Team

Faculty, Postdocs, and PhD Students

Dieter Fox Faculty Robotics, artificial intelligence

Jesse Zhang Postdoc Robot Learning, Reinforcement Learning, Foundation Models

Marius Memmel PhD Student Robot Learning, Representation Learning, Computer Vision

Arth Shukla PhD Student Embodied AI, Robot Learning, Reinforcement Learning

Helen Wang PhD Student Robotics, Computer Vision, Representation Learning

Ge Yan PhD Student Robotics and Embodied AI

Jiahui (Jim) Yang PhD Student Robot Learning, Motion Planning, Dexterous Manipulation

Haibo Zhao PhD Student Robotic Manipulation, Equivariant Learning, Tactile Perception

Alumni

Postdocs and PhD Students

• Jiafei Duan (PhD, 2026, Assistant Professor at NUS)
• Yi Li (PhD, 2025, xAI)
• Xiangyun Meng (PhD, 2024, Field AI)
• Wentao Yuan (PhD, 2024, Google DeepMind)
• Qiuyu (Zoey) Chen (PhD, 2024)
• Adam Fishman (PhD, 2024, OpenAI)
• Aaron Walsman (PhD, 2023, Postdoc at Harvard)
• Mohit Shridhar (PhD, 2023, Dyson Research)
• Junha Roh (PhD, 2022, Third Wave Automation)
• Karthik Desingh (Postdoc, 2022, Assistant Professor at UMN)
• Christopher Xie (PhD, 2021, Meta Reality Labs)
• Vinitha Ranganeni (PhD student)
• Daniel Gordon (PhD, 2020, Third Wave Automation)
• Matt Schmittle (PhD student)
• Arunkumar Byravan (PhD, 2019, Google DeepMind)
• Tanner Schmidt (PhD, 2019, Meta Reality Labs)
• Franziska Meier (PhD, 2018, Meta AI)
• Connor R. Schenck (PhD, 2018, Google DeepMind)
• Yu Xiang (Postdoc, 2018, Assistant Professor at UT Dallas)
• Luis Puig (Postdoc, 2017, Geomagical Labs)
• Yuyin Sun (PhD, 2016, Amazon)
• Richard Newcombe (Postdoc, 2015, Meta)
• Byron Boots (Postdoc, 2014, Associate Professor at UW)
• Cynthia Matuszek (PhD, 2014, Assistant Professor at UMBC)
• Evan Herbst (PhD, 2014, Amazon)
• Kevin Lai (PhD, 2013, Samsara)
• Marc Deisenroth (Postdoc, 2011, Professor at University College London)
• Lillian Chang (Postdoc 2011, Intel)
• Akin Sisbot (Postdoc 2011, Toyota ITC)
• Jonathan Ko (PhD 2011, Google)
• Brian Ferris (PhD 2011, Google)
• James McLurkin (Postdoc 2008, Assistant Professor, Rice University)
• Hanna Pasula (Postdoc 2005-2006, Google)
• Lin Liao (PhD 2006, Google)
• Donald Patterson (PhD 2005, Assistant Professor, UC Irvine)
• Jeffrey Hightower (PhD 2004, Intel Research Seattle)
• Cody Kwok (PhD 2004, Google)

Masters and Undergraduates

• Haoquan Fang (Undergrad, 2026, PhD student at Stanford)
• Carter Ung (Undergrad, 2026, PhD student at Johns Hopkins)
• Vladimir Korukov (Undergrad, 2016)
• Peter Henry (MS, 2015, Skydio)
• Michael Krainin (MS 2012, Google)
• Ravi Kiran (MS 2006, UW CSE)
• Julie Letchner (MS 2006, UW CSE)
• Benson Limketkai (MS 2006, UW CSE)
• Benjamin Stewart (MS 2004, MarchEx)
• Kevin Sikorski (MS 2004, Coroware)