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.