Current PhD Students

• Eleanor Avrunin (Robotics) is investigating human-robot social spatial interaction for an NSF project on mobile service robots..

• Breelyn Kane (Robotics) is investigating robust autonomy for an AFOSR project.

• Heather Knight (Robotics) is investigating human-robot social interaction for an NSF project on mobile service robots.

• Robert Fisher (Machine Learning) is investigating context-aware and personalized virtual coaches for the Quality of Life Technologies ERC.

• Maxim Makatchev (Robotics) is investigating multi-cultural interactive systems for a QNRF-sponsored project.

Masters Students

Past PhD Students

• Nicholas Melchior (Robotics) "Graph-Based Trajectory Planning through Programming by Demonstration", June 2011. Currently at Seegrid.

• Rachel Kirby (Robotics, co-advised with Jodi Forlizzi) "Social Robot Navigation", April 2010. Currently at Google Pittsburgh.

• Marek Michalowski (Robotics) "Rhythmic Human-Robot Social Interaction", December 2009. CEO of BeatBots, makers of My Keepon.

• Laura Hiatt (Computer Science) "Probabilistic Plan Management", November 2009. Currently at the Naval Research Lab.

• Brennan Sellner (Robotics) "Proactive Replanning for Multi-Robot Teams", January 2009. Currently at Seegrid.

• Frank Broz (Robotics, co-advised with Illah Nourbakhsh) "Planning for Human-Robot Interaction:Representing Time and Intention", December 2008. Currently a post-doctoral fellow at University of Hertfordshire. .

• Maayan Roth (Robotics, co-advised with Manuela Veloso). "Execution-time Communication Decisions for Coordination of Multi-agent Teams", September 2007. Currently at Google NYC.

• Trey Smith (Robotics) "Probabilistic Planning for Robotic Exploration", July 2007. Currently at NASA Ames.

• Christopher Urmson (Robotics, co-advised with Red Whittaker) "Navigation Regimes for Off-Road Autonomy", May 2005. Currently at Google Mountain View.

• Hakan Younes (Computer Science) "Verification and Planning for Stochastic Processes with Asynchronous Events", January 2005. Currently at Google Pittsburgh.

• Vandi Verma (Robotics) "Tractable Particle Filters for Robot Fault Diagnosis", October 2004. Currently at NASA JPL.

• David Hershberger is currently at Google.

• Shyjan Mahamud (Computer Science, co-advised with Martial Hebert) "Discriminative Distance Measures for Object Detection", July 2002. Currently at NICTA (Australia)

• Sven Koenig (Computer Science) "Goal-Directed Acting with Incomplete Information", December 1997. Currently an Associate Professor at University of Southern California, currently at NSF/CISE

• Richard Goodwin (Computer Science) "Meta-Level Control for Decision-Theoretic Planners", October 1996. Currently at IBM Watson.

• Lonnie Chrisman (Computer Science, co-advised with Tom Mitchell) "Approximation of Graphical Probabilistic Models by Iterative Dynamic Discretization and its Application to Time-Series Segmentation", July 1996. Currently at Ask.Com.

• Sanjiv Singh (Robotics) "Synthesis of Tactical Plans for Robotic Excavation", January 1995. Currently a Research Professor in Robotics at Carnegie Mellon University.

Past Masters Students

• Peter Anderson-Sprecher is at Google.

• Jun-Young Kwak is in a PhD program at USC, under Milind Tambe.

• Grama Srinivasan