Our Team
The interdisciplinary SHARE Lab members who fuel our research projects
Prof. Fitter leads the SHARE Lab. She is an Associate Professor (effective fall 2024) in the School of Mechanical, Industrial, and Manufacturing Engineering at Oregon State University. She completed a Ph.D. in the University of Pennsylvania GRASP Lab and was a postdoc in the University of Southern California Robotics and Autonomous Systems Center.
Rhian is a PhD student in Robotics and ARCS Scholarship recipient in the SHARE Lab researching socially assistive robotics. He has previous degrees in nuclear engineering and robotics from Oregon State University, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Additionally, he spent 5 years at Framatome where he designed nuclear fuel, smart cranes, and robotics for nuclear reactors.
Triniti is a PhD student in Robotics in the SHARE Lab researching smart robotic grasping. She completed her undergraduate studies in mechanical engineering at Baylor University. Triniti is also advised by Dr. Joe Davidson.
Nnamdi is a PhD student in Robotics and ARCS Scholarship recipient in the SHARE Lab who researches nonverbal robot expression and perceptions of non-anthropomorphic robots. He completed his undergraduate studies in mechanical engineering at Cornell University.
Antara is a PhD student in AI and Robotics in the SHARE Lab who researches appropriate encouragement in human-robot exercise interactions. She completed her undergraduate studies in computer science at Iowa State University.
Tracy is a PhD student in Robotics in the SHARE Lab who researches child-robot interaction. She completed her undergraduate studies in computer science and cognitive science at Franklin & Marshall College.
Jorge is a Thesis Robotics MS student in the SHARE Lab working on assistive robots for older adults.
Susan is an AI Project MS student in the SHARE Lab on the infant-robot interaction project. She completed her undergraduate degree in Computer Science at Oregon State University.
Lara is an undergraduate researcher working on infant-robot motor interventions as part of the URSA Engage program (2023 awardee). She is also a summer 2023 REU Site participant.
Addie is an undergraduate researcher working on expressive robots working as part of the URSA Engage program (2023 awardee). She is also a summer 2023 REU Site participant.
Sarah is an undergraduate researcher studying robot comedy and robots for assisting older adults. She began this work as a summer 2023 REU Site participant. She is an undergraduate student at Oregon State University.
Stayce is an OSU Honors College student studying visual robot form and other nonverbal robot expression.
Lily is an OSU Honors College student studying last-mile delivery robots and nonverbal robot expression.
CJ is a 2024 URSA Engage student studying child-robot interaction.
Kate is a 2024 URSA Engage student studying robot-mediated interventions for young children and older adults.
Kevin is a 2024 REU student doing ongoing work with the lab. His home university is Oregon State University.
Damien is a 2024 REU student doing ongoing work with the lab. His home university is UMass Amherst.
Alumni
PhD Students- Ameer Helmi: Robotics PhD Student 2019-2024.
- Brian Zhang: Robotics PhD student 2018-2023. Now a postdoctoral scholar at the University of Southern California.
- Ramya Challa: Project Robotics MS student 2022-2024. Now an incoming PhD student at Yale University.
- Rafael Morales: Thesis Robotics MS student 2022-2024.
- Jai'La Crider: Project Robotics MS student 2022-2024.
- Ayan Robinson: Project Robotics MS student 2022-2024.
- Madison Shippy: Thesis Robotics MS student 2021-2023.
- Anisha Bontula: Thesis Robotics MS student 2021-2023. Now at Lucid Motors.
- Carson Gray: Thesis Robotics MS student 2020-2022. Now in indie game development.
- Ryan Quick: Thesis Robotics MS student 2019-2021. Now at Andrews Cooper.
- Hannah Brown: Thesis Robotics MS student 2019-2021. Now at Northrop Grumman.
- Ashwin Vinoo: Project Robotics MS student 2018-2020. Now at Tesla.
