Alumni
| Name | Former Position/Degree | Adviser(s) | Graduated | Next or Current Position |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| David Burns | PhD | J. Edward Colgate, Michael Peshkin | 2023 | Product Development Engineer at Littelfuse |
| Petras Swissler | PhD | Michael Rubenstein | 2022 | Assistant Professor, New Jersey Institute of Technology |
| Taosha Fan | PhD | Todd Murphey | 2022 | N/A |
| Tem Gebrekristos | Masters | Brenna Argall | 2022 | N/A |
| Deepak Gopinath | PhD | Brenna Argall | 2022 | N/A |
| Rebecca Abbott | PhD | Todd Murphey, James Elliott | 2021 | N/A |
| Roman V. Grigorii | PhD | J. Edward Colgate, Michael Peshkin | 2021 | Senior Software DSP engineer at Tarana Wireless |
| Georgios Mamakoukas | PhD | Todd Murphey | 2021 | N/A |
| Ana Pervan | PhD | Todd Murphey | 2021 | N/A |
| Hanlin Wang | PhD | Michael Rubenstein | 2021 | N/A |
| Heng Xu | PhD | J. Edward Colgate, Michael Peshkin | 2021 |
N/A |
| Ian Abraham | PhD | Todd Murphey, Mitra Hartmann | 2020 |
N/A |
| Katie Fitzsimons | PhD | Todd Murphey | 2020 |
N/A |
| Rebecca Friesen | PhD | J. Edward Colgate, Michael Peshkin | 2020 |
Assistant Professor at Texas A&M |
| Sophia Huang | Masters | J. Edward Colgate, Michael Peshkin | 2020 |
Consultant at Oliver Wyman |
| Evan Li | Masters | J. Edward Colgate, Michael Peshkin | 2020 |
UX Engineer at CapsuleTech |
| Christopher Miller | Masters | Brenna Argall | 2020 | N/A |
| Ugurcan Mugan | Postdoc | Malcolm A. MacIver | 2020 | University of Minnesota |
| Ahalya Prabhakar | PhD | Todd Murphey | 2020 |
N/A |
| Alex Samland | Masters | Todd Murphey | 2020 |
N/A |
| Warren Taylor | Masters | J. Edward Colgate, Michael Peshkin | 2020 |
Brod and Taylor |
| Alexander Broad | PhD | Brenna Argall | 2019 |
Boston Dynamics
|
| Nicholas Bush | PhD | Mitra Hartmann | 2019 |
N/A |
| Siddarth Jain | PhD | Brenna Argall | 2019 |
MERL
|
| Anne En-Tzu Yang | PhD | Mitra J. Z. Hartmann | 2018 | Postdoc at Sorbonne Université (ISIR) |
| Hayley Belli | PhD | Mitra J. Z. Hartmann | 2017 | Postdoc in Biostatistics at NYU |
| Matthew Elwin | PhD | Kevin M. Lynch, Randy Freeman | 2017 | N/A |
| Anastasia Mavrommati | PhD | Todd Murphey | 2017 | Schlumberger Doll Research Center |
| Michael Salvato | N/A | Mitra J. Z. Hartmann | 2017 | Graduate student at Stanford University |
| Craig Shultz | PhD | J. Edward Colgate, Michael Peshkin | 2017 | Engineer at Tanvas |
| Emmanouil Tzorakoleftherakis | PhD | Todd Murphey | 2017 | Mathworks |
| Gerardo De La torre | Postdoc | Todd Murphey | 2016 | Northrop Grumman |
| Sandra Fang | Masters | Malcolm A. MacIver, Michael Peshkin | 2016 | Optical Engineer, Adsys Controls Inc |
| Matthew Graff | PhD | Mitra J. Z. Hartmann | 2016 | Exponent |
| Lucie Huet | PhD | Mitra J. Z. Hartmann | 2016 | Apple |
| Pravin Kumarappan | Masters | Mitra J. Z. Hartmann | 2016 | Employee at Vantiv |
| Joe Mullenbach | PhD | J. Edward Colgate, Michael Peshkin | 2016 | Senior Mechanical Engineer / Project Manager at Tanvas |
| Allie Salomon | Undergraduate | Malcolm A. MacIver | 2016 | Mechanical Engineer at Fresenius Kabi |
| Alex Ansari | PhD | Todd Murphey | 2015 | Postdoc at Carnegie Mellon University |
| Yang Bai | PhD | Malcolm A. MacIver, Michael Peshkin | 2015 | Applied Researcher at eBay |
