Kyriakos G. Vamvoudakis - Research Group
Current PhD Students
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Joshua Netter
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Surabhi Athalye
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Varkey M. John
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Jesse Donahue
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Ali Wadi
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Yoobin Kim
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Spencer Mickus
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Brendan Gould
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Current MS Students
Ajay Tak, Verification of Reinforcement Learning
Abinay Joel Brown, Safe Reinforcement Learning
Malik Nauman Rauf, Robotics
Alma mater: Institute of Space Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan
Coleman Hoff, Trajectory Optimization
Alma mater: Texas A&M University
Erika Jones, Cyber-Physical Systems and Safety
Alma mater: University of Michigan
Current Undergraduate Students
Eric Li, Physics-based Learning Simulations
Abinash Satapathy, UWB/IMU Filter Designs
Benjamin (Ben) T. Zabriskie, Shape Morphing and Micro Aerial Vehicles
Current Research Engineer
Dr. Jose Messias Magalhães Júnior, Urban Air Mobility
Current PhD Visitor
Nejat Tukenmez, Reinforcement Learning for Autonomy
Recent PhD and MS Alumni
Filippos Fotiadis, 2019-2024
PhD thesis: Game-Theoretic Learning and Control for Resilience of Complex Adaptive Systems
Alma mater: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
First position: Postdoc, University of Texas, Austin
Nick-Marios Kokolakis, 2019-2024
PhD thesis: Fixed-Time Reinforcement Learning-based Control for Safe Autonomy
Alma mater: University of Patras, Greece
First position: Postdoc, University of Pennsylvania
Jose Messias Magalhães Júnior, 2019-2023
PhD thesis: Intelligent Data-driven Aerodynamic Analysis and Optimization of Morphing Configurations
Alma mater: Technological Institute of Aeronautics, Brazil
First position: Research Engineer, Georgia Institute of Technology
Prachi Pratyusha Sahoo, 2018-2023
PhD thesis: Secure, Intermittent, and Model-Free Autonomous Framework for Cyber Physical Systems
Alma mater: Georgia Institute of Technology
First position: Consultant, Boston Consulting Group (BCG)
Lijing Zhai, 2018-2023
PhD thesis: Architectures for Hardening Security in Intelligent Cyber-Physical Systems
Alma mater: Beihang University, China
First position: Quantitative Research Associate, JP Morgan Chase and Co
Hanqing Zhu, 2020-2022
PhD thesis: A Systems Engineering Approach to the Design and Education of a Robotic Baby
Alma mater: Georgia Institute of Technology, Lorraine, France
Final advisor after the departure of Eric Feron
First position: Research Scientist, META
Kevin Pierre Martial Garanger, 2020-2022
PhD thesis: Versatile and Structurally Efficient Aerial Systems Assembled from Polyhedral Rotorcraft Modules
Alma mater: Ecole Polytechnique, France
Final advisor after the departure of Eric Feron
First position: Postdoc, University of California, Irvine
Aris Kanellopoulos, 2017-2021
PhD thesis: Control and Game-Theoretic Methods for Secure Cyber-Physical-Human Systems
Alma mater: National Technical University of Athens, Greece
First position: Research Engineer, Georgia Institute of Technology
Current position: Postdoc, KTH, Sweden
Thanakorn Khamvilai, 2020-2021
PhD thesis: Optimization-based Design of Fault-Tolerant Avionics
Alma mater: Kasestart University, Thailand
Final advisor after the departure of Eric Feron
First position: Research Assistant Professor, Penn State University
Current position: Assistant Professor, Texas Tech University
Muskan Bawa, 2024
Master project: Space Robotics
Alma mater: University of Washington
First position: Lunar Lab, Georgia Institute of Technology
Samuel Carp, 2023-2024
Master project: Robotics
Alma mater: University of Pennsylvania
First position: Senior Flight Software Engineer at REGENT
Lee Gibson, 2023-2024
Master project: Safety Aware MPC
