Robot Perception Lab

@ The Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University

People

Director

Michael Kaess
Michael Kaess
Associate Professor

Staff

Christine Downey
Christine Downey
Administrative Assistant
Jui-Te (Ray) Huang
Jui-Te (Ray) Huang
Research Associate
Lihong Jin
Lihong Jin
Research Associate
Taylor Pool
Taylor Pool
Research Associate
Andrew Wong
Andrew Wong
Research Associate

Students

Montiel Abello
Montiel Abello
Ph.D. Student
Hung-Jui (Joe) Huang
Hung-Jui (Joe) Huang
Ph.D. Student
Tushaar Jain
Tushaar Jain
Ph.D. Student
Dan McGann
Dan McGann
Ph.D. Student
Easton Potokar
Easton Potokar
Ph.D. Student
Mohamad Qadri
Mohamad Qadri
Ph.D. Student
Akash Sharma
Akash Sharma
Ph.D. Student
Tianxiang Lin
Tianxiang Lin
M.S. Student

Previous Postdocs

Joshua Mangelson
Joshua Mangelson
Postdoc 2019-2020
now Brigham Young University
Lipu Zhou
Lipu Zhou
Postdoc 2017-2019
now Meituan
Rafael Valencia
Rafael Valencia
Postdoc 2016-2017
now Scania Group

Previous Ph.D. Students

Akshay Hinduja
Akshay Hinduja
Ph.D. 2024
now MBARI
Sudharshan Suresh
Suddhu Suresh
Ph.D. 2024
now Boston Dynamics
Allie Chang
Allie Chang
Ph.D. 2023
now Rivian
Wei Dong
Wei Dong
Ph.D. 2023
now Apple
Paloma Sodhi
Paloma Sodhi
Ph.D. 2022
now ASAPP
Ming Hsiao
Ming Hsiao
Ph.D. 2020
now Meta Reality Labs
Eric Westman
Eric Westman
Ph.D. 2019
now Latitude AI
Pedro Teixeira
Pedro Teixeira
Ph.D. 2019 MIT
now Humatics
Dehann Fourie
Dehann Fourie
Ph.D. 2017 MIT
now NavAbility
Matthew Klingensmith
Matthew Klingensmith
Ph.D. 2016
now Boston Dynamics

Previous M.S. Students

Lihong Jin
Lihong Jin
M.S. 2024
now CMU staff
Jui-Te (Ray) Huang
Jui-Te (Ray) Huang
M.S. 2024
now CMU staff
Taylor Pool
Taylor Pool
M.S. 2024
now CMU staff
Samiran Gode
Samiran Gode
M.S. 2023
now Aethon
Talha Faiz
Talha Faiz
M.S. 2023
now Samsung Research
Yehonathan Litman
Yehonathan Litman
M.S. 2022
now Ph.D. student
Andy VanOsten
Andy VanOsten
M.S. 2022
Ruoyang Xu
Ruoyang Xu
M.S. 2022
now CARIAD
Akash Sharma
Akash Sharma
M.S. 2021
now Ph.D. student
Alex Baikovitz
Alex Baikovitz
M.S. 2021
now Mach9
Allison Wong
Allison Wong
M.S. 2021
now Martin Defense Group
Eric Dexheimer
Eric Dexheimer
M.S. 2020
now Imperial College
Josh Jaekel
Joshua Jaekel
M.S. 2020
now Argo AI
Chenfeng Tu
Chenfeng Tu
M.S. 2020
now Apple
Sudharshan Suresh
Suddhu Suresh
M.S. 2019
now Ph.D. student
Zimo Li
Zimo Li
M.S. 2019
now AutoNavi
Jack (Yi) Yang
Jack (Yi) Yang
M.S. 2019
now Nuro
Jerry Hsiung
Jerry Hsiung
M.S. 2018
now Dusty Robotics
Bing-Jui Ho
Bing-Jui Ho
M.S. 2018
now Motional
Puneet Puri
Puneet Puri
M.S. 2017
now Stanford GSB
Garrett Hemann
Garrett Hemann
M.S. 2016
now EagleView
Tiffany Huang
Tiffany Huang
M.S. 2016
now Nuro

Previous MSCV and MRSD Students

Andrew Wong
Andrew Wong
MRSD 2024
Chris Klammer
Chris Klammer
MSCV 2023
Shuqin Xie
Shuqin Xie
MSCV 2021
Dongfeng Yu
Dongfeng Yu
MSCV 2021
Anand Bhoraskar
Anand Bhoraskar
MSCV 2020
Yurou Yang
Prakhar Kulshreshtha
MSCV 2020
Sajal Maheshwari
Sajal Maheshwari
MSCV 2020
Yurou Yang
Yurou Yang
MSCV 2020
Kenan Deng
Kenan Deng
MSCV 2019
Syed (Ashar) Javed
Syed (Ashar) Javed
MSCV 2019
Wenwen Si
Wenwen Si
MSCV 2019
Jingguang Zhou
Jingguang Zhou
MSCV 2019
Yu Ding
Yu Ding
MSCV 2018
Yongchi Su
Yongchi Su
MSCV 2018
Prakruti Gogia
Prakruti Gogia
MSCV 2017
now Microsoft Hololens
Kuan-Yu Chen
Kuan-Yu Chen
MSCV 2017
Daoyuan Jia
Daoyuan Jia
MSIIS 2017
now Uber ATG

Previous Visitors/Interns

Thomas Snyder
Thomas Snyder
2021
RISS Intern
Greg Woelki
Greg Woelki
2020
Undergraduate
Zilin Si
Zilin Si
2019
RISS Intern
Yang Zhou
Yang Zhou
2018
RISS Intern
Jiawei Tang
Jiawei Tang
2018
RISS Intern
Tairui Wang
Tairui Wang
2017
Intern
Tushar Kusnur
Tushar Kusnur
2017
Visiting Student
Guofeng Zhang
Guofeng Zhang
2016, 2017
Visiting Professor
Jieqi Shi
Jieqi Shi
2017
Visiting Student
Griffin Tabor
Griffin Tabor
2016
RISS Intern
Shengming Zhang
Shengming Zhang
2016-2017
Visiting Student