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Kristi A. Morgansen

 

Kristi Morgansen is the Clare Boothe Luce Assistant Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics.  She received a B.S. and a M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Boston University, respectively in 1993 and 1994, an S.M. in Applied Mathematics in 1996 from Harvard University and a Ph.D. in Engineering Sciences in 1999 from Harvard University. Until joining the University of Washington, she was first a postdoctoral scholar then a senior research fellow in Control and Dynamical Systems at the California Institute of Technology.

 

morgansen@aa.washington.edu

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Anawat Ponpunwattana

 

Anawat Ponpunwattana received his Ph.D. from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Washington.  He is currently jointly appointed with the Autonomous Flight Systems Lab.

 

anawatp@u.washington.edu

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Daniel J. Klein

 

Dan Klein is a Ph.D student in the Department of Aeronautics & Astronautics at the University of Washington. Having finally completing a masters thesis, he is now working towards a Ph.D. His research interests are multi-robot coordinated control and computer vision.  Before coming to Washington state for graduate school, he studied Mechanical Engineering at the University of Wisconsin. While there, he worked on several research projects relating to robotics and computer vision.

 

djklein@aa.washington.edu

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Emmett Lalish

 

Emmett Lalish received his B.S. in Aeronautical Engineering from the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at the University of Washington in 2005 and his Master's in 2007.  He is currently a graduate student in the Nonlinear Dynamics and Control Lab and is working on his PhD.

 

emmettl@u.washington.edu

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Charlie Matlack

 

Charlie Matlack received his B.S. in Engineering from Harvey Mudd University.  He is currently a graduate student in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Washington.  Photo:  InSitu ScanEagle.

 

cmatlack@u.washington.edu

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Kudah Mushambi

 

Kudah Mushambi is currently a second year graduate student in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at the University of Washington.  He will be completing his Master of Science in August and will then be starting a position with Microsoft’s embedded systems group.  Kudah received his BS in Engineering and Applied Sciences from Caltech in 2000.

 

kudah@aa.washington.edu

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Jaime Petranek

 

Jaime Petranek is currently a graduate student in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics working on her MS degree.  She received a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Gonzaga University in 2005.

 

jpetrane@u.washington.edu

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Benjamin I. Triplett

 

Ben Triplett is currently a Ph.D. student in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics.  He received a BS in Engineering Physics from the University of British Columbia in 2000 and a MS in Mechanical Enginering in 2002.

 

triplett@aa.washington.edu

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Timothy M. La Fond

 

Tim La Fond is currently a senior double majoring in Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering.  He has been with the Nonlinear Dynamics and Control Lab since June 2005.

 

tmlf@u.washington.edu

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Jennifer X. Zhang

 

Jennifer Zhang is currently a senior double majoring in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.  She has been with the Nonlinear Dynamics and Control Lab since June 2005.

 

jxzhang@u.washington.edu

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Shane Cantrell (MSEE 2003)

Paul Belitz (BSAA 2006)

 

 

 

 

 

Brian Massey (MSAA 2004)

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Tom Yochum (MSAE 2005)

Alice Kunkel (BSAA 2006)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dana Wen

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Last updated on: Friday, August 04, 2006 10:31 Send questions or comments to morgansen@aa.washington.edu