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Director: Xiaoli Zhang, PhD
Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Dr. Xiaoli Zhang’s research expertise lies in human-robot cooperation, knowledge-based robotics, intelligent control, teleoperation, and their applications in healthcare and industrial fields. Her research goal is to improve the flexibility, adaptability, and robustness of robots and autonomous systems so they can operate and adapt to deal with new problems and situations or deal with changes in tasks, environments, and human cooperators. Her work crosses different applications, including assistive robots, surgery, additive manufacturing, material discovery, and underground construction, and draws from optimal control, planning, reasoning, learning and cognitive science. Dr. Zhang is a recipient of an NSF CAREER award. She teaches courses in robotics and biomedical devices and design.
Contact:
Brown Hall W310A
1610 Illinois St. | Golden, CO 80401
303-384-2343 xlzhang@mines.edu
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PhD Students
LingFeng Tao
PhD Candidate (January 2019–Current)
Research Interests: reinforcement learning
Contact: tao@mines.edu
Michael Bowman
PhD Candidate (May 2019–Current)
Research Interests: human-robot interaction
Contact: mibowman@mines.edu
Qiaojie (Grant) Zheng
PhD Candidate
Research Interests: computer vision, deep learning
Contact: zheng@mines.edu
Undergraduate Students
Neil Schoenwetter
Undergraduate Student
Research Interests: human-robot interaction
Contact: nschoenwetter@mines.edu
Alumni
Jeremy Webb
Now with Apple Inc.
Research Interests: robot control in teleoperation
Songpo Li, PhD
Now Associate Scientist with Honda Research Institute
Research Interests: intent-based human-robot cooperation
Rui Liu, PhD
Now an assistant professor at Kent State University
Research Interests: robot knowledge (learn, interpret, implement), metal 3D printing
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Xu Zhou, PhD
Now an Assistant Professor at Changshu Institute of Technology
Research Interests: intelligent control, robot motion planning
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Kyle Larsen
Now working with the Navy Nuclear Propulsion Program
Research Interests: autonomous systems and controls
Noopur Jamnikar
Now a Research Engineer in GE Global Research, Niskayuna, NY
Research Interests: additive manufacturing and intelligent systems
Sen Liu
Now a postdoc at Stanford University
Research Interests: intelligent manufacturing, metal additive manufacturing
Xiaoli Zhang, PhD
Brown Hall W310A
1610 Illinois St. | Golden, CO 80401
303-384-2343 | xlzhang@mines.edu