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.
Anirudh Nair
Graduate Student (pursuing PhD in Computer Science)
Department of Computer
Science
[Personal Website]
Research Interests: Deep Learning for Robotics, Multimodal Perception
Anirudh is interested in robotics, imitation learning, reinforcement learning, and computer
vision. Outside of research, he enjoys walking and listening to music (a lot), watching
movies, and traveling.
Tanushree Burman
Graduate Student (pursuing PhD in Computer Science)
Department of
Computer Science
Research Interests: Reinforcement Learning for Robotics
Tanushree works with integrating AI/RL in stem education using novel engineering. Her
interests include explainable RL and human in the loop reinforcement learning.
Brennan Miller-Klugman
Graduate Student (pursuing PhD in Computer Science)
Department
of Computer Science
[Personal
Website]
Research Interests: Human-Robot Interaction, Augmented Reality, Multi-agent
Systems
Brennan is interested in augmented reality and how it can be used to facilitate human-robot
interactions. Outside of his research, Brennan enjoys playing board games, reading, and
spending time with his dogs.
Si Liu
Graduate Student (pursuing PhD in Computer Science)
Department of Computer
Science
Research Interests: Deep Learning for robotics, Multimodal Learning
Si is interested in Multimodal Deep Learning and its practical implementation in robotics.
She is currently exploring knowledge transfer among robots equipped with multiple sensors.
Outside of research, she enjoys snowboarding, basketball, running, and video games.
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
