People

The Healthcare Robotics Lab was founded in September of 2007 and closed in August of 2023.

Lab Founder and Former Director

Charles C. Kemp, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering
Adjunct Associate Professor, School of Interactive Computing
Adjunct Associate Professor, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Honorary Lab Members

Henry Evans
Collaborator
Jane Evans
Collaborator

Alumni – Ph.D.

Patrick Grady (co-advised by Prof. James Hays)
Robotics Ph.D. – 2023
AI Research Scientist at Meta
Henry Clever
Robotics Ph.D.  – 2021
Applied Research Engineer, Simulation and AI at NVIDIA
Zackory Erickson
Robotics Ph.D.  – 2021
Assistant Professor at CMU in the Robotics Institute
Ari KapustaAriel “Ari”  Kapusta
Robotics Ph.D. – 2018
Autonomous Systems Engineer, Lead – MITRE
Daehyung ParkDaehyung Park
Robotics Ph.D. – 2018
Assistant Professor at KAIST in the School of Computing
Phillip M. Grice
Robotics Ph.D.  –  2017
Senior Principal Robotics Software Engineer at iRobot
Tapomayukh BhattacharjeeTapomayukh “Tapo” Bhattacharjee
Robotics Ph.D.  –  2017
Assistant Professor at Cornell in the Department of Computer Science
Tiffany ChenTiffany Chen, Ph.D.
Robotics Ph.D.  –  2014
Manager, Toyota Research Institute (TRI)
Hai NguyenHai Nguyen, Ph.D.
Robotics Ph.D.  –  2014
First employee at Mayfield Robotics (RIP)
Sofware Engineer at Aurora, a self-driving technology company
Marc Killpack, Ph.D.
Robotics Ph.D.  –  2013
Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Brigham Young University (BYU)
Advait Jain

Advait Jain, Ph.D.
Robotics Ph.D.  –  2012
Co-founded a robotics company that was acquired by Google
Senior Software Engineer at Google

Travis DeyleTravis Deyle, Ph.D.
Electrical and Computer Engineering Ph.D.  –  2011
CEO of Cobalt Robotics
MIT Technology Review’s 35 under 35 Innovator  –  2015
Young Sang ChoiYoung Sang Choi, Ph.D.
Industrial and Systems Engineering Ph.D.  –  2009
Vice President, Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology

Alumni – Postdoc & Visiting Faculty

Aaron KingAaron King, Ph.D.
Former Post-Doc
Engineering Manager, New Product Development, ThyssenKrupp
mbellamineMohamed Sahbi Bellamine, Ph.D.
Former Visiting Fullbright Scholar
Carthage University, Tunisia

Alumni – Graduate

Matthew Lamsey
Jeremy Collins
Cody Houff
You Liang Tan
Louis Nguyen
Naveen Balaji
Pratyusha Karnati
Esther (Yijun) Gu
Joshua Wade
Yash Chitalia
Ashwin A. Shenoi
Kevin Chow
Jeff Hawke
Kelsey Hawkins
Victor Emeli
Jason Okerman
Elaine Short
Zhengqin Fan
Zhe Xu
Martin Schuster
Cressel Anderson
Ph.D. Student
Master’s Student
Master’s Student
Master’s Student
Master’s Student
Ph.D. Student
Master’s Student
Master’s Student
Master’s Student
Ph.D. Student
Master’s Student
Master’s Student
Master’s Student
Master’s Student
Ph.D. Student
Master’s Student
Visiting Ph.D. Student (from Maja J Mataric’s lab at USC)
Ph.D. Student
Master’s Student
Master’s Student
Master’s Student

Alumni – Undergraduate

Samantha Mutiti
David Williams
Eliot Xing
Kavya Puthuveetil
Holden Schaffer
Vamsee Gangaram
Bharat Srirangam
Brenna Fankell
Katie Sosnowski
Mallak Taleb
Ho Keun Kim
Haoping “Felix” Bai
Haofeng “Alex” Chen
Austin Jang
Yuuna Hoshi
Nathan Luskey
Ryan Williams
Rohith Krishnan
Maggie Collier
Chansu Kim
Linda Komnang Liezu
You-Keun Kim
Megan Rich
Hyder Hasnian
Zackory Erikson
Christopher Birmingham
Caleb Little
Sarvagya “Survy” Vaish
Jacquelyn Borinski
Kayode Sanni
Alex McNeely
Carlos Torres
Sugandha Arora
Kristina Falkenstrom
Mrinal “Neil” Rath
Joel Mathew
Ishwarya Venkatachalam