People
Prospective students, please see Open Positions for instructions on how to apply to join our group.
I have been fortunate to work with a number of amazing students over the years.
The Lifelong Machine Learning Research Group (2022)
DARPA Triage Challenge: On-Site Team for Challenge 1 (2024)
DARPA Triage Challenge: On-Site Team for Workshop 2 (2025)
DARPA Triage Challenge: On-Site Team for Challenge 2 with our combat medics (2025)
DARPA Triage Challenge: On-Site Team for Challenge 2 with our combat medics (2025)
Current Research Group Members
- Shenbagaraj Kannapiran (Postdoc)
- Marcel Hussing (PhD student)
- Long Le (PhD student)
- Edward Zhang (PhD student). Co-Advisor: Daniel Hashimoto, MD
- Joshua Caswell (MS student): Triage Challenge
- Yi Fan Li (MS student): Triage Challenge
- Amy Pajak (MS student): Robotics
- Anh-Quan Pham (MS student): Robotics / Lifelong RL
- Ethan Sanchez (MS student): Triage Challenge
- Mohit Singh (MS student): Reinforcement Learning
Former Postdoctoral Fellows
- Cassandra Kent, Ph.D. (2021–2022 at Penn)
- Jorge Mendez, Ph.D. (2022 at Penn)
- Sima Behpour, Ph.D. (2019–2020 at Penn)
- Boyu Wang, Ph.D. (2018–2019 at Penn)
- James Stokes, Ph.D. (2017–2018 at Penn)
- José Marcio Luna Castaneda, Ph.D. (2014–2016 at Penn)
- Haitham Bou Ammar, Ph.D. (2013–2015 at Penn)
- Paul Ruvolo, Ph.D. (2012–2013 at Bryn Mawr College)
- Steven Gutstein, Ph.D. (2011–2012 at Bryn Mawr College)
Graduated PhD Students
- Kyle Vedder, Ph.D. (CIS PhD 2025). Dissertation: Toward Scalable, Flexible Scene Flow for Point Clouds.
- Meghna Gummadi, Ph.D. (CIS PhD 2025). Dissertation: Knowing What We Don’t Know! Detecting and Learning Out-of-Distribution Data in the Open World
- Seungwon Lee, Ph.D. (CIS PhD 2024). Dissertation: Deep Lifelong Learning with Factorized Knowledge Transfer
- Jorge Mendez, Ph.D. (CIS PhD 2022). Dissertation: Lifelong Machine Learning of Functionally Compositional Structures
- Mohammad Rostami, Ph.D. (ESE PhD 2019). Dissertation: Learning Transferable Knowledge Through Embedding Spaces. Co-advisor: Daniel Lee.
- David Isele, Ph.D. (CIS PhD 2018). Dissertation: Lifelong Reinforcement Learning on Mobile Robots. Co-advisor: CJ Taylor.