Principal Investigator

Hao Zhang

Hao Zhang

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

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

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


Li Chen

Li Chen

Ph.D. student in CS

B.S. in Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, 2020

Research interests: multirobot collaboration, multirobot learning, and swarm intelligence


Shauna Choi

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


Suyoung Kang

Suyoung Kang

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

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

Varun T. Shankarappa

Varun T. Shankarappa

M.S. student in CS

Research interests: Robot learning, multimodel learning


Chinmay Pendse

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

Peng Gao
Ph.D., Summer'22, Postdoc, Summer'24
Assistant Professor at NCSU

Sriram Siva

Sriram Siva
Ph.D., Spring'23
Distinguished Postdoc at Army Research Lab (ARL)

Brian Reily

Brian Reily
Ph.D., Spring'21
Roboticist at Army Research Lab (ARL)

Fei Han

Fei Han
Ph.D., Spring'18
Applied Scientist at Amazon Lab126

Xue Yang

Xue Yang
Postdoc, Spring'16
Google


M.S. students:

Min-Hsuan (Samuel) Yeh

Min-Hsuan (Samuel) Yeh
M.S., Spring'23

Nathaniel Gyory

Nathaniel Gyory
M.S. Thesis, Spring'23

Qingzhao Zhu

Qingzhao Zhu
M.S., Summer'22

Alexandra Joseph

Alexandra Joseph
M.S., Spring'22

Evan Lim

Evan Lim
M.S., Spring'21

Kristin Farris

Kristin Farris
M.S., Fall'20

Easton Bornemeier

Easton Bornemeier
M.S., Spring'20

Savannah Paul

Savannah Paul
M.S., Spring'20

Joseph Hankin

Joseph Hankin
M.S., Spring'20

Naveen Shankar Mitikiri

Naveen Shankar Mitikiri
M.S., Summer'20

Ziling Zhang

Ziling Zhang
M.S. Thesis, Fall'19

Zachary Nahman

Zachary Nahman
M.S. Thesis, Fall'19

Saichand Bandarupalli

Saichand Bandarupalli
M.S., Spring'18

Matt Bailey

Matt Bailey
M.S., Spring'17

Ashwin Mathur

Ashwin Mathur
M.S., Spring'17

Tyler Lyons

Tyler Lyons
M.S., Spring'16

Nathan Huff

Nathan Huff
M.S., Spring'15

Undergraduate students:
Eli Ji (2023), Logan Daigler (2021-2022), Mehmet Yilmaz (2020-2021), Nicholas Estoll (2021), Hayden Sather (2021), Ella Gibb (2021), Luc Lafave (2021), Prashasth Satish (2021), Nathan Taylor (2020), Carl Schader (2020), Gazi Mahbub Morshed (2019), Savannah Paul (2019), Huang Wang (2017), Erica A. Holswade (2017), Marie Hetherington (2017), Ross Bunker (2016), Quentin Corich (2016)