HIRO People
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It turns out, when your lab is big enough, you can make a rainbow. Or, the Italian flag!

Prof. Alessandro Roncone

ECES 124

+1 (303) 735-6233

alessandro.roncone@colorado.edu

https://alessandro.ronc.one

Lab Manager

Postdocs

PhD Students

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Joewie J. Koh

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Kayleigh (Kaleb) Bishop

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Yi-Shiuan Tung

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Clare Lohrmann

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Gilberto Briscoe-Martinez

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Nataliya Nechyporenko

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Chi-Hui Lin

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Srikrishna Bangalore Raghu

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Ava Abderezaei

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Naren Sivagnanadasan

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Jay Vakil

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Yutong Zhang

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Carson Kohlbrenner

Graduate Students

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Rahul Shetty

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Divya SS Vankineni

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Samiksha Patil

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Klara Nitsche

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Patrick Liu

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Steve Gillet

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Ekshan Raj Verma

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Nick Jackoski

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Vincent Pietropaolo

Undergraduate Research Assistants

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Wei Jiang

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Anna Soukhovei

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Alex Dickhans

External Collaborators

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Yaashia Gautam

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Joe Miceli

Alumni Spotlight

Stéphane Aroca-Ouellette

HIRO Ph.D. [2020-2025], now Research Scientist at Skyfall AI.

Sandra Bae

Ph.D., 2025., now Assistant Professor at Arizona State University.

Matthew Strong

BS. Student [2019-2021], now Ph.D. student at Stanford University.

Shiran Dudy

Post-doc [2020-2021], now Research Scientist at Northeastern University.

Guohui Ding

HIRO Ph.D. [2018-2021], now Research Scientist at Meta [Facebook].

Chi-Ju Wu

M.S. student [2019-2020], now at Waymo [previously Zoox]. First hire of the HIRO Group ❤️.

Alumni

  • Idriss Djiofack Teledjieu, graduated in Spring 2025 [MS.], now at Matlab.
  • Shamal Shaikh, graduated in Spring 2025 [MS.], now at Goldman Sachs.
  • Yashwant (Yash) Gandham, graduated in Spring 2025 [MS.], now at Boulder AI & Systems Infrastructure Lab / NovaChat AI.
  • Weston Brach.
  • Noah Liska.
  • Nandini Nema.
  • Jennifer Kim, graduated in Spring 2025 [BS.], now at EY.
  • Akshay Bakshi, graduated in Spring 2025 [MS.], now at Dassault Systèmes.
  • Jose Caraveo Herrera.
  • Sai Krishna Sriram.
  • Sai Pratheek KVDSNK.
  • Caleb Kumar, now at Laboratory for for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP).
  • Matthew Eccles.
  • Vatsal Verma, graduated in Summer 2024 [MS.], now at ServiceNow.
  • Rithik Kumar Athiganur Senthil, graduated in Spring 2024 [MS.], now at United Airlines.
  • Niharika Sathyanarayana, graduated in Fall 2024 [MS.].
  • Upasana Biswas, now at Arizona State University [Ph.D.].
  • Siva Gangadhar Pabbineedi, graduated in Spring 2024 [MS.], now at NetApp.
  • Nikhil Barhate, graduated in Spring 2024 [MS.], now at ScaleAI.
  • Conor Simmons, graduated in Spring 2023 [BS.], now at Luxonis.
  • Tanmay Desai, graduated in Spring 2023 [MS.], now at Colorado School of Mines [Ph.D.].
  • Liam Merz Hoffmeister, graduated in Spring 2022 [BS.], now at Yale University [Ph.D.].
  • Shreyas Kadekodi, graduated in Spring 2022 [MS.], now at University of California San Diego [Ph.D.].
  • Mary West.
  • Justin Brand, graduated in Spring 2023 [BS.].
  • Yuri Han, graduated in Spring 2022 [BS.].
  • Abhidip Bhattacharyya.
  • Mithilesh R.
  • Joseph David Galloway II.
  • Byungjin (BJ) Kim, graduated in Spring 2021 [BS.], now at Univeristy of Michigan [grad].
  • Ander Aramburu Fernandez.
  • Mitchell D Scott.
  • Abhilash Jahagirdar.
  • Andrew Chen, graduated in Spring 2019 [M.S.], now at Amazon.
  • Sean Shaifubahrim, graduated in Spring 2019 [B.S.].
  • Dongming Chang.
  • Sayali Sonawane, graduated in Spring 2019 [M.S.], now at Lumen.
  • Jacob Fiola, graduated in Spring 2020 [B.S.], now at American Century.
  • Sousheel Vunnam, graduated in Spring 2020 [B.S.], now at Amazon.
  • Benjamin Page.
  • Garrett Pierson.
  • Mayank Joshi.
  • Krishna Chaitanya Kodur, graduated in Summer 2020 [M.S.], now at UT Arlington [Ph.D.].
  • Mohana Krishna Sanagavarapu.
  • Eleanor Sarder.
  • Kandai Watanabe, now at ARIA Systems Group [Ph.D.].
  • Kyle Yamek, graduated in Fall 2020 [B.S.].
  • William Wang.