Our Team
The interdisciplinary SHARE Lab members who fuel our research projects
Prof. Fitter leads the SHARE Lab. She is an Assistant Professor 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.
Ameer is a PhD student in the SHARE Lab. His undergraduate degree was in bioengineering at University of Illinois at Chicago. He worked at Epic for 5 years as a technical consultant and project manager. In the SHARE Lab, Ameer supports the infant motion interventions projects.
Rhian is a PhD student 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 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 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.
Ramya is a PhD student in the SHARE Lab who researches assistive feeding, expressive motion, and assistive robots for older adults. She completed her undergraduate studies in computer science at University of Washington.
Rafael is an MS student in the SHARE Lab working on the infant-robot interaction project. He also supports the wearable haptics projects. He completed his undergraduate studies in mechanical engineering at Oregon State University.
Jai’La is a MS student and GEM Fellow in the SHARE Lab. She studies the ways robots’ audio-based expression impacts expectations of robot performance. She completed her undergraduate studies in mechanical engineering at Tuskegee University.
Ayan is a MS student and Provost Scholarship recipient in the SHARE Lab who researches robots and policy. She also supports the lab’s work on robot comedy. She completed her undergraduate studies in mechanical engineering at Tuskegee University.
Jorge is an MS student in the SHARE Lab working on assistive robots for older adults.
Susan is an MS student in the SHARE Lab on the infant-robot interaction project. She completed her undergraduate degree in Computer Science at Oregon State University.
DeAndre is an undergraduate researcher working on robot comedy. His work includes writing and scripting robot comedy, as well as running human user studies. He is an URSA Engage awardee from the 2022 cycle.
Ibrahim is an undergraduate student in the SHARE Lab on the robot sound project. He is primarily advised by Prof. Jason Fick of OSU Music Technology.
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 REU student studying robot comedy and 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.
Janelle is an OSU STEM Leaders researcher studying robotics education and robot policy.
CJ is an URSA Engage student studying child-robot interaction.
Kate is an URSA Engage student studying robot-mediated interventions for young children and older adults.
Alumni
PhD Students- Brian Zhang: PhD student 2018-2023.
- Madison Shippy: MS student 2021-2023.
- Anisha Bontula: MS student 2021-2023. Now at Lucid Motors.
- Carson Gray: MS student 2020-2022. Now in indie game development.
- Ryan Quick: MS student 2019-2021. Now at Andrews Cooper.
- Hannah Brown: MS student 2019-2021. Now at Northrop Grumman.
- Ashwin Vinoo: MS student 2018-2020. Now at Tesla.
- 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.
- 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.