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The MURO lab is headed by Professor Jorge Cortés and Professor Sonia Martínez as well as graduate and undergradute student researchers. Scroll down for a list of our current and past team members as well as their individual roles in the lab.

Affiliated Professors

Jorge Cortés Professor

Department: MAE, UCSD
Email: cortes at ucsd dot edu

Sonia Martínez Professor

Department: MAE, UCSD
Email: soniamd at ucsd dot edu

Graduate Researchers

Parth Paritosh PhD Student

Fall 2017 - Present
Department: MAE, UCSD
Email: pparitos at eng dot ucsd dot edu

Scott Addams PhD Student

Fall 2020 - Present
Department: MAE, UCSD
Email: saddams at ucsd dot edu

Nirabhra Mandal PhD Student

Fall 2021 - Present
Department: MAE, UCSD
Email: nmandal at ucsd dot edu

Neilabh Banzal PhD Student

Fall 2022 - Present
Department: MAE, UCSD
Email: nbanzal at ucsd dot edu

Sudhanshu Shankar MS Student

Fall 2022 - Present
Department: MAE, UCSD
Email: sshankar at ucsd dot edu

Mihir Kulkarni MS Student

Fall 2022 - Present
Department: MAE, UCSD
Email: mmkulkarni at ucsd dot edu

Undergraduate Researchers

Name Project Duration Email
Saimai Lau Implementing Cyclic pursuit on Turtlebot4 teams Summer-Fall 2023 s7lau at ucsd dot edu
Zeyu Chen Multi-robot ultrasound positioning Spring-Fall 2023 zec002 at ucsd dot edu
Roc Wasiak Object tracking with camera Fall 2023 rwasiak at ucsd dot edu
Ravi Haroon Mapping with LIDAR Fall 2023 zec002 at ucsd dot edu
Matt Fan SLAM with Turtlebot4 Fall 2023 chf006 at ucsd dot edu
Shantanu Shukla Iterval observers Fall 2023 s2shukla at ucsd dot edu
Eduardo Rueda SLAM Fall 2023 edrueda at ucsd dot edu
Michael Ramirez SLAM Fall 2023 miramirez at ucsd dot edu
Guoxi Wu Multi-robot Q-learning Fall 2023 guw007 at ucsd dot edu
Han Huang Multi-robot Q-learning Fall 2023 hxh001 at ucsd dot edu
Sidath Vision algorithms Fall 2023 swijesinghe at ucsd dot edu

Past Researchers

Mike Ouimet Post Doc

Winter 2014 - Spring 2015
Email: miouimet at ucsd dot edu
Current: Senior Research Engineer at SPAWAR

Solmaz Kia Post Doc

Winter 2013 - Winter 2014
Department: MAE, UCSD
Email: solmaz at uci dot edu
Current: Assistant Professor at UC Irvine

Evan Gravelle PhD Student

Fall 2012 - Spring 2017
Department: MAE, UCSD
Email: evangravelle at gmail dot com
Current: Autonomy Engineer at Shield A.I.

Aaron Ma PhD Student

Fall 2012 - Spring 2017
Department: MAE, UCSD
Email: aam021 at ucsd dot edu
Current: Shield AI

Aamodh Suresh PhD Student

Fall 2016 - July 2022
Department: MAE, UCSD
Email: aasuresh at eng dot ucsd dot edu
Current: Post Doc at U.S. Army DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory

Javier Ruiz MS Student

Fall 2017 - Fall 2019
Department: MAE, UCSD
Email: jmr076 at eng dot ucsd dot edu
Current: R&D Engineer at Los Alamos National Laboratory

Brandon Bao MS Student

Spring 2021 - Spring 2023
Department: MAE, UCSD
Email: bbao at eng dot ucsd dot edu
Current: R&D Engineer at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Tianmu Wang MS Student

Fall 2021 - Spring 2023
Department: MAE, UCSD
Email: tiw028 at eng dot ucsd dot edu
Current: Controls Engineer at SAIC Motor

Paul Lathrop PhD Student

Fall 2019 - Present
Department: MAE, UCSD
Email: plathrop at eng dot ucsd dot edu
Current: PhD student

