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MIT CSAIL

Lab Members

Meet the researchers and students driving innovation in robotics and artificial intelligence at the Improbable AI Lab

Principal Investigator

Prof. Pulkit Agrawal

Prof. Pulkit Agrawal

Principal Investigator

Assistant Professor at MIT CSAIL leading research in robotics and artificial intelligence. Focuses on developing intelligent systems that can learn and adapt in complex, real-world environments. Research interests include dexterous manipulation, robot locomotion, and machine learning for robotics.

Postdoctoral Researchers

Haoshu Fang

Haoshu Fang

Postdoctoral Researcher
Branden Romero

Branden Romero

Postdoctoral Researcher

Graduate Students

Antonia Bronars

Antonia Bronars

Graduate Student
Gabe Margolis

Gabe Margolis

Graduate Student
Younghyo Park

Younghyo Park

Graduate Student
Jyothish Pari

Jyothish Pari

Graduate Student
Idan Shenfeld

Idan Shenfeld

Graduate Student
Martin Peticco

Martin Peticco

Graduate Student
Nitish Dashora

Nitish Dashora

Graduate Student
Seungwook Han

Seungwook Han

Graduate Student

Staff

John Marangola

John Marangola

Research Engineer

MEng/UROP Students

Michelle Wang

Michelle Wang

MEng/UROP Student
Sunshine Jiang

Sunshine Jiang

MEng/UROP Student

Lab Alumni

Tao Chen, PhD 2024, co-founded his startup.
Anurag Ajay, PhD 2024, now at Google.
Ruben Castro, MS 2024.
Jacob Huh, PhD 2024, now at OpenAI.
Anthony Simeonov, PhD 2024, now at Boston Dynamics.
Xiang Fu, PhD 2024.
Andrew Jenkins, MEng, 2024, now at Zoosk
Tifanny Portela, visiting student 2023, now a Ph.D. student at ETH Zurich.
Yandong Ji, visiting researcher 2023, now a Ph.D. student at UCSD.
Meenal Parakh, MEng 2023, now PhD student at Princeton.
Marcel Torne, MS 2023, now PhD student at Stanford.
Alisha Fong, MEng, 2023
Alina Sarmiento, Undergraduate, 2023, now PhD student at CMU.
Sathwik Karnik, Shreya Kumar, Yaosheng Xu, Bhavya Agrawalla, April Chan, Andrei Spiride, April Chan, Calvin Zhang, Abhaya Ravikumar, Alex Hu, Isabel Sperandino
Andi Peng, MS 2023, now PhD student with Julie Shah.
Steven Li, visiting researcher 2023, now a PhD student at TU Darmstadt.
Abhishek Gupta, PostDoc, now Faculty at University of Washington.
Lara Zlokapa, MEng, 2022
Haokuan Luo, MEng, 2022 (now at Hudson River)
Albert Yue, MEng, 2022 (now at Hudson River)
Matthew Stallone, MEng, 2022
Eric Chen, MEng, 2021 (now at Aurora)
Joshua Gruenstein, 2021 (now CEO Tutor Intelligence)
Alon Z. Kosowsky-Sachs, 2021 (now CTO Tutor Intelligence)
Avery Lamp (now at stealth startup)
Sanja Simonkovj, 2021 (Masters Student)
Oran Luzon, 2021 (Undergraduate Researcher)
Blake Tickell, 2020 (Visiting Researcher)
Ishani Thakur, 2020 (Undergraduate Researcher)