Artificial Intelligence and Robotics at USC

Ph.d. students that graduate from USC work in academia, research laboratories, and industry. Here are the results of a survey that we did in 2005 on what our graduate students in artificial intelligence and robotics do after graduation. The following list about research positions in academia and research laboratories is still incomplete but should be accurate as of December 2005. It does not include students who graduated in areas other than artificial intelligence and robotics.

• Deepak Ravichandran (Ph.d. in 2005), Research Scientist at Google
• Chris Jones (Ph.d. in 2005), Research Scientist at iRobot Corporation
• Changhee Han (Ph.d. in 2005), Assistant Professor at the Korean Military Academy (Korea)
• Sung Chun Lee (Ph.d. in 2004), Research Scientist at USC's Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Systems
• Ranjit Nair (Ph.d. in 2004), Research Scientist at Honeywell Laboratories
• Chad Jenkins (Ph.d. in 2003), Assistant Professor at Brown University
• Jay Modi (Ph.d. in 2003), Assistant Professor at Drexel University
• Monica Nicolescu (Ph.d. in 2003), Assistant Professor at the University of Nevada at Reno
• Mircea Nicolescu (Ph.d. in 2003), Assistant Professor at the University of Nevada at Reno
• Philipp Koehn (Ph.d. in 2003), Lecturer (= Assistant Professor) at the University of Edinburgh (Great Britain)
• Brian Gerkey (Ph.d. in 2003), Research Scientist at SRI International
• Hyuckchul Jung (Ph.d. in 2003), Research Scientist at the Institute for Human and Machine Cognition
• Benham Salemi (Ph.d. in 2003), Research Scientist at USC's Information Sciences Institute
• Tao Zhao (Ph.d. in 2003), Research Scientist at Sarnoff Laboratories
• Greg Barish (Ph.d. in 2003), Research Scientist at Fetch Technologies
• Irene Langkilde-Geary (Ph.d. in 2002), Assistant Professr at Brighham Young University
• Sheila Tejada (Ph.d. in 2002), Visiting Research Scientist at Tulane University
• Yaser Al-Onaizan (Ph.d. in 2002), Research Scientist at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
• Jafar Adibi (Ph.d. in 2002), Research Scientist at USC's Information Sciences Institute
• Ion Muslea (Ph.d. in 2002), Research Scientist at Language Weaver
• Zu Kim (Ph.d. in 2001), Research Scientist at the University of California at Berkeley
• Dani Goldberg (Ph.d. in 2001), Research Scientist at Bluefin Robotics
• Marcelo Tallis (Ph.d. in 2001), Research Scientist at Teknowledge
• Gal Kaminka (Ph.d. in 2000), Senior Lecturer (= Assistant Professor) at Bar-Ilan University (Israel)
• Stergios Roumeliotis (Ph.d. in 1999), Assistant Professor at the University of Minnesota
• Ayanna MacCalla Howard (Ph.d. in 1999), Associate Professor at Georgia Institute of Technology
• Seon Ho Kim (Ph.d. in 1999), Assistant Professor at the University of Denver
• Naveen Ashish (Ph.d. in 1999), Visiting Research Scientist at the University of California at Irvine
• Jim Montgomery (Ph.d.in 1999), Research Scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory
• Alberto Behar (Ph.d. in 1998), Research Scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory
• Michael McHenry (Ph.d. in 1998), Research Scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory
• Jose Ambite (Ph.d. in 1998), Research Scientist at USC's Information Sciences Institute
• Chin-Yew Lin (Ph.d. in 1998), Research Scientist at USC's Information Sciences Institute
• Gaurav Sukhatme (Ph.d. in 1997), Associate Professor at the University of Southern California
• Ishwar Chander (Ph.d. in 1997), Research Scientist at Northrop Grumman
• Andrew Fagg (Ph.d. in 1996), Associate Professor at the University of Oklahoma
• Chun-Nan Hsu (Ph.d. in 1996), Associate Research Fellow at the Institute of Information Science at the Academia Sinica Taiwan (Taiwan)
• Jihie Kim (Ph.d. in 1996), Research Assistant Professor at the University of Southern California
• Ben Smith (Ph.d. in 1995), Research Scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory
• Dongsung Kim (Ph.d. in 1994), Professor a SoongSil Unversity (Korea)
• Arvin Agah (Ph.d. in 1994), Professor at the University of Kansas
• Jounghyun Gerard Kim (Ph.d. in 1994), Associate Professor at Pohang University of Science and Technology (Korea)
• Vibhu Mittal (Ph.d. in 1993), Research Scientist at Google and Adjunct Research Scientist at Carnegie Mellon University
• Randy Hill (Ph.d. in 1993), Director of Applied Research at USC's Institute for Creative Technologies
• Reza Shadmehr (Ph.d. in 1991), Professor at Johns Hopkins University
• Danilo Bassi Acuña (Ph.d. in 1990), Curriculo Professor at the University of Santiago (Chile)
• Huan Liu (Ph.d. in 1989), Associate Professor at Arizona State University
• Dit-Yan Yeung (Ph.d. in 1989), Associate Professor and Associate Head at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Hong Kong)
• Anastassios Chassiakos (Ph.d. in 1987), Professor at California State University at Long Beach
• Fred Hadaegh (Ph.d. in 1984), Research Scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory
• Gerard Medioni (Ph.d. in 1983), Professor and Department Chair at the University of Southern California
• Andrew Frank (Ph.d. in 1968), Professor at the University of California at Davis

Here are the results of a survey that we did in 2005 on what our postdoctoral researchers and research scientists in artificial intelligence and robotics do after they leave USC. The list is still incomplete but should be accurate as of December 2005. It does not include postdoctoral researchers and research scientists who worked in areas other than artificial intelligence and robotics.

• Marcelo Kallmann (USC 2003-2005), Assistant Professor at the University of California at Merced
• Torbjorn Dahl (USC 2001-2003), Senior Lecturer at the University of Wales (Great Britain)
• Paul Scerri (USC 2001-2003), Systems Scientist at Carnegie Mellon University
• Andrew Howard (USC 2001-2004), Research Scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory
• Ashley Tews (USC 2001-2005), Research Engineer at the Autonomous Systems Laboratory at CSIRO (Australia)
• Sethu Vijayakumar (USC 2000-2003), Assistant Professor at the University of Edinburgh (Great Britain)
• Paolo Pirjanian (USC 1999-1999), President and CTO of Evolution Robotics
• Auke Jan Ijspeert (USC 1999-2002), Assistant Professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL - Switzerland)
• Aude Billard (USC 1999-2002), Associate Professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL - Switzerland)
• Richard Vaughan (USC 1998-2001), Assistant Professor at Simon Fraser University (Canada)
• Isaac Cohen (USC 1997-2005), Section Lead at Honeywell Laboratories
• Rajiv Maheswaran (USC 2003-2005), Research Scientist at USC's Information Sciences Institute