Research Group


Research Groups

Kumar Lab

Kumar Lab

Vijay Kumar

Vijay Kumar is the Nemirovsky Family Dean for the School of Engineering & Applied Science with appointments in the Departments of Mechanical Engineering and Applied MechanicsComputer and Information Science, and Electrical and Systems Engineering. Kumar’s group works on creating autonomous ground and aerial robots, designing bio-inspired algorithms for collective behaviors, and on robot swarms. They have won many best paper awards at conferences, and group alumni are leaders in teaching, research, business and entrepreneurship. Kumar is a fellow of ASME andIEEE and a member of the National Academy of Engineering.

Faculty

Vijay Kumar

Nemirovsky Family Dean, SEAS


Staff

Alex Zhou

Researcher Scientist


Edward Steager

Research Investigator


Jonathan A. Diller

Postdoctoral researcher, CIS


Kashish Garg

Robotics MSE; Manager, Research Projects - Kumar Lab, MEAM


Students

Alice Kate Li

PhD, ESE


Anthony Bisulco

PhD, ESE


Arjun Kumar

PhD, MEAM


Beiming Li

Robotics MSE '24, ESE PhD


Dexter Ong

Robotics Master's '24; PhD, CIS


Fernando Cladera

Robotics MSE '19; PhD, CIS


Kashish Garg

Robotics MSE; Manager, Research Projects - Kumar Lab, MEAM


Katherine Mao

PhD, MEAM


Malakhi Hopkins

PhD, ESE


Parakh M. Gupta

Visiting Scholar


Pratik Kunapuli

PhD, CIS


Spencer Folk

PhD, MEAM


Yifei Shao

PhD, CIS


Yuezhan Tao

PhD, CIS


Yuwei Wu

PhD, ESE


Alumni

Alex Kushleyev

Robotics Researcher


Amanda Prorok

PostDoc, MEAM '15-'17 - Professor, Cambridge University


Avraham Cohen

PostDoc, MEAM '20


Benjamin Charrow

PhD, CIS '15 - Senior Staff Software Engineer / Tech Lead, Waymo


Chao Qu

Robotics MSE '14, PhD CIS '22, Autonomy Engineer at Skydio


Cristina Sorice

Robotics MSE '15 - Staff Autonomy Engineer, Shield AI


David Saldaña

PostDoc, MEAM '19 - Assistant Professor, Lehigh University


David Cappelleri

PhD, MEAM '08 - Assistant Vice President for Research Innovation, Professor, Purdue University


Denise Wong

Robotics MSE '15; PhD, MEAM '16 - Senior Technical Lead, Boston Dynamics


Derek Cheng

Robotics MSE '24 - Standard Bots


Dinesh Thakur

Robotics MSE '11, Research Scientist '15-'22 - Senior Staff Robotics Engineer, Burro


Douglas Macharet

PostDoc, MEAM '20 - Federal University of Minas Gerais


Ekaterina Tolstaya

Robo MSE '21; PhD, ESE '21 - Senior Research Scientist, Waymo


Elijah S. Lee

PhD, CIS '23, Ford Latitude AI


Elizabeth Hunter

Robotics MSE '17; PhD, MEAM '20 - COO & Co-founder, Treeswift


Gareth Cross

Robotics MSE '15 - Technical Staff, Odyssey


Giuseppe Loianno

Research Scientist '18 - Professor, NYU


Guilherme Vicentim Narda

Visiting Scholar Under V. Kumar '20


Ian Miller

PhD, ESE '23, Burro


Igor Spasojevic

Postdoctoral Researcher, ESE '22-'25


Jake Welde

Robotics MSE '20, PhD, MEAM '25 - Assistant Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Cornell University


James Keller

PhD, MEAM '16 - Project Research Manager '21 - Boeing


James Svacha

PhD, ESE '20 - Senior Robotics Software Engineer, Forterra


Jimmy Paulos

Robotics MSE '15; PhD, MEAM '17; PostDoc '21 - Machine Learning Lead, Treeswift


Jnaneshwar Das

PostDoc, MEAM'18 - Research Associate Professor, Arizona State University


John Wright

PostDoc 1999 - Professor and Program Coordinator, Millersville University


Jun Seo

PhD, MEAM '14 - Assistant Professor, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology


Justin Thomas

PhD, MEAM '17 - Director, Controls, Exyn Technologies


Kartik Mohta

Robotics MSE '11; PhD, ESE '18 - Autel Robotics


Ke Sun

PhD, ESE '21 - Senior Software Engineer, Zoox


Kelsey Saulnier

PhD, ESE '22 - Pattern Labs


Laura Hallock

PostDoc, MEAM '21 - '23; Assistant Professor, University of Utah


Lifeng Zhou

PostDoc, MEAM '20-'22 - Assistant Professor, Drexel University


Luis Guerrero Bonilla

PhD, MEAM '19


Mac Schwager

PostDoc '11 - Associate Professor, Stanford University


Matt Turpin

PhD, MEAM '14 - Software Engineer, Generalist


Michael (Mickey) Whitzer

ROBO MSE '18; PhD, MEAM '20 - Autonomous Systems Technology Engineer, NASA


Michael Watterson

PhD, ESE '18; Software Engineer, Applied Intuition


Monroe Kennedy

Robotics MSE '16; PhD, MEAM '19; Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University


Nicholas Marion

Robotics MSE '22


Philip Dames

PhD, MEAM '15; PostDoc, ESE '16 - Faculty, Temple University


Pranav Panganamamula

Robotics MSE '22 - Epic


Pratap Tokekar

PostDoc, MEAM '15 - Associate Professor, University of Maryland


Rafael Fierro

PostDoc, MEAM '01 - Professor, University of New Mexico


Rahul Zahroof

Robotics MSE '21 - Senior R&D Mechanical Engineer, Halliburton


Rattanachai (Tee) Ramaithitima

Robotics MSE '15; PhD, CIS '18 - Tech Lead Manager, Motion Validation, Nuro


Rebecca Li

Robotics MSE '20; PhD, MEAM


Sambeeta Das

PostDoc'19 - Assistant Professor, University of Delaware


Sandeep Manjanna

PostDoc, MEAM '20-'22, Plaksha University


Sarah Tang

PhD, MEAM '18 - Tech Lead / Senior Staff Software Engineer, Waymo


Saurav Agarwal

Postdoctoral Researcher, MEAM '22-'25


Shaojie (Frank) Shen

PhD, ESE '14 - Associate Professor, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology


Shreyas Shivakumar

Robotics MSE '17, PhD, CIS '24 - Staff Perception Research Engineer, Boston Dynamics


Siddharth Mayya

PostDoc, MEAM '21 - Software & Data Science Lead, Aquatic Labs


Subhrajit Bhattacharya

PostDoc Math '16, PhD, MEAM '12 - Associate Professor, Lehigh University


Terry Kientz

Robotics MSE '17 - Project Engineer, MEAM (2011-2016)- Assoc Director, PERCH Design & Fabrication Facility (2016-2022)


Tolga Ozaslan

PhD, MEAM '19 - Assistant Professor, Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt Üniversitesi


Varun Murali

PostDoc, MEAM '23-'25 - Assistant Professor, Texas A&M University


Xu Liu

Robotics MSE '19, PhD, MEAM '24 - Senior Applied Scientist, Microsoft


Yash Mulgaonkar

Robotics MSE '12; PhD, MEAM '19 - Zoox


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