Rodney Brooks - Roboticist

Graduated PhDs

Following are the people for whom Rodney Brooks served as thesis supervisor.

#1 - 1986 David Marimont deceased
#2 - 1988 William Lim retired in southern Florida
#3 - 1989 Jonathan Connell IBM
#4 - 1990 David Chapman lost in space (David, where are you?)
#5 - 1993 Martha Hiller lost in time (Marty, where are you?)
#6 - 1993 Ian Horswill* Northwestern University
#7 - 1994 Lynne Parker University of Tennessee
#8 - 1994 Maja Mataric University of Southern California
#9 - 1995 Anita Flynn MicroPropulsion Corporation
#10 - 1998 Satyajit Rao* Massachusetts Institute of Technology, CSAIL
#11 - 1998 Charles Isbell* Georgia Tech
#12 - 1998 Carlo Maley The Wistar Institute
#13 - 1998 Yoky Matsuoka* University of Washington
#14 - 1999 Matthew Williamson Sana Security
#15 - 2000 Cynthia Breazeal Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Media Lab
#16 - 2000 Holly Yanco University of Massachusetts, Lowell
#17 - 2000 Robert Irie Federal Government
#18 - 2001 Brian Scassellati Yale University
#19 - 2003 Matthew Marjanovic ITA Software
#20 - 2003 Paul Fitzpatrick Italian Institute of Technology
#21 - 2004 Artur Arsenio Siemens Networks SA, Portugal
#22 - 2005 Charles Kemp Georgia Tech
#23 - 2006 Bryan Adams iRobot Corporation
#24 - 2006 Aaron Edsinger Meka Robotics
#25 - 2007 Eduardo Torres-Jara Massachusetts Institute of Technology, CSAIL
#26 - 2007 Lijin Aryananda University of Zurich, AI Lab
#27 - 2007 Juan Velasquez VistaPrint

* Ian Horswill joint with Lynn Stein; Satyajit Rao joint with Patrick Winston; Charles Isbell joint with Paul Viola; Yoky Matsuoka joint with Emilio Bizzi

Served as a member of the thesis committee for these PhD students:

David Lowe (Stanford 1984); Jitendra Malik (Stanford 1985); Charles E. Buckley (Stanford 1985); Steve Buckley (MIT 1987); Russell L. Andersson (U Penn 1987); Eric Krotkov (U Penn 1987); John F. Canny (MIT 1987); Bruce R. Donald (MIT 1987); Kenneth Stewart (MIT 1988); Margaret M. Fleck (MIT1988); Phillip Agre (MIT 1988); Michael A. Erdmann (MIT 1989);Michael J. Villalba (MIT 1990); David J. Braunegg (MIT 1990); Erann Gat (Virginia Polytech 1991); Andrew Ayers (MIT 1993); Horst Hendriks-Jansen (University of Sussex, UK 1994); Margrit Betke (MIT 1995); David James Beymer (MIT 1995); Ivan Bachelder (MIT 1996); Trevor Darrell (MIT 1996); Astro Teller (Carnegie Mellon 1998); David Lisle Jung (University of Wollongong, Australia 1998); Claudio Santos Pinhanez (MIT 1999); Ari Wilkenfeld (MIT 2000); Anil Buntwal Somayaji (University of New Mexico 2001); Michael Alan Wessler (MIT 2002); Christopher P. Stauffer (MIT 2002); Sungho Jo (MIT 2006); Michael H. Coen (MIT 2006); Kai-yuh Hsiao (MIT 2007); Paulina Varchavskaia (MIT 2007); Iuliu Vasilescu (MIT 2009); Hui Li (MIT 2010).