People
Principal Investigator
Graduate Students
Visiting Students

Davide Iafrate
Visiting Student

Tianchong Jiang
Visiting Student
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
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Andrea F. Daniele,
"Accessible Interfaces for the Development and Deployment of Robotic Platforms", Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago, May 2023
(Currently CTO, Duckietown) -
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))
MS Students
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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 Naviga-tion",
SapienzĂ di Roma, January 2017, Co-advised with Daniele Nardi
(Currently a CTO, Duckietown) -
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
BS Students
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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)
- Alex Gajewski (Currently a BS student at Columbia University)
- Betsty Gonzalez (Currently a H.S. student at Chicago Public Schools)
- Asher Grossman (Currently a H.S. student at University of Chicago Laboratory School)
- Yuchen He (Currently a Research Scientist at Facebook)
- Davide Iafrate (Currently a Autonomous Systems Engineer at Duckietown)
- Justin Jung
- Dong Ki Kim (Currently a AI Research Scientist at LG AI Research)
- 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)
- 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)