Director
Maani Ghaffari
Assistant Professor
Department of Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering
Robotics Institute
University of Michigan
Email: maanigj (at) umich (dot) edu
Team Members
Postdocs and Staff
Jingwei Song
Postdoc
Email: jingweso (at) umich (dot) edu
Aishwarya Unnikrishnan
Research Engineer
Email: shwarya (at) umich (dot) edu
Graduate Students
Bruce JK Huang
PhD Student, Robotics
Email: bjhuang (at) umich (dot) edu
Ray Zhang
PhD Student, Robotics
Email: rzh (at) umich (dot) edu
Minghan Zhu
PhD Student, Mechanical Engineering
Email: minghanz (at) umich (dot) edu
Tribhi Kathuria
PhD Student, Robotics
Email: tribhi (at) umich (dot) edu
Chien Erh (Cynthia) Lin
Tzu-Yuan (Justin) Lin
Sangli Teng
PhD Student, Robotics
Email: sanglit (at) umich (dot) edu
Bo Fu
PhD Student, Robotics
Email: bofu (at) umich (dot) edu
Joseph Wilson
PhD Student, Robotics
Email: wilsoniv (at) umich (dot) edu
Jorge Arce-Garro
PhD Student, Mathematics
Email: jorem (at) umich (dot) edu
Duong Le
PhD Student, Robotics
Email: duongqle (at) umich (dot) edu
Tingjun Li
MS Student, Robotics
Email: tingjunl (at) umich (dot) edu
Jingyu Song
MS Student, ECE
Email: jingyuso (at) umich (dot) edu
Tianyi Liu
MS Student, Robotics
Email: tannertl (at) umich (dot) edu
Undergraduate Research Assistants
Ashwin Gupta
Undergrad Student
Email: ashmg (at) umich (dot) edu
Justin Yu
Undergrad Student
Email: yujustin (at) umich (dot) edu
Zoe Li
Undergrad Student
Email: zoeli (at) umich (dot) edu
Mellisa Lee
Undergrad Student
Email: mellisal (at) umich (dot) edu
Dilan Huang
Undergrad Student
Email: dilanh (at) umich (dot) edu
Zareef Safdar
Undergrad Student
Email: szareef (at) umich (dot) edu
Arthur Zhang
Undergrad Student
Email: arthurzh (at) umich (dot) edu
Past Lab Members
Lu Gan
PhD, Robotics
Email: ganlu (at) umich (dot) edu
Next Position: Postdoc at Caltech
Youngji Kim
Visiting Student
PhD Student, KAIST
Xi Lin
MS, Robotics
Email: bexilin (at) umich (dot) edu
Next Position: PhD Student, Stevens Institute of Technology
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.
Sejal Sharma
Undergrad Student
Email: sesharma (at) umich (dot) edu
Maria Fields
Undergrad Student
Email: fimaria (at) umich (dot) edu
Nikhil Sridhar
Undergrad Student
Email: niksrid (at) umich (dot) edu