| Kathrin Flaßkamp | Postdoc | Todd Murphey | 2015 | Postdoc in Optimization and Optimal Group, U of Bremen |
| Yang Gao | Masters | J. Edward Colgate, Michael Peshkin | 2015 | Tesla Motors |
| Yu-Wei Liao | PhD | Kevin M. Lynch | 2015 | Robotics and Algorithm Engineer, Intel Corporation |
| David Meyer | PhD | J. Edward Colgate, Michael Peshkin | 2015 | Senior Haptic Architect at Tanvas |
| Lauren Miller | PhD | Todd Murphey | 2015 | Senior Software Engineer at Marble |
| Izaak Neveln | PhD | Malcolm A. MacIver | 2015 | Postdoc at Georgia Tech |
| Ben Richardson | Masters | J. Edward Colgate, Michael Peshkin | 2015 | Engineer at Epic Systems Corporation |
| Andrew Wilson | PhD | Todd Murphey | 2015 | Robotics and Control Engineer at Intuitive Sugical |
| Aliza Abraham | Undergraduate | Malcolm A. MacIver | 2014 | Graduate student, MIT |
| Adam Barber | Masters | Kevin M. Lynch | 2014 | Application Support Engineer, Mathworks |
| Gus Domel | Undergraduate | J. Edward Colgate | 2014 | PhD Student, Harvard University |
| Jennifer Hobbs | PhD | Mitra J. Z. Hartmann | 2014 | Senior Data Scientist at STATS |
| Steven Manuel | PhD | J. Edward Colgate, Michael Peshkin | 2014 | Senior Mechanical Engineer at AREVO Inc |
| Bradley Patterson | PhD | Malcolm A. MacIver | 2014 | N/A |
| Scott Schaper | Undergraduate | Malcolm A. MacIver | 2014 | Manufacturing Engineer at Deublin Company |
| Eric Schearer | PhD | Kevin M. Lynch | 2014 | Faculty, Cleveland State University |
| Jarvis Schultz | PhD | Todd Murphey | 2014 | Northwestern Univ., Assoc. Director of MS in Robotics |
| Vlad Seghete | PhD | Todd Murphey | 2014 | Data Scientist at Datascope Analytics |
| Michael Wiertlewski | Postdoc | J. Edward Colgate | 2014 | CNRS Researcher, Institute Etienne-Jules Marey |
| Zishuo Bai | Masters | Michael Peshkin | 2013 | Project Engineer, Illinois Tool Works |
| Rahul Bale | PhD | Malcolm A. MacIver | 2013 | Postdoc at Northwestern University |
| Tim Caldwell | PhD | Todd Murphey | 2013 | Self-Driving Car Software Engineer at Zoox Inc. |
| Julian Corona | Masters | Kevin M. Lynch | 2013 | Powertrain R&D at Ford Motor Company |
| Lien Hoffmann | Masters | Kevin M. Lynch | 2013 | Mechanical Engineer at iRobot |
| Ann Kim | Undergraduate | Mitra J. Z. Hartmann | 2013 | N/A |
| Justin Panhans | Masters | Kevin M. Lynch | 2013 | N/A |
| Tommaso Proietti | Visiting Scholar | Kevin M. Lynch | 2013 | PhD Candidate in Robotics Engr., UPMC - Sorbonne Univ. |
| Ji-Chul Ryu | Postdoc | Kevin M. Lynch | 2013 | Asst. Professor, Northern Illinois University |
| Chris Schroeder | PhD | Mitra J. Z. Hartmann | 2013 | Interface Engineer at Epic |
| Patrick Shanley | Masters | Mitra J. Z. Hartmann | 2013 | Director of Quality Mgmt. at Advanced Cooling Therapy |
| Yiming Shi | Masters | Mitra J. Z. Hartmann | 2013 | N/A |
| Yonatan Silverman | Masters | Malcolm A. MacIver | 2013 | Nuclear Power Division at Sargent & Lundy |
| James Snyder | PhD | Malcolm A. MacIver | 2013 | Senior Engineer at Global Satellite Engineering |
| Wenzeng Zhang | Visiting Scholar | Kevin M. Lynch | 2013 | Associate Professor at Tsinghua University |
| Elliot Johnson | PhD | Todd Murphey, Michael Peshkin | 2012 | Research Engineer, Southwest Research Institute |
