People

Faculty Members

Dorsa Sadigh  
Dorsa is an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department. Her work is focused on the design of algorithms for AI agents and autonomous systems that safely and reliably interact with other intelligent agents including humans.

Postdocs and Visiting Scholars

Shuang Li    (Co-advised with Shuran Song)
Shuang is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Computer Science Department. Her work is focused on Computer Vision and Robot Learning.

PhD Students

Sidd Karamcheti    (Co-advised with Percy Liang)
Sidd is a PhD student in the Computer Science Department. His work is focused on the intersection of human-robot-interaction and natural language processing.
Suneel Belkhale  
Suneel is a PhD student in the Computer Science department. He is broadly interested in enabling robots to perceive and reason about dynamic real world environments.
Megha Srivastava    (Co-advised with Dan Boneh)
Megha is a PhD student in the Computer Science Department. She is currently interested in studying concerns of reliability, security, and robustness through the lens of human-AI interaction and collaboration.
Jennifer Grannen  
Jennifer is a PhD student in the Computer Science Department. She is interested in multi-agent systems and human interaction algorithms for real-world manipulation tasks.
Priya Sundaresan    (Co-advised with Jeannette Bohg)
Priya is a PhD student in the Computer Science Department. She is interested in robotic manipulation and perception in collaborative or assistive real-world settings.
Joey Hejna  
Joey is a PhD student in the Computer Science Department. He is broadly interested in decision making and robotics.
Suvir Mirchandani  
Suvir is a PhD student in the Computer Science Department. He is broadly interested in human-robot interaction and robotic manipulation.
Hengyuan Hu  
Hengyuan is a PhD student in the Computer Science Department. He is interested in human-AI collaboration and robotic manipulation in the real world.
Jensen Gao  
Jensen is a PhD student in the Computer Science Department. He is broadly interested in data-driven methods for robotics and control.
Jonathan Yang    (Co-advised with Chelsea Finn)
Jonathan is a PhD student in the Computer Science Department. He is interested in building robotic agents that are able to explore new tasks and environments with minimal human supervision through generalization from large, diverse datasets.
Tian Gao    (Co-advised with Chelsea Finn)
Tian is a PhD student in the Computer Science Department. She is broadly interested in machine learning for robotics.
Amber Xie  
Amber Xie is a PhD student in the Computer Science Department. She is broadly interested in robot learning and its real-world applications.

MS Students

Chethan Bhateja  
Chet is an MS student in the Computer Science Department. He is broadly interested in reinforcement learning and imitation learning.
Jaden Clark  
Jaden is coterminal masters student in the Computer Science Department. He is interested in robot learning and mobile, interactive robots.

Undergraduate Students

Brandon Vu  
Brandon is a Senior/Coterm in the Computer Science department. He is broadly interested in sim-to-real methods for robotic manipulation.
Phillip Miao  
Phillip is an undergraduate student in the Computer Science Department. He is interested in human-robot collaboration with a particular focus on reinforcement learning.

PhD/Postdoc Alumni

Yuchen Cui  
Postdoctoral Researcher, 2022-2024 (Next: Assistant Professor at Computer Science at UCLA)
Andy Shih    (Co-advised with Stefano Ermon)
PhD student, CS, 2019-2024 (Next: Anthropic)
Minae Kwon  
PhD student, CS, 2018-2023 (Next: Anthropic)
Mengxi Li    (Co-advised with Jeannette Bohg)
PhD student, EE, 2018-2023 (Next: Citadel Securities)
Zhangjie Cao  
PhD student, CS, 2018-2022 (Next: Quant Research at JQinvestments, China)
Erdem Bıyık  
Ph.D. Student, EE, 2017-2022 (Next: Assistant Professor in Computer Science at USC in 2023)
Dylan Losey  
Postdoctoral Researcher, 2019-2020 (Next: Assistant Professor at Virginia Tech)

Other Alumni

Bidipta Sarkar  
Undergraduate Student, 2021-2024 (Next: Next: PhD student at Oxford)
Li-Heng Lin  
MS Student, 2022-2024 (Next: Google DeepMind)
Ngorli Paintsil  
Undergraduate Student, 2023-2024
Yilun Hao  
MS Student, 2021-2023 (Next: PhD student at MIT)
Yilin Wu  
MS Student, 2021-2023 (Next: PhD student at CMU)
Ruinan (Nancy) Wang  
MS Student, 2021-2022
Vivek Myers  
Undergraduate Student, 2020-2022 (Next: PhD student at UC Berkeley)
Zihan Wang  
MS Student, 2020-2022 (Next: PhD student at University of Washington)
Madeline Liao  
MS Student, 2020-2022
Daniel A. Lazar  
Research Intern, 2018 (Next: Research Scientist at Facebook Assistant)
Behrad Toghi  
Visiting Researcher, 2021 (Next: Honda Research Institute)
Jerry (Zhiyang) He  
Coterm Student, 2018-2019 (Next: PhD student at UC Berkeley)
Jovana Kondic  
Visiting Student, 2020 (Next: PhD student at MIT)
Songyuan Zhang  
Visiting Student, 2020 (Next: PhD student at MIT)
Albert Zhai  
Visiting Student, 2020 (Next: PhD student at UIUC)
Nicolas Huynh  
Visiting Student, 2019 (Next: PhD student at Cambridge)
Yuxiao (Tracy) Chen  
MS Student, 2020-2021
Woodrow Z. Wang  
Co-term Student, 2018-2021 (Next: Zoox, PhD student at Stanford)
Aditi Talati  
Undergraduate Student, 2020-2021