REx Lab: People

Faculty

Zac Manchester

Associate Professor

Postdocs

Jon Arrizabalaga

Optimization and Control

Patrick McKeen

Optimization-Enabled Systems and Spacecraft ADCS

Visitors

Joris Verhagen

Continuous and discrete optimization for temporal logic planning

Staff

Neil Khera

Small Satellite Hardware and Avionics

PhD Students

Fausto Vega

Convex Optimization for Mission Design

Jeong Hun (JJ) Lee

Swimming Dynamics and Control

John Zhang

Optimization, Control, and Robotics

Arun Bishop

Contact-rich Optimization and Control

Juan Alvarez Padilla

Learning and Optimization Based Controls

Pedro Cachim

Spacecraft Guidance, Navigation and Control

Chase Dunaway

Spacecraft Orbit Determination

Masters Students

Micah Reich

Optimization and Control

Junzhe Hu

Swimming Hardware Design and Optimization

Undergraduate Students

Past Undergraduate Students

Nathan Kau Undergraduate, Stanford. Now at Woven Planet.

Tarun Punnoose Undergraduate, Stanford. Now at Waymo.

Aaron Schultz Undergraduate, Stanford. Now at Dexterity.

Alumni

Taylor Howell Ph.D. in MechE, Stanford. Now at Google DeepMind.

Brian Jackson Ph.D. in Robotics, CMU. Now at Nvidia.

Max Holliday Ph.D. in MSE, Stanford. Now at CEO and Co-Founder at EarthTraq.

Simon Le Cleac'h Ph.D. in MechE, Stanford. Now at RAI Institute.

Andrew Gatherer M.S in AeroAstro, Stanford. Now at SpaceX.

Jan Bruedigam M.S. Visitor, Stanford. Now at RAI Institute.

Laura Lee M.S. in MechE, Stanford. Now at RAI Institute.

Remy Derollez M.S. in AeroAstro, Stanford. Now at Orbitworks.

Jared Blanchard M.S. in AeroAstro, Stanford. Now at Aerospace Corporation.

Kevin Tracy M.S. in MechE, Stanford, Ph.D. in Robotics, CMU. Now at Gridmatic.

Swaminathan Gurumurthy Ph.D. in Robotics, CMU. Now at Google DeepMind.

Benjamin Jensen M.S. in Robotics, CMU. Now at Johns Hopkins APL.

Rianna Jitosho Ph.D. in MechE, Stanford. Now at Intuitive.

Suvansh Sanjeev M.S. in Robotics, CMU. Now at OpenAI.

Ben Bokser M.S. in MechE, CMU. Now at RAI Institute.

Shuo Yang Ph.D. in MechE, CMU. Now at Founder and CTO at Mondo Technology.

Chiyen Lee M.S. in Robotics, CMU. Now at Applied Intuition.

Alexander Bouman M.S. in MechE, CMU. Now at Neo Cybernetica.

Brandon Hung M.S. in ECE, CMU. Now at RAI Institute.

Jacob Willis M.S. in Robotics, CMU. Now at Albedo Space.

Paulo Fisch Ph.D. in Robotics, CMU. Now at Efficient Compute.

Mitchell Fogelson Ph.D. in MechE, CMU. Now at Co-Founder and CEO at Beyond Reach Labs.

Sofia Kwok M.S. in Robotics, CMU. Now at Starfish Space.

Zixin Zhang M.S. in MechE, CMU. Now at PhD at Northwestern University.

Giusy Falcone Postdoc, CMU. Now at Assistant Professor at University of Michigan.

Saral Tayal M.S. in ECE, CMU. Now at Tesla.

Khai Nguyen M.S. in MechE, CMU. Now at PhD at MIT.

Sam Schoedel M.S. in Robotics, CMU. Now at Apptronik.

Ibrahima S. Sow M.S. in MechE, CMU. Now at Tesla AI.

Prakrit Tyagi M.S. in MechE, CMU.

Aaron Trowbridge Reseacher, CMU. Now Co-founder and CEO at Harmoniqs.

Anoushka Alavilli M.S. in ECE, CMU. Now at Ph.D. at CMU.

Will Kraus M.S. in MechE, CMU. Now at Roboligent.

Pedro Andrade M.S. Visitor, CMU. Now at Small Satellite Avionics and Control.

Ashley Kline M.S. in MechE, CMU.

Tae Rugh M.S. in MechE, CMU. Now at Boston Dynamics.

Elakhya Nedumaran M.S. in ECE, CMU. Now at ASML.