Alumni
"Wherever you go, go blue!"
Get a sense of the roles and organizations that Michigan Robotics alumni take on after graduation. The alumni below are only a small sample of the many talented individuals who have graduated from the program. The Engineering Career Resource Center (ECRC) allows you to explore more detailed post-graduation and internship employment data.
| Name↕ | Graduation Year↕ | Degree↕ | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brandon Apodaca | 2026 | PhD | Robotics Software Engineer, Anduril |
| Kristen Umbriac | 2025 | MS | Robotics Engineer, Stryker Mako |
| Max Rucker | 2025 | MS, BS | AI/ML Engineer, Booz Allen |
| Peter Redman | 2025 | MS | Software Engineer, Applied Intuition |
| Ariana Verges Alicea | 2025 | MS | |
| Vinay Angara | 2025 | MS | |
| Kevin Best | 2025 | PhD | Research Associate, U-M Robotics |
| Omer Benharush | 2025 | MS | Machine Learning Engineer, Saddlepoint Labs |
| Chien Erh (Cynthia) Lin | 2024 | PhD | Applied Scientist, Amazon Robotics |
| Sriram Priyadharshan | 2024 | MS | SLAM engineer at Bonsai Robotics |
| Ziyou Wu | 2024 | PhD | Postdoctoral Researcher, Empa Soft Kinetic Group |
| Yuxin Chen | 2022 | MS | PhD Student, MSC Lab & BAIR, UC Berkeley |
| Lu Gan | 2022 | PhD | Assistant Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology |
| Varun Satyadev Shetty | 2021 | MS | |
| Sravan Balaji | 2021 | MS | Software Engineer, Metron |
| Hebert Azevedo-Sa | 2021 | PhD | Assistant Professor - Military Institute of Engineering (Brazil) |
| Zheming Zhou | 2021 | PhD | Applied Scientist, Amazon Lab126 |
| Brian Bittner | 2021 | PhD | Research Scientist, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab |
| Sai Prakash Chalavindala | 2020 | MS | Robotics Software Engineer, Qualcomm |
| Ning Xu | 2020 | MS | Software Engineer - Localization, Motional |
| Madhav Achar | 2020 | MS | Robotics Engineer, Quantum Signal AI |
| Xinyi Zhuang | 2020 | MS | Software Engineer, Facebook |
| Joseph Lowman | 2020 | MS | ML/Robotics Engineer at Cruise |
| Dale McConachie | 2020 | PhD | Research Scientist, Toyota Research Institute |
| Luowei Zhou | 2020 | PhD | Research Scientist, Google Deepmind |
| Yu-Chi Lin | 2020 | PhD | Software Engineer, Nuro |
| Mert Selamet | 2019 | MS | ADAS Development Engineer, Honda R&D |
| Murali Tejo Vijay Narasimhadevara | 2019 | MS | Software Developer, CapSen Robotics |
| Laura Chrobak | 2019 | MS | Research Scientist, Tidal | X, the moonshot factory (formerly Google [X]) |
| Parth Chopra | 2019 | MS | Research Engineer, Honda R&D |
| Brandon Peterson | 2019 | MS | Robotics Controls Engineer, IHMC |
| Peiyan Gong | 2019 | MS | Software Engineer, Object Perception, Toyota Research Institute |
| Siddharth Ratapani Navin | 2019 | MS | Software Engineer, Zoox |
| Sagar Israni | 2019 | MS | Computer Vision Engineer, Voxel51 |
| Zaid Ashai | 2019 | MS | Software Engineer, iRobot |
| Sahib Dhanjal | 2019 | MS | Senior Software Engineer - Computer Vision/SLAM, Magic Leap |
| Joshua Mangelson | 2019 | PhD | Faculty, Brigham Young University |
| Ross Hartley | 2019 | PhD | Applied Scientist, Amazon Robotics AI |
| Mia Stevens | 2019 | PhD | Autonomy Engineer, Aurora Flight Sciences |
| Mrunmayee Deshpande | 2018 | MS | PhD candidate, Texas A&M University |
| Yu-Ming Chen | 2018 | MS | PhD Student, GRASP Lab, University of Pennsylvania |
| Vivek Reddy Alla | 2018 | MS | Robotics Software Engineer, Treetown Tech, LLC |
| Kurt Lundeen | 2018 | MS | Research Engineer in Robotics, Ford Motor Company |
| Xinzhi Fan | 2018 | MS | Software Engineer, Wing |
| Abhishek Venkataraman | 2018 | MS | Senior Robotics Engineer, May Mobility |
| Huajing Zhao | 2018 | MS | Research Assistant, University of California, Los Angeles |
| Owen Marshall | 2018 | MS | Software Engineer, SoarTech |
| Youngwoo Cho | 2018 | MS | Android Application Consultant, Akervall Technologies |
| Peter McHale | 2018 | MS | Technical Program Manager, May Mobility |
| Yaohui Guo | 2018 | MS | Ph.D. Student, IOE, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor |
| Yunwen (Verse) Zhou | 2018 | MS | Software Engineer - Motion Tracking, Google (AR Perception, formerly Daydream) |
| Julie Messing | 2018 | MS | Artificial Intelligence Engineer, SoarTech |
| Rachel Harris | 2018 | MS | Controls Engineer, Dephy Inc. |
| Shiyang Lu | 2018 | MS | PhD Student in Computer Science, Rutgers University |
| Theodore Nowak | 2018 | MS | Data Scientist, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory |
| Chenjun Yang | 2018 | MS | Software Engineer, Indeed |
| Ganesh Sevagamoorthy | 2017 | MS | Perception Engineer, Aptiv |
| Yiqian Gan | 2017 | MS | Research Engineer, TuSimple |
| Fu-Chun Yeh | 2017 | MS | Senior Perception Algorithm Engineer, Qualcomm Autonomous Driving Research |
| Yu Zhu | 2017 | MS | Software Engineer, Perception, Waymo |
| Derrick Dominic | 2017 | MS | Software Engineer, Waymo |
| Asheesh Ranjan | 2017 | MS | Senior Robotics Engineer, May Mobility |
| Ci-Jyun (Polar) Liang | 2017 | MS | Robotics Fellow, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health |
| Mason Sutorius | 2017 | MS | Feature Development Engineer, Delphi Automotive |
| Yih-Jye Jeffery Hsu | 2017 | MS | Automated Driving Engineer, Delphi Ottomatika |
| Sean Messenger | 2017 | MS | Senior Robotics Engineer, May Mobility |
| Victoria (Torrie) Edwards | 2017 | MS | Researcher, Naval Research Lab |
| Chih-Kang Chang | 2016 | MS | PhD Student, Harvard University |
| Meghan Richey | 2015 | MS | Machine Learning Specialist, ITS-Advanced Research Computing at U-M |