Group Members

Current Group

Faculty

Qi Zhu

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Ph.D. Students

Simon(Sinong) Zhan

Reinforcement Learning, Formal Methods, Embodied Agent

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Xiangyu Shi

llm foundation model based embodied system

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• Philip Wang
• Zhenyang Ni

M.S. Students

• Dante Bailey
• Gehao Zhang
• Haodong Yang
• Lihao Zheng
• Tianhang Zhu
• Yiming Li
• Yiyan Peng

Undergraduate Students

• Brooks Hu
• Danah Ansari
• Eric Yang
• Ethan Foong
• Fiorelli Wong
• Jixin Yan
• Tia Rice

Alumni

Ph.D.

• Anthony Goeckner — PhD 2026
• Lixu Wang — Research Fellow at Nanyang Technological University (PhD 2024)
• Payal Mohapatra — PhD 2026
• Ruochen Jiao — Applied Scientist at Amazon (PhD 2024)
• Shichao Xu — Software Engineer at Google (PhD 2022)
• Shuyue Lan — Software Engineer at NVIDIA (PhD 2021)
• Xiangguo Liu — Research Scientist at Meta (PhD 2023)
• Yixuan Wang — Software Engineer at Aurora (PhD 2024)

M.S.

• Bingqi Shang — PhD student at MSU
• Chenxi Liu — PhD student at UMD
• Devashri Naik — PhD Student at University of Illinois at Chicago
• Frank Yang — Software Engineer at Scale.Ai
• Gyaan Antia
• Haijie Li
• Jinjin Cai — PhD Student at Purdue University
• Shamika Likhite — Software Engineer at SpeechAce
• Shivi Shivistrava — Controls Engineer at Merit Controls
• Shiyuan Duan — PhD student at UIUC
• Sparsh Gautam — Computer Vision Engineer at Tesla
• Talia Ben-Naim — Software Engineer at Medtronic
• Tianze Liu — PhD Student at Michigan Technological University
• Vincent Rimparsurat — Software Engineer at Epic Systems
• Weihe Gao
• Xiaoyuan Zhang
• Xinliang Li — PhD Student at University of Georgia
• Xinyu Cao
• Yueyuan Sui — PhD Student at Northwestern University
• Yufei Wang — PhD student at Northeastern
• Zinan Wang

Undergraduate

• Aria Ruan — Test Hardware Controls Engineer at Tesla
• Ruiqi Xu — PhD student at UChicago
• Samuel Hodge — Motor Engineer at Milwaukee Tool

Visitors

• Justin Liu — University of Southern California
• Nicolas Martinet — Predoctoral Research Associate at INSEAD