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

Prof. Alessandro Roncone

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+1 (303) 735-6233

Lab Manager

Lyle Antieau

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+1 (734) 624-1204

Postdocs

Jake Brawer

SOCIAL INTELLIGENCE

PhD Students

Joewie J. Koh

EMBODIED INTELLIGENCE

Anuj Pasricha

EMBODIED INTELLIGENCE

Caleb Escobedo

EMBODIED INTELLIGENCE

Kayleigh (Kaleb) Bishop

SOCIAL INTELLIGENCE

Yi-Shiuan Tung

SOCIAL INTELLIGENCE

Clare Lohrmann

SOCIAL INTELLIGENCE

Gilberto Briscoe-Martinez

EMBODIED INTELLIGENCE

Nataliya Nechyporenko

EMBODIED INTELLIGENCE

Chi-Hui Lin

EMBODIED INTELLIGENCE

Srikrishna Bangalore Raghu

SOCIAL INTELLIGENCE

Ava Abderezaei

EMBODIED INTELLIGENCE

Naren Sivagnanadasan

SOCIAL INTELLIGENCE

Jay Vakil

EMBODIED INTELLIGENCE

Yutong Zhang

EMBODIED INTELLIGENCE

Carson Kohlbrenner

EMBODIED INTELLIGENCE

Graduate Students

Gyanig Kumar

Rahul Shetty

Divya SS Vankineni

Klara Nitsche

Patrick Liu

Steve Gillet

Ekshan Raj Verma

Nick Jackoski

Vincent Pietropaolo

Sean Campbell

Undergraduate Research Assistants

Wei Jiang

Anna Soukhovei

Alex Dickhans

Liam Olczak

High School Research Assistants

Coen Shields

External Collaborators

Yaashia Gautam

Joe Miceli

Alumni Spotlight

Stéphane Aroca-Ouellette

SOCIAL INTELLIGENCE

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

Sandra Bae

EMBODIED INTELLIGENCE

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

Matthew Strong

EMBODIED INTELLIGENCE

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

Shiran Dudy

SOCIAL INTELLIGENCE

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

Guohui Ding

EMBODIED INTELLIGENCE

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

Chi-Ju Wu

EMBODIED INTELLIGENCE

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.