people.md

layout	page
eyebrow	The lab
title	People
lede	Students and researchers working on learning, reasoning, and verification for fleets of robots and AI agents.
permalink	/people/

{%- assign everyone = site.people | sort_natural: "name" -%}

{%- comment -%} Principal investigator {%- endcomment -%} {%- assign pis = everyone | where: "position", "pi" -%} {%- for pi in pis -%} {%- assign pi_stem = pi.avatar | split: "." | first %}

{%- if pi.avatar %} {%- endif %}

Principal investigator

{{ pi.name }}

{%- if pi.role %}

{{ pi.role }}, UT Austin

{% endif %} {%- if pi.interests %}

Research interests: {{ pi.interests }}.

{% endif %}

{%- if pi.scholar %}
{% endif %} {%- if pi.website %}
{% endif %} {%- if pi.email %}
• {{ pi.email }}
{% endif %}

Full profile

{%- endfor -%}

{%- comment -%} Current members. "Students" is one section with one row each for PhD, MS and undergrad (no sub-headings: each card already names the level) {%- endcomment -%} {%- assign grads = everyone | where: "position", "gradstudent" -%} {%- assign phds = grads | where: "degree", "phd" -%} {%- assign other_grads = grads | where_exp: "p", "p.degree != 'phd'" -%} {%- assign ugrads = everyone | where: "position", "undergrad" -%} {%- assign students = phds | concat: other_grads | concat: ugrads -%} {%- assign postdocs = everyone | where: "position", "postdoc" -%} {%- assign staff = everyone | where: "position", "researchstaff" -%} {%- assign visiting = everyone | where: "position", "visiting" -%} {%- assign honorary = everyone | where: "position", "others" -%}

{%- capture sections -%}postdocs|Postdoctoral fellows;students|Students;staff|Research staff;visiting|Visiting scholars;honorary|Honorary members{%- endcapture -%} {%- assign section_list = sections | split: ";" -%} {%- for s in section_list -%} {%- assign key = s | split: "|" | first -%} {%- assign heading = s | split: "|" | last -%} {%- case key -%} {%- when "postdocs" -%}{%- assign group = postdocs -%} {%- when "students" -%}{%- assign group = students -%} {%- when "staff" -%}{%- assign group = staff -%} {%- when "visiting" -%}{%- assign group = visiting -%} {%- when "honorary" -%}{%- assign group = honorary -%} {%- endcase -%} {%- if group.size > 0 %}

Current

{{ heading }}

{%- if key == "students" %} {%- assign rows = "" | split: "" | push: phds | push: other_grads | push: ugrads %} {%- else %} {%- assign rows = "" | split: "" | push: group %} {%- endif %} {%- for row in rows %}{% if row.size > 0 %}

{%- for person in row %} {% include person_card.html p=person %} {%- endfor %}

{%- endif %}{% endfor %}

{%- endif -%} {%- endfor -%}

{%- comment -%} Alumni: grouped PhD > MS > Undergraduate > other; newest end_year first within a group, then no end_year {%- endcomment -%} {%- assign alumni = everyone | where: "position", "alumni" -%} {%- if alumni.size > 0 %} {%- assign alumni_phd = alumni | where: "degree", "phd" -%} {%- assign alumni_ms = alumni | where: "degree", "ms" -%} {%- assign alumni_ug = alumni | where: "degree", "undergrad" -%} {%- assign alumni_other = alumni | where_exp: "p", "p.degree != 'phd' and p.degree != 'ms' and p.degree != 'undergrad'" -%} {%- capture alumni_groups -%}phd|PhD;ms|MS;ug|Undergraduate;other|Other{%- endcapture -%} {%- assign alumni_group_list = alumni_groups | split: ";" %}

Alumni

Where they went next

{%- for g in alumni_group_list %} {%- assign gkey = g | split: "|" | first -%} {%- assign gheading = g | split: "|" | last -%} {%- case gkey -%} {%- when "phd" -%}{%- assign group = alumni_phd -%} {%- when "ms" -%}{%- assign group = alumni_ms -%} {%- when "ug" -%}{%- assign group = alumni_ug -%} {%- when "other" -%}{%- assign group = alumni_other -%} {%- endcase -%} {%- if group.size > 0 %} {%- assign end_years = group | map: "end_year" | uniq | sort | reverse %}

{{ gheading }}

{%- for y in end_years %} {%- for a in group %}{% if a.end_year == y %} {% include person_card.html p=a variant="alumni" %} {%- endif %}{% endfor %} {%- endfor %} {%- for a in group %}{% unless a.end_year %} {% include person_card.html p=a variant="alumni" %} {%- endunless %}{% endfor %}

{%- endif %} {%- endfor %}

{%- endif %}

Lab life

Beyond the lab bench

Conferences, field days, and group outings with the Swarm Lab.

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