Meet the team

	M. Bernardine Dias Associate Research Professor, Carnegie Mellon University Founder and Director, TechBridgeWorld, Carnegie Mellon University Co-Founder and Co-Director, rCommerce Lab, Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar Email: mbdias 'AT' ri.cmu.edu
	Yonina Cooper Associate Teaching Professor, Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar Associate Director, TechBridgeWorld, Carnegie Mellon University Email: yonina 'AT' cs.cmu.edu
	Gary Giger Research Programmer/Analyst, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University Email: ggiger 'AT' andrew.cmu.edu
	Sarah Belousov Staff, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University Project Manager, TechBridgeWorld, Carnegie Mellon University Email: sarahtbw 'AT' ri.cmu.edu
	Ermine A. Teves Staff, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University Project Assistant, TechBridgeWorld, Carnegie Mellon University Email: eteves 'AT' cs.cmu.edu
	Debjani Biswas Student
	Syed Ali Hashim Moosavi Student
	Linlin Pan Student
	Shailja Relwani Student
	Hongjin (Tony) Yu Volunteer

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Research labs

The TechBridgeWorld research group, based in the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, innovates and field tests technology solutions to meet sustainable development needs around the world. Working closely with local partners who understand the needs of specific communities, TechBridgeWorld contributes its technical expertise to help realize the community’s vision of development by inventing new tools, customizing existing technology, and inspiring the community’s future technologists.

The rCommerce lab advances the state of the art in autonomous team coordination and planning. rCommerce specializes in effective planning and coordination techniques for robots acting in dynamic environments with imperfect information.

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Past team members

	M. Freddie Dias Research Engineer		Amol Jain Research Intern
	Kelechi Edozie-Anyadiegwu Media Intern		Balajee Kannan Project Scientist
	Hend Gedawy Research Assistant		Anna Kasunic Research Intern
	Evan Glasgow Research Intern		Nisarg Kothari Student
	Chet Gnegy Research Intern		Lorena Lopez Video Intern

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Collaborators

NavPal is a project of the TechBridgeWorld and rCommerce research labs in the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. NavPal is generously sponsored by Google Inc., the Berkman Faculty Development Fund and Traffic21.

The following institutions and organizations have made our NavPal research possible:

NavPal also collaborated with the Intelligent Software Agents Lab at Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute. This lab envisions a world in which autonomous, intelligent software programs, known as software agents, undertake many of the operations performed by human users of the World Wide Web, as well as a multitude of other tasks.

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Acknowledgments

We thank the following people for their time and their support for our project:

• Erika Argobast
• Barb Goodman
• Spero Pipakis
• Todd Reeves
• Doug Vail
• NavPal research participants

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