People

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. Now: Locid Motors, CA)

• Dr. Weitian Wang (Postdoc, 2016-2019. Now: Associate Professor, Montclair State University, NJ)

PhD Students

• Joseph Paul (PhD, 2025. Now: P3 Group, SC)

• Yuchen Yan (PhD 2025. Now: Clemson University, SC)

• Haotian Su (PhD, 2024. Now: Clemson University, SC)

• Rahul Prasanna Kumar (PhD, 2024. Now: Argonne National Laboratory, IL)

• Dr. Yi Chen (PhD, 2021. Now: ABB Robotics, NC)

• Dr. Longxiang Guo (PhD, 2021. Now: Locid Motors, CA)

MS Students

• Jialun (Alan) Yang (MS Student, 2022-2024. Now: PhD student at Clemson)

• Kaiyuan Zhang (MS Student, 2021-2023. Now:  PhD student at Tufts)

• Mayuresh Bhosale (MS Student, 2022-2023. Now: PhD student at Clemson)

• Shubham Gupta (MS Student, 2021-2022. Now:  Gatik, CA)

• Prakhar Gupta (MS Student, 2021-2022. Now: PhD student at Clemson)

• Jon Falasca (MS student, 2021-2022. Now: Bosch, MI)

• Bhargav Deshpande (MS student, 2021-2022. Now: Xos Trucks, CA)

• Dhananjay Nikam (MS student, 2020-2021. Now: American Credit Acceptance, SC)

• Jun Xiang (MS student, 2019-2021. Now: SDSU, CA)

• Akshatha Ramesh (MS student, 2020-2021. Now: Lucid Motors, CA)

• Aditya Gopinath MS student, 2020-2021. Now: Caterpillar, IL)

• Vipul Kumbhar (MS student, 2020-2021. Now: Aptiv, MI)

• Kexuan Zhai (MS student, 2019-2021. Now: Toyota Research Institute, MI)

• Saurabh Jambotkar (MS student, 2019-2020. Now: Concurrent Real-Time, FL)

• Zhi Fang Tan (MS student, 2019-2020. Now: Honda Research Institute USA, CA)

• Lingyi Song (MS student, 2019-2020. Now: TuSimple, AZ)

• Andrew Barnett (MS student, 2019-2020. Now: Deep Orange 12 at Clemson)

• Zeyu Tang (MS, 2018-2019. Now: PhD student at Clemson)

• Yaozhong Zhang (MS, 2018-2019. Now: Argonne National Laboratory, IL)

• Na Liu (MS, 2018-2019. Now: Tesla, CA)

• Yiding Li (MS, 2018-2019. Now: BMW, Beijing)

• Di Huang (MS, 2017-2019. Now: XPENG Motors, Guangzhou)

• James Sternberg (MS, 2017-2018. Now: PhD student at Clemson)

• Shaoxuan Sun (MS, 2017-2018, Now: Mercedes-Benz R&D, MI)

• Zebin Wang (MS, 2017-2018. Now: SERES, IN)

• Yuhao Liu (MS, 2017-2018. Now: Ford, Autonomous Driving R&D, MI)

• Drew Bolduc (MS, 2017-2018. Now: Continental AG, Autonomous Driving R&D, MI)

• Zachary Max Diekel (MS, 2017-2018. Now: The Aerospace Corporation, CA)

• Sagar Manglani (MS, 2016-2017. Now: Ford, Autonomous Driving R&D, CA)

• Parnavi Uttarwar (MS, 2016-2017. Now: Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, MI)

• Dingshengyun Ma (MS, 2016-2017. Now: Cummins, IN)

• Xuehao Li (MS, 2016-2017. Now: 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