Alma mater: Georgia Institute of Technology
First position: TBD
Peter Lehmann, 2023-2024
Master project: Learning-based Safe Navigation
Alma mater: Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University, Germany
First position: TBD
Manthan Joshi, 2023
Master project: Ground Robot Path Planning and Obstacle Avoidance
Alma mater: Gogte Institute of Technology, India
First position: TBD
Haris Miller, 2023
Master project: Micro Robotics
Alma mater: Georgia Institute of Technology
Current position: Graduate Researcher LIDAR Group, Georgia Tech
Cedric Olivier Etoundi Moutymbo, 2022-2023
Master project: Reinforcement Learning and MuJoCo
Alma mater: West Virginia University
First position: Graduate Researcher, Georgia Tech
Alistair Sequeira, 2021-2023
Master project: Learning-based Control for Urban Air Mobility
Alma mater: Georgia Institute of Technology
First position: Controls Engineer, Blueflite
Constantinos Costopoulos, 2022-2023
Master thesis: Reachability Analysis Optimal Control
Alma mater: National Technical University of Athens
Co-Advisor: C. Psillakis
First position: Cloud R&D Engineer, NTT Data, Japan
Austin Hurst, 2022-2023
Master project: Robust Endo-Atmospheric Missile Guidance
Alma mater: Brigham Young University
First position: TBD
Taehwan Seo, 2021-2022
Master thesis: Verification of Adversarially Robust Reinforcement Learning Mechanisms in Autonomous Systems
Alma mater: Purdue
Current position: GNC Engineer, Boeing
Evan Hammac, 2020-2022
Master project: Air to Air Electrical Refueling
Alma mater: Arizona State University
Current position: Research Engineer, GTRI
Rafiya Tasnim, 2022
Master project: Reinforcement Learning for Inner-loop Flight Control
Alma mater: Georgia Institute of Technology
Current position: Flight Controls Engineer, Lockheed Martin
Aqib Syed, 2020-2022
Master project: Shape Morphing
Alma mater: Georgia Institute of Technology
Current position: PhD student, Stanford
Yoobin Kim, 2020-2022
Master project: Shape Morphing
Alma mater: Georgia Institute of Technology
Current position: Mandatory Military Service in South Korea
Dylan Staatz, 2020-2022
Master thesis: Model-Free Multi-Agent Motion Planning with Non-Uniform Sensors
Alma mater: Kansas State University
Current position: Engineer, Sandia National Laboratories
Vansh Kareer, 2020-2022
Master project: An Exploration of Individual and Centralized Approaches to Trajectory Planning in an Urban Air Mobility Simulation
Alma mater: Georgia Institute of Technology
Current position: Engineer, Lockheed Martin
Zelin Hu, 2020-2022
Master project: Q-learning and Humans-in-the-Loop
Alma mater: University of California, Irvine
Current position: PhD student, Georgia Institute of Technology
Brian Solar, 2021-2022
Master project: Reachability Analysis for Optimal Control
Alma mater: University of Central Florida
Current position: Engineer, GTRI
Danish Hussain, 2020-2021
Master project: UAV Spoofing Mechanisms
Alma mater: University of Texas, Austin
Current position: Engineer, Pratt & Whitney
Zirui Xu, 2018-2020
Master project: Motion Planning with Moving Obstacles
Alma mater: Northeastern University, Shenyang, China
Current position: PhD student, University of Michigan
Joshua Netter, 2020-2021
Master project: Moving Target Defense for Drones
Alma mater: Georgia Institute of Technology
Current position: PhD student, Georgia Institute of Technology
Pavan Kumar Gundu, 2017-2019
Master thesis: High-Speed Platooning of UGVs using an Intermittent Learning Algorithm
Alma mater: IIT Madras, India
Current position: ADAS Research Engineer, Ford Motor Company
Jointly with Ryan Gerdes
Maria Grammatopoulou, 2018
Master project: Resilient Predictive Q-learning for IoT
Alma mater: Technical University of Crete, Greece
Current position: Program Manager, Transportation Operations Planning, Amazon
Jointly with Nathan Lau
George Kontoudis, 2016-2018
Master thesis: Design and Development of Anthropomorphic, Adaptive Robot Hands for Robust Grasping, and Dexterous, in-hand Manipulation
