Faculty

Maya Cakmak

Associate Professor

CSE

Research Interests: Assistive Robotics, Human-Robot Interaction
PhD: Georgia Institute of Technology
Master's & Bachelor's: Middle East Technical University

Graduate Students

Nick Walker

PhD Student
Started in 2018

CSE

Research Interests: Human-Robot Interaction, Service Robots, Interactive Machine Learning
Master's: University of Washington
Bachelor's: UT Austin

Vinitha Ranganeni

PhD Student
Started in 2018

CSE

Research Interests: Assistive Robotics, Motion Planning, Human-Robot Interaction
Master's: University of Washington
Bachelor's: Carnegie Mellon University

Michael Murray

PhD Student
Started in 2019

CSE

Research Interests: Robotics, Computer Vision, NLP, Multimodal Robot Interaction
Master's: University of Washington
Bachelor's: Neumont College of Computer Science

Amal Nanavati

PhD Student
Started in 2019

CSE

Research Interests: Human-Robot Interaction, Robot Learning, Assistive Technologies
Bachelor's: Carnegie Mellon University

Varad Dhat

MS Student
Started in 2023

ME

Research Interests: Human-Robot-Interraction, Computer Vision, Assistive Robotics
Bachelor's: Vishwakarma Institute of Technology, Pune, India

Undergraduate and Master's Students

Noah Ponto

MS Student
Started in 2022

CSE

Research Interests: Assistive Robotics
Master's & Bachelor's: University of Washington

Joe Sluis

BSc Student
Started in 2021

CSE

Research Interests: Assistive Robotics

Brian Yao

BSc Student
Started in 2021

CSE

Research Interests: Assistive Robotics

Alumni

Leah Perlmutter

PhD Student

2016 - 2023

CSE

Research Interests: Computer Science Education, Accessibility
PhD & Master's: University of Washington
Bachelor's: Colby College
Now: Grinnell College

PatrĂ­cia Alves-Oliveira

Postdoc

2020 - 2022

CSE

Research Interests: HRI, Design Research, Creativity, Mental Health
PhD: ISCTE-IUL, INESC-ID, and Cornell University
Master's: University of Aveiro
Bachelor's: Higher Institute of Applied Psychology (ISPA)
Now: University of Michigan

Raida Karim

Undergraduate Student

2020 - 2022

CSE

Research Interests: Social Robotics, Mental Health
Bachelor's: University of Washington

Paola Ardon

Visiting PhD Student

2020

CSE

Research Interests: Manipulation, Assistive Robotics
Master's: Edinburgh Centre for Robotics
Bachelor's: John Brown University

Michael Jae-Yoon Chung

PhD Student

2013 - 2020

CSE

Research Interests: Human-Robot Interaction, End-User Programming
PhD & Master's: University of Washington

Maru Cabrera

Postdoc

2018 - 2020

CSE

Research Interests: Robotics, Human-Robot Interaction, Embodiment, Multimodal Interaction
PhD: Purdue University
Master's & Bachelor's: Simon Bolivar University (Venezuela)
Now: UMass Lowell

Sai Harshita Neti

BSc Student

2017 - 2019

CSE

Research Interests: Human-Robot Interaction, End-User Programming
Bachelor's: University of Washington

Alisa Kalegina

PhD Student

2017 - 2019

CSE

Research Interests: Human-Robot Interaction, Roboethics
Bachelor's: New York City College of Technology and Stony Brook University

Heather Harvey

BSc Student

2017 - 2019

CSE

Research Interests: Human-Robot Interaction, Service Robots, End-User Programming

Mattia Racca

Visiting PhD Student

2019

CSE

Research Interests: Robot learning from humans, interactive learning, human robot interaction
Master's: Aalto University
Bachelor's: Politecnico di Torino
Now: Naver Labs

Justin Huang

PhD Student

2014 - 2018

CSE

Research Interests: End-User Programming, Computer Vision, Mobile Manipulation
PhD & Master's: University of Washington
Bachelor's: University of California, San Diego
Now: JPL

Thomas Weng

Visiting Researcher

2017 - 2018

CSE

Research Interests: Human-Robot Interaction
Bachelor's: Yale University
Now: CMU

Tim Adamson

BSc Student

2017 - 2018

CSE

Research Interests: Human-Robot Interaction, Teleoperation, Assistive Robotics
Bachelor's: University of Washington

Yu-Tang Peng

MS Student

2017 - 2018

CSE

Research Interests: Robotic perception
Master's & Bachelor's: University of Washington

Abhijit Makhal

Visiting Researcher

2017

CSE

Research Interests: Human-Robot Interaction, Robotic Grasping, Motion Planning
Master's: IIT-Allahabad
Bachelor's: University of Washington

Sarah Elliot

PhD Student

2014 - 2017

CSE

Research Interests: Human-Robot Interaction, Programming by Demonstration, Service & Personal Robotics, Robotic Tool Use
Master's: University of Washington
Bachelor's: University of Waterloo
Now: Fetch Robotics

Dan Butler

PhD Student

2011 - 2016

CSE

Research Interests: Robotics, Computer Vision, Teleoperation
Master's: University of Washington
Bachelor's: Brown University

Vivek Paramasivam

MS Student

2015 - 2016

CSE

Research Interests: Computer Science Outreach, Robotics
Master's & Bachelor's: University of Washington

Sonya Alexandrova

PhD Student

2013 - 2015

CSE

Research Interests: Programming by Demonstration, End-User Programming, Human-Robot Interaction
Master's & Bachelor's: St. Petersburg Academic University

Jimmy Baraglia

Visiting Researcher

2015

CSE

Research Interests: Robotics, Human-Robot Interaction
Master's & Bachelor's: Toulouse University

Yasaman Sefidgar

PhD Student

CSE

Research Interests: Human-Computer Interaction, Interactive Machine Learning
Master's: University of British Columbia, Simon Fraser University
Bachelor's: Sharif University of Technology

Robots

Astro

Fetch

Maker: Fetch Robotics
Active Since: October 2016

Baxter

Baxter Research Robot

Maker: Rethink Robotics
Active Since: September 2013

Beamer

Beam+

Maker: Suitable Technologies
Active Since: March 2015

DubDash

Dot Dash

Maker: Wonder Workshop
Active Since: January 2015

Forky

Stretch

Maker: Hello Robot
Active Since: June 2020

Kubi Washington

Kubi Hacker's Edition

Maker: Revolve Robotics
Active Since: November 2013

Misty

Misty I

Maker: Misty Robotics
Active Since: August 2018

Panang

Kuri

Maker: Mayfield Robotics
Active Since: October 2018

Panda

Panda

Maker: Franka Emika
Active Since: September 2018

Rosie

Personal Robot 2 (PR2)

Maker: Willow Garage
Active Since: September 2013

Snoopy

Kuri

Maker: Mayfield Robotics
Active Since: October 2018