Faculty

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

PhD:
University of Utah
Master's:
University of Alberta
Bachelor's:
American International University- Bangladesh
Graduate Students
Research Interests:
Human-Robot Interaction, Service Robots, Interactive Machine Learning
Master's:
University of Washington
Bachelor's:
UT Austin

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

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

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

Research Interests:
Human-Robot Interaction, Computational Cognitive Science, Artificial Intelligence
Bachelor's:
University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
Undergraduate and Master's Students

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

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

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

Noah Ponto
MS Student
2022 - 2023
CSE
Research Interests:
Assistive Robotics
Master's & Bachelor's:
University of Washington

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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