Maryland Robotics Center Postdoctoral Fellowships are awarded annually for a period of one year. Fellowship announcements when posted can be found on the Maryland Robotics Center website under Employment and the University of Maryland e-jobs site.
MRC Postdoctoral Fellowships are awarded in the following eight research areas:
Shraddha Barawkar
Project Title: Shape Shifting Multi-Drone Flying Car with Stability Guarantees
Faculty Advisor: Nikhil Chopra
Gabriele Luzzani
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Faculty Advisor: Umberto Saetti
Russell Shomberg
Project Title: Multi-FOV Camera Array Techniques for Low-Altitude UUV Mapping and Obstacle Avoidance
Faculty Advisor: Cy Keener
Shraddha Barawkar is supported in part by the Army Research Laboratory (ARL) under the ArtIAMAS cooperative agreement.
Chahat Singh
Project title: Minimal collaborative perception for small-scale robots
Faculty advisor: Yiannis Aloimonos
Daeun Song
Project title: Robot navigation in outdoor environments using multimodal sensor fusion
Faculty advisor: Dinesh Manocha
Shraddha Barawkar
Project title: Human in the loop physics-based AI for controlling a multi-drone flying car
Faculty advisor: Nikhil Chopra
Chahat Singh, Daeun Song, and Shraddha Barawkar are supported in part by the Army Research Laboratory (ARL) under the ArtIAMAS cooperative agreement.
Sunandita Sarker
Project title: 3D printed bio-inspired swimming soft robots with fully integrated fluidic circuitry for underwater marine exploration.
Faculty advisor: Eleonora Tubaldi and Ryan Sochol
Peng Gao
Project title: Collaborative perception for multi-robot and human-robot team awareness
Faculty advisor: Ming Lin
Yang Li
Project title: Autonomous soft robot with energy autonomy for extreme environment: underwater and aerospace
Faculty advisor: Po-Yen Chen
Yantian Zha
Project title: Self-explanation-guided deep reinforcement of Imitation learning from human advice for task-driven perception and robotic manipulation
Faculty advisor: Yiannis Aloimonos
Wei-Kuo Yen
Project title: Hydrodynamics, sensing, and control in the coordinated swimming of fish-inspired vehicles
Faculty advisor: Derek Paley
Peng Gao and Yantian Zha are supported in part by the Army Research Laboratory (ARL) under the ArtIAMAS cooperative agreement. Wei-Kuo Yen is supported in part by the UMD Matrix Lab.
Cong Wei
Project title: Cooperative Control of a Mobile Sensor Network in a Dynamic Environment
Faculty advisor: Derek Paley
Shuaiming He
Project title: Machine Learning-Driven Discovery of Wood-Based Soft Robotics
Krishna Kidambi
Project title: Real-time System Identification and Control Using a Digital Twin
Faculty advisor: Mumu Xu
Georgios Kontoudis
Project title: Informative path planning methodologies for large scale multi-robot systems with limited inter-vehicle communication
Faculty advisor: Michael Otte
Nare Karapetyan
Project title: Planning in unstructured environments with a team of ground and energy constrained aerial vehicles
Faculty advisors: Dinesh Manocha and Pratap Tokekar
Amrit Bedi
Project title: Machine Learning, Reinforcement Learning, Optimization and Applications
Faculty advisor: Dinesh Manocha
Ahmad Bilal Asghar
Project title: Multi-robotics systems and control
Faculty advisor: Pratap Tokekar
Krishna Kidambi, Cong Wei, Georgios Kontoudis, Nare Karapetyan, and Amrit Bedi are supported in part by the Army Research Laboratory (ARL) under the ArtIAMAS cooperative agreement.
Seyede Ghoreishi
Project title: Optimized Design of Soft Robotics for Medical Applications
Faculty advisors: Mark Fuge and Ryan Sochol
Mukulika Ghosh
Project title: Functional Inoperable Compiler
Faculty advisor: Bill Regli
Krishna Kidambi
Project title: Vision-based Control for Autonomous Navigation
Faculty advisors: Yiannis Aloimonos, Cornelia Fermuller and Mumu Xu
Seyede Ghoreishi
Project title: Optimized Design of Soft Robotics for Medical Applications
Faculty advisors: Mark Fuge, Axel Krieger and Ryan Sochol
Mukulika Ghosh
Project title: Functional Inoperable Compiler
Faculty advisor: Bill Regli
Krishna Kidambi
Project title: Vision-based Control for Autonomous Navigation
Faculty advisors: Yiannis Aloimonos, Cornelia Fermuller and Mumu Xu
Behzad Sadrfaridpour
Project title: Detecting and Monitoring Oyster Population-Generation of Size and Frequency Maps of Oysters in the Chesapeake Bay
Faculty advisors: Yiannis Aloimonos, Yang Tao and Miao Yu
Ahmed Ramadan
Project title: Soft Tactile Sensing for Therapeutic Robotics
Faculty advisors: Elizabeth Smela and Anindo Roy
Behzad Sadrfaridpour
Project title: Modularizing Fine-Motor Actions for Collaborative Robots-Improving Tactile Perception and Grasping Manipulation
Faculty advisors: Yiannis Aloimonos and Cornelia Fermuller
Hamed Saeidi
Project title: Intelligent Robotic Systems for Damage Control Surgery
Faculty advisor: Axel Krieger and Nikhil Chopra
Artur Wolek
Project title: Multi-Vehicle Sensing and Control with Autonomous Aerial Robots
Faculty advisor: Derek Paley and Timothy Horiuchi