| Andrew Kessler | Undergraduate | Kevin M. Lynch | 2012 | Lead Embedded Engineer at EaglePicher Technologies LLC, |
| Yoke Peng Leong | Masters | Todd Murphey | 2012 | MathWorks |
| Mark Locascio | PhD | Mitra J. Z. Hartmann | 2012 | Project Engineer, DMC Inc. |
| Yan Man | Masters | Mitra J. Z. Hartmann | 2012 | Co-founder MeterGenius |
| David Pekarek | Postdoc | Todd Murphey | 2012 | Data Tactics |
| Samhitha Poonacha | Masters | Kevin M. Lynch | 2012 | Control Systems Engineer at GE Global Research |
| Brian Quist | PhD | Mitra J. Z. Hartmann | 2012 | Consultant at The Boston Consulting Group |
| Elliott Rouse | PhD | N/A | 2012 | Asst. Prof. at Michigan |
| Benjamin Tovar | Postdoc | Todd Murphey | 2012 | Research Software Engineer at Univ. of Notre Dame |
| Tom Vose | PhD | Kevin M. Lynch | 2012 | MathWorks |
| Dan Johnson | Masters | 2011 | Mechanical Engineer at Worrell, Inc. | |
| Andy Long | Masters | Kevin M. Lynch | 2011 | Data Scientist at Fresenius Medical Care North America |
| Fabio Morbidi | Postdoc | N/A | 2011 | Faculty, Université de Picardie Jules Verne |
| Matt Travers | PhD | Todd Murphey | 2011 | Project Scientist at Carnegie Mellon University |
| Jake Ware | Masters | N/A | 2011 | Robotics Software Engineer, Robust Robotics Group, MIT |
| Georg Baetz | Visiting Scholar | Kevin M. Lynch | 2010 | N/A |
| Jason Cerundolo | Masters | N/A | 2010 | Senior Hardware Engineer at Synaptics |
| Oscar M. Curet | PhD | N/A | 2010 | Faculty, Florida Atlantic University |
| Philip Dames | Undergraduate | Kevin M. Lynch | 2010 | Asst. Prof. at Temple University |
| Jon Haack | Masters | N/A | 2010 | N/A |
| Nick Marchuk | Masters | Michael Peshkin | 2010 | Senior Lecturer, Northwestern University |
| Fabio Ruggiero | Visiting Scholar | Kevin M. Lynch | 2010 | Postdoc at University of Naples Federico II |
| Mary Wu | Masters | N/A | 2010 | Research Engineer at Northwestern University |
| Gabriel Augirre-Ollinger | PhD | N/A | 2009 | Researcher, University of Technology, Sydney |
| Erik Chubb | Masters | N/A | 2009 | Controls and Systems Engineering at Makani Power |
| Keehoon Kim | Postdoc | N/A | 2009 | Senior Research Scientist, Korea Inst Science & Tech |
| James Sulzer | PhD | N/A | 2009 | Faculty, University of Texas at Austin |
| Matt Turpin | Undergraduate | N/A | 2009 | PhD student, University of Pennsylvania |
| Mike Hwang | Masters | N/A | 2008 | SpaceX |
| Evren Samur | Visiting Scholar | N/A | 2008 | Faculty, Boğaziçi University |
| Mario Schirru | Visiting Scholar | Michael Peshkin | 2008 | Investment Manager at Capital Stage AG |
| Anup Shirgaonkar | Postdoc | N/A | 2008 | Strategist at NRG Energy |
| David Weir | PhD | N/A | 2008 | Sr. Systems Analysis Engineer, Intuitive Surgical |
| Laura Winfield | Masters | N/A | 2008 | Priority Designs Inc. |
| Peng Yang | PhD | Kevin M. Lynch | 2008 | Senior Analyst at China Investment Corporation |
| Laura Alexander | Masters | N/A | 2007 | Engineer at Priority Designs |
| Vikram Chib | PhD | N/A | 2007 | Asst. Professor, Johns Hopkins |
| Brian DeJong | PhD | N/A | 2007 | Faculty, Central Michigan University |
| Aaron Ferber | Masters | N/A | 2007 | Senior Project Leader at IDEO |
| Kyle Reed | PhD | Michael Peshkin | 2007 | Faculty, University of South Florida |
