Zhefei Gong
PhD student, CS
Started Fall 2026
Lab
The Helping Hands Lab is part of the Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University.
Faculty
Robert Platt
Lab Director
PhD Students
Ahmed Agha
PhD student, CS
Started Spring 2025
Misha Lvovsky
PhD student, CS
Started Fall 2024
Nichols Crawford Taylor
PhD student, CS
Started Fall 2024
Boce Hu
PhD student, CS
Started Fall 2023
Haojie Huang
PhD student, CS
Started Fall 2021
MS Students
Zhang Ye
M.S. student, Robotics (ECE)
Andrew Cole
M.S. student, Robotics (ME)
Sakshi Bhatia
M.S. student, Robotics (ECE)
Javad Moein
M.S Student, AI
Visiting Students
Haotian Liu
Visiting student
PhD Alumni
Ondrej Biza
Tesla
Marcus Gualtieri
Bosch
Tarik Kelestemur
Eka Robotics
David Klee
Stealth Startup
Colin Kohler
Robotics and AI Institute
Girik Malik
Microsoft
Hai Nguyen
Amazon Robotics
Andreas ten Pas
Luminous Robotics
Ulrich Viereck
Symbotic
Dian Wang
University of Macau
Xupeng Zhu
Amazon Robotics
Undergrad/Master Alumni
- Yizhe ZhuMS (Robotics), 2026 · Now a Phd student at University of Macau
- Rachel LimMS (Robotics), 2025
- Yaoyao(Freax) QianMS (Information Systems), 2025
- Heng TianMS (Robotics), 2025
- Haibo ZhaoMS (Robotics), 2025 · Now a Phd student at University of Washington
- Kenechi DukorMS (Robotics), 2024 · Now at Motorola Solutions
- Elias MannMS (AI), 2024 · Now at Rowan
- Arsh TangriMS (Robotics), 2024 · Now at Path Robotics
- Kevin EsslingerMS (CS), 2023 · Now at Flow Traders
- Mingxi JiaMS (Robotics), 2023 · Now a PhD student at Brown University
- Meishan LiMS (Robotics), 2023 · Now at CRRC MA
- Shuyi LinMS (CS), 2023
- Neel SorturBS (CS), 2023
- Guanang SuMS (Robotics), 2023 · Now a PhD student at University of Minnesota
- Yida NiuMS (Robotics), 2021
- Zhengyi OuMS (Robotics), 2021 · Now at Medtronic
- Xinchao SongMS (CS), 2021 · Now a PhD student at Clarkson University
- Kevin DotyMS (ECE), 2019 · Now at Neya Systems
- Jing XieMS (CS), 2019
- Maozhi LiuMS (ME), 2018 · Now at Flexiv Robotics
- Matt CorsaroMS, 2016 · Now a PhD student at Brown
- Caris MosesMS, 2016 · Now a PhD student at MIT
- Patrick MurphyMS, 2016 · Now an electromechanical engineer at Harvard
- Mordechai RyndermanMS, 2016 · Now a robotics engineer at iRobot
- Giulia FranchiVisiting Student from U. Rome, 2015 · Now an assistant professor at Salisbury University
- Swagatika PandaMS, 2015 · Now a software engineer at Amazon
- Di SunMS, 2015 · Now a robotics engineer at Fetch Robotics
- Prahasaran AskoranMS, 2013
- Nate RoscupMS, 2013
- Scott SettembreMS, 2012
- Ashwin Ravindra BharadwajM.S. student, Artificial intelligence
- Yijian (Tony) HuangM.S. student, Robotics (CS)
- Colin KeilPhD student, CS, co-advised with Hanu Singh
- Abhinav kumarM.S. student, Robotics (ECE)
- Julian RydeResearch Assistant Professor · Now a Senior Research Scientist at United Technologies Research Center (UTRC)
- Anio ZhangM.S. student, Information Systems