ENVIRONMENTAL ROBOTICS - Key Persons

Alyssa is a fourth-year student at Worcester Polytechnic Institute majoring in robotics engineering and minoring in computer science and mechanical engineering. She is also a peer mentor and a member of the WPI women's club Ultimate Frisbee team. Post-graduation, Alyssa aspires to continue to work in the field of environmental robotics.

Job Titles:

• Assistant Professor
• Assistant Professor of Robotics Engineering at WPI

Berk is an assistant professor in the Robotics Engineering Department and Computer Science Department of Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI). He leads the Manipulation and Environmental Robotics (MER) lab and focuses on identifying and investigating environmental research problems for robotics. He also works on fundamental research questions regarding robotic manipulation and does research on robotic grasping, control of soft robots, active vision strategies, and within-hand manipulation. He facilitates performance quantification methods for robotic manipulation, and is a cofounder of Yale-CMU-Berkeley (YCB) benchmarking project, which provides a platform for the robotic manipulation community to develop shared benchmarking protocols. Prior to WPI, he was a post-doc in

Maya is a third-year student at WPI working towards a degree in robotic engineering. Additionally, Maya works under WPI's Office of Multicultural Affairs where she mentors freshmen students who are not represented in STEM. After graduation, Maya hopes to leverage her knowledge of robotics engineering in the fields of biomechanics or environmental engineering.