Alumni

Postdocs and PhD Students:

  • Bahar Haghighat, SNSF Postdoc, 2019-22, Faculty @ Univ. of Groningen, Netherlands
  • Julia Ebert, PhD 2022, Researcher @ OutRider
  • Florian Berlinger, PhD 2021 Postdoc 2021-22, Researcher @ Fidelity ML Labs
  • Helen McCreery, JSMF Fellow Postdoc, 2018-2021, Lecturer @Tufts University
  • Melinda Malley, PhD 2020, Faculty @ Olin College
  • Nicole Carey, Postdoc, 2015-2019, Researcher @ AutoDesk Robotics
  • Melvin Gauci, Wyss TechDev fellow, 2015-2019, Researcher @ Amazon Robotics
  • Daniel Calovi, Postdoc, 2015-2019, Researcher @ Max Planck Institute, Germany
  • Jeff Dusek, Postdoc 2016-17, Faculty @ Baldwin Wallace University.
  • Kirstin Petersen, PhD 2014, Faculty @ Cornell (Packard Fellow 2019, Tenured 2023)
  • Mike Rubenstein, Postdoc 2011-15, Faculty @ Northwestern (Sloan Fellow 2018, Tenured 2023)
  • Monica Ortiz, Postdoc 2013-15, STEM Faculty @ Greenwich Academy
  • Alex Cornejo, Postdoc 2012-14, Engineer, Google
  • Nils Napp, Postdoc 2012-14, Faculty @ Cornell
  • Richard Moore, Postdoc 2012-14, Engineer, SINTEF (Norway)
  • Karthik Dantu, Postdoc 2011-13, Faculty @ SUNY Buffalo (Tenured)
  • Spring Berman, Postdoc 2011-12, Faculty @ Arizona State Univ (Tenured 2018!)
  • Sabine Hauert, Affiliate, Faculty @ Univ. of Bristol, UK
  • Leia Stirling, Affiliate, Faculty @ Univ. of Michigan (Tenured 2019)
  • Yong-lae Park, Wyss Fellow 2010-13, Faculty @ CMU
  • Bor-rong Chen, Postdoc 2009-11, Engineer, Apple
  • Tyler Gibson, PhD 2011, Researcher, CalTech
  • Nick Hoff, PhD 2011, Researcher, BBN
  • Chih-han Yu, PhD 2010, Founder & CEO, Appier
  • Ankit Patel, PhD 2008, Faculty @ Rice University and Baylor College
  • Daniel Yamins, PhD 2008, Faculty @ Stanford
  • Justin Werfel, PhD 2006, Research Scientist, Harvard

Masters Students at Harvard (2004-2021)

  • Johannes Boghaert, (ETH Masters Student, 2021)
  • Paula Wulkop (ETH Masters Student, 2020)
  • Jeremy Wanner (EPFL, Masters Student, 2020)
  • Lucie Houel (EPFL Masters Student, 2019)
  • Florian Berlinger (ETH 2016, Low-cost Underwater Robot)
  • Luca Brusatin (EPFL 2015, Kilobot Dispersion Algorithms)
  • Lucian Cucu (EPFL 2014, Self-Assembling Robots)
  • Raphael Cherney (EPFL 2012, Optic Flow Aerial Vehicles) => RootRobotics co-founder!
  • Adrian Cabrera (EPFL 2011, Collective Transport)
  • Jona Raphael (BU 2011, Wearable Hand Orthotic)
  • Julius Degesys (2008, Self-organizing Networks)
  • FX Williems (2007, Self-adapting Modular Robots)
  • Jimming Cheng and Winston Cheng (2005, Shapebugs Algorithm)

Undergraduates at Harvard (2004-2021) 

Georgina Gemayel (USC, 2020-21), Candice Chen (Harvard 2021), Suverino Frith (WPI 2020-21), Billy Koech (Harvard, EE Senior Thesis, 2019-2020), Lucas Guzman (Harvard, 2019-2020), Gabriel Thomas Seymour (Columbia, 2019), Katherine Binney (Harvard, CS Senior Thesis, 2018-2019), Audrey Jones (MSU, 2018), Sophia Nielsen (Olin, 2018), Noon Farsab (Rochestor, 2018), Erika Gutierrez (CSUSB, 2018), Isabel Schaal (F&M, 2018), Katya Soltan (Olin, 2017), Arielle-Cherie Paterson (UMBC, 2017), Jesus Hernandez (Swarthmore, 2017), Ranye Mclendon (UMBC, 2017), Kayla Engelsted (UMinn, 2017), Erika Gutierrez (CSUSB, 2017), Annaleah Ernst (2016-17), Serena Booth (2015-16, Hoopes Prize Winner), Elizabeth Esterly (UNM, 2016), Suproteem Sarkar (2016), Lilly Percival (Bunker Hill, 2016), Marley Asford (2016), Sara Lewis (2016), David Becerra (2015), Dylan Altschuler (Princeton, 2015), Jonathan Budd (2015), Bo Cimino (2015), Devin Carroll (2014), Max Kanwal (2014), Jao-ke Chin-Lee (2012), Rapheal Cherney (Olin, 2012), Jessica Wu, Olive Rappoli (WPI), Neena Kamath, Peter Bailis (Now Faculty @ Stanford), Fiona Wood, KyuBok Lee, Susan Zheng (CMU), Noah Olsman (USC), Rebecca Belisle (Olin College, Now Faculty @ Wellesley!),Sid Chandrasekhran, Svilen Kanev, David Robinson, Kristina Haller (MIT), Andrei Munteanu, Crystal Schuil, Matthew Valente

Other Group Members at Harvard (2004-2021)

Jordan Kennedy (Harvard PhD Student, 2018-2021 co-advised), Zack Zeiper (Harvard PhD Student, 2019), Christian Ahler (Research Staff, 2012), Ernesto Martinez-Villalpando (co-advised postdoc), Chandana Paul (postdoc), Mirko Bordignon (Visitor, Univ of Southern Denmark), Ian Rose (grad student), Joe Barillari (grad student).