Members

Director

Bernadette Bucher

Bernadette is an Assistant Professor in the Robotics Department (primary) and Computer Science and Engineering Department (by courtesy) at the University of Michigan. Prior to her current position, she worked at the Robotics and AI Institute (previously the Boston Dynamics AI Institute), NVIDIA Research, and Lockheed Martin Corporation. Bernadette received her PhD in Computer Science and M.S.E in Robotics at University of Pennsylvania. She also received an M.A. in Mathematics, M.A. in Economics, and B.S. in Mathematics and Economics from The University of Alabama.

PhD Students

Katrina Ashton

University of Pennsylvania CIS, co-advised by Kostas Daniilidis

Aditya Pratap Singh

University of Michigan CSE

Chahyon Ku

University of Michigan Robotics

Anton Arapin

University of Michigan CSE

Gan Zhen Hao

University of Michigan Robotics

A*STAR National Science PhD Scholarship

Julianne Barteck

University of Michigan Robotics, co-advised by Nima Fazeli

Rackham Merit Fellowship

An Dang

University of Michigan Robotics, co-advised by Nima Fazeli

Master's Students

Aparajito Saha

University of Michigan Robotics

Sanyam Mehta

University of Michigan Robotics

Jinjia Guo

University of Michigan Robotics

Aileen Yan

University of Michigan ECE

Kornvik Tanpipat

University of Michigan Robotics

Saumit Vedula

University of Michigan Robotics

Undergraduate Students

Raj Virginkar

University of Michigan CSE and Robotics

Chenrui Gao

University of Michigan Robotics

Mason Shields

University of Michigan CSE

Alumni

Masters Students

Sydney Belt (2025), Software Development Engineer - Apple

Jeremy Acheampong (2025), U.S. Army Officer - Army National Guard

Shrey Shah (2025), Software Engineer - Perception and Localization at General Motors

Basavasagar (Sagar) Patil (2025), PhD at UC Irvine

Jacob Skwirsk (2025), Robotics Engineer - Pattern Labs

Xiangbo (Barry) Gao (2024), PhD at Texas A&M

Robots and Mascots

Spot

aka G.O.O.S.E. (GlOriously Optimized Spot for Embodied intelligence )

Goose

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