Faculty

Nikos Papanikolopolous

Director, Minnesota Robotics Institute

Distinguished McKnight Professor, IEEE Fellow

Research Interests: Robotics, Sensor networks, Sensor-based control in transportation applications, Computer vision, Inspection, Computer engineering, Computer integrated manufacturing.

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papan001@umn.edu
(612) 625-0163

Vassilios Morellas

Program Director, Center for Transportation Studies

Research Interests: Geometric image processing, machine learning, robotics and sensor integration to enhance automation of electromechanical systems

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morellas@umn.edu
(612) 624-4822

Maria Gini

Morse-Alumni Distinguished Teaching Professor

AAAI Fellow

Research Interests: Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Intelligent Agents, Motion Planning, Navigation with Moving Obstacles

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gini@cs.umn.edu
(612) 625-5582

Staff

Ted Morris

Research Engineer

Research Interests: Intelligent Transportation Systems, Sensing & Controls, Human Motion Analysis & Virtual Environments

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tmorris@umn.edu
(612) 624-8499

Mike Bazakos

Industry Liason

Research Interests: Robotics and Sensors for Human Well-Being (ROSE-HUB), Technology Transfer

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bazakos@umn.edu

Grads

Nicholas Heller

PhD Candidate, Computer Science

Research Interests: Medical Image Analysis, Clinical Prediction Models, Semantic Segmentation, Open Science & Reproducibility

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helle246@umn.edu

Henry Nelson

PhD Candidate, Computer Science

Research Interests: 3D computer vision and 3D machine learning including point cloud segmentation, spatial shape representation, and broader applications in precision agriculture

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nels8279@umn.edu

Dario Canelon

PhD Candidate, Mechanical Engineering

Research Interests: Robotics, Design, Control Systems

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canel011@umn.edu
(612) 624-8499

Petros Apostolou

PhD Student, Computer Science

Research Interests: High Performance Computing, Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Matrix Theory

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apost035@umn.edu

Travis Henderson

Graduate Student, Mechanical Engineering

Research Interests: Aerial Robotics, Robotic Sensing Platforms, Online Estimation, Overactuated Control Systems

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hende471@umn.edu
(763) 400-1941

Matthew Tlachac

Master's Student, Robotics

Research Interests: Reinforcement learning, sim-to-real, tumbling robots

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tlach007@umn.edu

Undergrads

Imraan Mitha

Junior Undergraduate

Research Interests: Solar UAV electrical system design, cell balancing and state of charge estimation

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mitha019@umn.edu

Jack Rickman

Sophomore Undergraduate

Research Interests: Computer vision in medicine, machine learning

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rickm014@umn.edu