| Adolfo Rodriguez | Visiting Scholar | N/A | 2007 | Senior Robotics Engineer at PAL Robotics |
| James Solberg | PhD | Malcolm A. MacIver | 2007 | HDT Robotics, Evanston |
| Matt Tanke | Undergraduate | N/A | 2007 | Intellectual Property Atty., Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman |
| Luke van Adrichem | Visiting Scholar | N/A | 2007 | Engineering Manager at Temporary Works Design |
| Tom Worsnopp | Masters | N/A | 2007 | Festo |
| Jay Bernheisel | PhD | N/A | 2006 | Assoc. Professor, Union University |
| Alex Birdwell | Masters | N/A | 2006 | Asst. Prof. of Instruction at Northwestern |
| Matthieu Chardon | Masters | N/A | 2006 | BME PhD Candidate, Northwestern University |
| Michael Epstein | PhD | N/A | 2006 | N/A |
| Eviatar Frankel | Undergraduate | N/A | 2006 | Consultant at The Chartis Group |
| John Glassmire | Masters | J. Edward Colgate | 2006 | Senior Engineer at HOMER Energy |
| Jason Kozmic | Masters | N/A | 2006 | Sr. Mech. Engineer, Chemring Energetic Devices |
| Peng Pan | PhD | N/A | 2006 | Software Engineer at ADM Investor Services |
| Tanya Schlusser | PhD | N/A | 2006 | Senior Consultant, Clarity Solution Group |
| Ben Stephens | Undergraduate | Kevin M. Lynch | 2006 | Boston Dynamics/Google |
| Mike Taylor | N/A | N/A | 2006 | Product Support at Caterpillar Trimble Joint Venture |
| Eric Faulring | PhD | N/A | 2005 | HDT Robotics, Evanston |
| Erick Haro | Masters | N/A | 2005 | N/A |
| Dave Choi | Undergraduate | N/A | 2004 | N/A |
| Prasun Choudhury | PhD | Kevin M. Lynch | 2004 | R&D Engineer at Apple |
| Ade Gordon | Masters | J. Edward Colgate | 2004 | Support Engineer, Northrop Grumman |
| Jim Lipsey | N/A | N/A | 2004 | Engineer, Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago |
| Josh Mehling | Masters | N/A | 2004 | Robotics Engineer at NASA |
| Mark Salada | PhD | J. Edward Colgate | 2004 | Systems Analyst, Intuitive Surgical |
| Dodge Daverman | N/A | N/A | 2003 | Robotics Institute at CMU |
| Fabien Defays | N/A | N/A | 2003 | U. of Liege, Belgium |
| Thomas Gengenbach | N/A | N/A | 2003 | Peace Corps |
| David Hannon | Undergraduate | N/A | 2003 | N/A |
| Intan Suraya Hashim | N/A | N/A | 2003 | N/A |
| Songho Kim | PhD | N/A | 2003 | Raytheon |
| Cassandra Bailey | N/A | N/A | 2002 | Hamilton Sundstrand |
| Andrik Cardenas | Undergraduate | N/A | 2002 | Ford Motors |
| Seth Gazes | Undergraduate | Kevin M. Lynch | 2002 | Deloitte Consulting - Life Sciences and Healthcare |
| Meg Lee | Undergraduate | N/A | 2002 | WDHB Consulting Group |
| Jeff Lutsey | Undergraduate | N/A | 2002 | Stanford |
| Charu Makkar | Visiting Scholar | N/A | 2002 | N/A |
| Chris Moskaties | N/A | N/A | 2002 | N/A |
| Boy Eng Seng | N/A | N/A | 2002 | University of Singapore |
| Kerry Shiels | Undergraduate | N/A | 2002 | N/A |
| Stanley Tsao | Undergraduate | N/A | 2002 | PhD Electrical Engineering, Northwestern University |
| Mike Brokowski | Masters | Michael Peshkin | 2001 | N/A |
| Traveler Hauptman | Masters | J. Edward Colgate | 2001 | Founder and Principal Engineer at MechAdept |
| William Hoffmann | Undergraduate | N/A | 2001 | N/A |
| Dan Kluk | Undergraduate | N/A | 2001 | Moog, Space Products |
| Carl Moore | PhD | N/A | 2001 | Faculty, Florida State College of Engineering |
| Tanya Tickel | N/A | N/A | 2001 | Gas Technology Institute |