Alma mater: National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Current position: Assistant Professor, Colorado School of Mines
Jointly with Tomonari Furukawa
Former Post-doctoral Fellows, Research Engineers, Visitors, and Interns
Dr. Aris Kanellopoulos, 2022 (currently a Postdoc at KTH, Sweden)
Constantinos Costopoulos, 2022 (currently a Cloud R&D Engineer, NTT Data, Japan)
Daniel Zhao, 2022 (currently a student at the University of Pennsylvania)
Jianning Cui, 2020-2021 (currently a PhD student at the University of Pennsylvania)
Fukai Han, 2021 (currently an undergraduate student at the Ohio State University)
Yannis Loukidis, 2021 (currently a high school student at East Brunswick High School)
Dr. Sofia Karamintziou, 2017 (PhD from National Technical University of Athens, Greece; Placement: Associate at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, as of September 2017)
Ajay Tak, Verification of Reinforcement Learning
Abinay Joel Brown, Safe Reinforcement Learning
Malik Nauman Rauf, Robotics
Alma mater: Institute of Space Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan
Coleman Hoff, Trajectory Optimization
Alma mater: Texas A&M University
Erika Jones, Cyber-Physical Systems and Safety
Alma mater: University of Michigan
Eric Li, Physics-based Learning Simulations
Abinash Satapathy, UWB/IMU Filter Designs
Benjamin (Ben) T. Zabriskie, Shape Morphing and Micro Aerial Vehicles
Current Research Engineer
Dr. Jose Messias Magalhães Júnior, Urban Air Mobility
Current PhD Visitor
Nejat Tukenmez, Reinforcement Learning for Autonomy
Recent PhD and MS Alumni
Filippos Fotiadis, 2019-2024
PhD thesis: Game-Theoretic Learning and Control for Resilience of Complex Adaptive Systems
Alma mater: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
First position: Postdoc, University of Texas, Austin
Nick-Marios Kokolakis, 2019-2024
PhD thesis: Fixed-Time Reinforcement Learning-based Control for Safe Autonomy
Alma mater: University of Patras, Greece
First position: Postdoc, University of Pennsylvania
Jose Messias Magalhães Júnior, 2019-2023
PhD thesis: Intelligent Data-driven Aerodynamic Analysis and Optimization of Morphing Configurations
Alma mater: Technological Institute of Aeronautics, Brazil
First position: Research Engineer, Georgia Institute of Technology
Prachi Pratyusha Sahoo, 2018-2023
PhD thesis: Secure, Intermittent, and Model-Free Autonomous Framework for Cyber Physical Systems
Alma mater: Georgia Institute of Technology
First position: Consultant, Boston Consulting Group (BCG)
Lijing Zhai, 2018-2023
PhD thesis: Architectures for Hardening Security in Intelligent Cyber-Physical Systems
Alma mater: Beihang University, China
First position: Quantitative Research Associate, JP Morgan Chase and Co
Hanqing Zhu, 2020-2022
PhD thesis: A Systems Engineering Approach to the Design and Education of a Robotic Baby
Alma mater: Georgia Institute of Technology, Lorraine, France
Final advisor after the departure of Eric Feron
First position: Research Scientist, META
Kevin Pierre Martial Garanger, 2020-2022
PhD thesis: Versatile and Structurally Efficient Aerial Systems Assembled from Polyhedral Rotorcraft Modules
Alma mater: Ecole Polytechnique, France
Final advisor after the departure of Eric Feron
First position: Postdoc, University of California, Irvine
Aris Kanellopoulos, 2017-2021
PhD thesis: Control and Game-Theoretic Methods for Secure Cyber-Physical-Human Systems
Alma mater: National Technical University of Athens, Greece
First position: Research Engineer, Georgia Institute of Technology
Current position: Postdoc, KTH, Sweden
Thanakorn Khamvilai, 2020-2021
PhD thesis: Optimization-based Design of Fault-Tolerant Avionics
Alma mater: Kasestart University, Thailand
Final advisor after the departure of Eric Feron
First position: Research Assistant Professor, Penn State University
Current position: Assistant Professor, Texas Tech University
Muskan Bawa, 2024
Master project: Space Robotics
Alma mater: University of Washington
First position: Lunar Lab, Georgia Institute of Technology
Samuel Carp, 2023-2024
Master project: Robotics
