Faculty

PhD:
Georgia Institute of Technology
Master's & Bachelor's:
Middle East Technical University
Postdocs and Visitors

Research Interests:
Human-Robot Interaction, 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)
Graduate Students

Research Interests:
Human-Robot Interaction, HRI and Mental Health, Deictic Gestures, Transparency
Master's:
University of Washington
Bachelor's:
Colby College

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

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

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

Tim Adamson
BS Student
2018
Computer Science & Engineering
Research Interests:
Human-Robot Interaction, Teleoperation, Assistive Robotics
Bachelor's:
University of Washington

Timothy Akintilo
PhD Student
2019
Computer Science & Engineering
Research Interests:
Language, Assistive Robotics
Bachelor's:
University of Illinois at Chicago

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

Sonya Alexandrova
PhD Student
2015
Computer Science & Engineering
Research Interests:
Programming by Demonstration, End-User Programming, Human-Robot Interaction
Master's & Bachelor's:
St. Petersburg Academic University

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

Dan Butler
PhD Student
2016
Computer Science & Engineering
Research Interests:
Robotics, Computer Vision, Teleoperation
Master's:
University of Washington
Bachelor's:
Brown University

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

PhD & Master's:
University of Washington

Ben Gardon
BS Student
Computer Science & Engineering
Research Interests:
Robotics, AI, Machine Learning, Computer Vision, NLP, Algorithms

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

Heather Harvey
BS Student
2019
Computer Science & Engineering
Research Interests:
Human-Robot Interaction, Service Robots, End-User Programming

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

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

Sonja Khan
MS Student
2016
Computer Science & Engineering
Research Interests:
Robotics, User Interaction
Master's & Bachelor's:
University of Washington

Xi (Matthew) Liu
MS Student
2018
Computer Science & Engineering
Research Interests:
Computer Vision
Bachelor's:
University of Washington

Research Interests:
Human-Robot Interaction, Robotic Grasping, Motion Planning
Master's:
IIT-Allahabad
Bachelor's:
University of Washington
Sai Harshita Neti
BS Student
2019
Computer Science & Engineering
Research Interests:
Human-Robot Interaction, End-User Programming
Bachelor's:
University of Washington

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

Yu-Tang Peng
MS Student
2018
Computer Science & Engineering
Research Interests:
Robotic perception
Master's & Bachelor's:
University of Washington

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

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

KimYen Truong
BS Student
Computer Science & Engineering
Research Interests:
Personal robot assistants
Bachelor's:
University of Washington

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

Research Interests:
Human-Robot Interaction, Social Robotics, Mental Health, End-user programming interfaces, Affective Computing, HCI, UX Design
Master's:
Oregon State University
Bachelor's:
Wellesley College

Paul Yau
BS Student
Computer Science & Engineering
Research Interests:
Teleoperation, Human-Robot Interaction
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