The Safe Robotics Lab team

Haimin started his PhD at Princeton in Fall 2020 after completing his Master’s degree at the University of Pennsylvania. He is interested in decision-making under uncertainty, dynamic game theory, and real-time planning and control algorithms for safe human-robot interaction.

Zixu started his PhD at Princeton in Fall 2020 after completing his Master’s degree at the University of Michigan. He’s interested in mobile robot perception, state estimation, and interaction with the real world.

Duy started his PhD at Princeton in Spring 2021. He wants to build robotic systems that can learn and adapt safely and robustly in uncertain new situations.

Maddie started her PhD at Princeton in Fall 2022 after earning her B.S. in Electrical Engineering at The College of New Jersey. She’s interested in safe navigation of underwater robots for the purpose of environmental monitoring. She hopes to build robot systems that can make decisions under uncertainty and are robust to disturbances.

Kaiqu started his PhD at Princeton in Fall 2022. He is interested in building language-enabled robots that can effectively reason about the environment, deal with uncertainty, and interact with humans safely.

Justin started his PhD at Princeton in Fall 2023, after having earned joint B.S./B.S. degrees in math and electrical engineering from the University of Maryland, College Park. He is interested in providing provable guarantees for game-theoretic reinforcement learning and algorithmic decision-making in an unsafe, uncertain, and unforgiving world.

Donggeon started his PhD at Princeton in Fall 2024 after completing his B.S. in Aerospace Engineering at Seoul National University, Republic of Korea. He investigates methods to guarantee safety of multi-agent systems that involve human agents, together with the feasibility of human and robot safely collaborating and even teaching one another.

Jarod is completing his M.Eng. this year after earning his B.S.E. in Electrical & Computer Engineering here at Princeton University. He is interested in motion planning for mobile robots.

Bo is a visiting master's student at UIUC. He wants to build robots that constantly learn and adapt intelligently and safely in any situation.

Bryan ('26) is exploring safe robot learning by integrating foundational models with safety filters to enhance decision-making and task execution in uncertain environments, particularly focusing on legged robotics.

Rahul ('26) is exploring predictive motion planning and vision-based safety filters for agile drone platforms, both for autonomous flight and to aid in high speed human-controlled flight.

Elle ('26) is exploring how AI co-pilots using reinforcement learning can augment human decision-making and performance in high-stakes environments.

Vasu ('26) is exploring hardware-in-the-loop simulation and application of vision-based safety filters for autonomous underwater and aerial drone systems.

Jonathan is a final-year PhD student who wants robots to learn not only from what humans teach them, but also from what they don’t.

María is a postdoc in Prof. Naomi Leonard’s group working to make robots behave intelligently in groups—as well as dance with people.

Gabriele was a Data X and Postdoctoral Associate at Princeton from 2022 to 2024. He is now the CEO of ZERO, an AI startup transforming data to actionable decisions.

Kai-Chieh completed his PhD thesis in Spring 2024. His research combines machine learning techniques and game-theoretic reasoning to scale full-stack safety for learning-enabled robot autonomy. He is currently a machine learning research scientist at Nuro.

Isabella received her Master's degree in Spring 2024.

Vikash received his Master's degree in Spring 2024 and joined SpaceX.

Chiara graduated from Princeton in Spring 2024 and started her Master's degree at Columbia University.

Etiosa graduated from Princeton in Spring 2024 and started his Ph.D. at Yale University. He received the GEM and NSF Graduate Fellowships.

Ladislav graduated from Princeton in Spring 2024.

Promise received her Master’s degree in Spring 2023 and started her PhD at Cornell University.

Elie received her Master's degree in Spring 2023 and joined a startup in the Bay Area as the AI tech lead.

Ameya graduated from Princeton in Spring 2024 and joined Bloomgberg as a software engineer.

Devon graduated from Princeton in Spring 2023 and joined the Max Planck Institute in Berlin as an AI safety researcher.

Ken (co-advised by Prof. Naomi Leonard) graduated from Princeton in Spring 2023 and started his PhD at CMU Robotics Institute. He received the NSF Graduate Fellowship.

Kenar graduated from Princeton in Spring 2023 and joined Tesla as an autonomy engineer.

Cedrick received his Master's degree in Spring 2022 and joined The Aerospace Corporation.

Robert received his Master's degree in Spring 2022 and jointly co-founded the startup Vault Robotics.

Ritika (co-advised by Prof. Naomi Leonard) graduated from Princeton in Spring 2022 and joined SpaceX as an avionics engineer.

Dennis received his Master's degree in Spring 2022 and received the GEM Fellowship. He joined Raytheon and subsequently started PhD at Georgia Tech.

Anoop graduated from Princeton in Spring 2021 and, after year at RoboTire, started his PhD at MIT.

Jovana graduated from Princeton in Spring 2021 and started her PhD at MIT.

Digit is a bipedal robot made by Agility Robotics, with the ability to move around and physically interact with objects and people around it. Don’t be misled by its calm appearance, this robot packs some slick salsa moves.

Spirit is a quadrupedal robot designed by Ghost Robotics to walk robustly on a wide range of terrains. If you stop by our lab you may find it trotting around learning how to safely navigate new obstacle courses.

Mini Truck is “homemade” by the Safe Robotics Lab as part of the experiment hardware used in the ECE 346 course.