diff --git a/content/group/current_members.md b/content/group/current_members.md index fe2309c..91b053e 100644 --- a/content/group/current_members.md +++ b/content/group/current_members.md @@ -15,6 +15,14 @@ title: "Current Members" url="" >}} +{{< groupitem + name="Jeonghyun Byun" + pos="Postdoctoral researcher, MEAM" + desc="Jeonghyun is interested in aerial manipulation. His work focuses on developing teleoperation, planning and control algorithms for aerial manipulators physically interacting with surrounding environments. Jeonghyun received the B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Aerospace Engineering from Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea, in 2020 and 2025, respectively. From 2025 to 2026, he was a postdoctoral associate at the Automation and Systems Research Institute (ASRI), Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea." + image="/img/group/current/jeonghyun_byun.jpg" + url="" +>}} +   ### Ph.D Students @@ -100,6 +108,30 @@ title: "Current Members" url="https://zacravichandran.github.io" >}} +{{< groupitem + name="Samarth Chopra" + pos="PhD student, ESE" + desc="Samarth is interested in perception and learning-based control for robotics, with a focus on autonomous systems operating in unstructured, real-world environments. His research spans navigation and manipulation for field robots, emphasizing robust scene understanding and physically grounded representations to support reliable decision-making and control. He received his B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Pittsburgh. Prior to joining Penn, Samarth conducted research in robotics and embodied perception at the University of Maryland and the GRASP Lab." + image="/img/group/current/samarth_chopra.jpg" + url="" +>}} + +{{< groupitem + name="Pascal Sikorski" + pos="PhD student, CIS" + desc="Pascal focuses on real-time group planning and communication problems found in field-robotic applications under uncertainty. Specifically, he examines how mixed human-robot teams can coordinate what to tell or ask of one another when neither the world nor team-member intent is fully understandable. He received his B.S. in Computer Science and Mathematics from Saint Louis University in 2026." + image="/img/group/current/pascal_sikorski.jpg" + url="https://www.pascalsikorski.com/" +>}} + +{{< groupitem + name="Vineet Pasumarti" + pos="PhD student, ESE" + desc="Vineet is a PhD student in Electrical and Systems Engineering co-advised by Dr. Antonio Loquercio and Dr. Vijay Kumar. He is interested in enabling robot learning to perceive, reason, and act in complex environments with an emphasis on speed and agility. His research covers vision-based high-speed flight and multi-agent reinforcement learning in mixed-motive games, namely autonomous drone racing." + image="/img/group/current/vineet_pasumarti.jpg" + url="https://vineetpasumarti.github.io/" +>}} +     @@ -127,9 +159,24 @@ title: "Current Members"   - + +{{< groupitem + name="Marika Nishi" + pos="MS student, Robotics & CIS" + desc="Marika is interested in learning-based robot control and manipulation. Her research focuses on deriving control and manipulation policies from perception, using vision transformers and LLM-based approaches such as Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models, applied to autonomous driving and aerial robotics (drones). She holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Tokyo." + image="/img/group/current/marika_nishi.jpg" + url="https://marika340.github.io/" +>}} + +{{< groupitem + name="Samuel Chua" + pos="MS student, Robotics" + desc="Samuel is interested in robot task planning and autonomous exploration, leveraging foundational models to enable robots to reason and act in unstructured environments. His research focuses on bridging perception, representation and high-level reasoning for closed-loop robot autonomy. He received his B.S. in Computer Science & Engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles. He is advised by Prof. Vijay Kumar." + image="/img/group/current/samuel_chua.jpg" + url="https://samuelchua.github.io/" +>}} diff --git a/static/img/group/current/jeonghyun_byun.jpg b/static/img/group/current/jeonghyun_byun.jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ad979cb Binary files /dev/null and b/static/img/group/current/jeonghyun_byun.jpg differ diff --git a/static/img/group/current/marika_nishi.jpg b/static/img/group/current/marika_nishi.jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9c26f4e Binary files /dev/null and b/static/img/group/current/marika_nishi.jpg differ diff --git a/static/img/group/current/pascal_sikorski.jpg b/static/img/group/current/pascal_sikorski.jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0dabb6c Binary files /dev/null and b/static/img/group/current/pascal_sikorski.jpg differ diff --git a/static/img/group/current/samarth_chopra.jpg b/static/img/group/current/samarth_chopra.jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..62a2396 Binary files /dev/null and b/static/img/group/current/samarth_chopra.jpg differ diff --git a/static/img/group/current/samuel_chua.jpg b/static/img/group/current/samuel_chua.jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..20773d5 Binary files /dev/null and b/static/img/group/current/samuel_chua.jpg differ diff --git a/static/img/group/current/vineet_pasumarti.jpg b/static/img/group/current/vineet_pasumarti.jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c6069ec Binary files /dev/null and b/static/img/group/current/vineet_pasumarti.jpg differ