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Faculty

Russ Tedrake Professor

Graduate Students

	Abhinav Agarwal Ph.D. candidate, EECS		Alexandre Amice Ph.D. candidate, EECS
	Shao Yuan Chew Chia Ph.D. candidate, EECS		Tommy Cohn Ph.D. candidate, EECS
	Bernhard Paus Graesdal Ph.D. candidate, EECS		Rebecca Jiang Ph.D. candidate, Aero/Astro
	Nicholas Pfaff Ph.D. candidate, EECS		Adam Wei Ph.D. candidate, EECS
	Lujie Yang Ph.D. candidate, EECS

Undergraduate Students

	Rohan Bosworth MIT UROP		Lexi Foland EECS UROP
	Margulan Ismoldayev EECS UROP		Lihan Teng EECS UROP
	Michael Zeng EECS UROP

Staff

Mieke Moran Administrative Assistant

Alumni/Former Group Members

Amir Ali Ahmadi	Postdoctoral Associate. Now faculty at Princeton.
Andy Barry	Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (2015). Now at Boston Dynamics.
Katie Byl	Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering (2008). Now faculty in Control Systems at UCSB.
Boyuan Chen	Ph.D. in EECS (2025). Now at OpenAI.
Glen Chou	Postdoctoral Associate Now faculty at GA Tech
Rick Cory	Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (2010). Now at the Toyota Research Institute.
Hongkai Dai	Ph.D. in EECS (2016). Now at the Toyota Research Institute.
Robin Deits	Ph.D. in EECS (2018). Now at Boston Dynamics.
Danny Dreiss	Visiting Ph.D. student (2020). TU Berlin/Max-Planck.
Maurice Fallon	Research Scientist and Perception Lead for the DARPA Robotics Challenge Now faculty at Oxford
Pete Florence	Ph.D. in EECS (2019). Now at Google Brain.
Evelyn Fu	M.Eng. in EECS (2025). Now at NVidia.
Wei Gao	Ph.D. in EECS (2021).
Shruti Garg	M.Eng. in EECS (2025). Now at UPenn.
Elena Glassman	Graduate student Now faculty at Harvard
Abhishek Gupta	Postdoctoral Associate Now faculty at U Washington
Woody Hoburg	Research Staff Now faculty in MIT Aero/Astro (on leave to join NASA as an astronaut!).
Vanessa Hsu Chen	M.Eng in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2007
Fumiya Iida	Postdoctoral Associate. Now faculty at the University of Cambridge.
Greg Izatt	Ph.D. in EECS (2022). Now at Boston Dynamics
Zack Jackowski	Masters in Mechanical Engineering, 2011 Now Senior Engineer at Boston Dynamics.
J. Zico Kolter	Postdoctoral Associate Now faculty at Carnegie Mellon Computer Science Department.
Twan Koolen	Ph.D. in EECS (2019). Now at Boston Dynamics
Scott Kuindersma	Postdoc and Control Lead for DARPA Robotics Challenge Now at Boston Dynamics.
Andy Lambert	M.Eng. in EECS (2023)
Benoit Landry	Masters in EECS (2015) Now a PhD student at Stanford.
Michael Levashov	Masters in Aero/Astro (2011)
Yunzhu Li	Ph.D. in EECS (2022) Now faculty at UIUC.
Anirudha Majumdar	PhD in EECS (2016) Now faculty at Princeton.
Ian Manchester	Research Scientist Now faculty at the University of Sydney.
Lucas Manuelli	Ph.D. in EECS (2020) Now at NVidia Research.
Andy Marchese	Postdoctoral Associate Now at Amazon Robotics.
Tobia Marcucci	Ph.D. in EECS Now at Amazon Robotics; soon to be faculty at UCSB
Pat Marion	Ph.D. candidate in EECS Now at Boston Dynamics.
Kojiro Matsushita	Postdoctoral Associate Now faculty at Osaka University Medical School.
Geronimo Mirano	Masters in EECS (2017)
Kanako Miura	Visiting Researcher from AIST.
Joseph Moore	Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering (2014). Now at Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab.
Savva Morozov	M.Eng. in EECS (2025). Currently at Amazon Robotics.
Katy Muhlrad	M.Eng. in EECS (2019). Now at Boston Dynamics
Ryuma Niiyama	Postdoctoral Associate. Now Assistant Professor at U Tokyo.
Matt O'Kelly	Visiting Student. Now Research Scientist at Waymo.
Tao Pang	Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering (2023). Now at BD AI Institute.
