Team
Maria Gini
Supervisor
Work includes decision making for autonomous agents in many application domains, ranging from swarm robotics to distributed methods for allocation of tasks, methods for robots to explore unknown environments, navigation in dense crowds, and conversational agents.
Nabil Khan
PhD Candidate - Computer Science
Nabil is a PhD candidate whose research is focused on multi-agent path planning.
Angel Sylvester
PhD Candidate - Computer Science
Angel is 5th year PhD candidate in AI/Robotics. Her work is focused in exploring ways to create nature-informed online adaptive controllers for coordination relevant scenarios in multi-robot systems.
Naome Etori
PhD Candidate - Computer Science
Naome is a fourth year PhD student whose research interests include low-resource Natural Language Processing.
Sarah Boelter
PhD Student - Computer Science
Sarah is a third year PhD student whose research interests include the intersection of artificial intelligence and robotics in aviation and space. Sarah is currently working on robotic autonomy in high-risk planetary environments. Before graduate school, she worked for four years as a software engineer in the aviation industry. Sarah is on the University of Minnesota Nordic Ski Team, and has a cat named Squeak.
Ebasa Temesgen
PhD Student - Computer Science
Ebasa is a third-year PhD Student in Computer Science with an undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering. His research interests include Multi-Agent Systems, Robotics, and Federated Learning.
Simanta Barman
PhD Candidate - Computer Science
Simanta's research focuses on multi-agent path finding, transportation network modeling, and the theoretical properties of related algorithms. He is very interested in combinatorial optimization, graph theory, game theory, and reinforcement learning. Outside of his research, he really enjoys playing video games, particularly titles from FromSoftware and Naughty Dog. He also loves rock climbing, extreme metal concerts, drumming and hanging out with friends.
Mario Jerez (They/Them)
PhD Student - Computer Science
Mario is a PhD student in Computer Science. Their research interests are in Machine Learning and Multi-Agent systems. Before coming to UMN, they worked as a software consultant and software developer for an Enterprise Architecture company, and later for a government tax company in Puerto Rico.
Lalitaditya Divakarla
PhD Student - Computer Science
Autonomous Vehicles, C-V2x Systems, Multi Agent Coordination
Libby Ferland
PhD Candidate - Computer Science
Research Area: NLP
Melody Washington
PhD Student - Computer Science
Research Area: Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)
Her research focuses on Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), with an interest in social media, online communities, and how technology impacts mental health and well-being.
Wen Xing
PhD Student - Computer Science
Research Area: Optimization and reinforcement learning for multi-agent and robotic systems, focusing on coordination and learning in complex environments.
Wen Xing is a Ph.D. student in Computer Science at the University of Minnesota, advised by Prof. Maria Gini. Her research interests include optimization and reinforcement learning for multi-agent and robotic systems, with a focus on coordination and learning in complex environments. She is also interested in exploring the intersection between optimization theory and learning-based control.
Alumni
Reese Kneeland
PhD Candidate - Computer Science