People

Faculty

Zac Manchester
Assistant Professor

Researchers

Jon Arrizabalaga
Differential Geometry, Optimization and Control

Staff

Aaron Trowbridge
Quantum Optimal Control
Neil Khera
Small Satellite Hardware and Avionics

PhD Students

Kevin Tracy
Optimization and Control
Swaminathan Gurumurthy
Deep Equilibrium Models
Fausto Vega
Small Spacecraft and Navigation
Jeong Hun (JJ) Lee
Swimming Dynamics and Control
Paulo Fisch
Small Satellite Vision and Localization
Mitchell Fogelson
Design and Control Optimization
John Zhang
Optimization and Contact Simulation
Arun Bishop
Contact-rich Optimization and Control
Juan Alvarez Padilla
Learning and Optimization Based Controls
Pedro Cachim
Spacecraft Guidance, Navigation and Control

Masters Students

Ibrahima S. Sow
Optimization and Spacecraft Guidance, Navigation, and Control
Will Kraus
Planning and Control for Legged Robots
Ashley Kline
Small Spacecraft Design and Navigation

Undergraduate Students

Past Undergraduate Students

Alumni

Taylor Howell Google Deepmind
Brian Jackson Albedo Space
Max Holliday NASA Ames
Simon Le Cleac'h Boston Dynamics AI Institute
Jan Bruedigam PhD at TU Munich
Laura Lee Boston Dynamics AI Institute
Remy Derollez Loft Orbital
Jared Blanchard PhD at Stanford
Benjamin Jensen Johns Hopkins APL
Rianna Jitosho Motion Planning for Soft Robots
Ben Bokser Boston Dynamics AI Institute
Shuo Yang Tesla Optimus Humanoid
Chiyen Lee Applied Intuition
Alexander Bouman Dextrous Robotics
Brandon Hung Boston Dynamics AI Institute
Jacob Willis Albedo Space
Sofia Kwok Starfish Space
Zixin Zhang PhD at Northwestern University
Giusy Falcone Assistant Professor at University of Michigan
Khai Nguyen Optimization-based Planning and Control
Sam Schoedel Apptronik
Prakrit Tyagi Optimization and Control
Anoushka Alavilli Ph.D. at CMU
Pedro Andrade Small Satellite Avionics and Control
Tae Rugh startup
Elakhya Nedumaran Optimization-based Control