Inclusion Fellows

Caio Conti Guidote Ribeiro

I am a Master's student in Computer Science at the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil. I hold a Diploma in Automation and Control Engineering from the same university. My research interests include navigation and path-planning for autonomous mobile robots, multi-robot systems, and socially-aware robots. I worked with unmanned aerial and ground vehicles, and I am currently working on mobile manipulators in social scenarios.

Ibrahim Abubakar

I am a PhD student in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Northeastern University and work in the Programmable and Soft Engineered Systems Lab (PARSES) under the supervision of Professor Kristen Dorsey. I received my Bachelor's degree in Electrical/Electronics Engineering from the University of Benin, Nigeria. My research interest focus on soft robotics, soft tactile sensing in grasping, and manipulation.

Ariel Herrera

I am passionate about science, art, culture, and research. I completed my undergraduate studies in Mechanical Engineering at Escuela Politécnica Nacional in Ecuador, where I discovered my love for developing projects that benefit people and the environment through robotics. Currently, I am pursuing a Master's degree in Sustainable Product Creation (Mechanical Engineering Specialization) at the University of Luxembourg. Here, I aim to deepen my knowledge in my areas of interest, which include Soft Robotics and Computer Vision. My goal is to further my academic journey by pursuing a Ph.D.

Danissa Sandybayeva

Danissa is a thesis-based master's student at the University of Calgary (iLab) majoring in Computer Science. With a background in Robotics and Mechatronics from Nazarbayev University, her interests primarily focus on research in tactile sensing (optical, vibrational) along with interceptions between art and engineering.

Meraj Mammadov

Meraj is a Master's student in Autonomous Systems Lab in Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST). He is interested in learning algorithms for sequential decision-making problems (mainly RL and IL). In particular, he is working on collision avoidance problem of UAVs in cluttered environments.

Karthik Swaminathan

I'm a Research Assistant at the Robotics Research Center (RRC), IIIT-Hyderabad under the supervision of Prof. Madhava Krishna. Previously, I obtained my bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from VJTI, Mumbai. My research interests are in the domain of Manipulation, Robot Planning, Robot Learning, and Design & Control of soft robots.

Sebastian Murcia

I am an Electronic Engineer from Universidad de los Andes with emphasis on Robotics and Artificial Intelligence. Currently, I am working to share the knowledge I have gained with children in Colombia while advancing through the early stages of my career. My research interests include artificial intelligence, computer vision and optimization.

Afzal Ahmad

Afzal is a research fellow in the Multi-Robot Systems lab at the Czech Technical University in Prague. He is interested in multi-agent collaboration in dynamic and unknown environments. His goal is to combine the ideas from stochastic control and game theory for robust and ad-hoc collaboration within robotic teams. He has previously worked on decentralized collective navigation using a swarm of aerial vehicles. His work has been showcased in the Video Friday series of IEEE Spectrum, Robotics magazine.

Trinh Huynh

After immigrating to the United States and switching careers from Hospitality Management to Electrical Engineering, Trinh Huynh is now a first-year Master of Science in Robotics student at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Her academic journey is marked by excellence, which earned her admission to the school with a full tuition fellowship award through the prestigious Roger Ehrenberg and Carin Levine Ehrenberg Fellowship. Moreover, she is an active member of IEEE-Eta Kappa Nu (known as IEEE-HKN) and serves as their Global Student Governor.  Currently, Trinh is in a 7-month cooperation program (co-op) at Rivian Automotive as an Automation Controls Engineer Co-op. While she continues to explore the diverse opportunities within robotics, at RSS 2024, she is eager to delve deeper into areas such as automation controls, human-robot interaction, path planning, and navigation.

Amber Green 

Amber Green is a first-year PhD student at the University of Michigan in the Laboratory for Progress (Perceptive RObotics and Grounded REasoning SystemS). Prior to starting at Michigan, she completed her bachelor degree at The Ohio State University in electrical engineering. Her research interests include multi-robot coordination, motion planning and engineering education.

Aarushi Guptaa

I am currently pursuing a Master’s in Robotic Systems Engineering at RWTH Aachen University. I hold a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering with a minor in Robotics and Automation from BITS Pilani, India. My bachelor thesis focused on developing a gripper with a vision-based tactile sensor for picking strawberries. Presently, I am engaged in an internship at Neura Robotics, where I am working on writing ROS drivers and developing interfaces to facilitate external communication with Neura robots using ROS, C++, Python, and other technologies. My research interests include mobile robotics, robotic manipulation, and human-robot collaboration. Following the completion of my master’s degree, I aspire to pursue a Ph.D. in one of these fields.

Anna Maria Moran

Anna Maria is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Boston University. She is a graduate student researcher in the Morphable Biorobotics Laboratory under the supervision of Prof. Tommaso Ranzani. In 2023, she received her B.A. in Physics from Mount Holyoke College. Her research involves the design and control of bio-inspired soft robots, specifically for underwater applications.