Alma mater: University of Pennsylvania
First position: Senior Flight Software Engineer at REGENT
Lee Gibson, 2023-2024
Master project: Safety Aware MPC
Alma mater: Georgia Institute of Technology
First position: TBD
Peter Lehmann, 2023-2024
Master project: Learning-based Safe Navigation
Alma mater: Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University, Germany
First position: TBD
Manthan Joshi, 2023
Master project: Ground Robot Path Planning and Obstacle Avoidance
Alma mater: Gogte Institute of Technology, India
First position: TBD
Haris Miller, 2023
Master project: Micro Robotics
Alma mater: Georgia Institute of Technology
Current position: Graduate Researcher LIDAR Group, Georgia Tech
Cedric Olivier Etoundi Moutymbo, 2022-2023
Master project: Reinforcement Learning and MuJoCo
Alma mater: West Virginia University
First position: Graduate Researcher, Georgia Tech
Alistair Sequeira, 2021-2023
Master project: Learning-based Control for Urban Air Mobility
Alma mater: Georgia Institute of Technology
First position: Controls Engineer, Blueflite
Constantinos Costopoulos, 2022-2023
Master thesis: Reachability Analysis Optimal Control
Alma mater: National Technical University of Athens
Co-Advisor: C. Psillakis
First position: Cloud R&D Engineer, NTT Data, Japan
Austin Hurst, 2022-2023
Master project: Robust Endo-Atmospheric Missile Guidance
Alma mater: Brigham Young University
First position: TBD
Taehwan Seo, 2021-2022
Master thesis: Verification of Adversarially Robust Reinforcement Learning Mechanisms in Autonomous Systems
Alma mater: Purdue
Current position: GNC Engineer, Boeing
Evan Hammac, 2020-2022
Master project: Air to Air Electrical Refueling
Alma mater: Arizona State University
Current position: Research Engineer, GTRI
Rafiya Tasnim, 2022
Master project: Reinforcement Learning for Inner-loop Flight Control
Alma mater: Georgia Institute of Technology
Current position: Flight Controls Engineer, Lockheed Martin
Aqib Syed, 2020-2022
Master project: Shape Morphing
Alma mater: Georgia Institute of Technology
Current position: PhD student, Stanford
Yoobin Kim, 2020-2022
Master project: Shape Morphing
Alma mater: Georgia Institute of Technology
Current position: Mandatory Military Service in South Korea
Dylan Staatz, 2020-2022
Master thesis: Model-Free Multi-Agent Motion Planning with Non-Uniform Sensors
Alma mater: Kansas State University
Current position: Engineer, Sandia National Laboratories
Vansh Kareer, 2020-2022
Master project: An Exploration of Individual and Centralized Approaches to Trajectory Planning in an Urban Air Mobility Simulation
Alma mater: Georgia Institute of Technology
Current position: Engineer, Lockheed Martin
Zelin Hu, 2020-2022
Master project: Q-learning and Humans-in-the-Loop
Alma mater: University of California, Irvine
Current position: PhD student, Georgia Institute of Technology
Brian Solar, 2021-2022
Master project: Reachability Analysis for Optimal Control
Alma mater: University of Central Florida
Current position: Engineer, GTRI
Danish Hussain, 2020-2021
Master project: UAV Spoofing Mechanisms
Alma mater: University of Texas, Austin
Current position: Engineer, Pratt & Whitney
Zirui Xu, 2018-2020
Master project: Motion Planning with Moving Obstacles
Alma mater: Northeastern University, Shenyang, China
Current position: PhD student, University of Michigan
Joshua Netter, 2020-2021
Master project: Moving Target Defense for Drones
Alma mater: Georgia Institute of Technology
Current position: PhD student, Georgia Institute of Technology
Pavan Kumar Gundu, 2017-2019
Master thesis: High-Speed Platooning of UGVs using an Intermittent Learning Algorithm
Alma mater: IIT Madras, India
Current position: ADAS Research Engineer, Ford Motor Company
Jointly with Ryan Gerdes
Maria Grammatopoulou, 2018
Master project: Resilient Predictive Q-learning for IoT
Alma mater: Technical University of Crete, Greece
Current position: Program Manager, Transportation Operations Planning, Amazon
Jointly with Nathan Lau
George Kontoudis, 2016-2018
