Hello! I am a Ph.D. student in robotics planning to graduate in 2019. My research focuses on optimization and control of dynamic robots.
Experience.
2012 ― 2019
The Robotics Institute
Graduate Research Assistant
2012
MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Intern
2011
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Mobility and Robotics Systems Intern
2010
IBM
Network Operating Systems Intern
2009
Appstone Inc.
Software Engineer
2008
Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Westervelt Lab Intern
Publications.
Martin, William C., Albert Wu, and Hartmut Geyer. "Experimental Evaluation of Deadbeat Running on the ATRIAS Biped." IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 2.2 (2017): 1085-1092. [ video ]
Martin, William C., Albert Wu, and Hartmut Geyer. "Robust spring mass model running for a physical bipedal robot." Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2015 IEEE International Conference on. IEEE, 2015. [ video ]
Rai, Akshara, Rika Antonova, Seungmoon Song, William Martin, Hartmut Geyer, and Christopher G. Atkeson. "Bayesian Optimization Using Domain Knowledge on the ATRIAS Biped." Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2018 IEEE International Conference on. IEEE, 2018. [ video ]
Nguyen, Quan, Ayush Agrawal, Xingye Da, William C. Martin, Hartmut Geyer, Jessy W. Grizzle, and Koushil Sreenath. "Dynamic walking on randomly-varying discrete terrain with one-step preview." In Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS). 2017. [ video ]
Hubicki, C., Abate, A., Clary, P., Rezazadeh, S., Jones, M., Peekema, A., Van Why, J., Domres, R., Wu, A., Martin, W. and Geyer, H., 2016. Walking and running with passive compliance: Lessons from engineering a live demonstration of the atrias biped. IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine, 2(4.1), pp.4-1.
Education.
2012 ― 2019
Ph.D. in Robotics
Carnegie Mellon University
2012 ― 2016
Master of Science in Robotics
Carnegie Mellon University
2007 ― 2012
Bachelor in Computer Science & Physics
Middlebury College