CLEAROBOTICSLAB.GITHUB.IO - Key Persons
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- Student in ASE ( 2021 - 2023 ) Pacific Northwest National Lab
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- Student, Computer Science, UT Austin
Brett Barkley is a Computer Science PhD student at the University of Texas at Austin co-advised by David Fridovich-Keil and Amy Zhang. Brett's research interest focuses on methods that promote waste minimization in the lifecycle of deep reinforcement learning algorithms, specifically the 3 Rs: reduce, reuse, recycle.
Before enrolling at UT, Brett was an employee of the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory where he was the sub and full-scale aircraft red team autonomy lead for DARPA ACE. Brett holds a BS and MS in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Maryland and a BS in Engineering Physics from Elon University. Outside of research, Brett enjoys being a hobbyist in brazilian jiu jitsu, playing video games with friends, and eating entirely too much H-E-B queso.
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- Student in ME ( 2021 - 2022 )
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- Undergraduate Student, Aerospace Engineering, UT Austin
Cade Armstrong is a third-year undergraduate student at The University of Texas at Austin. He is studying Aerospace Engineering with a minor in Computer Science. Cade's main areas of interest include Orbital Mechanics, Optimization, Dynamics and Modeling, Control Systems, Computational Methods, and Game Theory. After his undergrad, Cade plans to pursue a master's degree in Aerospace Engineering as well.
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- Principal Investigator
- Assistant Professor at the University of Texas at Austin
- Assistant Professor, Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, UT Austin
David Fridovich-Keil is an assistant professor at the University of Texas at Austin. David's research spans optimal control, dynamic game theory, learning for control, and robot safety. While he has also worked on problems in distributed control, reinforcement learning, and active search, he is currently investigating the role of dynamic game theory in multi-agent interactive settings such as traffic. David's work also focuses on the interplay between machine learning and classical ideas from robust, adaptive, and geometric control theory. David completed his PhD under the supervision of Claire Tomlin at UC Berkeley and did a postdoc at Stanford University with Mac Schwager. During his PhD, David interned at Nuro, where he worked on motion planning and prediction. David is the recipient of an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship and an NSF CAREER Award.
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- Student, Aerospace Engineering, UT Austin
Dong Ho Lee is a PhD student at the University of Texas at Austin. Dong Ho's research interests lie at the intersection between optimization, control theory and learning for autonomous multi-agent systems.
Prior to UT Austin, Dong Ho served as a First Lieutenant (Research Officer) in the ROK army for 3 years in Daejeon, South Korea. He received his B.S. and M.S. in Aerospace Engineering at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST).
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- Undergraduate Student, Aerospace Engineering Honors, UT Austin
Eric Ouano is a third-year undergraduate aerospace engineering student at the University of Texas at Austin. His research interests include advancing multi-agent systems by integrating reinforcement learning, game theory, and generative modeling. Previously, Eric contributed at ATA Engineering by developing a computational approach for hypersonic contour visualization.
Outside of research, he enjoys helping out Texas Aerial Robotics, critiquing coffee shops and playing Monster Hunter.
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- Student, Aerospace Engineering, UT Austin
Fernando Palafox is a Ph.D. student at the Department of Aerospace Engineering at UT Austin. He is interested in building artificial intelligence that can reason about multi-agent interactions. His research leverages control theory, game theory, and machine learning.
Learn more about his research here.
Fernando was born and raised in Mexico City and holds a B.S. and M.S. in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Colorado Boulder. Outside of research, he enjoys reading and exercising. Read more about him here.
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- Master 's and Ph.D. Student, Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, UT Austin
Hamzah Khan is a Master's and Ph.D. student at the University of Texas at Austin in the Aerospace Engineering department and is advised by Professor David Fridovich-Keil. His interests span distributed control and planning, game theory, interpretability in learned systems, robot safety, and autonomous vehicles. He worked for three years in the self-driving vehicle industry at Uber ATG and subsequently Aurora Innovation. Hamzah completed his undergraduate degree at Harvey Mudd College in Southern California (Class of 2018).
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- Master
- Master 's and PhD Student, Aerospace Engineering, UT Austin
Jacob Levy is a Master's and PhD student at the University of Texas at Austin. Jake is interested in developing algorithms for robotic systems which learn from past experiences to adapt to changing dynamics and unseen environments. This includes research in machine learning (ML), reinforcement learning (RL), and adaptation techniques which will enable effective real-world performance where only uncertain dynamics models of the system and environment are available.
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- Student in ME ( 2021 - 2023 )
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- Student in ASE ( 2022 - 2023 )
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- Undergraduate Student, Aerospace Engineering & Plan II, UT Austin
Kaitlyn Donnel is a third-year undergraduate student in the aerospace engineering department at the University of Texas at Austin. Her main areas of interest include planning and control of complex, multi-agent systems through the lens of optimization and game theory. Outside of the lab, Kaitlyn is a part of the Longhorn Rocketry Association and the Women in Engineering Program. In her free time, Kaitlyn enjoys watching movies, taking dance classes, and following baseball.
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- Student, Electrical and Computer Engineering, UT Austin
Kushagra's main goal is to work towards making robots boring - as ubiquitous as refrigerators! His main research interests lie at the intersection of learning, control and games for robotics. He is an ECE PhD student coadvised by David Fridovich-Keil, Ufuk Topcu and Sandeep Chinchali.
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- Undergraduate Student, Aerospace Engineering and Physics, UT Austin
Nguyen Ly is a third-year aerospace engineering and physics student. His research interests lie in the planning and autonomy of multibody systems, focusing on exploring potential habitable planetary bodies and their natural satellites.
Outside academia, he enjoys reading, collecting frame data for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, and checking out the latest indie animations.
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- Student in ECE ( 2022 - 2024 )
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- Student in the Department of Aerospace Engineering
- Student, Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, UT Austin
Ronnie Ogden is a PhD student in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at UT Austin. He is currently researching how to leverage optics for real-time vision compression in robotics systems. His recent work utilizes the fields of stochastic control/estimation, information theory and physics.
Prior to UT, Ronnie was a flight test engineer at Wisk Aero in Mountain View, CA. He has a passion for improving autonomous flight systems and exploring new problems. Ronnie received his BS in Aerospace Engineering and Mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In his free time, he enjoys climbing, language learning and solving puzzles.
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- Undergraduate Student in ASE ( 2023 )
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- Undergraduate Student, Computational Engineering and Mathematics, UT Austin
Yash Jain is an undergraduate student at the University of Texas at Austin majoring in Computational Engineering at the Cockrell School of Engineering and Mathematics at the College of Natural Sciences. Yash is interested in safe interactions and optimal decision-making in multi-agent systems. Besides helping with research, Yash is also part of the Texas Spacecraft Laboratory (TSL) and tutors at Sanger. In his free time, Yash enjoys traveling, playing Minecraft, and watching movies.