Master thesis: Design and Development of Anthropomorphic, Adaptive Robot Hands for Robust Grasping, and Dexterous, in-hand Manipulation
Alma mater: National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Current position: Assistant Professor, Colorado School of Mines
Jointly with Tomonari Furukawa
Former Post-doctoral Fellows, Research Engineers, Visitors, and Interns
Dr. Aris Kanellopoulos, 2022 (currently a Postdoc at KTH, Sweden)
Constantinos Costopoulos, 2022 (currently a Cloud R&D Engineer, NTT Data, Japan)
Daniel Zhao, 2022 (currently a student at the University of Pennsylvania)
Jianning Cui, 2020-2021 (currently a PhD student at the University of Pennsylvania)
Fukai Han, 2021 (currently an undergraduate student at the Ohio State University)
Yannis Loukidis, 2021 (currently a high school student at East Brunswick High School)
Dr. Sofia Karamintziou, 2017 (PhD from National Technical University of Athens, Greece; Placement: Associate at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, as of September 2017)
Dr. Jose Messias Magalhães Júnior, Urban Air Mobility
Nejat Tukenmez, Reinforcement Learning for Autonomy
Recent PhD and MS Alumni
Filippos Fotiadis, 2019-2024
PhD thesis: Game-Theoretic Learning and Control for Resilience of Complex Adaptive Systems
Alma mater: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
First position: Postdoc, University of Texas, Austin
Nick-Marios Kokolakis, 2019-2024
PhD thesis: Fixed-Time Reinforcement Learning-based Control for Safe Autonomy
Alma mater: University of Patras, Greece
First position: Postdoc, University of Pennsylvania
Jose Messias Magalhães Júnior, 2019-2023
PhD thesis: Intelligent Data-driven Aerodynamic Analysis and Optimization of Morphing Configurations
Alma mater: Technological Institute of Aeronautics, Brazil
First position: Research Engineer, Georgia Institute of Technology
Prachi Pratyusha Sahoo, 2018-2023
PhD thesis: Secure, Intermittent, and Model-Free Autonomous Framework for Cyber Physical Systems
Alma mater: Georgia Institute of Technology
First position: Consultant, Boston Consulting Group (BCG)
Lijing Zhai, 2018-2023
PhD thesis: Architectures for Hardening Security in Intelligent Cyber-Physical Systems
Alma mater: Beihang University, China
First position: Quantitative Research Associate, JP Morgan Chase and Co
Hanqing Zhu, 2020-2022
PhD thesis: A Systems Engineering Approach to the Design and Education of a Robotic Baby
Alma mater: Georgia Institute of Technology, Lorraine, France
Final advisor after the departure of Eric Feron
First position: Research Scientist, META
Kevin Pierre Martial Garanger, 2020-2022
PhD thesis: Versatile and Structurally Efficient Aerial Systems Assembled from Polyhedral Rotorcraft Modules
Alma mater: Ecole Polytechnique, France
Final advisor after the departure of Eric Feron
First position: Postdoc, University of California, Irvine
Aris Kanellopoulos, 2017-2021
PhD thesis: Control and Game-Theoretic Methods for Secure Cyber-Physical-Human Systems
Alma mater: National Technical University of Athens, Greece
First position: Research Engineer, Georgia Institute of Technology
Current position: Postdoc, KTH, Sweden
Thanakorn Khamvilai, 2020-2021
PhD thesis: Optimization-based Design of Fault-Tolerant Avionics
Alma mater: Kasestart University, Thailand
Final advisor after the departure of Eric Feron
First position: Research Assistant Professor, Penn State University
Current position: Assistant Professor, Texas Tech University
Muskan Bawa, 2024
Master project: Space Robotics
Alma mater: University of Washington
First position: Lunar Lab, Georgia Institute of Technology
Samuel Carp, 2023-2024
Master project: Robotics
Alma mater: University of Pennsylvania
First position: Senior Flight Software Engineer at REGENT
Lee Gibson, 2023-2024
Master project: Safety Aware MPC
Alma mater: Georgia Institute of Technology
First position: TBD
Peter Lehmann, 2023-2024
Master project: Learning-based Safe Navigation
Alma mater: Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University, Germany
First position: TBD
