Awtar, Shorya
Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Precision engineering; mechatronics; flexure mechanisms; high-precision high-bandwidth motion systems for applications in nanometrology and nanomanufacturing; MEMS sensors and actuators; minimally invasive surgery.
Faculty Profile | Precision Systems Design Laboratory | YouTube Video
Baveja, Satinder Singh
Professor, Computer Science and Engineering
Reinforcement learning and planning approaches to building artificial agents that can learn from experience to act autonomously in complex, stochastic, and partially-known environments.
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Cutler, James
Associate Professor, Aerospace Engineering
Robotic exploration of space with emphasis on design optimization, sensor systems, communication networks, and novel nanosatellite missions.
Faculty Profile | Michigan Exploration Laboratory
Deng, Jia
Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Engineering
Computer vision, machine learning, human computation, image and video understanding, big visual data.
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Ding, Zhao
Assistant Research Scientist, Mechanical Engineering
Autonomous vehicles, smart/connected transportation, traffic safety and rare event analysis, human machine interaction, dynamics and control, machine learning, and big data analysis.
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Durfee, Ed
Professor, Computer Science and Engineering; Co-director, Technology Increasing Knowledge: Technology Optimizing Choice (TIKTOC), U-M Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center
Intelligent coordination among multiple autonomous and semi-autonomous systems. Director of the Robotics and Autonomous Vehicles (RAV) M. Eng. Degree program at Integrative Systems + Design Division (ISD).
Faculty Profile | Distributed Intelligent Agents Group Website | YouTube Video
Ersal, Tulga
Associate Research Scientist, Mechanical Engineering
Autonomous vehicles, teleoperation, system dynamics and control, multibody dynamics, energy management, mathematical modeling.
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Girard, Anouck
Associate Professor, Aerospace Engineering
Nonlinear control and systems engineering with applications to unmanned vehicle systems, and Director of the Michigan/AFRL Collaborative Center in Control Sciences.
Faculty Profile | Aerospace, Robotics, and Controls (ARC) Laboratory
Griffin, Brent
Assistant Research Scientist, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Active perception, bipedal locomotion, control optimization and signal processing, computer vision.
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Jin, Judy
Professor, Industrial and Operations Engineering
Statistical methods for quality and reliability engineering with the focus on distributed sensing, dynamic system modeling, online monitoring and diagnosis, and optimal decision-making for improving system design, operations, and maintenance strategies.
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Kamat, Vineet
Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Collaborative autonomous robots for construction, inspection, and maintenance of civil infrastructure.
Faculty Profile | Laboratory for Interactive Visualization in Engineering (LIVE) | YouTube Channel
Lafortune, Stephane
Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
System and control theory; discrete event systems; cyber-physical systems. Supervisory control, fault diagnosis, security and privacy in control systems. Formal methods of control. Application to automated and autonomous systems, multi-agent systems, software systems, and computer systems.
Laird, John
John L. Tishman Professor of Engineering; Professor, Computer Science and Engineering
Autonomous intelligent robots, integration of robotic and cognitive architecture, interactive task learning.
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Lasecki, Walter
Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Engineering; Assistant Professor, School of Information
Crowdsourcing, human computation, Human-in-the-Loop Robotics, intelligent systems and scene understanding and annotation.
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Lee, Honglak
Morris Wellman Faculty Development Assistant Professor; Professor, Computer Science and Engineering
Artificial intelligence, signal and image processing, robotics and computer vision.
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Lee, SangHyun
Associate Professor and John L. Tishman Faculty Scholar, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Human Robot Collaboration in Construction, Markerless Motion Capture, Brain Robot Interface
Faculty Profile | Dynamic Project Management
McGee, Wes
Assistant Professor, Architecture and Material Performance (Architecture and Urban Planning)
Robotic applications in architecture and construction, large-scale digital fabrication, offline simulation tool development, online control and sensing, algorithmic and parametric design workflows.
Faculty Profile | matterdesign website
Mihalcea, Rada
Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Natural language processing, computational social sciences, multimodal tracking and understanding of human behavior. Human-Robot interaction.
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Moldwin, Mark
Professor, Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering
Magnetometer and integrated sensor development for localization and navigation, with applications for indoor, underground, underwater and other GPS denied environments.
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Mower Provost, Emily
Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Engineering
Audio-visual modeling of human behavior focusing on emotion. Focus on assistive speech-based technologies.
Faculty Profile | Computational Human-Centered Analysis and Integration Laboratory Website
Ojeda, Lauro
Assistant Research Scientist, Mechanical Engineering
Research interests include mobile robotics, position estimation, sensor fusion, simulation , adaptive systems, control systems and digital signal processing. This research enables projects in the fields of accurate localization and tracking systems for mobile robots and humans.
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Oldham, Kenn
Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Design, fabrication, dynamics, sensing, and control of microscale systems, including autonomous, millimeter-scale micro-robots.
Faculty Profile | Microdynamics Laboratory: Microsystems
Orosz, Gabor
Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Connected and automated vehicles, ground robots, networks and complex systems, nonlinear dynamics and control, time-delay systems.
Faculty Profile | Faculty Website | Video: Ground Robotics Experiment
Peng, Huei
Roger L. McCarthy Professor; Professor, Mechanical Engineering; US Director, US-China Clean Energy Research Center-Clean Vehicle Consortium
Adaptive and optimal control, particularly for energy systems, including hybrid vehicles and small robots.
Faculty Profile | Faculty Website | U.S.-China Clean Energy Research Center | Prof. Peng speaks at Robotics Day 2014
Reed, Matthew
University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute; Research Professor, Industrial and Operations Engineering
Human motion tracking and simulation; grasp modeling; computational modeling of perception, cognition, and motor action; driving monitoring and simulation.
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Robertson, Jennifer
Professor, Anthropology and History of Art (LSA)
Human-robot coexistence and interaction, especially as visualized and
practiced in Japan (and East Asia more generally); robot rights vs. human
rights; robot ethics; robot design; gendering robots and robot gender
(especially humanoids); robot therapy and robot caregivers.
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Stein, Jeffrey
Professor, Mechanical Engineering; Associate Director, Automotive Research Center
Systems and control including machine design, control, monitoring, and diagnostics; physical system modeling; automated modeling; bond graph theory; proper modeling of active suspensions; proper vehicle handling and ride models; high efficiency dynamic formulations for vehicle dynamics.
Faculty Profile | Automotive Research Center
Weiland, James
Professor, Biomedical Engineering and Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences
Retinal Prosthesis for the Blind, Computer Vision for Low-Vision Assistance, Human-Computer Interaction, Visual Electrophysiology, Multi-Sensory Integration.
Faculty Profile | Prof.
Weiland's Website
Yang, Xi Jessie
Assistant Professor, Industrial and Operations Engineering
Human-autonomy/robot interaction, primarily focused on modeling human users' trust in automation/robots and designing interfaces that facilitate trust calibration and HAI/HRI team performance.
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Zhang, Zhengya
Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Embedded hardware and accelerator design for machine learning and robotics.
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