Mark Petersen	Ph.D. in Engineering Sciences from Harvard (2023). Now at Boston Dynamics
Steve Proulx	Research Staff Now at Dexai Robotics.
Frank Permenter	Now at the Toyota Research Institute
Rob Platt	Research Scientist Now faculty at Northeastern University
Michael Posa	Ph.D. in EECS (2017). Now faculty at U Penn
Philipp Reist	Ph.D. Candidate Now at ETH Zurich.
John W. Roberts	Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering (2012). Now at Google X
Alberto Rodriguez	Postdoctoral Associate Now faculty at MIT in Mechanical Engineering.
Khashayar Rohanimanesh	Postdoctoral Associate Now senior research scientist at eBay research.
Sadra Sadraddini	Postdoctoral Associate Now at Dexai Robotics..
Aykut Satici	Postdoctoral Associate Now faculty at Boise State.
Samvaran Sharma	M. Eng in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (2013). Now at Microsoft.
Shen Shen	Ph.D. in EECS (2020). Now lecturer at MIT.
Alexander Shkolnik	Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (2010). Now President and CEO of Liquid Piston.
Max Simchowitz	Postdoctoral Associate Now faculty at CMU
Ria Sonecha	M.Eng. in EECS (2023) Now at Applied Intuition
Terry Suh	Ph.D. in EECS (2024) Now at a startup.
Michelle Tan	M.Eng in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (2021). Now at Applied Intuition
Vincent Tjeng	M.Eng in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (2018). Now at Cruise
Mark Tobenkin	Ph.D. in EECS (2014). Now at Cruise.
Jack Umenberger	Postdoctoral Associate Now lecturer at Oxford.
Andres Valenzuela	Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering (2015). Now at the Toyota Research Institute.
Ram Vasudevan	Postdoctoral Associate Now faculty at the University of Michigan.
Robert Verkuil	M.Eng. in EECS (2018).
David von Wrangel	M.Eng. in EECS (2024). Now founder at Evolve Robotics.
Lirui Wang	Ph.D. in EECS (2024). Now at OpenAI.
Albert Wu	M.Eng. in EECS (2020). Now at Stanford.
Kaiqing Zhang	Postdoctoral Associate Now faculty at U Maryland.
Christina Yu	M.Eng. in EECS (2025)	Now at 1x
Kathy Bates	Administrative Assistant Now enjoying retirement in sunny South Carolina
Bryt Bradley	Administrative lead on DARPA Robotics Challenge
Mark Pearrow	Research Staff
Alexander Amini	EECS SuperUROP
Andrew Baines	MechE UROP
David Benhaim	EECS UROP
Erika Bildsten	MechE UROP
Gerardo Bledt	Summer visitor
Mario Bollini	EECS UROP
Ned Burnell	MechE UROP
Cecilia Cantu	MechE UROP
Cyndia Cao	MechE UROP
Guilherme Cavalcanti	Visiting student from Olin College, Summer 2006
Shreya Chaudhary	EECS UROP
Olivier Chatot	EECS UROP. Now at Google Tokyo (Schaft)
Alexander Chen	EECS SuperUROP
Phil Cherner	EECS UROP
Paula Countouris	MechE UROP
Alexander Dunyak	Visiting summer student
Danny Driess	Visiting student from TU Munich
Andres El-Fakdi Sencianes	Visiting student from the University of Girona, Spain
Moritz Fischer-Gundlach	Visiting student from T.U. Delft
Ming-fai Fong	MechE UROP
Garratt Gallagher	Research Staff
John Glowa	MechE UROP
Aditya Gopalan	EECS UROP
Courtney Guo	EECS UROP
Sarah Hensley	EECS SuperUROP
Sara Itani	EECS UROP
Tim Jenks	MechE UROP
Mina Khan	Summer visitor
Mike Kerekes	MechE UROP
Veronica Lane	EECS SuperUROP
Audrey Lee	EECS SuperUROP
Connor McCann	Summer intern
Philip J Murzynowski	EECS UROP
Puneeth Meruva	EECS UROP
Andrew Meyer	EECS UROP
Will Oursler	EECS UROP
Matt O'Kelly	Visiting student.
Michael Price	EECS UROP
Hodaya Propp	Summer visitor
Amy Qian	MechE UROP
Arlis Reynolds	MechE UROP
Chris Rogers	EECS UROP
Jacob Steinhardt	EECS UROP
Chris Sweeney	EECS SuperUROP
Hans Susilo	EECS MEng. Now at Waymo.
Patricia Suriana	EECS UROP
Derrick Tan	MechE UROP
Tristan Thrush	EECS UROP
Tim Villabona	MechE UROP
Scott Viteri	UROP
Maggie Wang	Harvard UROP
Lauren White	EECS UROP
Teresa Weirui Zhang	MechE UROP