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Interaction Lab |
| Faculty | PhD | MS | Post Doctoral | Pre Doctoral | Undergraduate | Visitors |
Andrew Howard, Research Professor in the Robotic Research Lab from Fall 2002 through Fall 2004, when he took a research position at JPL. He retains an Adjunct Assistant Professor position.
Dylan Shell, is the eighth PhD student in the Interaction Lab (2002-2008). PhD "Macroscopic Approaches to Control: Multi-Robot Systems and Beyond" defended on 5/8/2008. Dylan chose to take a post doctoral position in the lab before joining the faculty in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Texas A&M University in Fall 2009. (Graduation Photos)
Jeffrey Singley Norris, PhD student in the Interaction Lab 2001-2008. PhD "Perceptually Motivated Symbol Generation" defended on 3/12/2008. Jeff completed his PhD degree while working full time as supervisor of the Planning Software Systems Group at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He is the seventh PhD from the Interaction Lab. (Graduation Photos)
Evan Martin Drumwright, PhD student in the Interaction Lab 2001-2007. PhD "The Task Matrix: a Robot-Independent Framework for Programming Humanoids" defended on 05/08/07. Evan then joined The University of Memphis as a Visiting Professor in the Fall of 2007. He is the sixth PhD from the Interaction Lab.
Christopher Vernon Jones (Chris) , PhD student in the Interaction Lab 2001-2005. PhD '"A Principled Design Methodology for Minimalist Multi-Robot System Controllers" defended on 05/11/05. Chris then joined iRobot as a Robotics Researcher in the Spring of 2005, and was promoted to the position of Research Program Director in the Fall of 2006. He is the fifth PhD from the Interaction Lab. His thesis is available here.(Graduation Photos)
Odest Chadwicke Jenkins (Chad), PhD student in the Interaction Lab 1999-2003. PhD "Data-driven Derivation of Skills for Autonomous Humanoid Agents" defended on 09/09/03. He was a postdoctoral fellow in the Interaction Lab (Sep 03-Jul 04), and then joined the faculty in the Computer Science Department at Brown University in Fall 2004. In 2006, Chad was awarded the Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers (pic). He is the fourth PhD from the Interaction Lab. (Graduation Photos)
Brian Paul Gerkey, PhD student in the Interaction Lab 1998-2003. PhD "On Multi-Robot Task Allocation" defended on 05/01/03. Brian was a postdoctoal scholar in the Computer Science Dept. at Stanford University 08/03-05/05. From 07/05 through 01/08 he worked as a computer scientist at SRI. Brian then became the director of open source development at Willow Garage in 02/2008. He is the third PhD from the Interaction Lab. (Graduation Photos)
Monica Nicolescu, PhD student in the Interaction Lab 1998-2003. PhD "A Framework for learning from Demonstration, Generalization and Practice in Human-Robot Domains" defended on 03/31/03. Monica is now an associate professor with tenure of Computer Science at the University of Nevada, Reno (from 07/03). She is the second PhD from the Interaction Lab.
Dani Goldberg, BA with highest honors at Brandeis University in 5/96 (honor's thesis in the Interaction Lab), MS from Brandeis in 05/97, PhD student in the Interaction Lab 1997-2001. PhD "Evaluating the Dynamics of Agent-EnvironmentInteraction" defended on 03/23/01. Dani was a postdoctoral scientist at CMU (Aug/01-Aug 03). He is now Software Engineering Manager at Bluefin Robotics. He is the first PhD from the Interaction Lab. (Graduation Photos)
Darren James Earl, MS student in Computer Science. Darren worked in the Interaction Lab from Spring 2008 to Fall 2008. He worked on stereo camera calibration software.
Muhammed Emad-Ud-Din, MS student in Computer Science. Emad worked in the Interaction Lab during Fall 2007 and Spring 2008. He worked on tracking software as part of the HSD project.
Raul Correal, MS student in Computer Science / Intelligent Robotics, Dec 2007. Raul has worked in the Interaction Lab since September 2006. He participated in the tourguide project.
Viren Ranan (May '06 - May '07) MS 2007.
