Head of AMBER Lab
Dr. Aaron D. Ames
Aaron D. Ames is an Associate Professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology in the Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering and the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Prior to joining Georgia Tech, he was an Associate Professor and Morris E. Foster Faculty Fellow II at Texas A&M University. Dr. Ames received a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering and a B.A. in Mathematics from the University of St. Thomas in 2001, and he received a M.A. in Mathematics and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences from UC Berkeley in 2006. He served as a Postdoctoral Scholar in Control and Dynamical Systems at the California Institute of Technology from 2006 to 2008. At UC Berkeley, he was the recipient of the 2005 Leon O. Chua Award for achievement in nonlinear science and the 2006 Bernard Friedman Memorial Prize in Applied Mathematics. Dr. Ames received the NSF CAREER award in 2010 for his research on bipedal robotic walking and its applications to prosthetic devices, and is the recipient of the 2015 Donald P. Eckman Award recognizing an outstanding young engineer in the field of automatic control. His lab designs, builds and tests novel bipedal robots, humanoids and prostheses with the goal of achieving human-like bipedal robotic walking and translating these capabilities to robotic assistive devices.
Post-Docs and Research Engineers
Graduate Students
- Matthew Powell, PhD Student, Georgia Tech
- Shishir Kolathaya, PhD Student, Georgia Tech (website)
- Huihua Zhao, PhD Student, Georgia Tech (website)
- Ayonga Hereid, PhD Student, Georgia Tech
- Wenlong Ma, PhD Student, Georgia Tech (website)
- Jake Reher, PhD Student, Georgia Tech
- Eric Ambrose, PhD Student, Georgia Tech
- Li Wang, PhD Student, Georgia Tech (co-advised with Magnus Egerstedt)
- Michael Grey, PhD Student, Georgia Tech (co-advised with Karen Liu)
- Thomas Gurriet, PhD Student, Georgia Tech (co-advised with Eric Feron)
- Michael Zeagler, MS Student, TAMU
Alumni
Students
Research Faculty/Engineers
- Jonathan Horn, MS 2015, TAMU
- Aakar Mehra, MS 2015, TAMU
- Ryan Sinnet, PhD 2015, MS 2011, TAMU
- Eric Cousineau, MS 2014, TAMU
- Shao-Chen Hsu, MS 2014, TAMU
- Jordan Lack, MS 2013, TAMU
- Murali Pasupuleti, MS 2012, TAMU
- Bhargav Kothapalli, MS 2012, TAMU
Research Faculty/Engineers
- Dr. Benjamin Morris, TEES Associate Research Engineer, TAMU
- Eric Cousineau, Research Engineer, TAMU
