Lab Director



Ashis G. Banerjee, Ph.D.

Affiliation: Industrial & Systems Engineering and Mechanical Engineering         Email: ashisb AT uw DOT edu

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Professional Preparation

  • B. Tech. in Manufacturing Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India
  • M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
  • Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
  • Post-doc in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA


  • Ph.D. students



    Wei Guo

    Affiliation: Industrial & Systems Engineering         Email: weig AT uw DOT edu

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    Education

  • B.S. in Control Science and Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, China
  • M.S. in Control Science and Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, China
  • M.S. in Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
  • M.S. in Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
  • Research Interests

  • Optimization
  • Stochastic programming
  • Predictive analytics
  • Applications in industrial engineering


  • Behnoosh Parsa

    Affiliation: Mechanical Engineering         Email: behnoosh AT uw DOT edu

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    Education

  • B. S. in Biomedical Engineering with Minor in Industrial Engineering at Amirkabir University of Technology, Iran
  • M. S. in Kinesiology with Minors in Mechanical Engineering and Computational Science at Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA
  • Research Interests

  • System dynamics and control
  • Biomechanics
  • Optimization
  • Robotics


  • Jundi (Jay) Liu (Co-advised with Prof. Linda Ng Boyle)

    Affiliation: Industrial & Systems Engineering         Email: jundiliu AT uw DOT edu

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    Education

  • B.S. in Computer Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
  • Research Interests

  • Machine learning
  • Big data analytics
  • Data visualization and interface design
  • Optimization


  • Steven Hwang (Co-advised with Prof. Linda Ng Boyle)

    Affiliation: Industrial & Systems Engineering         Email: hwang216 AT uw DOT edu

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    Education

  • B.S. in Integrated Systems Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
  • M.S. in Industrial & Systems Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
  • Research Interests

  • Applied statistics
  • Predictive analytics
  • Machine learning
  • Data mining & visualization


  • Veniamin (Ben) Tereshchuk (Co-advised with Prof. Santosh Devasia)

    Affiliation: Mechanical Engineering         Email: bter AT uw DOT edu

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    Education

  • B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
  • M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
  • Research Interests

  • Robotics & controls
  • Human-robot collaboration
  • System identification
  • Multi-agent scheduling


  • M.S. students



    Current

    John Stewart

    Affiliation: Mechanical Engineering         Email: austin95 AT uw DOT edu

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    Education

  • B.S. in Industrial & Systems Engineering at University of Washington, Seattle, WA
  • Research Interests

  • Human-robot interaction
  • Multi-robot, multi-human coordination
  • Prosthetics
  • Optimization
  • Graduated

    Niyousha Rahimi

    Department: Mechanical Engineering

    Thesis: Multi-Agent Consensus Optimization in Large-Scale Supply Networks

    Current Affiliation: Pursuing Ph.D. in Aeronautics & Astronautics at the University of Washington, Seattle, WA

    Keshav Rajasekaran

    Department: Mechanical Engineering

    Thesis: Stochastic Dynamics Modeling and Motion Control of Optically Trapped Microspheres

    Current Affiliation: Pursuing Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Maryland, College Park, MD

    Manasa Bollavaram

    Department: Mechanical Engineering

    First Position: Software Engineer at Xilinx

    Rohit Rajagopal

    Department: Mechanical Engineering

    First Position: Manufacturing Engineer at Vulcan Global Manufacturing Solutions

    Amanda Dalstam

    Department: Industrial & Systems Engineering (Visiting Student)

    First Position: Graduate Engineering Trainee at GKF Aerospace, Gothenburg, Sweden



    Undergraduate researchers



    Current

  • Nikolay Bykov: Sophomore in Pre-Engineering
  • Quinlan Ferguson: Graduating Senior in Applied Physics
  • Jordan Nelson: Sophomore in Materials Science & Engineering
  • Jennie Pham: Junior in Public Health
  • Previous

  • John Stewart: Graduated with a B.S. in Industrial & Systems Engineering
  • Shashi Mohan Singh: Summer intern from Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar, India
  • Prasanna Raut: Summer intern from Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar, India
  • Ekta Samani: Summer intern from Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar, India
  • Siripong Somboon: Graduated with a B.S. in Industrial & Systems Engineering