Josh Wainer, MS, May 2007. Now a PhD student at University of Hatfield.
Salman Qadri, MS, 2007.
Sanford Freedman, MSC student in Computer Science, MS Dec 2005. Sandy has worked in the Interaction Lab since August 2005. He co-lead the project: "A Hands-Off Physical Therapy Assistance Robot for Cardiac Patients". In Fall 2006 he joined the PhD program at Vanderbilt University.
Kyong Il Kang, MSc student in Computer Science in the Interaction Lab Aug 2004-2005.
Amit Ramesh, PhD student in the Interaction Lab Aug 2000--Dec 2004. Amit got his MS in May 2005. He is currently with the Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (AIM) group at Cedars-Sinai.
Helen Yan, PhD student in the Interaction Lab 2001-2003. Helen got her MS in May 2003 and took a leave of absence to work at Microsoft Corp. in Seattle. (Graduation Photos)
Ajo Fod (Sep '99 - Dec '02) MS 2002.
Barry Werger, (screened in 04/20/00, passed qual 09/29/00) left in May 2001 to work at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Kasper Stoy worked at the USC Robotics Lab from Aug. 1999 through Aug. 2000. He then became an Assistant Professor in the Adaptronics Group at The Maersk Institute for Production Technology at the University of Southern Denmark. He is now an associate professor there.
Aswath Mohan , MS, May 1999. He went to KLA-Tencor in San Jose.
Julia Novikova, masters student, Jan-Aug 1997. She entered the masters program in the CS Department at Brandeis University.
Aruna Sankaranarayanan, MS, May 1997. Now at Fidelity Investment Co.
Dylan Shell was a postdoctoral fellow from Aug 2008-May 2009. He is now a faculty memeber at Texas A&M University.
Adriana Tapus, was a WiSE Research Fellow in the Interaction Lab from 11/04 to 12/05 and continued as a postdoc until 5/09. She is now assistant professor of computer science at ENSTA (Ecole Nationale Superieure de Techniques Avances) in Paris, France.
Ian Kelly, postdoc in the Robotics Lab and Interaction Lab from Dec 2002 to Nov 2004.
Chad Jenkins was a postdoctoral fellow from Jan-July 2004. He is now a faculty memeber at Brown University.
Marcelo Kallmann was a postdoctoral fellow, March 2003-July 2004 and then became a computer scientist at the Institute for Creative Technologies (ICT). He is currently faculty at University of California, Merced.
Anand Panangadan was a post doc in the Robotics Lab March 2003-June 2004. He then moved to LA Children's Hospital to do sensor network research there.
Ashley Tews, postdoc in the Robotics Lab and Interaction Lab from June 1, 2001 to Feb 2004. In 2004 Ash joined Peter Corke's group at CSIRO ICT Center in Australia.
Torbjorn Dahl, postdoc in the Robotics Lab and Interaction Lab from June 1, 2001 to Feb 2003. He next became a research scientist at the Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (FFI). Currently he is head of Intelligent Systems Research, School of Computing and Engineering, University of Wales, Newport, UK.
Andrew Howard, post doctoral fellow in the Interaction Lab from Fall 2000 to Fall 2002, when he was promoted to a research assistant professor in the USC Computer Science Department.
Richard Vaughan was a postdoc/research associate at the USC Robotics Lab for three years (Fall 1999 to Fall 2001). He joined the research team at HRL. Then he moved to Canada to join the faculty in the Computer Science Department at Simon Fraser University where he is now associate professor with tenure.
Aude Billard, postdoctoral fellow, Jun 1999-Jun 2000. She joined the faculty at EPFL.
Paolo Pirjanian, postdoctoral fellow, Jan 1999-Nov 1999. President and CTO of , Evolution Robotics, Pasadena, CA.
Miguel Schneider Fontan , postdoctoral fellow, Jan-Aug 1997. He joined Jordan Pollack's group as a postdoc.
Francois Michaud, postdoctoral fellow, May 1996-May 1997. He joined the faculty in the Electrical Engineering Dept., University of Sherbrooke, Canada, and is now a tenured full professor. His robotics lab is called LABORIUS. He is Director of the Centre of Excellence on Information Engineering, funded by the Ministère du développement économique, innovation et exportation du Québec, Economic Development Canada, and the Université de Sherbrooke.
