Alumni

Since 2021, iRAL has been the research home of master’s students, undergraduates, and visiting high-school students. Our alumni have graduated to top doctoral programs engineering roles in industry. The table below records what each of them worked on here, and what their first next position was.

NameRole and dates in the labNext position
Sandilya Sai GarimellaM.Sc. Student, ROB, Winter 2023-Summer 2024Ph.D. student at GaTech
Andrew SchefferM.Sc. Student, CS, Fall 2023-Summer 2024Ph.D. student at UMich
Andrew ZhaoB.S. and M.Sc. Student, Aero, Fall 2021-Summer 2026Engineer at Blue Origin
Yichen SongM.Sc. Student, ROB, Fall 2022-Winter 2023Ph.D. student at Boston University
Xiaofeng LinM.Sc. Student, ROB, Winter 2022-Winter 2023Ph.D. student at Boston University
Aditya ParanjapeM.Sc. Student, AERO, Fall 2023-Winter 2024Controls Engineer at Caterpillar
Ashwin AnandakumarM.Sc. Student, AERO, Fall 2022-Winter 2023Associate Robotics and Autonomous Systems Engineer at MITRE
Maithili Jagadishchandra ShettyM.Sc. Student, ECE, Fall 2021-Fall 2022Controls Engineer at Mathworks
Sachit KrishnanM.Sc. Student, ECE, Fall 2021-Winter 2022Controls Engineer at Mercedes
Will CohenM.Sc. Student, AERO, Fall 2021-Winter 2022Software Engineer at Anduril
Shikhar GuptaM.Sc. Student, ECE, Fall 2021-Winter 2022Machine Learning Engineer at Informed
Roshini MuralidharM.Sc. Student, AERO, Winter 2022Controls and Autonomation Software Engineering at ASML
Deniz DostM.Sc. Student, AERO, Winter 2022Engineer at Roketsan Roket Sanayii ve Ticaret
Sai Satya Charan MalladiM.Sc. Student, AERO, Winter 2022Flight Controls Engineer at Odys Aviation
Sashreek ShankarB.Sc. Student, EECS, Summer 2022-Winter 2025Engineer at MIT Lincoln Lab
Nikhil PunshiM.Sc. Student, AERO, Fall 2022-Winter 2024Controls Engineer at Gulfstream
Daniel BernsteinB.Sc. Student, AERO, Fall 2021-Winter 2023Engineer at AV
Yanyu ChenB.Sc. Student, MechE and IOE, Class of ’24, Fall 2021-Winter 2023M.Sc. student at Stanford
Laasya ChukkaB.Sc. Student, Class of ’25, Fall 2021-Winter 2022Engineer at Palantir
Arvav SharmaHigh-School Student, West Windsor-Plainsboro High School North, Summer 2024Undergraduate student at University of Maryland, College Park
Ashmit DewanHigh-School Student, West Windsor-Plainsboro High School North, Summer 2022Undergraduate student at University of Pennsylvania