Past Undergraduate/High School researchers

Name Project Duration Email
Wei-Teng Chu (ISRP) Dodging dynamical obstacles using Turtlebot4 camera feed Summer 2023 waynechu1109 at gmail dot com
Ziyun Zhu (ENLACE, HS) Mapping with LIDAR data on Turtlebot4 Summer 2023 zaczhu1 at gmail dot com
Yoatzin Silva Salgado (ENLACE, HS) Mapping with LIDAR data on Turtlebot4 Summer 2023 silva.salgado.yoatzin at gmail dot com
Julieta Martinez (ENLACE, HS) Q-learning for multi-agent path planning Summer 2023 jullietmar at gmail dot com
Joaquín Ruenes (ENLACE, HS) Q-learning for multi-agent path planning Summer 2023 joax.ruenes2015 at gmail dot com
Dave Laygo (GEAR) Mapping with LIDAR data on Turtlebot4 Winter-Spring 2023 dlaygo at ucsd dot edu
Christopher Galarze-Gonzales (GEAR) Mapping with LIDAR data on Turtlebot4 Winter-Spring 2023 cgalarze at ucsd dot edu
Natalie Nguyen Estimating noisy observation models for UWB data in Ultrasound beacons Fall 2022 natnguyen8133 at gmail dot com
Liam Hardy Implemented PID control and collected model variation data in Turtlebots Fall 2022 lhardy at ucsd dot edu
Pranav Vijay Testing PID and state feedback control for turtlebot groups Fall 2022 pvijay at ucsd dot edu
Anthony Hirales (ENLACE) Implementing controls to complement designed filters Summer 2022 anthonyhirales at gmail dot com
Natalia Edith Mejia Bautista (ENLACE) Particle and EKF design for Ultra wide band measurements Summer 2022 natalia.mejbau at gmail dot com
Pamica Srimora (ISRP) Setting up PID controls with multiple Marvelmind beacons on Turtlebot Summer 2022 plaisc at gmail dot com
Wells Huang Design of non-holonomic 3-Wheel robot[MAE, UCSD] Summer 2018-Spring 2019 wch008 at ucsd dot edu
Diego Miranda-gutierrez Testing control design via PID, LQR and H∞ methods Summer 2018 dhmirand at ucsd dot edu
Ricardo M R Briones Designing Kalman filter for ultrasound based robot localization Summer 2018 ricardo.ruvalcaba.briones at gmail dot com
Mauricio Romero Drone design with display controls Summer 2018 mauricio.romero at cetyx dot edu.mx
Tareq Labeeb Drone design with display controls Summer 2018 tareqraafat at hotmail dot com
Donipolo Ghimire Design and control of non-holonomic 3-wheel robot Summer 2018 donipologhimire1997 at gmail dot com
Stuart Sardo Design and manufacturing of MuroCopter Fall 2017-Spring 2018
Agustin Manriquez Implementing a front-end software for Multi-objective optimization Fall 2017-Spring 2018
Alec Chac Design of 3-wheeled robot, sensor integration and motor controls Spring 2017-Winter 2018
Andrew Chen Developed general Kalman filter algorithm for lab robots Summer 2016-Spring 2018
Gerardo Gonzalez Implemented Voronoi deployment algorithm, Merging SLAM maps from several robots [ECE, UCSD] Summer 2015-Fall 2016 gmgonzal at ucsd dot edu
Julio Martínez Voronoi diagram algorithm and SLAM map merging [MAE, UCSD] Summer 2015 julio dot ucsd at gmail dot com
Jose Ramírez Worked on Voronoi deployment algorithm for Parrot drones [ECE, UCSD] Summer 2015 jlr020 at ucsd dot edu
Mike Liu Motion planning subsystem [CSE, UCSD] Spring 2015 shl202 at ucsd dot edu
Bruno Maciel Voronoi diagram algorithms, Visiting from Instituto Federal Fluminense Summer 2015 brunomaciel dot xc4@gmail at com
Sumega Mandadi [MAE, UCSD]
Vu Lihn [STARS scholar] Summer 2013
Randy Lewis [Regents scholar] Fall 2013 - Spring 2014
Katherine Liu [STARS scholar] Winter 2014 - Spring 2015 kl.2015.kl at gmail dot com
Daniel Heideman [MAE, UCSD] Winter 2014 - Winter 2015
Peizhen Gu [Visiting student] Summer 2014
Matthew Qen [Visiting student] Fall 2014 - Spring 2015
Rokus Ottervanger [Visiting student] Spring 2014