SURF alumni

This page contains a list of the SURF students who have worked with me over the years. This list is not complete, so if you see a name that is missing, please let me know.

2012

• Julia Brown (iGEM) - Isolation of Organisms to Degrade Biopolymers
• Giulia Giordano (Udine) - Biomolecular Rate–Regulator Circuits
• Alex Jose - On-the-Fly Task-Level Plan Correction for Planar Mobile Robots in Unknown Environments
• Shaunak Kar (IITG) - Regulation of an In Vitro Transcriptional Network with Target Molecules: A Modular Approach
• Ishan Khetarpal - Analysis and Design of Novel In Vitro Bistable Toggle Switches
• Kathryn Knister (iGEM) - Animated Bacteria and Biofuel Synthesis
• Daisy Lin (iGEM) - Increasing Ethanol Yields by Integrating Proteorhodopsin in Bacterial ATP Production Pathways
• Patrik Lundin (Lund) - Transcriptional Switches on a Biological Breadboard
• Paulo De Souza Motta (FGV, Brazil) - Gene Circuit Interference in Multiple Plasmid Layouts
• Adam Nilsson (Lund) - Diffeomorphism Based Motion Planning for Bootstrapping Vehicles and Robots
• R. Edward Pursifull (iGEM) - Engineering Proteorhodopsin into E. coli to increase Ethanol Production
• Chenxi Qiu (iGEM) - Maximizing Alcohol Production Using Ndh/Nuo Knockouts and Proteorhodopsin in E. coli
• Giulia Ripellino (KTH) - Evolution and Sporulation of Bacillus subtilis in the Presence of Antibiotics
• Robert Rogersten (KTH) - Aircraft Electric Power System Modeling
• Nicholas Spooner (Cambridge) - Evaluation and Benchmarking for Robot Motion Planning Problems Using TuLiP
• Ashley Su (CSULA; iGEM) - Engineering Escherichia coli to Animate in Response to Light
• Huey-Ru (Debra) Tsai (iGEM) - Metabolic Engineering and Construction of Expression Plasmids in Zymomonas mobilis
• Vinayak Viswanadham (UC Berkeley) - Understanding Feedback in Bacterial Toxin-Antitoxin Systems: An In Vitro Approach

2011

• Julia Brown (iGEM) - Bioremediation of Endocrine Disruptors: Isolation of an Endocrine-Disruptor-Degrading Bacterium
• Arjun Chandrasekhar - Simulac: A Stochastic Simulator for Modeling Biomolecular Circuits
• Puikei Cheng (iGEM) - Using E. coli to Bioremediate Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals
• Magnus Håkansson - Bootstrapping Robotic Systems: Implementation and Analysis
• Samuel Jones (Solar Decathlon) - Implementation of Home Planning and Automation Software for Solar Decathlon 2011
• Yuchen Lin - Simulation Interface for Receding Horizon Temporal Logic Planning
• Ishan Khetarpal - Design and Analysis of an in vitro Exact Adapter
• Paul Nguyen - Programmable Genetic Regulation by sRNA-mRNA Hybridization
• Petter Nilsson - State Space Partitioning Algorithm in TuLiP
• Keshav Sapatnekar - Design and Modeling of an Autoinhibiting Biomolecular Circuit Incorporating Scaffolding
• Amanda Shelton (iGEM) - Bioremediation of Endocrine Disrupting Compounds Using the Synthetic Biology BioBrick Standard
• Ka-Chuan Suen (Solar Decathlon) - Gesture Based Interface for Solar Decathlon House
• Nicole Thadani (iGEM) - Bioremediation of Endocrine Disruptors From Water Using Genetically Modified Escherichia coli
• Stephanie Tsuei - Implementation of a Distributed Camera Control Protocol

2010

• Alexandre Boulgakov - iGEM
• Arjun Ravikumar - Construction of an environmental stimulus receptive DNA circuit in a cell-free transcription/translation system
• Brian Ma - iGEM
• Lucas Hartsough - iGEM
• Melissa Xu - iGEM
• Oskar Hjartquist (LTH) - Origins of uncertainty in building synthetic genetic circuits
• Yuehan Huang - iGEM

2009

• Fei Chen (Caltech Bi/EE)
• Chris Sturk (Lund)

2008

• Mariette Annergren (KTH)
• Bjorn Heinbokel
• Karl Murray (KTH)
• Noele Norris (Caltech, EE) - Planning Under Sensing Uncertainty for a Mobile Autonomous Robot
• Ben Prindle (Caltech, ChE)
• Manuel Segura
• Stefan Skoog (Lund University)
• Glenn Wagner (Caltech, ME)
• Kevin Welch

2007

• Humberto Bento Ayres Pereira (U. Porto)
• Magnus Linderoth
• Christopher J. Schantz (Caltech)
• Kristian Soltesz (Lund) - Nonlinear Lateral Control Strategy for Nonholonomic Vehicles

2006

• Jessica N. Austin [Gonzalez] (Caltech)
• Morlan Liu (College of the Canyons)
• Joshua J. Feingold (Caltech)
• Bernardo Maciel (Portugal) - Attention and Awareness for Autonomous Driving
• Humberto Bento Ayres Pereira (Portugal)
• David M. Rosen (Caltech, Ma)
• Jing Shen (Caltech)
• Jose Torres (USC)
• Johan Ugander (Lund)

2005

• Ludo Antonov - Riegl LADAR Linux driver and Sensor Synchronization via Real-Time Kernel Extensions
• Tully Foote - Adrive: Autonomous Driving Software
• Jeremy Gillula - Data Fusion from Multiple Sensors: Real-Time Mapping on an Unmanned Ground Vehicle
• Marie Göransson (Lund) - Measuring Sensor Health in DARPA Grand Challenge
• Rob Grogan - Automotive Failures and Solutions for Autonomous Vehicle Development
• George Hines - Environmental Considerations in a Mobile Computing Facility
• Erik Johannesson (Lund) - Integrated Stereovision for an Autonomous Ground Vehicle
• Tony Kelman - Dynamical Modeling of an Autonomous Ground Vehicle
• Jeremy Leibs - Improvements in State Estimation
• Gustav Lindstrom (Lund) - Road following based on video and LADAR data
• Laura Lindzey - Trajectory Following in Off-Road Desert Terrain
• Lisa Nystrom (Lund) - Online terrain classification for the DARPA Grand Challenge
• Tami Reyda - Development of Gimbaled Sensor Platform and Gimbal Pointing Algorithm
• Dave Rosen - Hierarchical Path Planning in Autonomous Ground Vehicles
• Alex Stewart - Development of a Supervisory Control Architecture for Deterministic System Control of Alice
• Lusann Yang (Princeton) -
• Jason Yosinksi - Terrain Sensing through Analysis of Vehicle State Variables

2004

• Lyle J. Chamberlain
• Meghan R. Crowley
• Jeremy H. Gillula
• Haomiao Huang
• Andrew N. Kwok
• Alexander J. Sutherland
• Jin Xiong
• Henrik Kjellander (Lund)
• Brian Beck (Princeton)
• Jon Gibbs (MIT)
• Hans-Kristian Knudson (Lund)
• Roger Hsiao (UIUC),
• John McNamara
• Randall Ward

2003

• Claire Walton
• Burak Cendek
• Cesar Del Solar
• Michael Yeh
• Denny Chao

2002

• Lyle Chamberlain
• Megha Watagalu
• Japeck Tang

1995

• Gary Fay

1993

• Henry Choi
• Asif Khalak
• Steven Rhee

1992

• Nicky Impert
• Matt Tucker