We are looking for talented PhD students who are excited about computer vision, natural language understanding, and machine learning for robotics. If you are interested in joining us, consider applying to TTIC.

Previous Members

Research Assistant Professors

• Mohit Bansal (Currently an Associate Professor at the University of North Carolina (UNC) Chapel Hill)
• Audrey Sedal (Currently an Assistant Professor at McGill University)
• Bradly Stadie (Currently an Assistant Professor at Northwestern University)

PhD Students

• Zhongtian ("Falcon") Dai, "On Reward Structures of Markov Decision Processes", Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago, August 2023
  (Currently a Machine Learning Researcher at Symbolica AI)
• Andrea F. Daniele, "Accessible Interfaces for the Development and Deployment of Robotic Platforms", Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago, May 2023
  (Currently a Staff Simulation Software Engineer at Boston Dynamics)
• Tri Huynh, "Universal Neural Memory Architectures: Multigrid Connectivity, Domain-Agnostic Geometry, and Local Operators", University of Chicago, May 2021, Co-advised by Michael Maire
  (Currently a Software Engineer at Google)
• Chip Schaff, "Neural Approaches to Co-Optimization in Robotics", Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago, August 2022
  (Currently an Autopilot Engineer at Tesla)
• Igor Vasiljevic, "Neural Camera Models", Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago, June 2022, Co-advised by Greg Shakhnarovich
  (Currently a Research Scientist in Machine Learning at Toyota Research Institute (TRI))
• Takuma Yoneda, "Generative Modeling Perspective for Control and Reasoning in Robotics", Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago, August
  (Currently a Research Scientist at Google DeepMind)

MS Students

• Bharat Chandar, "Grasping With Visual and Semantic Features", University of Chicago, July 2016, Co-advised by Yali Amit
  (Currently a PhD student at Stanford)
• Andrea F. Daniele, "Learning to Generate Natural Language Instructions for Navigation", Sapienzà di Roma, January 2017, Co-advised with Daniele Nardi
  (Currently a Staff Simulation Software Engineer at Boston Dynamics)
• Hongyuan Mei, "Natural Language Processing with Attention-based Neural Networks", University of Chicago, August 2016, Co-advised by Mohit Bansal
  (Currently a Research Assistant Professsor at TTIC)
• Ben Picker, "The Hips as a Four-Bar Linkage System: Using Reinforcement Learning to Explore Compensation Patterns in Patients with Leg Length Discrepancies", University of Chicago, May 2022, Co-advised by Yali Amit
  (Currently a Software Engineer at Bloomberg)
• Huanyu Zhang, "Statler: State-Maintaining Language Models for Embodied Reasoning", University of Chicago, May 2024, Co-advised by Yali Amit

BS Students

• Zachary Robertson, "Imitation Learning from Observation", University of Chicago,
  (Currently a PhD student at Stanford University)

Visiting Students

• James Alvarado (Currently a BS student at the University of Michigan)
• Christian Cabada (Currently a BS student at the University of Illinois at Chicago)
• Cha Chen (Currently a Software Engineer at Apple)
• Lorand Cheng (Currently a PhD student at Georgia Tech)
• Hang Chu (Currently a Principal Research Scientist at Autodesk AI Lab)
• Julian Coward (Currently a BS student at the University of Illinois at Chicago)
• Rasool Fakoor (Currently a Research Scientist at Amazon)
• Colin Flaherty (Currently a Research Engineer at FAIR → Research Scientist at Augment)
• Alex Gajewski (Currently a BS student at Columbia University → CEO of SF Compute)
• Betsty Gonzalez (Currently a H.S. student at Chicago Public Schools)
• Asher Grossman (Currently a B.S. student at the University of Chicago)
• Yuchen He (Currently a Research Scientist at Facebook → OpenAI)
• Davide Iafrate (Currently a Duckietown)
• Tianchong Jiang (Currently a PhD student at TTIC)
• Justin Jung (Currently a ML Scientist at Springtail AI)
• Dong Ki Kim (Currently a AI Research Scientist at LG AI Research → Research Scientist at Field AI)
• Peng Li , Co-advised by Hongyuan Mei (Currently a M.S. student at Fudan University)
• Arthur MacKeith (Currently a PhD student at Yale University)
• Lei Mao (Currently a Senior Deep Learning Engineer at NVIDIA)
• Devshi Mehrotra (Currently a Co-founder and CEO of Justice Text)
• Jonathan Michaux (Currently a PhD student at the University of Michigan)
• Alonso Morales (Currently a BS student at the Illinois Institute of Technology)
• Jonathan Padua (Currently a BS student at the University of Illinois at Chicago)
• Emma Quansh (Currently a H.S. student at Chicago Public Schools)
• Alea Ritchie (Currently a H.S. student at the Illinois Math and Science Academy)
• Nikita Rudrapati (Currently a BS student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
• Angel Santiago (Currently a BS student at the University of Puerto Rico)
• Ethan Schondorf , Co-supervised with Audrey Sedal (Currently a Software Engineer at Globus Labs)
• Bobby Shi (Currently a PhD student at UT Austin)
• Benjamin Stoddart (Currently a B.S. student at the University of Michigan)
• Dylan Sumaya Lobo (Currently a H.S. student at Chicago Public Schools)
• Luzhe Sun (Currently a Ph.D. Student at TTIC)
• Xiangshan ("Vincent") Tan (Currently a PhD student at TTIC)
• Daksh Vermareddy (Currently a H.S. student at Chicago Public Schools)
• Zhengyang Wu (Currently a Senior Deep Learning Engineer at Magic Leap)
• David Yunis (Currently a PhD student at TTIC)