Manthan Joshi, 2023
Master project: Ground Robot Path Planning and Obstacle Avoidance
Alma mater: Gogte Institute of Technology, India
First position: TBD
Haris Miller, 2023
Master project: Micro Robotics
Alma mater: Georgia Institute of Technology
Current position: Graduate Researcher LIDAR Group, Georgia Tech
Cedric Olivier Etoundi Moutymbo, 2022-2023
Master project: Reinforcement Learning and MuJoCo
Alma mater: West Virginia University
First position: Graduate Researcher, Georgia Tech
Alistair Sequeira, 2021-2023
Master project: Learning-based Control for Urban Air Mobility
Alma mater: Georgia Institute of Technology
First position: Controls Engineer, Blueflite
Constantinos Costopoulos, 2022-2023
Master thesis: Reachability Analysis Optimal Control
Alma mater: National Technical University of Athens
Co-Advisor: C. Psillakis
First position: Cloud R&D Engineer, NTT Data, Japan
Austin Hurst, 2022-2023
Master project: Robust Endo-Atmospheric Missile Guidance
Alma mater: Brigham Young University
First position: TBD
Taehwan Seo, 2021-2022
Master thesis: Verification of Adversarially Robust Reinforcement Learning Mechanisms in Autonomous Systems
Alma mater: Purdue
Current position: GNC Engineer, Boeing
Evan Hammac, 2020-2022
Master project: Air to Air Electrical Refueling
Alma mater: Arizona State University
Current position: Research Engineer, GTRI
Rafiya Tasnim, 2022
Master project: Reinforcement Learning for Inner-loop Flight Control
Alma mater: Georgia Institute of Technology
Current position: Flight Controls Engineer, Lockheed Martin
Aqib Syed, 2020-2022
Master project: Shape Morphing
Alma mater: Georgia Institute of Technology
Current position: PhD student, Stanford
Yoobin Kim, 2020-2022
Master project: Shape Morphing
Alma mater: Georgia Institute of Technology
Current position: Mandatory Military Service in South Korea
Dylan Staatz, 2020-2022
Master thesis: Model-Free Multi-Agent Motion Planning with Non-Uniform Sensors
Alma mater: Kansas State University
Current position: Engineer, Sandia National Laboratories
Vansh Kareer, 2020-2022
Master project: An Exploration of Individual and Centralized Approaches to Trajectory Planning in an Urban Air Mobility Simulation
Alma mater: Georgia Institute of Technology
Current position: Engineer, Lockheed Martin
Zelin Hu, 2020-2022
Master project: Q-learning and Humans-in-the-Loop
Alma mater: University of California, Irvine
Current position: PhD student, Georgia Institute of Technology
Brian Solar, 2021-2022
Master project: Reachability Analysis for Optimal Control
Alma mater: University of Central Florida
Current position: Engineer, GTRI
Danish Hussain, 2020-2021
Master project: UAV Spoofing Mechanisms
Alma mater: University of Texas, Austin
Current position: Engineer, Pratt & Whitney
Zirui Xu, 2018-2020
Master project: Motion Planning with Moving Obstacles
Alma mater: Northeastern University, Shenyang, China
Current position: PhD student, University of Michigan
Joshua Netter, 2020-2021
Master project: Moving Target Defense for Drones
Alma mater: Georgia Institute of Technology
Current position: PhD student, Georgia Institute of Technology
Pavan Kumar Gundu, 2017-2019
Master thesis: High-Speed Platooning of UGVs using an Intermittent Learning Algorithm
Alma mater: IIT Madras, India
Current position: ADAS Research Engineer, Ford Motor Company
Jointly with Ryan Gerdes
Maria Grammatopoulou, 2018
Master project: Resilient Predictive Q-learning for IoT
Alma mater: Technical University of Crete, Greece
Current position: Program Manager, Transportation Operations Planning, Amazon
Jointly with Nathan Lau
George Kontoudis, 2016-2018
Master thesis: Design and Development of Anthropomorphic, Adaptive Robot Hands for Robust Grasping, and Dexterous, in-hand Manipulation
Alma mater: National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Current position: Assistant Professor, Colorado School of Mines
Jointly with Tomonari Furukawa
Former Post-doctoral Fellows, Research Engineers, Visitors, and Interns
Dr. Aris Kanellopoulos, 2022 (currently a Postdoc at KTH, Sweden)
