Professor

Heni Ben Amor
Assistant Professor and Principal Investigator
Email: hbenamor@asu.edu
Website: henibenamor.weebly.com
Post-Docs

Bassem Makni
Postdoctoral Research Scholar and Co-Director
Group Members

Geoffrey Clark
PhD Student
Email: gmclark1@asu.edu

Joe Campbell
PhD Student
Email: jacampb1@asu.edu
Website: https://sites.google.com/asu.edu/jcampbell/

Mark Strickland
PhD Student
Email: mestric1@asu.edu
Website: mestrickland.com

Michael Drolet
PhD Student
Email: mdrolet@asu.edu

Shubham Sonawani
PhD Student
Shubham Sonawani is a Ph.D. student in Electrical Engineering at ASU. He joined the Interactive Robotics Lab in Fall 2018; before that he finished his MS in Electrical Engineering at ASU and Bachelor of Technology at VJTI, India. His research interests include reinforcement learning based manipulation and grasping, motion planning, computer vision and controls. Furthermore, he has worked on multiple research projects, including a joint research project with NASA/JPL on “In-space assembly of objects using arm augmented cubesat.” He is also one of the winners of the KEEN research grant. He wants to use his knowledge and skills to improve the current state of the art approaches in AI and machine learning for robotics.
Email: sdsonawa@asu.edu

Simon Stepputtis
PhD Student
Email: sstepput@asu.edu
Website: simonstepputtis.com
Alumni

Trevor Richardson
Master's Student

Ashish Kumar
Master's Student

Cesar Tamayo Claro
Undergraduate Student - FURI
Email: ctamayoc@asu.edu

Hannah Rae Kerner
PhD Student
Email: hkerner@asu.edu
Website: http://hannah-rae.github.io/

Indranil Sur
Master's Student

Kevin Sebastian Luck
PhD Student
Email: ksluck@asu.edu
Website: kevin-luck.com

Nambi Srivatsav
Master's Student

Nikhil Kalige
Intuitive Surgical
Who are you?
I am Nikhil, a Master’s student in Computer Engineering (Fall 14).
How did you get interested in (interactive) robotics?
My fascination towards robotics grew as I worked with embedded systems and participating in Lego events.
In which (research) topics, you are interested?
Bi-manual manipulation
What are you currently working on?
I am currently working on developing Bi-manual Learning techniques for a Basketball Playing Robot using Reinforcement learning.
What is your goal for the future?
I would love to work in robotics product development areas.
Website: http://shortcircuits.io


Ramsundar Kalpagam Ganesan
Master's Student
I have nearly 2 years of industrial experience working at Robert Bosch Engineering in Automotive Embedded Software development. Currently I am working on developing a vision based system, which could simultaneously track and project augmented information on objects. My focus on the project is in developing and optimizing a model based (using edges) object tracker for Human-Robot collaborative environments, utilizing the image feed from a monocular camera.

Ricky Johnson
Undergraduate Student

Trevor Barron
PhD Student
Email: tpbarron@asu.edu

Yash Rathore
Master's Student
I started working with Prof Heni Ben Amor a few months back and got introduced into the world of robotics. I am currently working on developing an Interactive environment for humans & robots to work simultaneously and safely. I’m interested in Augmented Reality, 3D Graphics and Algorithms.
In future I’d like to see and work towards creating a world where latest technologies are easily accessible to make human life much more easier.
Visitors

David Vogt
Visitor from TU Bergakademie Freiberg

Hirofumi Shin
Visitor from Osaka University
He has JSPS Research Fellow from April 2017, and received his master’s degree in Information Science and Technology and is currently working in the Department of System Innovation, Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University since April 2015. His research interests are in biologically inspired and biomimetic robot and locomotion.

Philipp Beckerle
Visitor from Technische Universität Darmstadt

Shuhei Ikemoto
Visitor from Osaka University