Lab Director
Jivko Sinapov
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science
[Personal Website]
Graduate Students
Andre Cleaver
Graduate Student (pursuing PhD in Human-Robot Interaction)
Department of Mechanical Engineering
[Personal Website]
Research Interests: Human-Robot Interaction, Augmented Reality
Andre is currently working on a Ph.D. in Human-Robot Interaction with a focus on using Augmented Reality technology to improve the communication between robots and humans. He is a GEM Fellow with a Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering. Outside of research, he enjoys drawing, biking, playing guitar, and game development.
Shivam Goel
Graduate Student (pursuing PhD in Computer Science)
Department of Computer Science
[Personal Website]
Research Interests: Reinforcement learning, Robot Intelligence, Multi-agent Systems
Shivam is interested in Reinforcement learning (RL) and applied RL in making intelligent robots. His current research focuses on continual and lifelong learning in reinforcement learning to make machines adaptable to changes in the environment. He usually finds free time to do photography, traveling, cooking, and running.
Yash Shukla
Graduate Student (pursuing PhD in Computer Science)
Department of Computer Science
[Personal Website]
Research Interests: Reinforcement Learning for Robotics
Yash is interested in reinforcement learning, multiagent systems and their applications to robotics. His current research focuses on identifying reinforcement learning techniques that bridge the gap between simulation and reality. Outside of research, he loves to play board games, travel and watch movies.
Gyan Tatiya
Graduate Student (pursuing PhD in Computer Science)
Department of Computer Science
[Personal Website]
Research Interests: Deep Learning for Robotics, Multimodal Perception
Gyan is interested in knowledge transfer, multi-modal learning and manipulation in robots. Currently, he is working on knowledge transfer techniques in robots that enable new robots to learn a specific task from trained robots. Outside of his research, Gyan enjoys photography, biking, working-out and cooking.
Alumni and Past Advisees
Evana Gizzi
Joint Ph.D. in Computer Science and Cognitive Science, Spring 2022
Job after Tufts: NASA Goddard
Dissertation: Creative Problem Solving in Intelligent Agents: Domain-Agnostic Methods for Novelty Resolution
Saurav Gyawali
B.Sc. in Computer Science and Mathematics, Spring 2021
Job after Tufts: Software Engineer, Arista Networks
Representative Publication: A Novelty-Centric Agent Architecture for Changing Worlds
Charles DeLorey
B.Sc. in Computer Science, Spring 2020
Job after Tufts: Masters student in medical robotics, Imperial College London
Representative Project: Design, fabrication, and programming of 5-fingered underactuated robotic hand for use with ROS
Michael Edegware
B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering, Spring 2020
[Personal Website]
Job after Tufts: Software Engineer, RightHand Robotics
Representative Publication: Haptic Knowledge Transfer Between Heterogeneous Robots using Kernel Manifold Alignment
Mateo Guaman
B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering, Spring 2020
[Personal Website]
Job after Tufts: Research Staff, Tufts University
Representative Publication: Creative Problem Solving by Robots Using Action Primitive Discovery
Amel Hassan
B.Sc. in Computer Science, Spring 2020
[Personal Website]
Job after Tufts: Software Engineer at Microsoft
Representative Publication: Creating a Shared Reality with Robots
Faizan Muhammad
B.Sc. in Computer Science, Spring 2020
[Personal Website]
Job after Tufts: Software Engineer, Google, Mountain View, CA
Representative Publication: Creating a Shared Reality with Robots
