Personnel

This page contains information about the members of the Aerospace Robotics Laboratory: faculty, staff, current students, and lab graduates.

The students, who are mostly Ph.D. candidates, come from many fields in engineering. Current lab members are aerospace engineers, electrical engineers, mechanical engineers, and computer scientists. This diversity allows the members of the lab to draw upon each others' experiences to solve complicated systems-level problems which involve several engineering disciplines.

While students are the ARL's greatest assets, its graduates are its greatest products. ARL graduates are making significant impacts in government, industry, and academia. When possible, the links below contain current contact information.

Faculty

Steve Rock, Director and Professor (rock@stanford.edu)
Robert H. Cannon, Founder and Professor Emeritus (cannon@sun-valley.stanford.edu)

Staff

Sherann Ellsworth, Manager of Guidance & Controls Laboratories, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics (sheranne@stanford.edu)
Dana Parga, Administrative Assistant (dparga@stanford.edu)
Godwin Zhang, Robotics Lab EE Designer (godwin@sun-valley.stanford.edu)

Students

Sean Augenstein (saugenst@stanford.edu)
Daniel Chavez-Clemente (dchavez@stanford.edu)
Alan Chen (aychen@stanford.edu)
Sungmoon Joo (joosm@stanford.edu)
Peter Kimball (pkimball@stanford.edu)
Ellen Klingbeil (ellenrk7@stanford.edu)
Nicolas Lee (nnlee@stanford.edu)
Debbie Meduna (dmeduna@stanford.edu)
Teresa Miller (tgmiller@stanford.edu)
Kiran Murthy (kmurthy@stanford.edu)
Kristof Richmond (kristof@sun-valley.stanford.edu)
Stephen Russell (sprussel@stanford.edu)
Daniel Sheinfeld (sheinfeld@stanford.edu)
Andrew Smith (acsmith@stanford.edu)
This one-minute movie (9MB), made in 2000 to test out new video-editing software, provides an entertaining introduction to many of the lab residents---human and robotic.

Students
Who've
Defended

Gordon A. Hunt (gordo@sun-valley.stanford.edu)
Steve Ims (sdi@sun-valley.stanford.edu)
Jinwhan Kim (genekim@sun-valley.stanford.edu)
Denny Morse (dmorse@sun-valley.stanford.edu)
Aaron Plotnik (aplotnik@stanford.edu)

Graduates

Larry Alder, AA Ph.D. 1993 (alder@arraycomm.com)
Harold Alexander, EE Ph.D. 1988 (haroldalexander@yahoo.com)
Brian Andersen, AA Ph.D. 1990
Bill Balhaus, AA Ph.D. 1994 (William_L_Ballhaus_at_4-EAGLE@ccgate.hac.com)
Tim Bretl, AA Ph.D. 2005 (tbretl@sun-valley.stanford.edu)
Vince Chen, EE Ph.D. 1993 (vince@rti.com)
Wen-Wie Chiang, AA Ph.D. 1985 
Chris Clark , AA/CS Ph.D., 2004(chrisc@sun-valley.stanford.edu)
Andrew Conway, EE Ph.D. 1995 (arc@sequence.stanford.edu)
Tobé Corazzini, AA Ph.D. 2000 (tobe@sun-valley.stanford.edu)
Bill Dickson, AA Ph.D. 1993 (bdickson@hooked.net)
Steve Fleischer, AA Ph.D. 2000 (fleisch@stanfordalumni.org)
Eric Frew, AA Ph.D. 2003 (ewf@sun-valley.stanford.edu)
Bruce Gardner, Ph.D. 1985 
Mike Hollars, AA Ph.D. 1988 (hollars@sj.ptc.com)
Andreas Huster, EE Ph.D. 2003 (ah@huster.ca)
Warren Jasper, AA Ph.D. 1990 (wjasper@tx.ncsu.edu)
Hank Jones, AA Ph.D. 2003 (hlj@sun-valley.stanford.edu)
Robert Kindel, AA Ph.D. 2001 (kindel@sun-valley.stanford.edu)
Ross Koningstein, AA Ph.D. 1990 (r.koningstein@computer.org)
Ray Kraft, AA Ph.D. 1989 (ray@brazil.ca.boeing.com)
Kortney Leabourne, AA Ph.D. 2001 (kortney@sun-valley.stanford.edu)
Jack Langelaan, AA Ph.D. 2006 (jack@sun-valley.stanford.edu)
Edward LeMaster, AA Ph.D. 2002 (lemaster@sun-valley.stanford.edu)
Uy-Loi Ly, AA Ph.D. 1982 (ly@aa.washington.edu)
Jim Maples, EE Ph.D. 1985
Rick Marks, AA Ph.D. 1995 (rlmarks@home.com)
Masayoshi Matsuoka, AA Ph.D. 2005 (matsuoka@sun-valley.stanford.edu)
Tim McLain, ME Ph.D. 1995 (tmclain@et.byu.edu)
Dave Meer, ME Ph.D. 1994 (dmeer@ced.utah.edu)
David Miles, AA Ph.D. 1997 (sunspark@sun-valley.stanford.edu)
Eric Miles, AA Ph.D. 1997 (eric.miles@garmin.com)
Jorge Moraleda, EE Ph.D. 2004 (moraleda@sun-valley.stanford.edu)
Melvin Ni, AA Eng. 2000 (mni@sun-valley.stanford.edu)
Celia Oakley, ME Ph.D. 1991 (celia@arraycom.com)
Gerardo Pardo-Castellote, EE Ph.D. 1995 (pardo@rti.com)
Chad Partridge, EE Eng. 2001 (chad@harypartridge.com)
Larry Pfeffer, AA Ph.D. 1993 (pfeffer@nist.gov)
Eric Prigge, EE Ph.D. 2005 (prigge@sun-valley.stanford.edu)
Jason Rife, AA Ph.D. 2004 (jrife@sun-valley.stanford.edu)
Andrew D. Robertson, AA Ph.D. 2001 (adr@sun-valley.stanford.edu)
Luis Rodrigues, AA Ph.D. 2002 (luisrod@sun-valley.stanford.edu)
Dan Rosenthal, AA Ph.D. 1984 
Daniel Rovner, AA Ph.D. 1987 
Jeff Russakow, ME Ph.D. 1995 (jeff_russakow@mckinsey.com)
Eric Schmitz, AA Ph.D. 1985 (eric.schmitz@lmco.com)
Stan Schneider, EE Ph.D. 1988 (stan@rti.com)
Heidi Schubert, AA Ph.D. 2001 (heidi@sun-valley.stanford.edu)
Mike Sidman, EE Ph.D. 1986 (mike@sidman.com)
Stefaan Sonck Thiebaut, ME Ph.D. 2001 (ssonck@sun-valley.stanford.edu)
H.D. Stevens, AA Ph.D. 1997 (stevensh@ssd.loral.com)
Chris Uhlik, EE Ph.D. 1990 (chris.uhlik@stanfordalumni.org)
Marc Ullman, AA Ph.D. 1993 (marc@mathworks.com)
Rob Vasquez, AA Ph.D. 1992 (rlvasquez@ccgate.hac.com)
Howard Wang, AA Ph.D. 1996 (howard@rti.com)
Ed Wilson, ME Ph.D. 1995 (ed.wilson@intellization.com)
Bruce Woodley, EE Ph.D. 2001 (woodley@sun-valley.stanford.edu)
Roberto Zanutta, ME Ph.D. 1991 (rzanutt.sales@pc.trimble.com)
Kurt Zimmerman, EE Ph.D. 1996 (kzimm@IntegriNautics.com)


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