Current Members


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Ransalu Senanayake
Assistant Professor

Principal Investigator

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Som Sagar
PhD Student

Failure Mitigation

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Harsh Mankodiya
MS Student

Explainable AI

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Caleb Liu
High School Student

Fairness in Machine Learning

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Kelly Raines
Barrett Honors Student

Vision-Language Models

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Aditya Taparia
PhD Student

Generative Model Reasoning

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Joshua Tint
Barrett Honors Student

Expressivity of LLMs

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Riana Chatterjee
Barrett Honors Student

3D Models

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Sreevishakh V
MS Student

Decision Learning

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Eren Sadikoğlu
MS Student

LLM-based Robot Control

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Yakuza
Postdog

Vision-Language Actions

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Celon
Humanoid

Vision-Language Actions

Past Mentees


  • Raunak Bhattacharyya (Next: Postdoc, University of Oxford)
  • William Weiming Zhi (Next: Postdoc, Carnegie Mellon University)
  • Masha Itkina (Next: Research Scientist, Toyota Research Institute)
  • Anthony Tompkins (Next: Postdoc, University of New South Wales)
  • Jason Zhang (Next: Software Engineer, Meta)
  • Ross Alexander (Next: Software Engineer, Waymo)
  • Julia Nitsch (Next: Founded a start-up)
  • Ahalya Ravendran (Next: PhD Student, University of Sydney)

Current/Former Collaborators and funding sources


Stanford University, NASA JPL, Ford, Toyota Research Institute, Stanford Lucile Packard Children's Hospital, DARPA