(listed alphabetically)
Fathi H. Ghorbel ghorbel@rice.edu
Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Bioengineering
Website (s): Rice Profile | Homepage | RiSYS Lab
Areas of Interest: Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs), in-pipe robotics, soft robotics, sensing and actuation, localization and autonomy in harsh environments, robotic forceful interaction
Kaiyu Hang kaiyu.hang@rice.edu
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Areas of Interest: Robotic Manipulation, Physical Interactions, Motion Planning, Robot Learning, Robot Control, Probabilistic Estimation
Lydia E. Kavraki kavraki@rice.edu
Noah Harding Professor of Computer Science; Professor of Bioengineering, ECE, and Mechanical Engineering;
Director, The Ken Kennedy Institute
Areas of Interest: Robotics algorithms, motion planning, algorithms for bioinformatics and biomedicine
Marcia K. O’Malley omalleym@rice.edu
Thomas Michael Panos Family Professor in Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science, and ECE;
Associate Dean for Research and Innovation, George R. Brown School of Engineering
Areas of Interest: Physical human robot interaction, haptics, wearable robots, surgical robotics, rehabilitation robotics, training and assessment of human performance in virtual environments
Daniel J. Preston djp@rice.edu
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Areas of Interest: Energy, Materials, Fluids & Fluid Mechanics
Vaibhav Unhelkar vaibhav.unhelkar@rice.edu
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Areas of Interest: Artificial Intelligence (AI), Robotics, Human-Robot Interaction, Machine Learning, Human-in-the-Loop AI
Ashok Veeraraghavan vashok@rice.edu
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science
Areas of Interest: Computational imaging, compressive sensing for imaging, signal processing and computer vision.