alumni

Ben is a 4th-year student studying Computer Science. He is interested in how robots can perceive the world through computer vision and is currently working on underwater trash detection.

Mitra (she/her) is a first-year student majoring in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering. She is interested in the intersection of Computer Science and the natural world, making her very excited to
research underwater robotics.

Ruobing is graduated from the Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) Department at the University of Minnesota (UMN) Twin Cities in Spring of 2021. His research interests lie in machine learning with a particular interest in deep learning for robotics. He also worked as a teaching assistant at the Dept of CSE, UMN. For more information, visit his homepage at http://ruobingw.com/.

Chris is an undergraduate junior majoring in Computer Science and minoring in Mathematics at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities. He is interested primarily in autonomous robot navigation and is working on semantic obstacle avoidance in an underwater setting.

Keara is a senior computer science major at Macalester College. She is interested in how artificial intelligence and robotics can be used for social good. Keara will be joining the lab for the summer as an NSF REU participant.

Chris graduated in the Spring of 2021, majoring in Computer Science. He is interested in the intersection of machine learning, computer vision, and robotics. His research looked into the synthetic data generation and semantic segmentation of underwater imagery, diver face detection, and detection-driven image enhancement. He is heading to the University of Virginia to pursue doctoral studies.

Tanmay majored in Computer Science at the University of Minnesota. His primary research interests are in robot perception. He is worked on predicting diver motion to improve diver following by robots underwater. In the past, he worked with the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search (CDMS) group in the Department of Physics to create a neutron shield for the group's dark matter detector. He joined Sentera after graduating from the UoM in the Spring of 2021.

Muntaqim is a junior majoring in Computer Science, and his primary interests are in Robotics and Software Engineering. In this, he has been working on the problems of  Robot Communication via Motion and the Semantics Segmentation of Underwater Imagery.

Emma graduated from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, at the end of Spring 2020, double-majoring in Computer Science and Mathematics, and with a minor in Astrophysics. Her primary interests in these fields are robotics and abstract algebra, respectively. Emma worked on integrating a realistic simulation of the Aqua robot in Unreal Engine with virtual reality. Her next destination: pursuing a Ph.D. in Computer Science at the University of Chicago in Fall 2020.

Kim majored in Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics at the University of Minnesota with a minor in Computer Science. She is interested in control and vision system mechanics, and worked with the lab on fault detection and diagnosis as they apply to underwater robotics. Her honors thesis investigated autopilot control system for the LoCO vehicle. She started full-time work at Collins Aerospace in Spring 2021.