Graduate Students, Postdocs, and Staff (Current)<\/strong><\/h2>\nPhD. Students <\/strong><\/p>\n\n- Annan Zhang<\/li>\n
- Makram Chahine<\/li>\n
- Pascal Spino<\/li>\n
- Shiva Sreeram<\/li>\n
- Kiwan Wong<\/li>\n
- Peter Werner<\/li>\n
- Jared Boyer<\/li>\n
- Wil Norton<\/li>\n
- Emily Sologuren<\/li>\n
- Noel Loo<\/li>\n
- Levi Cai<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Postdocs<\/strong><\/p>\n\n- Joseph DelPreto<\/li>\n
- Lianhao Yin<\/li>\n
- Byungchul Kim<\/li>\n
- Wei Xiao<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
M.Eng Students<\/strong><\/p>\n\n- Niklas Hagemann<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Staff<\/strong><\/p>\n\n- Mieke Moran (the Group\u2019s Administrative Assistant)<\/li>\n
- Peter Nguyen<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Lab Alumni<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n- John Romanishin <\/b><\/li>\n
- Lucas Liebenwein<\/b><\/li>\n
- Cenk Baykal<\/b><\/li>\n
- Noam Buckman<\/b><\/li>\n
- Teddy Ort<\/b><\/li>\n
- Brandon Araki<\/b><\/li>\n
- Lillian Chin<\/b><\/li>\n
- Alexander Amini<\/b><\/li>\n
- Andrew Spielberg<\/b><\/li>\n
- Joseph DelPreto<\/b><\/li>\n
- Tim Seyde<\/b><\/li>\n
- Tsun-Hsuan Wang<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
\n- Ekaterina Pelekhov<\/strong>, \u201cInformation Organization: Practical Algorithms and Systems,\u201d (Dartmouth College 2001), now at Google Research<\/span><\/li>\n
- Jonathan Bredin<\/strong>, \u201cMarket-based control of mobile agent systems,\u201d (Dartmouth College 2001), now consultant<\/li>\n
- Keith Kotay<\/strong>, \u201cSelf-reconfiguring Robots: Designs, Algorithms, and Applications,\u201d (Dartmouth College 2003), now consultant<\/li>\n
- Qun Li<\/strong>, \u201cReactive Sensor Networks,\u201d (Dartmouth College 2004), now Faculty at College of William and Mary<\/li>\n
- Rob Fitch<\/strong>, \u201cPlanning for Heterogeneous Self-reconfiguring Robots,\u201d (Dartmouth College 2004 , now Faculty at University of Technology Sydney, Australia<\/li>\n
- Craig McGray<\/strong>, \u201cDesign, Fabrication, and Programming of MEMS Micro Robots,\u201d (Dartmouth College 2005), now at NIST<\/li>\n
- Paulina Varshavskaya<\/strong>, Distributed Reinforcement Learning for Self-reconfiguring modular robots, (MIT 2007), now consultant<\/li>\n
- Iuliu Vasilescu<\/strong>, Adaptive Illumination for Underwater Imaging with Autonomous Robots and Sensor Networks, (MIT 2009), now at TIA Research<\/li>\n
- Ajay Deshpande<\/strong>, Coverage Problems in Mobile Sensing, (MIT 2008, jointly supervised with with Sanjay Sarma), now at IBM Research<\/li>\n
- Martsette Vona<\/strong>, Virtual Articulation and Kinematic Abstraction in Robotics, (MIT 2009), now at NASA JPL<\/li>\n
- Mac Schwager<\/strong>, A Gradient Optimization Approach to Multi-Robot Control, (MIT 2009), now at Faculty at Stanford University<\/li>\n
- Ara Knaian<\/strong>, The Electropermanent Magnet: Design and Applications to Programmable Matter, (MIT 2010, jointly supervised with Neil Gershenfeld), now an entrepreneur<\/li>\n
- Carrick Detweiler<\/strong>, Adaptive Decentralize Control of Underwater Sensor Networks for Modeling Water Phenomena, (MIT 2010), now Faculty at University of Nebraska, Lincoln<\/li>\n
- Elizabeth Basha<\/strong>, In-Situ Prediction on Sensor Networks Using Distributed Multiple Linear Regression Models, (MIT 2010), now Faculty at University of the Pacific<\/li>\n
- Jan Stumpf<\/strong> (now at Intel Deutschland GmbH, Germany)<\/li>\n
- Andrew Sugaya<\/strong> (now at Upskill)<\/li>\n
- Ryan Schoen<\/strong> (now at Google Research)<\/li>\n
- Justin Werfel <\/strong>(now Senior Research Scientist at Harvard University)<\/li>\n
- Sarah Bates<\/strong><\/li>\n
- Adrienne Bolger <\/strong>(now Senior Research Scientist at Harvard University)<\/li>\n
- Anna Derbakova <\/strong>(now at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)<\/li>\n
- Kenneth Donahue<\/strong><\/li>\n
- Daniel Gurdan<\/strong><\/li>\n
- Jeff Hoff<\/strong><\/li>\n
- Alex Hornstein<\/strong><\/li>\n
- Todd Layton<\/strong><\/li>\n
- David Moore<\/strong><\/li>\n
- Peter Osagie<\/strong><\/li>\n
- Philipp Russ<\/strong><\/li>\n
- Lauren White<\/strong><\/li>\n
- Stefan Sosnowski<\/strong><\/li>\n
- Kyle Gilpin<\/strong> Shape Formation by Self-Disassembly in Programmable Matter Systems, (MIT 2012), now at TemperatureAlert<\/li>\n
- Brian Julian<\/strong>, Mutual Information-based Gradient Ascent Control for Distributed Robotics, (MIT 2013), now at Google Research<\/li>\n
- Sejoon Lim<\/strong>, Congestion-Aware Traffic Routing for Large-Scale Mobile Agent Systems, (MIT 2012), now Faculty at Kookmin University, Korea<\/li>\n
- Marek Doniec<\/strong>, Autonomous Data Muling Using Optical Wireless Communication and Agile Control, (MIT 2013), now at Proprietary Trading Startup<\/li>\n
- Seung-Kook Yun<\/strong>, Decentralized Coordination for Manufacturing: Algorithms and Systems, (MIT 2010), now at Aurora<\/li>\n
- Stephanie Gil<\/strong>, Adaptive Communication Networks for Heterogeneous Teams of Robots, (MIT 2014), now Faculty at Harvard University<\/li>\n
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