Jens Wawerla: now PhD student with Prof. Richard Vaughan at Simon Fraser University
Esben Ostergaard: now assistant professor at the University of Southern Denamark.
William Yeoh: now PhD student with Prof. Sven Koenig.
Elaine Short, from Yale University, spent Summer 2009 in the Interaction Lab where she worked on Kalman filtering for Robot and Person Tracking using an overhead camera.
Kyle Heldman, from Purdue University, spent Summer 2009 in the Interaction Lab where he worked on robot configurations for life-like movement.
Kyle Taylor, from Iowa State University, spent Summer 2008 in the Interaction Lab as part of the USC Computer Science Department's NSF Research Experience for Undergraduate Site.
Joseph Zhou was an NSF REU undergraduate student during the summer of 2008. As an REU student, he worked on various software applications to aid with the design of the inertia-based motion capture architecture.
Minal Cordeiro, NSF REU student. Graduated May 2008. During his time in the lab he worked on laser-based tracking and calibration. He collected data and built a model of pioneer odometry error as a function of control velocity.
Shirin Nikaein was an NSF REU undergraduate over Summer 2007, in which she worked on deploying lasers in the California Science Center, as part of the HSD project.
Franklin Haynie was an NSF REU undergraduate over Summer 2007, in which he worked on deploying lasers in the California Science Center, as part of the HSD project.
Danko Krajisnik was an NSF REU undergraduate over Summer 2006, in which he worked on overhead people tracking, as part of the HSD project.
Brandon Angelo (Provost's Research Fellow) worked in the lab as an undergraduate student. He is currently a summer intern at Apple Computer.
Ryan Berti worked in the lab as an undergraduate student.
Daniel Arbuckle worked in the lab as an undergraduate student. He became a PhD student in the USC CS Dept.
Sean Bachelder worked in the lab as an undergraduate student from Summer 2007-Spring 2008 as a Merit Research Student. His project was "Applications and Drivers for Humanoid Robot Control." He graduated with a B.S. in Computer Science, May 2008.
Urmila Mahadev (WISE Research Fellow: Fall 2007, Spring 2008), worked on activity modeling from automatically-generated logs of robot and human behavior.Andrew Fisher, VSoE Summer Merit Research Fellow, worked with pioneer II's and updated the player driver for Vector Field Histogram in order to adjust for sonar placement.
Kristine Skinner, BS, May 2007. She participated in the lab as part of the Merit Research Program. She was a co-author for the paper, Benchmarks for evaluating socially assistive robotics.
Donovan Schafer, VSoE Summer Merit Research Fellow, participate in the robot tour guide project in summer 2006.
Jennie Vongsoasup, from Bucknell University, spent Summer 2006 in the Interaction Lab as part of the CRA-W Distributed Mentor Program (MDP). She participated in the lab's robot tour guide project.
Helena Wotring, from Washington University, spent Summer 2006 in the Interaction Lab as part of the CRA-W Distributed Mentor Program (MDP). She participated in the lab's robot tour guide project.
Alexandra Constantin, from Williams College, spent Summer 2005 in the Interaction Lab as part of the CRA-W Distributed Mentor Program (MDP).
Shivani Srivastava worked in the lab as an undergraduate student.
Jeremy Stell-Smith, BS, May 1999. Currently at IBM in Silicon Valley, planning to go to grad school while working.
Alex Neiss visited the Interaction Lab May 2009 - Sep. 2009 from the Technical University of Munich, Germany.
Rachel Gockley, from CMU visited for (May 15th - Aug 15th) Summer 2005.
Jon Eriksson visited the Interaction Lab Nov. 2003 - May 2004 from the KTH in Stokholm, Sweden.
Stefan Weber, Fullbright visiting scholar Jan 1999-Jan 2000. He then joined and finished the PhD program at the University of Berlin.
Jakob Fredslund: now assistant professor at the University of Aarhus, Denmark.
