Faculty Members

Erdem Bıyık   Erdem is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science and of Electrical and Computer Engineering - Systems. His research interests broadly cover robot learning, human-robot interaction, and multi-agent systems. He is especially interested in developing algorithms that enable robots to efficiently learn from various forms of human feedback.

PhD Students

	Jesse Zhang    (Co-advised with Joseph Lim and Jesse Thomason) Jesse is a PhD student in the Computer Science Department. He is interested in large pre-trained models for sample-efficient agent adaptation.
	Anthony Liang    (Co-advised with Stephen Tu) Anthony is a PhD student in the Computer Science Department. He is interested in leveraging human and learned priors for improving RL training efficiency and generalization. He is also interested in meta-RL and generative models with applications in robotics.
	Pavel Czempin   Pavel is a PhD student in the Computer Science Department. He works on improving reinforcement learning from human feedback for large pretrained models and unsupervised learning from videos for sequential decision making.
	Yigit Korkmaz   Yigit is a PhD student in the Computer Science Department. He is interested in robot learning from various forms of human feedback, including explicit forms such as demonstrations and comparisons, and more implicit forms like gestures.
	Yutai Zhou   Yutai is a PhD student in the Computer Science Department. He is broadly interested in inverse reinforcement learning from human preferences and imitation learning from partially observable data. He is currently keen on learning more about Bayesian deep learning and JAX.
	Ayano Hiranaka    (Co-advised with Daniel Seita) Ayano is a PhD student in the Computer Science Department.
	Raida Karim    (Co-advised with Maja Matarić) Raida is an incoming PhD student in the Computer Science Department.

MS Students

	Dhanush Varma   Dhanush is an MS student in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department.
	Matthew Hong   Matthew is an MS student in the Computer Science Department.
	Yusen Luo   Yusen is an MS student in the Computer Science Department.

Undergraduate Students

	Jaiv Doshi   Jaiv is an undergraduate in the Computer Science Department.
	Urvi Bhuwania   Urvi is an undergraduate in the Computer Science Department.
	Kevin Kim   Kevin is an undergrduate in the Computer Science and Mathematics Departments.
	Ashley Lan   Ashley is an undergraduate in the Computer Science and Business Administration Departments.

Visiting Researchers

	Xinhu Li   Xinhu is a visiting researcher in Lira Lab.
	Zhaojing Yang    (Co-advised with Xiaolong Wang) Zhaojing is a visiting researcher in Lira Lab.

PhD/Postdoc Alumni

	Ayush Jain    (Co-advised with Joseph Lim) PhD student, CS (Next: Research Scientist at Meta) Thesis: " Decision Making in Complex Action Spaces "
	Sumedh Sontakke    (Co-advised with Laurent Itti) PhD student, CS (Next: Applied Scientist at Amazon Robotics) Thesis: " Foundation Models for Embodied AI "

Other Alumni

	Miru Jun   Undergraduate, CS (Next: Data Engineer at US Navy)
	Thomas Reeves   MS Student, CS (Next: PhD at USC)