- Janelle Godinez: undergraduate researcher during 2023-2024 (2023 OSU STEM Leaders awardee) from Oregon State University.
- DeAndre Walcott: undergraduate researcher 2022-2023 (URSA Engage awardee during the 2022 cycle) from Oregon State University.
- Ibrahim Syed: undergraduate researcher 2021-2024 (join Music Technology and Computer Science Degree) from Oregon State University.
- Kayla Asakawa: undergraduate researcher during 2023 from Oregon State University.
- Emily Shannon: undergraduate researcher 2020-2023 from Oregon State University.
- Carlana So: undergraduate researcher during 2023 (URSA Engage awardee during the 2023 cycle) from Oregon State University.
- Isabella Mann: undergraduate researcher during 2023 (URSA Engage awardee during the 2023 cycle) from Oregon State University.
- Huy Nguyen: undergraduate researcher during 2022 (URSA Engage awardee during the 2022 cycle) from Oregon State University.
- Murphy James: undergraduate researcher during 2022 (URSA Engage awardee during the 2022 cycle) from Oregon State University.
- Kahlan Fleiger-Holmes: undergraduate researcher during 2022 (URSA Engage awardee during the 2022 cycle) from Oregon State University.
- Misael Torres: undergraduate researcher during 2020-2022 (2020 OSU STEM Leaders awardee) from Oregon State University.
- Tyler Phelps: undergraduate researcher during 2021 (URSA Engage awardee during the 2021 cycle) from Oregon State University.
- Rabecka Moffit: undergraduate researcher during 2021 (URSA Engage awardee during the 2021 cycle) from Oregon State University.
- Christine Zhan: undergraduate researcher 2019-2022 (URSA Engage awardee during the 2020 cycle) from Oregon State University.
- Paris Myers: Honors College undergraduate researcher 2020-2021 from Oregon State University.
- Timothy Bui: Honors College undergraduate researcher 2019-2021 from Oregon State University. Now at Amazon.
- Lilian Chan: undergraduate researcher 2019-2021 from Oregon State University. Now a graduate student in EE at Stanford.
- Joshua Phelps: summer 2020 undergraduate researcher from Brown University.
- Calvin Langdon: summer 2024 REU student from Eastern Oregon University.
- Brianna Herrera: summer 2024 REU student from University of Texas at El Paso.
- Jessica Herring: summer 2023 REU student from Berry College.
- Abigail Leader: summer 2022 REU student from Oregon State University. She was also an URSA Engage awardee during the 2022 cycle.
- Kenna Dinsdale: summer 2022 REU student from University of Oregon.
- Fernando Castillo: summer 2022 REU student from Pomona College.
- Lucas Dassonville: summer 2022 REU student from Oregon State University.
- Noel Sigafoos: summer 2021 REU student from Pacific Lutheran University.
- Shel-Twon Warren: summer 2021 REU student from University of Arkansas.
- Kristen Koenig: summer 2021 REU student from Vassar College.
- Karina Puente: summer 2020 REU student from Texas Tech University. Now a Robotics PhD Student at OSU.
- Connor Phillips: summer 2020 REU student from Arizona State University.
- Knut Peterson: summer 2020 REU student from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology.
- Megan Johnson: summer 2020 REU student from University of Arizona.
- Caitlin Frazee: summer 2020 REU student from University of Pennsylvania (Penn). Now a PhD student at Penn.
- Sam Brimhall: summer 2020 REU student from Oregon State University.
- Ella Bisbee: summer 2019 REU student visiting from Tufts University. Now at Ab Initio.
- Luke Rush: summer 2019 REU student visiting from Goshen College. Now at Argonne National Lab.
- Mazdak Shadkam: visiting artist from OSU Art, 2020.
- Nick Stargu: visiting artist in 2020 from the Bay Area comedy scene.
- Aidan Phillips: visiting visual artist in 2019 from University of Pittsburgh.
- Lili Adams: post-bacc researcher 2020-2021.