Instructors
Shankar Sastry
sastry@eecs.
Instructor
Teaching Assistants
Kirthi Kumar
kirthi.kumar@
Head TA - Admin
Lab TA
Hi! I’m Kirthi and I’m a fourth year EECS major from northern Virginia. I love robotics, but my research is in AI and tech policy. In my free time, I like to try new restaurants and travel. I had a lot of fun in 106A/B so I’m very excited for the semester!
Tarun Amarnath
tarunamarnath@
Head Content TA
Hello there! I’m a 5th Year MS student under Prof. Sastry, particularly interested in merging classical and learning-based control. I was an undergrad here double majoring in EECS and Business. Outside of class, I love reading, traveling (and meeting new people, including y’all!), art, basketball, photography, design, and public policy, particularly designing systems to influence social change.
Karim El-Refai
karim.el-refai@
Lab TA
Fan of robots and philosophy and the philosophy behinds robots and soon the robots behind philosophy, but not the philosophy of the philosophy of robots but in fact the robots for the robots of philosophy. If you are confused, don’t worry so am I :D
Michael Psenka
psenka@
Lab TA
Howdy howdy! I’m a 3rd year EECS PhD in BAIR, working on computer vision, reinforcement learning, and multimodal learning. I like snowboarding, chess, smash, cooking, and breathing. Excited to meet y’all this semester!
Nima Rahmanian
nimsi@
Content TA
Hey there! I’m a senior majoring in Computer Science. I was previously on course staff for EECS 16B for four semesters. I enjoy playing basketball, listening to all kinds of music, and exploring the great outdoors! I also love laughing and making other people laugh :)
Daniel Bostwick
daniel.k.bostwick@
Reader
Hi! I’m Daniel, I’m a grad student in the School of Information. I graduated last year with a degree in Data Science, concentration in Robotics. My current research is in autonomous vehicles i.e. drones and rovers with Professor Sastry and STAC. I love my couch, Netflix, and Disney Plus. Good luck this semester!