Staff 🧑‍🏫

Instructor

Prof. Tapomayukh (Tapo) Bhattacharjee

tapomayukh@cornell.edu

Tapo wants to enable robots to assist people with mobility limitations with activities of daily living. He believes that efficient and safe physical and social interactions between robots and their immediate environments is the key. His work spans the fields of human-robot interaction, haptic perception, and robot manipulation.

Prof. Preston Culbertson

pculbertson@cornell.edu

Preston develops methods for physically robust robot learning, motivated in particular by problems in dexterous manipulation and tool use. His work combines ideas from optimization, control theory, and machine learning to design systems that remain reliable when models, sensors, or hardware are imperfect. The goal is to create robots that can explicitly manage uncertainty, adapt, and improvise when deployed in messy real-world settings.

Staff

Pranav Thakkar

Teaching Assistant (TA)

pnt8@cornell.edu

Zhanxin Wu

Teaching Assistant (TA)

zw754@cornell.edu

Yunhai Feng

Teaching Assistant (TA)

yf428@cornell.edu

Shengmiao (Samuel) Jin

Teaching Assistant (TA)

sj887@cornell.edu

Jiaying Fang

Teaching Assistant (TA)

jf928@cornell.edu

Katherine Chang Yu

Teaching Assistant (TA)

kc842@cornell.edu

Alif Abdullah

Teaching Assistant (TA)

aa2298@cornell.edu

Lina Hao

Teaching Assistant (TA)

lh657@cornell.edu

Jun Choi

Teaching Assistant (TA)

hc867@cornell.edu

Rolando Rodriguez

Teaching Assistant (TA)

rar339@cornell.edu

Jillian Chong

Teaching Assistant (TA)

jc2886@cornell.edu

Jonathan Ma

Teaching Assistant (TA)

jjm498@cornell.edu

Sabrina Liu

Teaching Assistant (TA)

sl2222@cornell.edu

Ananya Jajodia

Teaching Assistant (TA)

aj477@cornell.edu

Manolis Huerta-Stylianou

Consultant

jmh578@cornell.edu

Yuxuan Lin

Consultant

yl2886@cornell.edu

Kimberly Budd

Administrative Assistant

kj37@cornell.edu