Current PhD Students

• Frank Broz (Robotics) is investigating human-robot social interaction for the Social Robots project (co-advised with Illah Nourbakhsh).

• Brennan Sellner (Robotics) is investigating multi-robot planning ("helpful planning") for the Trestle project.

• Rachel Gockley (Robotics) is investigating human-robot spatial interaction (co-advised with Jodi Forlizzi).

• Marek Michalowski (Robotics) is investigating human-robot rhythmic interaction.

• Laura Hiatt (Computer Science) is investigating distributed multi-robot planning and scheduling for the Trestle project.

• Nicholas Melchior (Robotics) is investigating learning from observation for the Trestle project.

Masters Students

Past PhD Students

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

• 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 a researcher at Carnegie Mellon University.

• 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 Ames.

• 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.

• 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

• Jun-Young Kwak will be starting a PhD program at USC in Fall 2008.

• Grama Srinivasan