Faculty
Dr. Yunyi Jia (Director)
Postdoctoral Researchers
Dr. Haotian Su (Postdoc, 2025-)
Research Assistants
Jialun (Alan) Yang (PhD Student, 2025-)
Carlos García Blanco (PhD Student, 2025-)
Hongqian Wang (PhD Student, 2025-)
Ashish Patil (PhD Student, 2024-)
Mayuresh Bhosale (PhD Student, 2023-)
Rongyao (Tony) Wang (PhD Student, 2023-)
Prakhar Gupta (PhD Student, 2022-)
Varshitha Vankadaru (MS Student, 2024-)
Yu-Hsiang Lee (Undergraduate Student, 2024-)
Jacob Davis (Undergraduate Student, 2024-)
Alumni
Postdoctoral Researchers
Dr. Longxiang Guo (Postdoc, 2021-2022. Job Position: Locid Motors, CA)
Dr. Weitian Wang (Postdoc, 2016-2019. Job Position: Associate Professor, Montclair State University, NJ)
PhD Students
Joseph Paul (PhD, 2025. Job Position: P3 Group, SC)
Yuchen Yan (PhD 2025. Job Position: North Carolina State University, NC)
Haotian Su (PhD, 2024. Job Position: Clemson University, SC)
Rahul Prasanna Kumar (PhD, 2024. Job Position: Argonne National Laboratory, IL)
Dr. Yi Chen (PhD, 2021. Job Position: ABB Robotics, NC)
Dr. Longxiang Guo (PhD, 2021. Job Position: Locid Motors, CA)
MS Students
Jialun (Alan) Yang (MS Student, 2022-2024. Job Position: PhD student at Clemson)
Kaiyuan Zhang (MS Student, 2021-2023. Job Position: PhD student at Tufts)
Mayuresh Bhosale (MS Student, 2022-2023. Job Position: PhD student at Clemson)
Shubham Gupta (MS Student, 2021-2022. Job Position: Gatik, CA)
Prakhar Gupta (MS Student, 2021-2022. Job Position: PhD student at Clemson)
Jon Falasca (MS student, 2021-2022. Job Position: Bosch, MI)
Bhargav Deshpande (MS student, 2021-2022. Job Position: Xos Trucks, CA)
Dhananjay Nikam (MS student, 2020-2021. Job Position: American Credit Acceptance, SC)
Jun Xiang (MS student, 2019-2021. Job Position: SDSU, CA)
Akshatha Ramesh (MS student, 2020-2021. Job Position: Lucid Motors, CA)
Aditya Gopinath MS student, 2020-2021. Job Position: Caterpillar, IL)
Vipul Kumbhar (MS student, 2020-2021. Job Position: Aptiv, MI)
Kexuan Zhai (MS student, 2019-2021. Job Position: Toyota Research Institute, MI)
Saurabh Jambotkar (MS student, 2019-2020. Job Position: Concurrent Real-Time, FL)
Zhi Fang Tan (MS student, 2019-2020. Job Position: Honda Research Institute USA, CA)
Lingyi Song (MS student, 2019-2020. Job Position: TuSimple, AZ)
Andrew Barnett (MS student, 2019-2020. Job Position: Deep Orange 12 at Clemson)
Zeyu Tang (MS, 2018-2019. Job Position: PhD student at Clemson)
Yaozhong Zhang (MS, 2018-2019. Job Position: Argonne National Laboratory, IL)
Na Liu (MS, 2018-2019. Job Position: Tesla, CA)
Yiding Li (MS, 2018-2019. Job Position: BMW, Beijing)
Di Huang (MS, 2017-2019. Job Position: XPENG Motors, Guangzhou)
James Sternberg (MS, 2017-2018. Job Position: PhD student at Clemson)
Shaoxuan Sun (MS, 2017-2018, Job Position: Mercedes-Benz R&D, MI)
Zebin Wang (MS, 2017-2018. Job Position: SERES, IN)
Yuhao Liu (MS, 2017-2018. Job Position: Ford, Autonomous Driving R&D, MI)
Drew Bolduc (MS, 2017-2018. Job Position: Continental AG, Autonomous Driving R&D, MI)
Zachary Max Diekel (MS, 2017-2018. Job Position: The Aerospace Corporation, CA)
Sagar Manglani (MS, 2016-2017. Job Position: Ford, Autonomous Driving R&D, CA)
Parnavi Uttarwar (MS, 2016-2017. Job Position: Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, MI)
Dingshengyun Ma (MS, 2016-2017. Job Position: Cummins, IN)
Xuehao Li (MS, 2016-2017. Job Position: Aptiv (Delphi), Autonomous Driving R&D, IN)
Undergraduate Students
Kristen Guernsey (Undergraduate student, 2022)
Noah Cooley-Cannon (Undergraduate student, 2021)
Andrew Hopkins (Undergraduate student, 2016-2018)
K-12 Students
Leo Hu, Riverside high School, 2022.
Macon Rushton, SC Governor's School for Science and Mathematics, 2019.
Michael Bertram, SC Governor's School for Science and Mathematics, 2018.
Madhav Bhat, J.L. Mann High School, 2018.
Research Engineers/Scholars
Jialun (Alan) Yang (Research Engineer, 2024-2025. Now: PhD student at Clemson)
Rongyao (Tony) Wang (Research Engineer, 2021-2023. Now: PhD student at Clemson)
Yi Sun (Research Engineer, 2018-2019. Now: Manufacturing Techniques, Inc., VA)
Group Photos
[2025] CRA Lab 2025
[2024] CRA Lab 2024 (by ChatGPT)
[2023] CRA Lab 2023
[2022] CRA Lab 2022
[2021] CRA Lab 2021
[08/2020] CRA Lab 2020
[08/2019] CRA Lab 2019
[08/2018] CRA Lab 2018
[08/2017] CRA Lab 2017
[07/2016] CRA Lab 2016