People
Principal Investigator
Shreyas Kousik (he/him)
Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering
shreyas.kousik@me.gatech.edu
Ph.D. Students
Long Kiu Chung (he/him)
Ph.D. Student, Mechanical Engineering
lchung33@gatech.edu
Research Interest:
Safe control of learned dynamical system
Wonsuhk Jung (he/him)
Ph.D. Student, Robotics
wonsuhk.jung@gatech.edu
Research Interest:
Safe learning-based planning and control
Chuizheng Kong (he/him)
Ph.D. Student, Robotics
ckong35@gatech.edu
Research Interest:
Safe and dexterous manipulation
Dennis Anthony (he/him)
Ph.D. Student, Robotics
danthony33@gatech.edu
Research Interest:
Safe robot manipulation
Co-Advisor:
Animesh Garg
Dan Choe (he/him)
Ph.D. Student, Robotics
bchoe7@gatech.edu
Research Interest:
Industrial robotics / safe human-robot teaming
Co-Advisor:
Samuel Coogan
Ryota Ozaki (he/him)
Ph.D. Student, Robotics
rozaki3@gatech.edu
Research Interest:
Safe learning-based planning and control
Avi Balakirsky (he/him)
Ph.D. Student, Robotics
avi.balakirsky@gatech.edu
Research Interest:
Dexterous robotic manipulation of deformable objects
Co-Advisor:
Tony G. Chen
M.S. Students
Marvin Ren (MS ME ’25)
Sundhar Vinodh Sangeetha (MS AE ’26)
Hyeonjae Park (MS ECE ’25)
Evan Dodani (MS ROBO ’26)
Suvrat Jain (MS ME ’26)
Michael Keehn (MS ME ’26)
Noah Frank (MS ME ’25)
Undergraduate Students
Aishik Dhori (BS EE ’26)
Advaith Nidumukkala (BS ME ’28)
Karishma Kamalahasan (BS CS ’27)
Justin Hunter (BS ME ’25)
Yunho Cho (BS ME ’25)
Andrew Mattei (BS ME ’27)
Benjamin Davis (BS ME ’26)
Pranav Nair (BS ME ’26)
Alumni
Master’s
James Wellington (MS ROBO ’24)
Kousik Karan Geetha Nagaraj (MS ROBO ’24)
Shashank Garikipati (MS ROBO ’24)
Pranathi Byappanahalli (MS ROBO ’24)
Krishanu Agarwal (MS ROBO ’24)
Manthan Joshi (MS ROBO ’24)
Steven Emanuel (MS ME ’25)
Parth Shinde (MS ME ’25)
Srivatsank Pullabhotla (MS ME ’25)
Idris Wibowo (MS ROBO ’25)
Myung Sun Park (MS ECE ’25)
Djian Koester Francois (MS ME ’25)
Tzu-Tung Chen (MS ROBO ’25)
Zuhao Lin (MS ROBO ’25)
Haiwei Shi (MS ROBO ’25)
Amberlyn Diehl (MS ME ’25)
Undergraduate
Ikechukwu Obi-Okoye (BS ME ’23)
Rishav Sinha (BS ME ’24)
Lili Whitesell (BS ME ’24)
Saihari Kota (BS ME ’27)
Yadu Sunil (BS ME ’23)
Saanvi Thakre (BS ME ’26)
Owen Jones (BS ME ’25)
Derek Price (BS ME ’25)
Vaishnan Baptist (BS ME ’25)
Siddharth Singh (BS ME ’25)
Mukilan Karthikeyan (BS CS ’25)
Visiting Students
Amir Pugh (FAMU-FSU, Summer ’24)