YALE UNIVERSITY - Key Persons
Cameron Lerch is a fourth year Ph.D. student in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science at Yale. He earned his B.S. in Physics with minors in Mathematics, Geology, and Philosophy from Missouri University of Science and Technology in May 2019.
As an undergraduate, he researched quantum phase transitions using Monte Carlo simulations with Prof. Thomas Vojta at Missouri S&T. In the summer of 2018, he participated in Yale's CRISP Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship program, where he performed studies of cyclic shear deformation of bulk metallic glasses with Prof. Corey O'Hern. Cameron was selected as a NSF Graduate Research Fellow in 2019.
His research in the Intelligent Autonomy Lab focuses on control algorithms that utilize simple sensors to search and map an exploration space.
Dr. Ian Abraham leads the Intelligent Autonomy lab. He is an Assistant Professor in Mechanical Engineering at Yale University. Previously he was a Post Doc at the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University at the Biorobotics Lab. He received the B.S. degree in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from Rutgers University and the M.S. and Ph.D degree in Mechanical Engineering from Northwestern University at the Center for Robotics and Biosystems. His Ph.D. work focused on developing formal methods at the intersection of robot sensing, control, and active learning. During his Ph.D. he worked at the NVIDIA Seattle Robotics Lab where he worked on robust model-based control for large parameter uncertainty.
His research interest lies at the intersection of robotics, optimal control, machine learning, and artificial intelligence with a focus on active sensing and learning. His work has been featured in Robotics Weekly with his student for developing Spot Mini, an open-source, cost-effective quadrupedal robot. He is also the recipient of the 2019 King-Sun Fu IEEE Transactions on Robotics Best Paper award and the Northwestern Belytschko Outstanding Research Award for his dissertation.
Ethan is an undergraduate student majoring in Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science with an interest in Exploratory and Assistive Robotics.