Resume
Academic Achievements
- Received the IEEE RAS Early Career Award and the NSF CAREER award.
Research Experience
- Worked in the Personal Robotics Lab at CMU and interned at the Digital Human Research Center in Japan, Intel Labs in Pittsburgh, and LAAS-CNRS in France; was an Assistant Professor at WPI from 2012-2016; started as faculty at the University of Michigan in 2016.
Education
- Received a B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Cornell University in 2005, starting robotics work in Hod Lipson's lab; graduated from the Ph.D. program at Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute in 2011, advised by Siddhartha Srinivasa and James Kuffner; completed a post-doc at UC Berkeley in 2012, working with Ken Goldberg and Pieter Abbeel.
Background
- Research interests: Learning and motion planning algorithms, applied to robots in homes, factories, and operating rooms. Professional field: Robotics. Brief introduction: Currently an Associate Professor in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department and the Robotics Department at the University of Michigan.
Miscellany
- Teaching courses include Autonomous Robots, Robot Learning for Planning and Control, Programming for Robotics, Introduction to Algorithmic Robotics, and Motion Planning.