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Spring 2026 Robotics MSE Thesis and Capstone Lightning Talks and Poster Session
May 8 at 9:30 AM - 11:00 AM
This is an in-person event with in-person attendance in Towne 217 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.
9:30am – Lightning Talks
Welcome Remarks
Dr. Ani Hsieh – ROBO Program Chair
Bryan Alfaro
Advised by Dr. Vijay Kumar
Whole-Body Control of 2-DOF Aerial Manipulators with Reinforcement Learning
Joshua Caswell
Advised by Dr. Eric Eaton
Vision-Assisted Radar for Autonomous Robotic Triage
Haiyue Chen
Advised by Dr. Rahul Mangharam and Dr. Antonio Loquercio
PIVOT: Physics Informed Vision-based Online Tuning
Zixuan Geng
Advised by Dr. Yong Fan and Dr. Nadia Figueroa
State-Conditioned Structured Operators for Probabilistic Forecasting of fMRI Dynamics
Natey Kim
Advised by Dr. Nadia Figueroa
Musculoskeletal Digital Twin Model for Real-Time Human-in-the-Loop Feedback Control Systems
Anuriha Kodali
Advised by Dr. Vijay Kumar
Collective Ethical Reasoning with LLMs: A ‘Judge-and-Jury’ Framework for Multi-Agent Decision Making
Yihan Li
Advised by Dr. Nadia Figueroa
RoboHockey: A Robotic Benchmark for Dynamics Whole-body Contact-rich Tasks
Yi Fan Li
Advised by Dr. Lingjie Liu
Distillation for Edge Computing Compatible Hand Mesh Reconstruction Models
Wenjing Mao
Advised by Dr. Antonio Loquercio
RoSHI: A Versatile Robot-oriented Suit for Human Data In-the-Wild
Vineet Pasumarti
Advised by Dr. Antonio Loquercio
Agile Flight Emerges from Multi Agent Competitive Racing
Anh-Quan Pham
Advised by Dr. Dinesh Jayaraman
Automatically Improving Simulation Physics of Articulated Objects
Faraz Rahman
Advised by Dr. Nikolai Matni
Exploratory Noise and Scaling Continuous Imitation
Shreyas Raorane
Advised by Dr. Linh Thi Xuan Phan, Dr. Rahul Mangharam, and Dr. Ani Hsieh
Robust Coordination: Eliminating the Connectivity Constraint
Aryan Roy
Advised by Dr. Nikolai Matni
Language to Low-Level Quadruped Control via Iterative LLM-Guided Trajectory Optimization and Residual Reinforcement Learning
Manasi Shrekhar
Advised by Dr. Cynthia Sung
Folding to Float: An Origami-Inspired Variable Volume Buoyancy Control
Eric Sigg
Advised by Dr. Doug Jerolmack and Dr. Cynthia Sung
Treading Precisely: Bimodal Terrain Sensing with a Quadrupedal Robotic Explorer
Tuen Yue Tsui
Advised by Dr. Lingjie Liu
Continual Learning is Bayesian Filtering
Tony Wang
Advised by Dr. Dinesh Jayaraman and Dr. Kostas Daniilidis
Evaluate, Enhance, and Explain Robot Foundation Models
Yuchen Zheng
Advised by Dr. Nadia Figueroa
Predicate-Free Language-to-Plan Validation with Learned 3D Operator World Models
Ethan Sanchez
Advised by Fernando Cladera and Dr. Ani Hsieh
Flexbot: Reverse Engineering an Industrial Robot into an Open-Source Research Platform
Rhythm Chandak, Vaibhav Thakkar
Advised by Dr. Rahul Mangharam and Dr. Antonio Loquercio
Learning Robot Dynamics on the Lagrangian Manifold – A Forced Variational Integrator Framework
10:00am – Poster Session in Levine Lobby
11:00am – Awards for Best Lightning Talk and Poster Announced