People
Team
Principle Investigator
Assistant Professor, Department of Cognitive Robotics, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, TU Delft
Email: y.vardar@tudelft.nl Office: 34.F-1-450, 3ME
Funded by NWO-VENI (Sensation-based modelling project) & Delft Technology Fellowship
Research Engineer
Haewon Jeong
Ph.D. Students
Lukas Stracovsky
Affiliated Ph.D. student
(main supervisor is Michael Wiertlewski)
Umut Kenanoglu
Ph.D. Student
Funded by NWO OTP (FITS Project)
M.Sc. Thesis Students
Ana Sanz Cozcolluela
MSc. Biomechanical Design student
Thesis
Katharina-Ines Janisch
MSc. Aerospace Engineering student
Thesis (affiliated), co-supervised with Daan Pool
Khoa Lanh
MSc. Biomechanical Design
Thesis
Rogier Ketwaru
MSc. Robotics
Thesis, co-supervised with Andres Hunt (PME, TU Delft), Johannes Luijten (Senseglove), and Gokhan Serhat (KU Leuven)
Funded by Senseglove
Tim de Visser
MSc. Mechanical Engineering
Thesis (affiliated), co-supervised with Mostafa Atalla, Michael Wiertlewski, and Aimee Sakes
Quinn Begelinger
MSc. Robotics
Thesis
Interns and Research Assistants
Haye Boonstra
MSc. in Robotics
Research Assistant
Ismail Cakmak
Incoming summer intern from Sabanci University
BSc. in Computer Science
Collaborators
Current
The Netherlands
Andres Hunt - Delft University of Technology
Daan Pool - Delft University of Technology
David Abbink - Delft University of Technology
Laura Marchal-Crespo - Delft University of Technology
Michaël Wiertlewski - Delft University of Technology
Germany
Amir Reza Aghakhani - Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems
Katherine J. Kuchenbecker - Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems
M. Paola Forte - Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems
Denmark
Hasti Seifi - University of Copenhagen
USA
Cara Nunez - Stanford University
Canada
Hamed Shahsavan - University of Waterloo
Previous
Germany
Ben Richardson - Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems
Bernard Javot - Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems
David Gueorguiev - Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (Currently, CNRS and Sorbonne University, France)
Gokhan Serhat - Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (Currently, KU Leuven, Belgium)
Saekwang Nam - Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems
Tamara Fiedler - Technical University of Munich (Currently, BSH Home Appliance Group, Germany)
Eckehard Steinbach - Technical University of Munich
Matti Strese - Technical University of Munich
Turkey
Aykut Isleyen - Koç University (Currently, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands)
Burak Güçlü - Bogaziçi University
Cagatay Basdogan - Koc University
Milad Jamalzadeh - Koç University (Currently, University of Lille, France)
Senem Ezgi Emgin - Koç University (Currently, Apple Inc., USA)
South Korea
Christian Wallraven - Korea University
Partners & Users
Alumni
Dr. Rebecca Fenton Friesen
Rebecca worked as a postdoctoral researcher at HITLAB (November 2020-2021). She is currently working as an Assistant Professor in Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M University.
Dr. Houman Yarmand
Houman worked as a postdoctoral researcher. He was funded by 3ME Cohesion project and co-supervised with Andres Hunt.
Bence did his internship and MSc. thesis at HITLAB. He also worked as a research engineer and deputy manager in our group
ir. Valerie de Vlam
Valerie did her M.Sc. thesis at HITLAB (Jan 2021-June 2022). She is now working as a consultant at SparkOptimus.
ir. Luka Peters
Luka did her M.Sc. internship and thesis at HITLab (September 2021- June 2022). She works as a junior engineer in NS trains.
ir. Bram van Riessen
Bram did his M.Sc. internship at Senseglove and thesis at HITLab (December 2022- September 2023). He works as a computer vision and AI developer in QING.
ir. Abhishek Kumar Kejriwal
Abhishek did his M.Sc. thesis at HITLab (December 2022- October 2023).
Lucas Overbeek
Lucas did her M.Sc. thesis at HITLAB (Oct 2022-Oct 2023).
Ruben Martin Rodriguez
Ruben did his MSc. thesis affiliated with HITLAB. He was co-supervised with Laura Marchal-Crespo and Alex Ratschat. He graduated cum laude.
Dies Vuik
Dies did his MSc. thesis at HITLAB. He was co-supervised with Daan Pool.
Yves Onnink
Yves did his literature review and MSc. internship at HITLab.
Ratnangshu Das
He was an undergraduate intern at HITLab (May-September 2021). He is currently finishing his B.Sc. studies in Mechanical Engineering at IIT Kanpur.
Coco Langens
Coco is a graduate student in Robotics at the Delft University of Technology. She did her internship (October-December 2021) at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems with Mayumi Mohan.
Anna-Maria Klianeva
Anna is a graduate student in Robotics at the Delft University of Technology. She did her internship at Uber.
Alperen Kenan
Alperen did a research project at HITLab, while he was an exhange student at MSc. Robotics at TU Delft from Sabanci University, Turkey. He works as an associate researcher in Bristol University.
Dennis Verstraten
Dennis did his BSc. thesis at HITLab.
Koen Linnekamp
Koen did his BSc. thesis at HITLab.
Matthias Vink
Matthias did his BSc. thesis at HITLab.
Pim Klaassen
Pim did his BSc. thesis at HITLab.
Demet Tangolar
Demet did three months internship at HITLab. She was funded by Erasmus+. She is a BSc. student in Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Middle East Technical University in Turkey.
Selin Bekci
Selin did three months research internship at HITLab. She was funded by Erasmus+. She was a BSc. student in Mechanical Engineering at Koc University in Turkey.
Beril Bildirici
Beril did 3 months summer internship funded by Erasmus + scholarship. She is a B.Sc. student at Sabanci University (Istanbul, Turkey).
Ece did 3 months summer internship funded by Erasmus + scholarship. She is a B.Sc. student in Computer Science at Galatasaray University (Istanbul, Turkey).