Group Members

We are frequently looking for passionate new PhD students, Postdocs, and Master students to join the team! See our open positions for more details.

Jump to faculty, current members, alumni.

Faculty

Eric Eaton, PhD

Principal Investigator
Research Associate Professor,
Dept. of Computer and Information Science.

Current Members

Cassandra Kent, PhD

Postdoctoral Researcher
Lifelong learning for robotics
Joined: 2021

Jorge Mendez

PhD student (CIS)
Compositional lifelong learning
Awards: Best paper at ICML 2020 Workshop on Lifelong Machine Learning; Two Sigma Diversity Fellowship (3rd place) 2021
Joined: 2017

Seungwon Lee

PhD student (CIS)
Lifelong deep learning
Joined: 2017

Kyle Vedder

PhD student (CIS)
ML for robotics
Joined: 2019

Meghna Gummadi

PhD student (CIS)
TBD
Joined: 2019

Marcel Hussing

PhD student (CIS)
TBD
Joined: 2020

Abdullah Zaini

Master's student, MSE Expected 2021
ML for medicine - Survival analysis with interpretable models

Wenxuan Zhang

Master's student, MSE Expected 2021
Theory of non-stationary lifelong learning

Spencer Solit

Undergraduate Student, BSE Expected 2023
Evaluation of compositional learning

Alumni

Former Postdocs

Sima Behpour, PhD

Postdoc, 2019-2020
Continued to a 2nd postdoc at Carnegie Mellon Univ.

Boyu Wang, PhD

Postdoc, 2018-2019
Continued to a tenure-track position at University of Western Ontario

James Stokes, PhD

Postdoc, 2017-2018
Continued on be a research scientist at the startup Tunnel; now at the Flatiron Institute.

José Marcio Luna Castaneda, PhD

Postdoc, 2014-2016
Continued on be a research scientist at Penn Medicine

Haitham Bou Ammar, PhD

Postdoc, 2013-2015
Completed a second postdoc at Princeton, then to an assistant prof. at the American Univ. of Beirut.

Paul Ruvolo, PhD

Postdoc, 2012-2013 at Bryn Mawr College
Continued on to a faculty position at Olin College

Graduated PhD Students

David Isele, PhD

PhD student (CIS), Graduated 2019
Dissertation: Lifelong Reinforcement Learning on Mobile Robots
Awards: Best Student Paper at IJCAI 2016
Continued to Honda Research

Mohammad Rostami, PhD

PhD student (ESE), Graduated 2019
Dissertation: Learning Transferable Knowledge Through Embedding Spaces
Awards: Best Student Paper at IJCAI 2016; 2019–20 Joseph, D’16, and Rosaline Wolf Award for the best dissertation in ESE at Penn
Continued to HRL labs; now at USC/ISI

Visitors

Decebal Mocanu, PhD

Master students

Grace Boatman, MSE 2020

Daoqi Zhang, MSE 2020

Sailalitha Gupta, MSE 2020

Srinath Rajagopalan, MSE 2019

Carter Burn, MSE 2019

Benjamin Kramer, MSE 2019

Karl Schmeckpeper, MSE 2018

Kuan-Chen Chiu, MSE 2018

Chi Zhang, MSE 2018

Obinna Asinugo, MSE 2018

Varun Gupta, MSE 2018

Shashank Shivkumar, MSE 2017

William Bradbury Thompson, MSE 2017

Alex Baucom, MSE 2017

Sakthivel Sivaraman, MSE 2017

Rakshita Tandon, MSE 2016

Ishan Srivastava, MSE 2016

Yanwei Du, MSE 2015

Yuncai Cui, MSE 2014

Levi Cai, MSE 2014

Chenyang Zhao, MSE 2014

Neha Kakkar, MSE 2014

Vishnu P. Sreenivasan, MSE 2014

Undergraduates

Dhruv Iyer, BSE 2021

Yizhang Lin, BSE 2019

Monica Vyavahare, BSE 2019

Tamir H. Frank, BSE 2019

Zach Hay, BSE 2018

Woonki Jeon, 2015

Kruesit Upatising, BSE 2015

Lisa Seung-Yeon Lee, BSE Princeton 2015 (GRASP REU student)

Fangyu Panda Xiong, BSE Haverford 2015