Spring 2025 Robotics MSE Thesis and Capstone Lightning Talks and Poster Session

This is an in-person event with in-person attendance in Wu and Chen Auditorium for Lightning Talks and Levine Lobby for Poster Session.

This year we will have an “Audience Choice” for best Lightning Talk and Poster. Please be sure to vote for your favorite! Voting will take place during the Poster Session using a QR code.

2:00pm – Lightning Talks

Welcome Remarks
Dr. Cynthia Sung – ROBO Program Chair

Rahul Aggarwal
Advised By: Dr. Rahul Mangharam
Generalizable Visual Prediction Via Disentangled Diffusion

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jack Campanella
Advised By: Dr. Vijay Kumar
Integrated Hardware and Software Codesign for Controlling Underactuated Aerial Robots

 

 

 

 

 

 

Satrajit Chatterjee
Advised By: Dr. Rahul Mangharam
World Modeling via Sparse Conditioning of Temporal Context

 

 

 

 

 

 

Michaela Feehery
Advised By: Dr. Eric Eaton
Event-Based Respiration Detection for Autonomous Robotic Triage

 

 

 

 

 

 

George Gao
Advised By: Dr. Nadia Figueroa
OCR: Out-of-Distribution Recovery with Object-Centric Keypoint Inverse Policy for Visuomotor Imitation Learning

 

 

 

 

 

 

Frank Gonzalez
Advised By: Dr. Vijay Kumar
Risk-aware MPC Planning for Unmanned Ground Vehicles

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pei-An Hsieh
Advised By: Dr. Ani Hsieh
Stable and Robust Tight Formation Flights of Quadrotors with MPC

 

 

 

 

 

 

Royina Jayanth
Advised By: Dr. Kostas Daniilidis
Exploring Generalization and Robustness of Neural Inertial Odometry

 

 

 

 

Alexander Kyimpopkin
Advised By: Dr. Pratik Chaudhari
Magic-8-Ball: World Models for Vision-Based Quadruped Path Planning

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sanghyub Lee
Advised By: Dr. Nadia Figueroa
Human-Robot Interactive Muscle-in-the-loop Upper Limb Training Using Real-time Muscle Dynamics Tracking via AI-driven Wearable Ultrasound Processing

 

 

 

 

 

Ruirui Ma
Advised By: Dr. Linh Thi Xuan Phan
Connectivity Constrained Multi-Robot Sparse Coverage

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lee Milburn
Advised By: Dr. Rahul Mangharam
Cluster-Funk: Clustering for Friction Estimation Under Nonlinear Knowledge

 

 

 

 

 

 

Emily Paul
Advised By: Dr. Vijay Kumar
Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning with Reward Shaping for Coverage Control

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nishanth Rao
Advised By: Dr. Kostas Daniilidis and Dr. Vijay Kumar
Exploring Symmetries and Equivariance in Robot Learning

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hungju Wang
Advised By: Dinesh Jayaraman
Foundation Models for Realworld Robotics

 

 

 

 

 

 

Brice Diomande, Chris Lee, Henry Licht
Advised By Ani Hsieh
Sponsored By: Saint Gobain CertainTeed
Autonomous Mobile Robot for Installing Blown-In Insulation

2:30pm – Poster Session in Levine Lobby

4:00pm – Awards for Best Lightning Talk and Poster Announced