Constantinos Costopoulos, 2022 (currently a Cloud R&D Engineer, NTT Data, Japan)
Daniel Zhao, 2022 (currently a student at the University of Pennsylvania)
Jianning Cui, 2020-2021 (currently a PhD student at the University of Pennsylvania)
Fukai Han, 2021 (currently an undergraduate student at the Ohio State University)
Yannis Loukidis, 2021 (currently a high school student at East Brunswick High School)
Dr. Sofia Karamintziou, 2017 (PhD from National Technical University of Athens, Greece; Placement: Associate at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, as of September 2017)
Filippos Fotiadis, 2019-2024
PhD thesis: Game-Theoretic Learning and Control for Resilience of Complex Adaptive Systems
Alma mater: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
First position: Postdoc, University of Texas, Austin
Nick-Marios Kokolakis, 2019-2024
PhD thesis: Fixed-Time Reinforcement Learning-based Control for Safe Autonomy
Alma mater: University of Patras, Greece
First position: Postdoc, University of Pennsylvania
Jose Messias Magalhães Júnior, 2019-2023
PhD thesis: Intelligent Data-driven Aerodynamic Analysis and Optimization of Morphing Configurations
Alma mater: Technological Institute of Aeronautics, Brazil
First position: Research Engineer, Georgia Institute of Technology
Prachi Pratyusha Sahoo, 2018-2023
PhD thesis: Secure, Intermittent, and Model-Free Autonomous Framework for Cyber Physical Systems
Alma mater: Georgia Institute of Technology
First position: Consultant, Boston Consulting Group (BCG)
Lijing Zhai, 2018-2023
PhD thesis: Architectures for Hardening Security in Intelligent Cyber-Physical Systems
Alma mater: Beihang University, China
First position: Quantitative Research Associate, JP Morgan Chase and Co
Hanqing Zhu, 2020-2022
PhD thesis: A Systems Engineering Approach to the Design and Education of a Robotic Baby
Alma mater: Georgia Institute of Technology, Lorraine, France
Final advisor after the departure of Eric Feron
First position: Research Scientist, META
Kevin Pierre Martial Garanger, 2020-2022
PhD thesis: Versatile and Structurally Efficient Aerial Systems Assembled from Polyhedral Rotorcraft Modules
Alma mater: Ecole Polytechnique, France
Final advisor after the departure of Eric Feron
First position: Postdoc, University of California, Irvine
Aris Kanellopoulos, 2017-2021
PhD thesis: Control and Game-Theoretic Methods for Secure Cyber-Physical-Human Systems
Alma mater: National Technical University of Athens, Greece
First position: Research Engineer, Georgia Institute of Technology
Current position: Postdoc, KTH, Sweden
Thanakorn Khamvilai, 2020-2021
PhD thesis: Optimization-based Design of Fault-Tolerant Avionics
Alma mater: Kasestart University, Thailand
Final advisor after the departure of Eric Feron
First position: Research Assistant Professor, Penn State University
Current position: Assistant Professor, Texas Tech University
Muskan Bawa, 2024
Master project: Space Robotics
Alma mater: University of Washington
First position: Lunar Lab, Georgia Institute of Technology
Samuel Carp, 2023-2024
Master project: Robotics
Alma mater: University of Pennsylvania
First position: Senior Flight Software Engineer at REGENT
Lee Gibson, 2023-2024
Master project: Safety Aware MPC
Alma mater: Georgia Institute of Technology
First position: TBD
Peter Lehmann, 2023-2024
Master project: Learning-based Safe Navigation
Alma mater: Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University, Germany
First position: TBD
Manthan Joshi, 2023
Master project: Ground Robot Path Planning and Obstacle Avoidance
Alma mater: Gogte Institute of Technology, India
First position: TBD
Haris Miller, 2023
Master project: Micro Robotics
Alma mater: Georgia Institute of Technology
Current position: Graduate Researcher LIDAR Group, Georgia Tech
Cedric Olivier Etoundi Moutymbo, 2022-2023
Master project: Reinforcement Learning and MuJoCo
Alma mater: West Virginia University
First position: Graduate Researcher, Georgia Tech
Alistair Sequeira, 2021-2023
