PEOPLE Karl Iagnemma, Principal Research Scientist Principal Investigator, Robotic Mobility Group Department of Mechanical Engineering 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Room 35-237a Cambridge, MA 02139 USA Office phone: 617 452 3262 Fax: 617 258 5802 Karl's Bio Karl's CV Karl's Fiction Carmine Senatore, Postdoctoral Associate Carmine is a postdoctoral associate in the Robotic Mobility Group, working on tire-terrain interaction problems and vehicle dynamics analysis. He received a B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Politecnico di Milano in 2004, and completed his Ph.D. degree in Engineering Mechanics at Virginia Tech, with his thesis addressing the mobility, handling and tractive efficiency of wheeled off-road vehicles. Carmine's research interests include vehicle dynamics, off-road vehicle mobility, dynamical systems theory, vibrations and control. Carmine's resume Carmine's website Sisir Karumanchi, Postdoctoral Associate Sisir is a postdoctoral associate in the Robotic Mobility Group, working on semi-autonomous control and off-road mobility assessment. He received a Bachelors degree in Mechatronic Engineering from the University of Sydney in 2005, and completed his Ph.D. with the Australian Centre for Field Robotics at the University of Sydney in 2010. His Ph.D. thesis involved the application of machine learning techniques to assess off-road mobility with proprioceptive feedback. Broadly speaking, his research focus is in closing the loop from perception to action for autonomous or semi-autonomous systems. His specific research interests include Off-road perception, Proprioception, Optimal Control, Vehicle-terrain interaction, Soft hazard negotiation and Bayesian non-parametric inference. Sisir's website Watanabe Masaaki, Postdoctoral Associate Masaaki is a postdoctoral fellow in the Robotic Mobility Group, working on terrain sensing for autonomous control of mobile robot and mechanism design for climbing robot using adhesion force of MR fluid. He received a Bachelor and Master of Engineering in 2007 and 2009 respectively at Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan, and completed his Ph.D. degree of Engineering at Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan. His Ph.D. thesis involved design methods of dynamics based autonomous control system by using orbit attractor for underactuated system such as a legged robot. Masaaki's research interests include environment sensing in uncertain area, robot mechanism design, dynamic and autonomous control theory and mechatronics. Masaaki's website at TokyoTECH Nadia Cheng, PhD Student Nadia Cheng received her Bachelor’s degree in Aerospace Engineering from University of California, San Diego, and her Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT.  She is a National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellow.  Nadia is currently doing research in mechanism design and developing tunable-stiffness composites for SQUISHbot, a slug-inspired robot. Junghee Park, PhD Student Junghee Park received his Bachelor's degree and Master's degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Seoul National University, Korea. He had served in the military as a lecturer in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Science at Korea Military Academy. His research interests include cooperation of multiple robots, collision avoidance, stealth behavior of pursuers for intercepting an evader, and semi-autonomous control of passenger vehicles. Alexandre Constantin, MS Student Alexandre is a Master student in the Robotic Mobility Group. He received his Bachelor's degree in Engineering from Ecole Polytechnique (Paris, France). His research interests focus on trajectory optimization and developing new control methods for high speed autonomous and semi-autonomous vehicles, based on neuro-inspired driving concepts such as eye-tracking data. Bhargav Gajjar, Research Affiliate Bhargav Gajjar is a Research Affiliate with the Robotic Mobility Group investigating energy efficient, bio-inspired, multi-mode robotic mobility, including flying, perching, swimming, walking, running, and crawling. Previously Bhargav worked on an intelligent prosthesis with the MIT Media Lab, a gravity gradient stabilized nano satellite with the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, and both an automated robotic manipulator for life support applications and an insect-inspired space rover with the NASA KSC Space Life Sciences Lab. He is also the president of Vishwa Robotics. ALUMNI Sterling Anderson, PhD Student, 2012 Steven Peters, Postdoc, 2012 Nick Wiltsie MS Student, 2012 Jianwei Gong, Visiting Professor, 2012 Chris Brooks, Postdoc, 2012 Phil Salesses, Research Affiliate, 2012 Shanbao Cheng, Postdoc, 2012 Fengchi Sun, Visiting Scholar, 2011 Shengyan Zhou , Visiting PhD Student, 2010 Matt McDaniel, MS Student, 2010 Takayuki Nishihata, Visiting Engineer, 2010 Gaurav Kewlani, MS Student, 2010 Genya Ishigami, Postdoc, 2010 Martin Udengaard, MS Student, 2008