Samuel Coogan

Samuel Coogan

Samuel Coogan

Demetrius T. Paris Junior Professor; School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Associate Professor

Sam Coogan received the B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Georgia Tech and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley. In 2015, he was a postdoctoral research engineer at Sensys Networks, Inc., and in 2012 he spent time at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab. Before joining Georgia Tech in 2017, he was an assistant professor in the Electrical Engineering department at UCLA from 2015–2017. His awards and recognitions include the 2020 Donald P Eckman Award from the American Automatic Control Council recognizing "an outstanding young engineer in the field of automatic control", a Young Investigator Award from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research in 2019, a CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation in 2018, and the Outstanding paper award for the IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems in 2017.

sam.coogan@gatech.edu

404.385.2402

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  • Autonomy
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Control Theory; Formal Methods; Cyber-Physical Systems; Transportation Systems


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Panagiotis Tsiotras

Panagiotis  Tsiotras

Panagiotis Tsiotras

Professor & David and Andrew Lewis Chair; School of Aerospace Engineering
Associate Director, Institute for Robotics & Intelligent Machines

Dr. Tsiotras holds the David & Andrew Lewis Endowed Chair in the School of Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering at Georgia Tech. He is also associate director at the Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines. His current research interests include nonlinear and optimal control and their connections with AI, planning, and decision-making, emphasizing autonomous ground, aerial, and space vehicles applications. He has published more than 350 journal and conference articles in these areas. Prior to joining the faculty at Georgia Tech, Dr. Tsiotras was an assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at the University of Virginia. He has also held visiting appointments with the MIT, JPL, INRIA, Rocquencourt, the Laboratoire de Automatique de Grenoble, and the Ecole des Mines de Paris (Mines ParisTech). Dr. Tsiotras is a recipient of the NSF CAREER award, the IEEE Technical Excellence Award in Aerospace Controls, the Outstanding Aerospace Engineer Award from Purdue, the Sigma Xi President and Visitor's Award for Excellence in Research, as well as numerous other fellowships and scholarships. He is currently the chief editor of the Frontiers in Robotics & AI, in the area of space robotics, and an associate editor for the Dynamic Games and Applications journal. In the past, he has served as an associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, the AIAA Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, the IEEE Control Systems Magazine, and the Journal of Dynamical and Control Systems. He is a Fellow of the AIAA, IEEE, and AAS.

tsiotras@gatech.edu

404.894.9526

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Knight 415C

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  • Autonomy
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controls; robotics; artificial intelligence; flying robots; spacecraft


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Evangelos Theodorou

Evangelos Theodorou

Evangelos Theodorou

Associate Professor; School of Aerospace Engineering

Evangelos Theodorou earned his Diploma in Electronic and Computer Engineering from the Technical University of Crete (TUC), Greece in 2001. He has also received a MSc in Production Engineering from TUC in 2003, a MSc in Computer Science and Engineering from University of Minnesota in spring of 2007 and a MSc in Electrical Engineering on dynamics and controls from the University of Southern California(USC) in Spring 2010. In May of 2011 he graduated with his Ph.D., in Computer Science at USC. After his Ph.D., he became a Postdoctoral Research Associate with the department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle. In July 2013 he joined the faculty of the school of Aerospace Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology as Assistant Professor. His theoretical research spans the areas of control theory, machine learning, information theory and statistical physics. Applications involve autonomous planning and control in robotics and aerospace systems, bio-inspired control and design.

etheodorou3@mail.gatech.edu

404.894.8197

Office Location:
Guggenheim 448A

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Research Focus Areas:
  • Autonomy
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Nonlinear Stochastic Optimal Control; Machine Learning and Reinforcement Learning; Statistical Mechanics; Information Theory and Connections to Control Theory; Nonlinear State Estimation and Signal Processing; Adaptive; Nonlinear and Model Predictive Control.


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Spyros Reveliotis

Spyros  Reveliotis

Spyros Reveliotis

Professor; School of Industrial & Systems Engineering

Spyros Reveliotis is a professor in the Stewart School of Industrial & Systems Engineering at Georgia Tech. Dr. Reveliotis' research interests are primarily in discrete event systems theory and its applications, especially in the control of flexibly automated workflows and the traffic management of multi-agent systems evolving over graphs. He also has an active interest in machine learning theory and its applications. Dr. Reveliotis is an IEEE Fellow, and a member of INFORMS. Dr. Reveliotis completed his Ph.D. studies in industrial engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He also holds a B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece, and an M.Sc. degree in Computer Systems Engineering from Northeastern University.

spyros@isye.gatech.edu

404.894.6608

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Groseclose, 325

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  • Collaborative Robotics
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Discrete Event Systems; Scheduling Theory; Markov Decision Processes; Machine Learning


