People
Director
Full_CV_Oct23_p.pdfDr. Konstantinos Karydis
Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Cooperating Faculty Appointments:
Mechanical Engineering
Computer Science and Engineering
Core Faculty Member:
College of Engineering Center for Environmental Research and Technology (CE-CERT)
Center for Robotics and Intelligent Systems (CRIS)
Office: 347 Winston Chung Hall
Education and Professional Preparation
Postdoctoral Researcher, GRASP Lab, Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania
Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, University of Delaware
Diploma (B.S. & M.S. equivalent), Mechanical Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Postdoctoral Scholars
Dr. Caio Mucchiani
Postdoctoral Researcher
Areas of research: Agricultural Robotics; Wearable Robotics
Ph.D. (Grasping, Manipulation and Assistive Robotics), GRASP Lab (ModLab), Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania
M. Sc., Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania
Dr. Zhichao Liu
Postdoctoral Researcher
Areas of research: Soft/Compliant Robots, Robot Learning
Ph.D. (Soft and Compliant Robotics), Electrical Engineering, University of California, Riverside
M.Sc., Electrical and Systems Engineering, University of Pennsylvania
B.S., Control Technology and Instruments, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications
Graduate Students - PhD
Currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering
Area of research: Legged Locomotion
B.S., Mechatronics, Zhejiang University of Technology
Currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering
Area of research: Autonomous Robot Perception and Navigation
B.Eng., Intelligence Science and Technology, Xidian University
Cody Simons
6th-year PhD student // PhD Candidate
(Co-advised with Prof. Amit Roy-Chowdhury)
Currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering
Area of research: Robot Perception-based Autonomy
B.S., Electrical Engineering, UC Riverside
Currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering
Area of research: Autonomous Robot Navigation
M.Sc. in Computer Science and Engineering, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Technical University of Crete, Chania, Greece
Diploma in Electrical and Computer Engineering, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Technical University of Crete, Chania, Greece
Georgia Kouvoutsakis
3rd-year PhD student
(Co-advised with Prof. Elena Kokkoni)
Currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering
Area of research: Human-robot Interaction
M.Sc. in Advanced Informatics and Computing Systems, School of Computer Science, University of Piraeus, Greece
B.S. in Mathematics, School of Science, University of Patras, Greece
Currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering
Area of research: Autonomous Robot Perception and Navigation
M.Sc., Data Science, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
B.B.A. in Computer Information Systems, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, USA
Currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering
Area of research: Wearable Assistive Robotics
B.S. in Biomedical Engineering (Bioelectric), Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic), Iran
Currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering
Area of research: Agriculture Robotics
B.S. in Computer Engineering, University of California, Riverside
Graduate Students - MS / ME / BS+MS
Jayanta Banik
(co-advised with Dr. Elia Scudiero)
2nd-year MS student
Currently pursuing an MS in Computer Engineering
Area of research: Data Science for Agricultural Systems
Ashok Kumar Jakkula
1st-year MS student
Currently pursuing an MS in Robotics Engineering
Area of research: Autonomous Navigation
Undergraduate Students
Ronald Snyder (EE)
Raymond Tran (ME)
Isean Bhanot (CE)
Connor Claborn (CE)
PhD Alumni
Dr. Xinyue Kan
PhD in Electrical Engineering (2021)
Dissertation: Motion and Task Planning for Mobile Robot Navigation under Uncertainty
