People
Faculty
Lab Director: Prof. Wei-Min (Weimin) Shen,
shen @ isi . edu
ISI Fellow (retired): Prof. Peter Will,
will @ isi.edu
ISE Professor: Prof. Berok Khoshnevis, khoshnev @ usc.edu
Alumni (PhDs)
Thomas Collins, collinst@usc.edu, 2012-(PhD 2018), Now at Apple.
Joseph Chi-An Chen, chianc@usc.edu, 2012-(PhD 2018), Now in Taiwan.
Luenin Barrios, lueninba@usc.edu, 2010-(PhD 6/2017), Now at Boeing.
Jacob Everist, everist@usc.edu,
2004-(PhD defence 2/2/2015), Now at AeroSpace.
Nadeesha Ranasinghe, nadeeshr@usc.edu,
2006-(PhD defence 8/14/2012), Now at Amazon.
Feili Hou, fhou@usc.edu,
2004-2010, PhD Thesis: Optimal self-reconfiguration. Now at Apple.
Mike Rubenstein, mrubenst@usc.edu,
2004-2009, PhD Thesis: Self-Assembly and Self-Healing for Robotic Collectives. Current Position: Processor, Northwestern University.
Jay Modi, 1998-2003, PhD Thesis: Distributed Constraint Optimization for Multi-Agent Systems. Assistant Professor in Computer Science, Drexel University. (Deceased)
Kasper Stoy, 2000-2002, PhD Thesis: Control of Self-Reconfigurable Robots. Professor, University of Copenhagen, University of Southern Denmark.
Behnam Salemi, salemi@isi.edu,
1997-2003, PhD Thesis: Distributed Control for Chain-Typed Self-Reconfigurable Robots. Hughes Research Center, Malibu, CA.
Jafar Adibi, 1997-2002, Thesis topic: Self-Similarity and Extended Hidden Markov Models for Data Mining. Current position: Project Leader, Price Waterhouse.
Chi Ho Chiu (CS), chichiu@isi.edu,
Jens Windau (CS), jenswindau@googlemail.com
Scientists
Dr. Akiya Kamimura, akiya@isi.edu (2009-2010)
Dr. Mark Moll, mmoll@cs.rice.edu (2005-2007)
Dr. Andres Castano, Andres.Castano@jpl.nasa.gov, (1998-2001)
Mr. Robert Kovac, Machinist, rkovac@asi-space.com (1998-2000)
Students
Master Student Workers (2024)
Charlene Yuen (CS) (2024)
Harrison Pearl (CS) (2024)
Ethan Bootehsaz (CS) (2024)
Dave Samia (CS) (2024)
Joel Mahammed-Piage (CS) (2024)
Le Duong (ME/CS Junior) (2024)
Master Student Workers (Past)
Teawon Han (CS) (2012)
Wei Jiang (CS) (2011)
Steven Spinn (CS) (2010)
Justin Lei (CS) (2010)
Michele Kawate (BME) (2010)
James Lee (PHYS) (2010)
Pietro Francesconi (AA), pietro.francesconi@gmail.com (2010)
Duckho Kim (CS), duckhoki@usc.edu
Nisha Ganeriwal (CS), ganeriwa@usc.edu
Rizwan Khan (CS), rizwankh@usc.edu
Peter Shin (EE), shinjinwoo@gmail.com (2007)
Nickolas Kiswanto (EE), kiswanto@gmail.com (2005-2007)
Harold Lim (CS), harold.lim@cs.duke.edu (2005-2006)
Kwangjin Han (CS), kwangjih@usc.edu (2003-2004)
Milind Gupta (EE), milind.gupta@usc.edu (2004-2005)
Kenneth C. Payne (CS), kpayne@rockwell.com (2003-2006)
David Brandt (CS), brent@mip.sdu.dk (2005)
Jagadesh B. Venkatesh (CS), jvenkate@usc.edu (2004-2006)
Maks Krivokon (CS), krivokon@usc.edu (2003-2004)
Kasra Mogharei (ISE), kmoghare@isi.edu (2002-2004)
Harshit Suri (EE), harshit@isi.edu (2002-2004)
Payam Bozorgi (ISE), bozorgi@usc.edu, (1998-1999)
YuanYuan Yu (CS), yuanyu@usc.edu (1999)
Yusuf Ateskan (EE), ateskan@isi.edu (2000-2001)
Yimin Lu (MS), chris.lu@oracle.com (1998-2001)
Yuankai Wang (CS), yuankaiw@usc.edu (1999-2000)
Ramya Balasundaram (CS), ramya@isi.edu (2001)
Ramesh Chokkalingam (CS), rameshc@rfdomus.com (1998-2000)
Arvind Seshadri (CS), arvind@isi.edu (1999-2000)
Garg Rajiv (CS), rajiv@isi.edu (1999-2000)
Madhura Sahasrabudhe (CS), sahasrab@usc.edu (2000)
