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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

Prof. Alessandro Roncone

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Lab Manager

Lyle Antieau

Lyle Antieau

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PhD Students

Joewie J. Koh

Joewie J. Koh

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Anuj Pasricha

Anuj Pasricha

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Caleb Escobedo

Caleb Escobedo

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Gilberto Briscoe-Martinez

Gilberto Briscoe-Martinez

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Nataliya Nechyporenko

Nataliya Nechyporenko

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Chi-Hui Lin

Chi-Hui Lin

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Ava Abderezaei

Ava Abderezaei

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Jay Vakil

Jay Vakil

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Yutong Zhang

Yutong Zhang

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Carson Kohlbrenner

Carson Kohlbrenner

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Graduate Students

Rahul Shetty

Rahul Shetty

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Klara Nitsche

Klara Nitsche

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Patrick Liu

Patrick Liu

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Steve Gillet

Steve Gillet

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Ekshan Raj Verma

Ekshan Raj Verma

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Nick Jackoski

Nick Jackoski

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Sean Campbell

Sean Campbell

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Sayak Ray

Sayak Ray

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Undergraduate Research Assistants

Anna Soukhovei

Anna Soukhovei

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Alex Dickhans

Alex Dickhans

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Liam Olczak

Liam Olczak

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High School Research Assistants

Coen Shields

Coen Shields

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External Collaborators

Yaashia Gautam

Yaashia Gautam

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Alumni Spotlight

Guohui Ding

Guohui Ding

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Ph.D. #1 [2018-2021], Research Scientist at Meta [Facebook].

Sandra Bae

Sandra Bae

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Ph.D. [2024-2025], Assistant Professor at Arizona State University.

Matthew Strong

Matthew Strong

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BS. [2019-2021], Ph.D. student at Stanford University w/ Monroe Kennedy and Jeannette Bohg.

Chi-Ju Wu

Chi-Ju Wu

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

Alumni

Idriss Djiofack Teledjieu

Spring 2025 [MS.], now at Matlab

Shamal Shaikh

Spring 2025 [MS.], now at Goldman Sachs

Yashwant (Yash) Gandham

Spring 2025 [MS.], now at Boulder AI & Systems Infrastructure Lab / NovaChat AI

Weston Brach

Noah Liska

Nandini Nema

Jennifer Kim

Spring 2025 [BS.], now at EY

Akshay Bakshi

Spring 2025 [MS.], now at Dassault Systèmes

Jose Caraveo Herrera

Sai Krishna Sriram

Sai Pratheek KVDSNK

Caleb Kumar

Now at Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP)

Matthew Eccles

Vatsal Verma

Summer 2024 [MS.], now at ServiceNow

Rithik Kumar Athiganur Senthil

Spring 2024 [MS.], now at United Airlines

Niharika Sathyanarayana

Fall 2024 [MS.]

Upasana Biswas

Now at Arizona State University [Ph.D.]

Siva Gangadhar Pabbineedi

Spring 2024 [MS.], now at NetApp

Nikhil Barhate

Spring 2024 [MS.], now at ScaleAI

Conor Simmons

Spring 2023 [BS.], now at Luxonis

Tanmay Desai

Spring 2023 [MS.], now at Colorado School of Mines [Ph.D.]

Liam Merz Hoffmeister

Spring 2022 [BS.], now at Yale University [Ph.D.]

Shreyas Kadekodi

Spring 2022 [MS.], now at University of California San Diego [Ph.D.]

Justin Brand

Spring 2023 [BS.]

Yuri Han

Spring 2022 [BS.]

Abhidip Bhattacharyya

Mithilesh R

Joseph David Galloway II

Byungjin (BJ) Kim

Spring 2021 [BS.], now at Univeristy of Michigan [grad]

Ander Aramburu Fernandez

Andrew Chen

Spring 2019 [M.S.], now at Amazon

Sean Shaifubahrim

Spring 2019 [B.S.]

Dongming Chang

Sayali Sonawane

Spring 2019 [M.S.], now at Lumen

Jacob Fiola

Spring 2020 [B.S.], now at American Century

Sousheel Vunnam

Spring 2020 [B.S.], now at Amazon

Benjamin Page

Garrett Pierson

Krishna Chaitanya Kodur

Summer 2020 [M.S.], now at UT Arlington [Ph.D.]

Mohana Krishna Sanagavarapu

Kandai Watanabe

Now at ARIA Systems Group [Ph.D.]

Kyle Yamek

Fall 2020 [B.S.]