Nikolai Matni – People

Postdoctoral scholars

Current

• David Snyder (co-advised with George Pappas)

Alumni

• Ingvar Ziemann (2025, Quantitative Researcher, Xantium Group)

Ph.D. Students

Current

• Kyle Horton (Electrical and Systems Engineering, co-advised George Pappas)

• Eliot Seo Shekhtman (Computer and Information Science)

• Anne Somalwar (Applied Mathematics and Computational Sciences, co-advised with George Pappas)

• Farhad Nawaz (Electrical and Systems Engineering, co-advised with Nadia Figueroa)

• Anusha Srikanthan (Electrical and Systems Engineering, co-advised with Vijay Kumar)

• Anish Bhattacharya (Computer and Information Science, co-advised with Vijay Kumar)

• Fengjun Yang (Computer and Information Science)

• Thomas Zhang (Electrical and Systems Engineering)

• Alex Nguyen-Le (Electrical and Systems Engineering)

Alumni

• Bruce Lee (2025, PhD, Electrical and Systems Engineering): ETHz AI Postdoctoral Fellow

• Bernadette Bucher (2023, PhD, Computer and Information Science, co-advised with Kostas Daniilidis): Assistant Professor, Robotics Dept., University of Michigan (formerly RAI Senior Researcher)

• Kendall Queen (2023, PhD, Electrical and Systems Engineering): Asylon Robotics, Robotics Software Engineer.

Master's Students

Alumni

• Hanli Zhang (2024, MSE, Electrical and Systems Engineering): PhD at EPFL

• Bo Wu (2024, MSE, Robotics): PediaMetrix Inc.

• Lejun Jiang (2022, MSE, Robotics): Waymo Research Engineer

Undergraduates

Current

• Alok Shah (BSE Computer and Information Systems and Mathematics, MSE in Electrical and Systems Engineering)

• Vincent Zhang (Computer and Information Systems and Mathematics)

• James Wang (Computer and Information Systems)

• John D'Ambrosio (Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics)

Alumni

• Brian (Wonbin) Lee (2024, BS, Wharton and MSE, Robotics): EECS UC Berkeley PhD in BAIR w/ Nika Haghtalab and Michael Jordan

• Daniel Pfrommer (2022, BSE, Computer and Information Science and Mathematics): EECS MIT PhD w/ Ali Jadbabaie