People
The lab
16 members working across four research thrusts, plus alumni now at labs and companies around the world.
Principal investigator
Amanda Prorok
Professor of Collective Intelligence and Robotics
Postdoctoral researchers
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Jan BlumenkampPostdoctoral ResearcherSim-to-real transfer using MARL and GNNs, with focus on interpretability and resilience. Best Paper Award at ICRA 2023.
Platforms & ToolsMARL & GNN -
Manon FlageatPostdoctoral ResearcherDiversity-seeking learning algorithms using reinforcement learning and evolutionary computation for robotic system resilience.
MARL & GNNPlatforms & Tools -
Michael AmirPostdoctoral ResearcherScalability and provable safety guarantees in multi-agent systems and swarm robotics, with interest in alignment.
MARL & GNNEnv Co-DesignSwarm Robotics
Project coordinator
PhD candidates & research staff
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Jasmine BayrootiPhD CandidateIntersection of mathematics, ML theory, and robotics — parameterizing uncertainty and resilience in multi-agent systems.
MARL & GNNEnv Co-Design -
Jennifer GielisPhD CandidateWireless data communications and multi-robot control algorithms for drone swarms and automotive networks.
Swarm RoboticsPlatforms & ToolsCommunications -
Maksymilian WolskiPhD StudentEnabling collaborative robot team reasoning — zero-shot coordination and world models.
MARL & GNN -
Peter WooPhD CandidateMoving beyond monolithic AI toward specialized, collaborative robot teams — bridging theory with real-world drone experiments.
compositionalitySwarm Robotics -
Rishabh JainPhD CandidateMaking GNNs safer with emphasis on robustness and interpretability in multi-agent contexts.
MARL & GNNSwarm Robotics -
Lorenzo MagninoResearch AssistantMulti-agent interactive systems using MARL and control — heterogeneity and swarm robotics implementation.
MARL & GNNSwarm Robotics -
Mateusz Odrowaz-SypniewskiResearch AssistantMARL representing agent intentions without communication — exploring heterogeneity in coordination.
MARL & GNNPlatforms & Tools -
Sridhar SolaResearch AssistantMoving cutting-edge research to real-world applications across computer vision, imitation learning, and RL.
Swarm RoboticsPlatforms & Tools
- Zhan Gao PhD Candidate→ Postdoc, Imperial College London, 2026
- Ajay Shankar Postdoctoral Researcher→ 2025
- Guang Yang Postdoctoral Researcher→ Boston Dynamics, 2025
- Keisuke Okumura Visiting Scholar→ AIST Japan, 2025
- Matteo Bettini PhD Student→ Meta, 2025
- Nicolas Pfitzer Visiting Masters Student→ ETH Zurich, 2025
- Qingbiao Li PhD Student→ Assistant Professor, University of Macau, 2025
- Sanim Kazi Ragib Ishraq Research Assistant→ 2025
- Steven Morad PhD Student→ Assistant Professor, University of Macau, 2024
- Henry Smith Research Assistant→ 2023
- Matthew Malencia Visiting PhD Student→ UPenn, 2023
- Ryan Kortvelesy PhD Student→ 2023
- Alex Raymond PhD Student→ 2022
- Ben Hudson MPhil Student→ 2022
- Saasha Nair Research Assistant→ 2022
- Zhe Liu Postdoctoral Researcher→ 2022
- Esha Dasgupta Undergraduate Student, Part II Dissertation→ 2019
- Hehui Zheng Intern→ 2019
- Jacopo Panerati Postdoctoral Researcher→ 2019
- Matthew Allsop Undergraduate Student, Part II Dissertation→ 2019
- Matthew Le Maitre Research Assistant→ 2019
- Yulia Bibik Graduate Student, Part III Dissertation→ 2019
- Fredrika Kringberg Research Assistant→ 2018
- Joshua Send Graduate Student, Part III Dissertation→ 2018
- Matthew Jadczak Graduate Student, Part III Dissertation→ 2018
- Nicholas Hyldmar Intern→ 2018
- Paul Scherer Research Assistant→ 2018
- Wenying Wu Undergraduate Student, Part II Dissertation (Commended)→ 2018
- Yijun He Intern→ 2018