Principal Investigator
Director, Human-Centered Robotics Lab
Associate Professor of Computer Science
Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences (CICS)
University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass Amherst)
Core Faculty, Robotics @ UMass Amherst
Ph.D. Students
Williard Joshua Jose
Ph.D. student in CS
B.S. in Electronics and Communications Engineering, University of the Philippines, 2017
Research interests: robot learning and adaptation, robot teaming, and bilevel optimization
Oscar Youngquist
Ph.D. student in CS
M.S. in Computer Science, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2022
B.S. in Computer Science and Computational Science, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, 2020
Research interests: physics-informed robot learning, robot adaptation, lifelong autonomy
Ph.D. student in CS
B.S. in Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, 2020
Research interests: multirobot collaboration, multirobot learning, and swarm intelligence
Seohyun (Shauna) Choi
Ph.D. student in CS
M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology, 2023
B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology, 2021
Research interests: robot learning and adaptation, lifelong autonomy
Ph.D. student in CS
B.S. in Electronics Engineering, Sookmyung Women's University, 2024
Research interests: robot learning and adaptation, lifelong autonomy, multisensory perception
Zihao Deng
M.S./Ph.D. student in CS
B.S. in Computer Science, University of California, Davis, 2022
Research interests: robot teaming, robot adaptation and learning
Master Students
Chinmay Pendse
M.S. student in CS
B.S. in Computer Science, Pennsylvania State University, 2021
B.S. in Data Science, Pennsylvania State University, 2021
Research interests: Multi-robot learning and decision making under uncertainty
HCRL Alumni
Peng Gao
Ph.D., Summer'22, Postdoc, Summer'24
Assistant Professor at NCSU
Sriram Siva
Ph.D., Spring'23
Distinguished Postdoc at Army Research Lab (ARL)
Brian Reily
Ph.D., Spring'21
Roboticist at Army Research Lab (ARL)
Fei Han
Ph.D., Spring'18
Applied Scientist at Amazon Lab126
Xue Yang
Postdoc, Spring'16
Google
M.S. students:
Min-Hsuan (Samuel) Yeh
M.S., Spring'23
Nathaniel Gyory
M.S. Thesis, Spring'23
Qingzhao Zhu
M.S., Summer'22
Alexandra Joseph
M.S., Spring'22
Evan Lim
M.S., Spring'21
Kristin Farris
M.S., Fall'20
Easton Bornemeier
M.S., Spring'20
Savannah Paul
M.S., Spring'20
Joseph Hankin
M.S., Spring'20
Naveen Shankar Mitikiri
M.S., Summer'20
Ziling Zhang
M.S. Thesis, Fall'19
Zachary Nahman
M.S. Thesis, Fall'19
Saichand Bandarupalli
M.S., Spring'18
Matt Bailey
M.S., Spring'17
Ashwin Mathur
M.S., Spring'17
Tyler Lyons
M.S., Spring'16
Nathan Huff
M.S., Spring'15