| Ryan Wiechens | Undergraduate | N/A | 2001 | MIT/Lincoln Laboratory |
| Marcelo Yambay | Masters | N/A | 2001 | Fiat |
| Michelle Anderson | N/A | N/A | 2000 | Northrop Grumman Corporation |
| Caizhen Liu | Masters | Kevin M. Lynch | 2000 | General Atomics |
| Brian Miller | PhD | J. Edward Colgate | 2000 | Intuitive Surgical Inc. |
| Arvind Narayan | Masters | N/A | 2000 | N/A |
| Bernie Reger | PhD | N/A | 2000 | Software Lead for the U.S. Dept. of Defense |
| Allan Sorensen | Visiting Scholar | N/A | 2000 | Methodica Capital |
| Etienne Burdet | Postdoc | J. Edward Colgate | 1999 | Professor in Human Robotics, Imperial College London |
| Donald Cantrell | Masters | N/A | 1999 | Motorola |
| Brent Gillespie | Postdoc | N/A | 1999 | Faculty, University of Michigan |
| Andy Lorenz | Masters | N/A | 1999 | Systems Engineer at Johnson Welded Products |
| Mike Northrop | Masters | Kevin M. Lynch | 1999 | Agilent Technologies |
| Harry Pearce | Masters | N/A | 1999 | GM |
| Amadou Sanankoua | Undergraduate | N/A | 1999 | Boston Consulting Group |
| Witaya Wannasuphoprasit | PhD | N/A | 1999 | Asst. Prof, Chulalongkorn U |
| Craig Black | Masters | Kevin M. Lynch | 1998 | Pensar Development, Seattle WA |
| Mike Brown | PhD | N/A | 1998 | Senior Project Engineer, Vision at Intuitive Surgical |
| Alexander Klein | N/A | N/A | 1998 | N/A |
| Jon Lea | PhD | N/A | 1998 | Advanced Tech & Clinical Research Mgr, GE Healthcare |
| Aaron Mills | Masters | Michael Peshkin | 1998 | Active Safety & Driver Assist Tech. Specialist, Ford |
| Gregory Bachman | Masters | N/A | 1997 | N/A |
| Chris Kapuscinski | Masters | N/A | 1997 | N/A |
| Mike Stanley | PhD | J. Edward Colgate | 1997 | Swiss Precision Machining |
| Matt Arcy | Masters | N/A | 1996 | Chevron Energy Tech Co. |
| David Burns | Masters | N/A | 1996 | N/A |
| Julio Santos-Munne | Masters | N/A | 1996 | HDT Expeditionary Systems, Inc. |
| Jui-Chang Tsai | PhD | J. Edward Colgate | 1996 | Northern Illinois University |
| Jeff Wiegley | N/A | N/A | 1996 | Asst. Professor, Cal State |
| Gavin Bell | Undergraduate | N/A | 1995 | Z-Kat |
| Ken Grace | PhD | N/A | 1995 | Oak Ridge Labs |
| Paul Millman | PhD | N/A | 1995 | VP, Product Development at Intuitive Surgical Inc. |
| Beeling Chang | Masters | J. Edward Colgate | 1994 | N/A |
| Mackay Okure | PhD | Michael Peshkin | 1994 | Makerere U, Kampala |
| Gerd Schenkel | N/A | J. Edward Colgate | 1994 | National Australia Bank |
| Ambarish Goswami | PhD | N/A | 1993 | Principal Scientist at Honda Research Institute USA |
| Kirsten Laurin-Kovitz | Masters | J. Edward Colgate | 1993 | Argonne National Laboratory |
| Arthur Quaid | Undergraduate | Michael Peshkin | 1993 | MAKO Surgical Corp |
| Ashmedh Sabharwal | Undergraduate | N/A | 1993 | N/A |
| Dane Watkins | Undergraduate | N/A | 1993 | Creative Dane Industries |
| Keith Anderson | Masters | J. Edward Colgate | 1992 | N/A |
| Ed Kuyper | Masters | J. Edward Colgate | 1992 | Intel |
| Hirofumi Matsumoto | PhD | N/A | 1992 | Nippon Mektron, Ltd. |
| Shelly Petronis | Masters | N/A | 1991 | Orthopedic Innovation |
| Joe Schimmels | PhD | N/A | 1991 | Faculty, Marquette University |
| Matt Green | Postdoc | Malcolm A. MacIver | N/A | N/A |
| Yan Yu | N/A | Mitra J. Z. Hartmann | N/A | N/A |