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Ye Zhao

Ye Zhao

Ye Zhao

Assistant Professor; School of Mechanical Engineering

Dr. Ye Zhao started as an Assistant Professor at the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering in January 2019. Previously he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University and obtained his Ph.D. from UT Austin, where he worked on robust motion planning and decision-making for robot manipulation and locomotion problems with frictional contact behaviors. At Georgia Tech, he directs the Laboratory for Intelligent Decision and Autonomous Robots. His research interests lie broadly in planning, control, decision-making, and learning algorithms of highly agile, contact-rich, and human-cooperative robots. Dr. Zhao is especially interested in computationally efficient optimization algorithms and formal methods for challenging robotics problems with formal guarantees on robustness, safety, autonomy, and real-time performance. The LIDAR group aims at pushing the boundary of robot autonomy, intelligent decision, robust motion planning, and symbolic planning. The long-term goal is to devise theoretical and algorithmic underpinnings for collaborative humanoid and mobile robots operating in unstructured and unpredictable environments while working alongside humans. Robotic applications primarily focus on agile bipedal and quadrupedal locomotion, manipulation, heterogeneous robot teaming, and mobile platforms for extreme environment maneuvering.

ye.zhao@me.gatech.edu

404.894.3061

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GTMI 437

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    Research Focus Areas:
    • Autonomy
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    Robotics; Formal Methods; Optimization; Robust Motion Planning; Control


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    Nader Sadegh

    Nader  Sadegh

    Nader Sadegh

    Professor; School of Mechanical Engineering
    Associate Director & Education Director; Robotics Ph.D. Program

    Dr. Sadegh's early research work was in the field of robotics and automation. His major contribution to this field was the development of a class of adaptive and learning controllers for nonlinear mechanical systems including robotic manipulators. This work, which evolved from his doctoral research, enables a robot to learn a repetitive task through practice, much like a human being, and without requiring a precise model. He later demonstrated that implementing this learning controller can significantly improve the performance of industrial robots without significantly increasing their cost or complexity, and has the potential to improve the accuracy, autonomy, and productivity of automated manufacturing systems. In addition to robotics, he developed a similar learning controller for speed regulation of copier photoreceptors as part of a project sponsored by the Xerox Corporation. Dr. Sadegh began at Tech in 1988 as an Assistant Professor.

    nader.sadegh@me.gatech.edu

    404.894.8172

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    GTMI, Room 475M

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    Research Focus Areas:
    • Collaborative Robotics
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    Controls; Robotics; AI; Data Analysis; Epidemiology


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    Jonathan Rogers

    Jonathan  Rogers

    Jonathan Rogers

    Associate Professor; School of Mechanical Engineering

    Jonathan Rogers joined the Georgia Tech faculty in Fall 2013 as an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering. Prior to joining Georgia Tech, he was an Assistant Professor of Aerospace Engineering at Texas A&M University from 2011 to 2013.

    jonathan.rogers@me.gatech.edu

    404.385.1600

    Office Location:
    MRDC Building, Room 4503

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    Research Focus Areas:
    • Autonomy
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    Automation/Mechatronics; Robotics; applied dynamics; computational automation; nonlinear control and estimation


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    Kinsey Herrin

    Kinsey  Herrin

    Kinsey Herrin

    Senior Research Scientist; School of Mechanical Engineering

    Kinsey Herrin is a Senior Research Scientist in the Woodruff George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering. She supports a number of wearable robotics research efforts across Georgia Tech's campus and holds the ABC credential for a Certified Prosthetist/Orthotist. Kinsey is passionate about advancing state of the art technology available to individuals with physical challenges and amputations as well as the exploration of wearable technology to augment and enhance human performance. She was the former Clinical Liaison & Coordinator and academic faculty within the Georgia Tech MSPO program. She completed her residency training in orthotics and prosthetics at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta and the University of Michigan, respectively, and has over 10 years of experience working with and treating a wide variety of patients in clinical and research settings.

    Kinsey.herrin@me.gatech.edu

    404.894.6269

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    555 14th St Building

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    Research Focus Areas:
    • Human Augmentation
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    wearable technology to augment and enhance human performance.


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    Harish Ravichandar

    Harish Ravichandar

    Harish Ravichandar

    Assistant Professor; School of Interactive Computing

    Harish is an Assistant Professor in the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Institute of Technology. He is also a core faculty member of Georgia Tech’s Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines (IRIM). His research interests span the areas of robot learning, human-robot interaction, and multi-agent systems. He directs the Structured Techniques for Algorithmic Robotics (STAR) Lab, where he and his team works on structured algorithms that help robots reliably operate and collaborate in unstructured environments alongside humans.

    harish.ravichandar@cc.gatech.edu

    Harish Ravichandar, Ph.D.

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    Research Focus Areas:
    • Autonomy
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    Robot Learning; Human-Robot Interaction; Multi-Agent Systems


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    Sehoon Ha

    Sehoon Ha

    Sehoon Ha

    Assistant Professor; School of Interactive Computing

    I'm an assistant professor at Georgia Institute of Technology. Before joining Georgia Tech, I was a research scientist at Google and Disney Research Pittsburgh. I received my Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2015. My advisor was Dr. C. Karen Liu. I have a B.S. degree in Computer Science from KAIST in 2009. I am interested in character animation, robotics, and artificial intelligence.

    sehoonha@gatech.edu

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    TSRB 230A

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    • Collaborative Robotics
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    robotics; computer graphics; machine learning


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