PhD students
Venkata Sai Deepak Mutta
(Fall 2025 – Present)
Research: Intelligent Adaptive Robotic Assistance
Thesis-Based Master student
Ali Abbasi
(Summer and Fall 2024)
Research: multimodal inverse reinforcement learning for cognitive assessment
Undergraduate researchers
Joseph Watkins
(Fall 2025)
Research: Vision-Guided Adaptive Throwing Robot: Learning Precision Object Launching with Real-Time Visual Feedback
Jonathan Shelton
(Fall 2025 and Spring 2026)
Research: Real-Time Wearable-Guided Control of Collaborative Robot with IMU, Gesture, and EMG for Human–Robot Teaming
Recipient of the Bagley College of Engineering Undergraduate Research Award
Lonnie Tankersley
(Fall 2025)
Research: Embodied LLM Reasoning for Zero-Shot Human-Like Task Execution in Robotics
Brian Fitzpatrick
(Summer and Fall 2025) Research: Three-Body Coordination: Perceptive Motion Planning for Mobile Robot.
Lydia Valentine
(Summer 2025)
Research: Augmenting Human Dexterity through Contactless Human-Robot Interaction.
Bennet Reetz
(Summer 2025)
Research: Vision-Driven Language Reasoning for Adaptive Robotic Arms in Unstructured Human–Robot Collaboration.