Next: DiDi Labs; Software Engineer in Autonomous Driving
Previous education:
M.Sc., Electrical and Systems Engineering, University of Pennsylvania
B.S., Control Technology and Instruments, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications
Dr. Zhouyu Lu
PhD in Electrical Engineering (2022)
Dissertation: An Algorithmic Framework for Joint Collision-Inclusive Motion Planning and Control of Impact-Resilient Mobile Robots Navigating in Partially-Known Environments
Next: BYD; Perception Engineer in Autonomous Driving
Previous education:
B.S., Electrical Engineering and Automation, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Dr. Lu Shi
PhD in Electrical Engineering (2023)
Dissertation: Data-Driven Modeling and Control via Koopman Operator Theory in Robotic Systems
Next: Postdoctoral Researcher in AIR Lab, Tsinghua University
Currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering
Area of research: Learning-based Robot Motion Control
B.Eng., Automation, Xi’an Jiaotong University
Dr. Zhichao Liu
PhD in Electrical Engineering (2023)
Dissertation: Motion Planning and Control of Compliant Autonomous Robots that Leverage Physical Interactions with the Environment
Next: Postdoctoral Researcher in ARCS Lab, University of California, Riverside
Previous education:
M.Sc., Electrical and Systems Engineering, University of Pennsylvania
B.S., Control Technology and Instruments, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications
Dr. Amel Dechemi
Dissertation:
PhD in Electrical Engineering (2023)
Previous education:
Magister in Process Control and Robotics, University of Science and Technology of Houari Boumediane, Algiers, Algeria
Engineering Diploma in Electronics (Process Control), University of Science and Technology of Houari Boumediane, Algiers, Algeria
Alumni MS/ME/BS+MS Students
Tyler Bishop; M.S. in Robotics; Topic Area: Legged Locomotion (design & control)
Yipeng Wang; M.S. in Electrical Engineering; Topic Area: Robot Perception
Tomas Olvera Hale, MS in Robotics; Topic Area: Agricultural Robotics (mechatronics)
Christopher Eng, MS in Robotics; Topic Area: Agricultural Robotics (mechatronics)
Mahmood Shaheen, MS in Robotics; Topic Area: Agricultural Robotics (mechatronics)
Joshua Chen, MS in EE; Topic Area: Agricultural Robotics (machine vision & learning)
Merrick Campbell, MS in EE; Topic Area: Agricultural Robotics (mechatronics & planning)
Vikarn Bhakri, MS in EE; Topic Area: Action Recognition
Gustavo Correa, ME in EE; Topic Area: Mechatronics
Antonio Contreras, BS+MS in EE; Topic Area: Autonomous Systems
Alumni Undergraduate Students
Ali Kattee; ME@UCSD (UC LEADS Fellow); Topic Area: Legged locomotion
Kenneth Chung; Topic Area: Legged locomotion
Audrey Wojcik; BIEN; Topic Area: Assistive robotics
Pamodya Peiris, CE; Topic Area: Assistive robotics -- Joined ARCS Lab as a PhD Student in Spring'23
Kevin Urrutia Avila, EE; Topic Area: Agricultural robotics
Zion Gutierrez, EE; Topic Area: Multi-robot planning
Christopher Eng, ME; Topic Area: Mechatronics
Tony Johnston, EE; Topic Area: Legged locomotion
Liam Robbins, CS; Topic Area: Aerial robots
Lizbeth Navarette, EE; Topic Area: Ground mobile robot design
Rebecca Xie, ME; Topic Area: Small legged robot design
Carissa Lo, CE; Topic Area: Design for biological material transport
Gustavo Correa, EE; Topic Area: Embedded multi-robot software design
Calvin-Khang Ta, CS; Topic Area: Deep reinforcement learning
Timothy Lam, ME; Topic Area: Small legged robot design & soft robotics
Lu Shi, EE; Topic Area: Uncertainty quantification and control -- Joined ARCS Lab as a PhD Student in Fall'18
Keran Ye, ME; Topic Area: Small compliant legged robot control -- Joined ARCS Lab as a PhD Student in Fall'18
Daniel Dorr, EE; Topic Area: Multi-robot planning
Srinath Gopalakrishnan, ME; Topic Area: Legged and soft robot design
Hanzhe Teng, CS; Topic Area: Autonomous aerial robot navigation -- Joined ARCS Lab as a PhD Student in Fall'18