Master project: Learning-based Control for Urban Air Mobility
Alma mater: Georgia Institute of Technology
First position: Controls Engineer, Blueflite
Constantinos Costopoulos, 2022-2023
Master thesis: Reachability Analysis Optimal Control
Alma mater: National Technical University of Athens
Co-Advisor: C. Psillakis
First position: Cloud R&D Engineer, NTT Data, Japan
Austin Hurst, 2022-2023
Master project: Robust Endo-Atmospheric Missile Guidance
Alma mater: Brigham Young University
First position: TBD
Taehwan Seo, 2021-2022
Master thesis: Verification of Adversarially Robust Reinforcement Learning Mechanisms in Autonomous Systems
Alma mater: Purdue
Current position: GNC Engineer, Boeing
Evan Hammac, 2020-2022
Master project: Air to Air Electrical Refueling
Alma mater: Arizona State University
Current position: Research Engineer, GTRI
Rafiya Tasnim, 2022
Master project: Reinforcement Learning for Inner-loop Flight Control
Alma mater: Georgia Institute of Technology
Current position: Flight Controls Engineer, Lockheed Martin
Aqib Syed, 2020-2022
Master project: Shape Morphing
Alma mater: Georgia Institute of Technology
Current position: PhD student, Stanford
Yoobin Kim, 2020-2022
Master project: Shape Morphing
Alma mater: Georgia Institute of Technology
Current position: Mandatory Military Service in South Korea
Dylan Staatz, 2020-2022
Master thesis: Model-Free Multi-Agent Motion Planning with Non-Uniform Sensors
Alma mater: Kansas State University
Current position: Engineer, Sandia National Laboratories
Vansh Kareer, 2020-2022
Master project: An Exploration of Individual and Centralized Approaches to Trajectory Planning in an Urban Air Mobility Simulation
Alma mater: Georgia Institute of Technology
Current position: Engineer, Lockheed Martin
Zelin Hu, 2020-2022
Master project: Q-learning and Humans-in-the-Loop
Alma mater: University of California, Irvine
Current position: PhD student, Georgia Institute of Technology
Brian Solar, 2021-2022
Master project: Reachability Analysis for Optimal Control
Alma mater: University of Central Florida
Current position: Engineer, GTRI
Danish Hussain, 2020-2021
Master project: UAV Spoofing Mechanisms
Alma mater: University of Texas, Austin
Current position: Engineer, Pratt & Whitney
Zirui Xu, 2018-2020
Master project: Motion Planning with Moving Obstacles
Alma mater: Northeastern University, Shenyang, China
Current position: PhD student, University of Michigan
Joshua Netter, 2020-2021
Master project: Moving Target Defense for Drones
Alma mater: Georgia Institute of Technology
Current position: PhD student, Georgia Institute of Technology
Pavan Kumar Gundu, 2017-2019
Master thesis: High-Speed Platooning of UGVs using an Intermittent Learning Algorithm
Alma mater: IIT Madras, India
Current position: ADAS Research Engineer, Ford Motor Company
Jointly with Ryan Gerdes
Maria Grammatopoulou, 2018
Master project: Resilient Predictive Q-learning for IoT
Alma mater: Technical University of Crete, Greece
Current position: Program Manager, Transportation Operations Planning, Amazon
Jointly with Nathan Lau
George Kontoudis, 2016-2018
Master thesis: Design and Development of Anthropomorphic, Adaptive Robot Hands for Robust Grasping, and Dexterous, in-hand Manipulation
Alma mater: National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Current position: Assistant Professor, Colorado School of Mines
Jointly with Tomonari Furukawa
Dr. Aris Kanellopoulos, 2022 (currently a Postdoc at KTH, Sweden)
Constantinos Costopoulos, 2022 (currently a Cloud R&D Engineer, NTT Data, Japan)
Daniel Zhao, 2022 (currently a student at the University of Pennsylvania)
Jianning Cui, 2020-2021 (currently a PhD student at the University of Pennsylvania)
Fukai Han, 2021 (currently an undergraduate student at the Ohio State University)
Yannis Loukidis, 2021 (currently a high school student at East Brunswick High School)
Dr. Sofia Karamintziou, 2017 (PhD from National Technical University of Athens, Greece; Placement: Associate at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, as of September 2017)