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Pushing the frontiers of Robotics Research
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Daniel Aukes
Assistant Professor, MSN
Develop new tools for designing robots by pairing emerging fabrication techniques and new materials with analytical and simulation-based methods for understanding the behavior of these complex systems.
Design Dynamics Mechatronics Soft-Robotics
Heni Ben Amor
Associate Professor, SCAI
Machine learning methods for teaching motor skills to robots with approaches such as, reinforcement learning, imitation learning, active vision, and learning for human-robot interaction; collaborative human-robot assembly.
Interactive Robotics Laboratory
AI-and-learning Controls Human-Robot Neural Vision
Spring Berman
Associate Professor, SEMTE
Development of scalable control strategies, including bio-inspired controllers, for robotic swarms, distributed human-robot teams, and soft modular robots; design of autonomous robot controllers that mimic responsible human behaviors.
Autonomous Collective Systems Laboratory
Bio-robotics Controls Dynamics Human-Robot
Christopher Buneo
Associate Professor, SBHSE
Focusing on neural mechanisms of multisensory and sensorimotor integration; plasticity and recovery of function; rehabilitation robotics; brain-machine interfaces 5) neuromodulation for enhancing plasticity and sensory perception.
Bio-robotics Neural
Yinong Chen
Teaching Professor, SCAI
Develop Robot as a Service (RaaS) concepts and implementations, visual IoT/Robotics Programming Language Environment (VIPLE) that can be used to program EV3 robots and any open-architecture robots. VIPLE can also be used for teaching computational thinking, workflow, paralell computing, and big data processing.
IoT and Robotics Education Lab
Controls Design
Erin Chiou
Assistant Professor, TPS
Research on human-automation interaction in cognitive tasks, complex systems, safety applications, resilience, cooperation, and trust.
Human-Robot Teaming
Nancy Cooke
Professor, TPS
Research on teamwork, especially human-AI teaming and human-robot teaming. Unobtrusive measurement of system performance. Director, GSI's Center for Human, AI, and Robot Teaming (CHART)
Human-Robot Teaming
Georgios Fainekos
Associate Professor, SCAI
Application of formal methods, logic, and hybrid system theory to autonomous vehicles in order to develop dependable and provably correct systems.
AI-and-learning Controls Dynamics
Pooyan Fazli
Assistant Professor, AME
Research on artificial intelligence, autonomous robots, multi-robot systems, human-robot teaming, and robot learning
AI-and-learning Human-Robot Neural Vision
Nakul Gopalan
Assistant Professor, SCAI
Research at the intersection of robotics, human-robot interaction and natural language grounding. The goal of this research is to develop methods allowing humans to teach robots using natural language and interactions with novice humans users.
AI-and-learning Human-Robot
Subbarao Kambhampati
Professor, SCAI
Planning, decision-making and collaboration in human-aware AI systems, and human-robot teams.
Lina Karam
Professor, ECEE
Research in the areas of Signal, Image, and Video Processing, Computer Vision, Machine Learning/Deep Learning, Perceptual-based Processing, Sensing, Data Compression and Transmission, Human-Systems Integration, Automated Mobility
Image, Video, & Usability (IVU) Lab
AI-and-learning Human-Robot Neural Vision
Hyunglae Lee
Associate Professor, SEMTE
Research on human motor control, physical human-robot interaction, and robot-aided neurorehabilitation.
Neuromuscular Control and Human Robotics Laboratory (NeuroRobotics Lab)
Bio-robotics Controls Design Mechatronics Neural
Thurmon Lockhart
Professor of Biomedical Engineering, SBHSE
Research on the identification of injury mechanisms and movement disorders associated with aging and neurological disorders on falls, biomechanical modeling, nonlinear dynamical systems, human postural control, and gait mechanics
Locomotion Research Laboratory
AI-and-learning Dynamics
Ayan Malik
Assistant Professor, TPS
Working on the design, modelling, control and optimization of power electronic converters, characterizations and applications of wide bandgap (WBG) semiconductors, highly efficient & high-power density solutions for power conversions in the applications of more-electric-aircrafts, electric vehicles, wireless charging and data centers.
Controls Design
Hamid Marvi
Associate Professor, SEMTE
Study fundamental physics behind interactions of biological systems with their surrounding solid, granular, and fluidic environments to develop bio-inspired micro/macro robotic systems.
Bio-robotics Design Dynamics Mechatronics Medical Soft-Robotics
Troy McDaniel
Assistant Professor, MSN
Develop haptic interfaces for human augmentation, sensory substitution, and multimodal integration. Application interests include assistive technology for individuals with disabilities, rehabilitation, and health and wellness.
AI-and-learning Design Human-Robot Mechatronics Vision
Theodore (Ted) Pavlic
Associate Professor, SCAI
Use of methods from optimization, control, dynamics, and behavioral ecology to understand how to build flexible, adaptive decision-making algorithms for single and multi-agent cyber-physical systems.
Science and Engineering of Autonomous Decision-making Systems (SEADS) Lab
AI-and-learning Bio-robotics Controls Dynamics Neural
Sangram Redkar
Associate Professor, MSN
Lifelong learner
Human Machine Integration Laboratory
Bio-robotics Controls Design Mechatronics
Yi (Max) Ren
Assistant Professor, SEMTE
Modeling and integrating human knowledge and intelligence with computational search algorithms for high-dimensional optimal design and control
AI-and-learning Design
Hasti Seifi
Assistant Professor, SCAI
Design of haptic sensing and feedback methods for physical interactions between humans and robots with a focus on user experience, social robotics, and autism therapy.
Touch Experience and Action Learning (TEAL)
AI-and-learning Design Human-Robot
Aviral Shrivastava
Professor, SCAI
Time in Cyber-Physical Systems, Machine Learning, Accelerated Computing, Fault-tolerant Computing.
Siddharth Srivastava
Assistant Professor, SCAI
Principles and applications of sequential decision making under uncertainty in robotics, including mobile manipulation, household robotics and robot asisstants that reason, act and learn over long time horizons to assist humans.
Autonomous Agents and Intelligent Robots (AAIR) Lab
AI-and-learning Controls Human-Robot Neural
Thomas Sugar
Professor, MSN
Develop wearable robotic systems that include prosthetics, orthoses, and exoskeletons. The systems are used in applications for industry, healthcare, and the military.
Human Machine Integration Laboratory
Bio-robotics Controls Design Human-Robot Mechatronics
Zhe Xu
Assistant Professor, SEMTE
Research at the intersection of control theory, formal methods, and reinforcement learning, with applications in robotics, smart buildings, power systems, etc.
AI-and-learning Controls
Yezhou Yang
Associate Professor, SCAI
Cognitive Robotics, Computer Vision, and Robot Vision, especially exploring visual primitives in human action understanding, grounding them by natural language as well as AI reasoning for intelligent robots.
AI-and-learning Human-Robot Neural Vision
Wenlong Zhang
Associate Professor, MSN
Research on dynamic systems and control, wearable robots, soft robots, unmanned aerial vehicles, and human-robot collaboration
Robotics and Intelligent Systems Laboratory
AI-and-learning Controls Human-Robot Mechatronics
Yu(Tony) Zhang
Assistant Professor, SCAI
Research on the intersection of AI and Robotics in order to increase the capacity of both humans and machines by bringing them seamlessly together.
Cooperative Robotic Systems (CRS) laboratory
AI-and-learning Human-Robot
