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
Postdocs and Staff
Graduate Students
Minghan Zhu
PhD Candidate, Mechanical Engineering
Email: minghanz (at) umich (dot) edu
Tribhi Kathuria
PhD Candidate, Robotics
Email: tribhi (at) umich (dot) edu
Chien Erh (Cynthia) Lin
Tzu-Yuan (Justin) Lin
Sangli Teng
PhD Candidate, Robotics
Email: sanglit (at) umich (dot) edu
Bo Fu
PhD Candidate, Robotics
Email: bofu (at) umich (dot) edu
Joseph Wilson
PhD Candidate, Robotics
Email: wilsoniv (at) umich (dot) edu
Jorge Arce-Garro
PhD Candidate, 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
Yuewei Fu
MS Student, Robotics
Email: ywfu (at) umich (dot) edu
Yifan Xu
MS Student, Robotics
Email: yfx (at) umich (dot) edu
Theodor Chakhachiro
MS Student, Robotics
Email: teochiro (at) umich (dot) edu
Yanbaihui (Evelyn) Liu
MS Student, ECE
Email: yanbhliu (at) umich (dot) edu
Wenzhe Tong
MS Student, Mechanical Engineering
Email: wenzhet (at) umich (dot) edu
Xiang Gao
MS Student, Robotics
Email: gxiang (at) umich (dot) edu
Junzhe Wu
MS Student, ECE
Email: junzhewu (at) umich (dot) edu
Zhuowen Shen
MS Student, CSE
Email: mickshen (at) umich (dot) edu
Undergraduate Research Assistants
Xihang (Jimmy) Yu
Undergrad Student, College of LSA: Computer Science & Mathematics
Email: xihangyu (at) umich (dot) edu
Justin Yu
Undergrad Student
Email: yujustin (at) umich (dot) edu
Next Position: Incoming PhD student, UC Berkeley
Fenghua Yang
Undergrad Student, College of LSA: Computer Science
Email: yfenghua (at) umich (dot) edu
Benjamin Rossano
Undergrad Student
Email: brossano (at) umich (dot) edu
Past Lab Members
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
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
Youngji Kim
Visiting Student
PhD Robotics, KAIST
Next Position: NAVER LABS
Arthur Zhang
Undergrad Student
Email: arthurzh (at) umich (dot) edu
Next Position: CS PhD student, UT Austin
Jingyu Song
MS Student, ECE
Email: jingyuso (at) umich (dot) edu
Next Position: PhD Student, University of Michigan
Xi Lin
MS, Robotics
Email: bexilin (at) umich (dot) edu
Next Position: PhD Student, Stevens Institute of Technology
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 Lee
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
Zareef Safdar
Undergrad Student
Email: szareef (at) umich (dot) edu
Next Position: Incoming 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