Mohammad Khan

I am a fourth-year undergraduate student at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Bhopal, majoring in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. My research interests encompass marine robotics, robotic manipulation, and control theory. I am currently expanding my knowledge in these areas and am an active member of the Multi-Robot Autonomy Lab.

Himanshu Lodha

Himanshu is a master’s student in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Ohio State University and a graduate researcher at the Cyberbotics Lab. His research interests lie at the intersection of controls, perception, and learning for legged systems, thereby developing more agile and athletic robot behaviors. Before joining OSU, he worked as a Research Engineer at the Indian Institute of Science on developing indigenous quadrupedal robots for about three years.

Hafiq Anas

I am a first-year PhD student in Robotics at the School of Digital Science, Universiti Brunei Darussalam (UBD). I am part of the Robotics and Intelligent Systems Lab (Robolab) where I work on Social Robot Crowd Navigation based on Deep Reinforcement Learning with my advisors, Dr. Ong Wee Hong and Dr. Owais Ahmed Malik. I received my BSc in Computer Science and MDSc in Artificial Intelligence with Distinction at UBD. My research interests include autonomous navigation, robotics, and machine learning in interdisciplinary fields.

Idris Seidu

I am a second-year PhD student in Mechanical Engineering at Boston University. I work with my advisor, Professor Roberto Tron at the Robotics Lab. My research primarily revolves around the control systems of drones, exploring innovative approaches to path planning and noise management in various environments.

Joséphine Mélot Chesnel

Joséphine is a Master’s student in Artificial Intelligence at Utrecht University. After a Bachelor’s in Computer Science at Sorbonne University, she is now pursuing her Master’s Thesis on human-robot collaboration from a mostly psychological point of view. She wants to pursue a PhD once she graduates. Her interests lie in human-robot interactions, how they are done, what they impact, as well as how to take into account those interactions to better build social robots. She pushes for more diversity in a field where women, queer people, and people with physical/mental disabilities are still widely underrepresented.

Niamh Ellis

I am Niamh and I am a first year PhD student at the Edinburgh Centre for Robotics under Heriot-Watt University. I am a part of the Ocean Systems Lab at the University, and my research interests include digital twins, semantics and ontologies and artificial intelligence. Before coming to Heriot Watt, I completed an MEng in Electrical and Electronics Engineering with Robotics at the University of Aberdeen. Whilst there I completed a research internship focused on modelling ant behaviours using swarm robots.  I am also the Postgraduate Equate Student Champion at Heriot Watt and run events to support female and non-binary students studying STEM.

Diego Palma

Diego received a BSc in Mechatronics Engineering with a minor in Robotics from Universidad de Ingeniería y Tecnología - UTEC, Lima, Peru. His research interests in computer vision and robotics led him to perform research internships in Tec de Monterrey, University of Alberta and TU Delft. Currently, he is about to start his professional career as a robotic software engineer working with ROS technologies. He also looks to continue diving in SLAM-related research as his passion.

Anna Kisil

I am a first-year Computer Science PhD student at the University of Liverpool, funded by the Leverhulme Research Centre, specialising in Machine Learning and Robotics with a focus on safety and applications in Chemistry. Previously, I completed my BSc degree at the University of Manchester in Computer Science (Human Computer Interaction). My research interests include human-robot interaction, reinforcement learning from human feedback and the application of machine learning techniques in interdisciplinary fields.

Vi Vo

Vi is a rising second-year Ph.D. student in Mechanical Engineering at Boston University working in the Morphable Biorobotics Lab advised by Tommaso Ranzani. Her research interests include bio-inspired locomotion, self-reconfigurable robots, and controls in soft robotics.

Lilly Rizvi

I am a 2nd year Ph.D. candidate in Electrical Engineering with the PARSES soft robotics lab at Northeastern University in Boston, USA. My research is focused on improved tactile sensing for robotic grasping tasks through fabricating and evaluating novel resistive sensors. I previously obtained a B.S. in Computer Science from Georgia Institute of Technology, USA with specialization in embedded devices. I am interested in wearable robotics and human-robot interaction.

Sharfi Rahman 

Sharfi Rahman is a first year PhD student at Colorado School of Mines. Currently working as a Research Assistant in Navigation, Aerial-robots, and Perception Planning Laboratory (NAPPLab) directed by Dr.Micah Corah. Her research is focused on trajectory planning and control for robots . She graduated with her Master’s in Computer Science and did her undergraduate Computer Science and Engineering. Prior to her master’s degree, she worked as a Software Engineer for 3 years. Being and Engineer with passion for research, she is interested in developing sampling-based optimal control algorithms for robots while they are in challenging landscapes with optimal collision avoidance strategy. Additionally, she had interest towards active perception and navigation for aerial robots which can be useful for infrastructure inspection and search and rescue.

Ami Getu

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Ravi Kumar Thakur

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Pearl Zhang

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Robel Mamo 

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