Director
Maani Ghaffari
Assistant Professor
Department of Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering
Department of Robotics
University of Michigan
Email: maanigj (at) umich (dot) edu
Team Members
Faculty, Postdocs, and Staff
Minghan Zhu
Graduate Students
Tribhi Kathuria
Chien Erh (Cynthia) Lin
Tzu-Yuan (Justin) Lin
Kaito Iwasaki
Junzhe Wu
PhD Student, NAME - Autonomous Systems
Email: junzhewu (at) umich (dot) edu
Ben Liu
Visiting Student
PhD Candidate, Southern University of Science and Technology
Chankyo Kim
PhD Student, Robotics
Email: chankyo (at) umich (dot) edu
Tim Lazouski
PhD Student, NAME - Autonomous Systems
Email: tlazousk (at) umich (dot) edu
Undergraduate Research Assistants
Yile Sun
Undergrad Student, Data Science
Email: sunyyyl (at) umich (dot) edu
Ruihan Xu
Undergrad Student, Computer Science
Email: rhxu (at) umich (dot) edu
Past Lab Members
Bo Fu
PhD, Robotics
Email: bofu (at) umich (dot) edu
Next Position: Amazon Robotics
Bruce JK Huang
PhD, Robotics
Email: bjhuang (at) umich (dot) edu
Next Position: Google
Lu Gan
PhD, Robotics
Email: ganlu (at) umich (dot) edu
Google Scholar, GitHub, Website
Next Position: Postdoc at Caltech (Assistant Professor at Georgia Tech)
Jingwei Song
Postdoc
Email: jingweso (at) umich (dot) edu
Website, LinkedIn, Google Scholar, GitHub, Youtube
Next Position: Senior Software Engineer at United Imaging Research Institute of Intelligent Imaging, Beijing
Max van IJsseldijk
Visiting Student
MS Student, Eindhoven University of Technology
Mohammadali Zakeriharandi
Visiting Student
PhD Candidate, Aalborg University
Youngji Kim
Visiting Student
PhD Robotics, KAIST
Next Position: NAVER LABS
Xihang (Jimmy) Yu
Undergrad Student, College of LSA: Computer Science & Mathematics
Email: xihangyu (at) umich (dot) edu
Next Position: PhD Student, MIT
Justin Yu
Undergrad Student
Email: yujustin (at) umich (dot) edu
Next Position: PhD student, UC Berkeley
Fenghua Yang
Undergrad Student, College of LSA: Computer Science
Email: yfenghua (at) umich (dot) edu
Next Position: PhD student, University of Michigan
Arthur Zhang
Undergrad Student
Email: arthurzh (at) umich (dot) edu
Next Position: CS PhD student, UT Austin
Jinyuan Zhang
Undergrad Student
Email: jyzh (at) umich (dot) edu
Next Position: MS student, University of Southern California
Benjamin Rossano
Undergrad Student
Email: brossano (at) umich (dot) edu
Next Position: PhD Student, MIT
Theodor Chakhachiro
MS Student, Robotics
Email: teochiro (at) umich (dot) edu
Next Position: PhD student, University of Southern California
Zhuowen Shen
MS Student, CSE
Email: mickshen (at) umich (dot) edu
Next Position: PhD student, Texas A&M UniversityĀ
Yanbaihui (Evelyn) Liu
MS Student, ECE
Email: yanbhliu (at) umich (dot) edu
Next Position: PhD student, Duke
Yuewei Fu
MS Student, Robotics
Email: ywfu (at) umich (dot) edu
Next Position: PhD student, University of Rhode Island
Yifan Xu
MS Student, Robotics
Email: yfx (at) umich (dot) edu
Next Position: PhD student, University of Michigan
Jingyu Song
MS Student, ECE
Email: jingyuso (at) umich (dot) edu
Next Position: PhD Student, University of Michigan
Xi Lin
MS Student, Robotics
Email: bexilin (at) umich (dot) edu
Next Position: PhD Student, Stevens Institute of Technology
Tingjun Li
MS Student, Robotics
Email: tingjunl (at) umich (dot) edu
Next Position: Amazon
Xiang Gao
MS Student, Robotics
Email: gxiang (at) umich (dot) edu
Next Position: SLAM Algorithm Developer, General Motors
Tianyi Liu
MS Student, Robotics
Email: tannertl (at) umich (dot) edu
Next Position: Software Engineer, Meta
Aishwarya Unnikrishnan
Research Engineer
Email: shwarya (at) umich (dot) edu
Next Position: Robotics Software Engineer, Nuro
Yicheng Tao
Research Engineer
Email: yichengt (at) umich (dot) edu
Next Position: Robotics & Machine Learning Engineer in China
Xin Luo
Research Engineer
Email: luoxin (at) umich (dot) edu
Next Position: Robotics Engineer, Refraction AI, Inc.
Nicole Campbell
MS Student, Robotics
Email: nicoca (at) umich (dot) edu
Next Position: Prof. Panagou's Lab as Research Assistant
Fengkai Chen
MS Student, ECE
Email: fengkai (at) umich (dot) edu
AJ Bull
MS Student, Robotics
Email: augustb (at) umich (dot) edu
Mellisa LeeĀ
Undergrad Student
Student Artist
Email: mellisal (at) umich (dot) edu
Dilan Huang
Undergrad Student
Student Artist
Email: dilanh (at) umich (dot) edu
Ashwin Gupta
Undergrad Student
Email: ashmg (at) umich (dot) edu
Nikhil Sridhar
Undergrad Student
Email: niksrid (at) umich (dot) edu
Zoe Li
Undergrad Student
Email: zoeli (at) umich (dot) edu
Next Position: MS student, Johns Hopkins University (PhD student, University of Southern California)
Zareef Safdar
Undergrad Student
Email: szareef (at) umich (dot) edu
Next Position: MS student, Simon Fraser University
Sejal Sharma
Undergrad Student
Email: sesharma (at) umich (dot) edu
Maria Fields
Undergrad Student
Email: fimaria (at) umich (dot) edu