses by Prof. Gaurav Sukhatme
and/or Prof. Stefan Schaal and gotten A's and are in the MSIR program,
then contact me by email. It's always best to put together a web page
showing your relevant research and send me (and other faculty you are
interested in) the URL instead of sending materials as
attachments.
If you are interested in getting involved in robotics research on a
volunteer basis, you are encouraged to submit your materials to our CRES student database, which is used by
faculty to find student help on various projects. Follow the
guidelines found here. If you
are interested in working in my group specifically, email me,
supplying the materials listed here.
Undergraduate Students:
I welcome the participation undergraduate students in my lab. USC
Merit Research Scholars are especially welcome. All interested
students are encouraged to submit your materials to our CRES student database, which is used by
faculty to find student help on various projects. Follow the
guidelines found here. If you
are interested in working in my group specifically, email me,
supplying the materials listed here.
Post Docs:
Currently, I do not have any funded postdoc positions available.
Therefore, only qualified individuals who would bring their own
funding can be considered.
Interested Volunteers:
If you are a student at USC at any level and are interested in getting
involved in robotics research on a volunteer basis, you are encouraged
to submit your materials to our CRES
student database, which is used by faculty to find student help on
various projects. Follow the guidelines found here.
Research Visitors:
Externally-funded visitors interested in collaboration are welcome to
contact me by email, but because of limited resources, please note
that we can only consider visitors who fulfill the following criteria:
1) have a background that is directly related to one or more of our
research areas, and 2) plan to perform hands-on work on a well-defined
agreed-upon project of mutual interest that would lead to joint
publications.
Tour Visitors:
The USC Robotics Research Lab is a research group, consisting of
active students, postdocs, and faculty. To faciliate productive
research, our labs are not open for touring other than during the
pre-assigned touring days and times. To find out when tours are being
held and to sign up in advance, please visit the tour web page, found
here. For detailed
information on the personnel of the USC Robotics Research Labs, look
here. For a summary of all
robotics activities, please look here.
Thank you for your interest in our research!