People

Faculty

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

Yunsik Jung

PhD Candidate (January 2020–Current)
Contact: yunsikjung@mines.edu

Qiaojie (Grant) Zheng

PhD Candidate 
Research Interests: computer vision, deep learning
Contact: zheng@mines.edu

Undergraduate Students

Alumni

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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Noopur Jamnikar

Now a Research Engineer in GE Global Research, Niskayuna, NY
Research Interests: additive manufacturing and intelligent systems