Meet the Team

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Principal Investigator

Henrik I Christensen
Research Director



Henrik I. Christensen is the director of Robotics at UC San Diego and the Qualcomm Chancellor’s chair of robot systems. HIs main research is on a systems approach to robotics. Dr. Christensen is the editor of the US National Robotics Roadmap 2009, 2013, 2016 and 2020. He has published about 400 contributions across robotics, computer vision and AI.

PhD Students

Seth Farrell
PhD in CSE.

Master of Science (M.S) - Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California San Diego, USA, 2023
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) - Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California San Diego, USA, 2021

Interests - Sensor Fusion, Robotics, Machine Learning


Yang Jiao (Joyce)
PhD in CSE.

Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) - Electronic Information Engineering, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, China, 2022
Master of Science (M.S.) - Electrical Engineering, University of California, San Diego, USA, 2024

Interests - Mobile Robot Mapping, Robot Navigation


Chenghao Li
PhD in CSE.

Bachelors of Science (B.S) - Electrical Engineering, Chongqing University, China, 2023
Master of Science (M.S.) - Electrical Engineering, University of California, San Diego, USA, 2025

Interests - Micro-Mobility Devices, Mobile Robotics, Autonomous Driving


Jing-yan Liao
PhD in CSE.

Master of Science (M.S) - Computer Science and Engineering, University of California San Diego, USA, 2023
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) - Mechanical Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taiwan, 2021

Interests - Trajectory Prediction, Perception, Autonomous driving


Rohan Patil
PhD in CSE.

Master of Science (M.S) - Computer Science and Engineering, University of California San Diego, USA, 2023
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) - Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar, India, 2021

Interests - Multi-agent reinforcement learning, learning in adversarial scenarios


Julian Raheema
PhD in CSE.

Master of Science (M.S) - Computer Science, San Diego State University, USA, 2016
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) - Computer Science and Mathematics, University of Mosul, Iraq, 2004

Interests - Intelligent Autonomous Robotics,, Mapping, Planning, and Task-oriented Robots


Luobin Wang (Robin)
PhD in CSE.

Master of Science (M.S) - Computer Science and Engineering, University of California San Diego, USA, 2023
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) - Computer Science, University of California, Irvine, USA, 2021

Interests - Perception, Artificial Intelligence with Robotics


Zihan Zhang
PhD in CSE.

Master of Science (M.S) - Computer Science and Engineering, University of California San Diego, USA, 2023
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) - Computer Science and Engineering, University of California San Diego, USA, 2021

Interests - Perception, Prediction, Autonomous driving, Robotics


Masters Students

Jesse Curran
MS in CSE.

Masters of Science - Computer Science and Engineering, University of California San Diego, California, USA, 2025
Bachelor's of Science - Computer Science, Oregon State University, USA, 2024
Bachelor's of Arts - Accounting, University of Washington, USA, 2020

Interests - Autonomous Driving, Mapping


Tomasz Frelek
MS in CSE.

Masters of Science - Computer Science and Engineering, University of California San Diego, California, USA, 2027
Bachelor's of Science - Computer Science / Mathematics, The Ohio State University, USA, 2025

Interests - Perception, Autonomous driving, Radar


Yih-Cherng Lin
MS in ECE.

Masters of Science - Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California San Diego, California, USA, 2027

Interests - Vehicle Control, System Integration, Autonomous driving


Charvi Shukla
MS in CSE.

Masters of Science - Computer Science and Engineering, University of California San Diego, California, USA, 2027

Interests - 3D Detection, Multi-Object Tracking (MOT), Autonomous driving


Zuo Wang
MS in CSE.

Masters of Science - Computer Science and Engineering, University of California San Diego, California, USA, 2025
Bachelor's of Science - Human Centered Design & Engineering, University of Washington, USA, 2025

Interests - Perception, Autonomous driving


Alumni

Abdulaziz Almuzairee ( PhD in CSE., 2026)
Abhijit Ravichandran ( MS in CSE., 2026)
Abhinandan Padhi ( MS in CSE., 2026)
Akshar Tumu ( MS in CSE., 2026)
Aneesh Jalan ( MS in CSE., 2026)
Danny Quang ( MS in CSE., 2026)
Jai Malegaonkar ( MS in CSE., 2026)
Jeongeun Lee ( MS in CSE., 2026)
Mathew Raju ( MS in CSE., 2026)
Spencer Soalt ( MS in CSE., 2026)
Jayanti Lahoti ( MS in CSE., 2025)
Jiaming Hu ( PhD in CSE., 2025)
Tong Shen ( MS in ECE., 2025)
Yiding Qiu ( PhD in CSE., 2025)
Hengyuan Zhang ( PhD in CSE., 2025)
Andrea Frank ( PhD in CSE., 2024)
Narayanan Elavathur Ranganatha ( MS in CSE., 2024)
Anwesan Pal ( PhD in CSE., 2023)
Christopher D'Ambrosia ( PhD in CSE., 2023)
Akanimoh Adeleye ( PhD in CSE., 2023)
David Paz ( PhD in CSE., 2023)
Shrutheesh R Iyer ( MS in CSE., 2023)
Srinidhi Bharadwaj ( MS in ECE., 2023)
Srirangan Madhavan ( MS in CSE., 2023)
Quan Vuong ( PhD in CSE., 2022)
Priyam Parashar ( PhD in CSE., 2021)
Ruffin White ( PhD in CSE., 2021)
Michelle Sit ( MS in CSE., 2020)
Shengye Wang ( PhD in CSE., 2020)
Carlos Nieto-Granda ( PhD in CSE, 2019)
Sumit Binnani ( MS in CSE., 2019)
Jaskaran Virdi ( MS in CSE., 2018)