alumni

Grace Campidilli

Biography
Grace was an undergraduate studying Statistics and Plant Science at Cornell University who graduated in December 2022. She is most interested in applications of machine learning and robotics in agricultural field settings and throughout the food supply chain.
 
She was an NSF REU on Human-centered computing for social good in the Summer of 2022.
Grace Campidilli

Ashwin Wariar

Biography

Ashwin is an undergraduate student at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities. They are currently studying computer science, and are interested in robotics, artificial intelligence, and machine learning.

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Nyomi Morris

Biography

Nyomi is a computer science student at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, joining the IRV Lab for the summer 2022 REU experience. She is particularly interested in exploring how understanding can be reached between people and robots through field robotics, computer vision, and deep learning. She was an NSF REU on Human-centered computing for social good in the Summer of 2022.

Nyomi M

Jordan Zumberge

Biography

Jordan is a second-year M.S. in Robotics student interested in helping field robots interact and work with people and other robots.

Jordan Zumberge

Ashvin Pidaparti

Biography

Ashvin (he/him) was an UROP Spring 2022 student from Computer Engineering, who was interested in using Computer Vision to help underwater robots robustly detect and follow objects of interest.

Ashvin P.

Connor Pargman

Biography

Connor is a Computer Science master's student. He is interested in how robots can be used in unsafe environments using computer vision in place of humans.

Connor Pargman

Aditya Prabhu

Biography

Aditya is an undergraduate student in his sophomore year (2021-22) at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, currently studying computer engineering and interested in robotics, Internet of Things, (IoT) and machine learning. 

Aditya Prabhu

Marcus Rana

Biography
Marcus was an undergraduate student (double major in Computer Science and Data Science) with an UROP award in Fall 2021 during his sophomore year at the University of Minnesota.  His project created a VR environment for the Aqua underwater robot to use in underwater human-robot interaction studies. The poster for his work can be found here.
Marcus Rana Photo

Izzy Hurley

Biography

Izzy (she/her) participated in the NSF REU site when she was a rising 3rd-year student pursuing a major in Computer Science with a minor in Chemistry at Colby College. She is interested in human-computer interaction and various applications of machine learning. With the IRV Lab, she worked on optimizing deep learning models for computer vision and risk assessment as part of the NSF REU program on Human-centered computing for social good in Summer 2021.

Izzy Hurley

Nyle Siddiqui

Biography

Nyle was a senior at the University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire dual majoring in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science. His research at his home institution involved using behavioral biometrics and recurrent neural networks for user authentication and cybersecurity. He worked on optimizing deep learning algorithms for robotic vision during his stay under the NSF REU on Human-centered computing for social good program for Summer 2021.

Nyle Siddiqui