Siavash Farzan, PhD

Siavash Farzan

I lead a group of graduate and undergraduate students to develop safety-critical and robust planning and control algorithms for autonomous robotic systems such as underactuated robots, ground and aerial vehicles, and robot manipulators.

Research Team

Current Students (append wpi.edu to email addresses)

	Rohith Venkataramanan (rvenkataramanan@) Graduate Student, WPI, Summer 2022 - Present Research interests: vision-based robotic manipulation
	Jidnyesha Patil (jpatil@) Graduate Student, WPI, Summer 2022 - Present Research interests: motion planning and control, autonomous vehicles
	Harin Vashi (hvashi@) Graduate Student, WPI, Summer 2022 - Present Research interests: motion planning and control, autonomous vehicles
	Aditya Patil (apatil@) Graduate Student, WPI, Summer 2022 - Present Research interests: robust adaptive control, quadrotor aerial vehicles
	Vishrut Bohara (vbohara@) Graduate Student, WPI, Spring 2023 - Present Research interests: connected autonomous vehicles
	Varun Gampa (vgampa@) Graduate Student, WPI, Spring 2023 - Present Research interests: Lyapunov-based and learning-based control of underactuated robots
Past Students
	Shiva Tekumatla (stekumatla@) Graduate Student, WPI, Fall 2021 - Spring 2022 Research interests: underactuated robotics, controls, learning-based control
	Ghokulji Selvaraj (gselvaraj@) Graduate Student, WPI, Fall 2021 - Spring 2022 Research interests: robotic vision, deep learning, robotic manipulation
	Wael Mohammed (wmohammed@) Graduate Student, WPI, Spring 2022 Research interests: vision-based robotic manipulation
	Pranav Moorthy (pmoorthy@) Graduate Student, WPI, Summer 2022 Research interests: controls, quadrotor aerial vehicles
	Yichen Guo (yguo2@) Undergraduate Student, WPI, Summer 2022 Research interests: robust control, ROS-based mobile robots
	Tian Yu (Annie) Fan (tfan@) Graduate Student, WPI, Fall 2022 Research interests: robot manipulation and control
	Khizar Amjed Mohamed (kamjedmohamed@) Graduate Student, WPI, Fall 2022 Research interests: learning-based control, underactuated robots

Senior Capstone Design (MQP) Teams

	Stair-Capable Robot Vacuum Benjamin Draper and Sawyer Wofford (co-advised with Jing Xiao) Undergraduate Students, WPI, Fall 2021 - Spring 2022 Areas: novel robotic mechanism design, feedback control, embedded systems "Winner of the 2022 Provost's MQP Award for Robotics Engineering"
	A Hopping Two-Wheeled Segway Robot Christian Defranco, Brian Desousa, and Samuel Mwangi Undergraduate Students, WPI, Fall 2021 - Spring 2022 Areas: novel robotic mechanism design, feedback control, ROS-enabled embedded systems
	Small Size Soccer Robots Spencer Belleville, Conner Christinsen, Ashley Espeland, Miya Judy, David Lapointe, Noah Page, Logan Rinaldi, Nathan Rogers, Evan Vadeboncoeur, Yifei Zhao Undergraduate Students, WPI, Fall 2022 - Spring 2023 Areas: multi-agent systems, motion planning, embeeded systems, mechatronics
	Robotic CNC Tending Work Cell with Remote Access Brian Francis, Mayank Govilla, Nikolas Neathery Undergraduate Students, WPI, Fall 2022 - Spring 2023 Areas: robotic manipulation, system integration, motion planning