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.
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.
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.
Loni is a PhD student in the lab working on assistive robots for older adults. She is a 2026 NSF GRFP recipient. Loni completed her undergradaute degree in computer science at UC Santa Cruz.
Damien is a 2024 REU student doing ongoing work with the lab. His home university is UMass Amherst.
Jorge is a Robotics MS student in the SHARE Lab working on assistive robots for older adults and behavior pattern recognition from sensing systems.
Kevin is a Robotics MS student in the SHARE Lab working on robot comedy and assistive robots for older adults.
Mindy is a Robotics MS student in the SHARE Lab. She is working on expressive robot motion and robots in the arts.
Andy is an AI MS student with the lab who focuses on machine learning for home activity datasets.
CJ was a 2024 URSA Engage student with the lab. She continues to work with us, studying child-robot interaction, robot embodiment, and robot nudges.
Madeline was a 2025 URSA Engage student who continues to do ongoing work with the lab on assistive robotics for older adults. She is a student in the Honors College.
Marshall was a 2025 URSA Engage student who continues to do ongoing work with the lab on older adult-robot interaction.
Meet was a 2025 URSA Engage student. He continues to work with the lab on expressive robotics and haptics. He is a student in the Honors College.
Oscar is an undergraduate researcher working on autonomous robot comedy. He is also a student in the Honors College and was a 2026 URSA Engage student.
Austin is an undergraduate researcher working on autonomous robot comedy. He was a 2026 URSA Engage student.
Tina is a 2026 REU student and past 2026 URSA Engage student working on the study of robot form and expressive robotics.
Sarah is a 2026 REU student working on robots for older adults and reinforcement learning in robotics.
Alumni
PhD Students- Rhian Preston: Robotics PhD Student 2020-2025. Now at Oregon State as a Faculty Research Assistant.
- Ameer Helmi: Robotics PhD Student 2019-2024. Now at Honeydew Consulting.
- Brian Zhang: Robotics PhD student 2018-2023. Joined Biolog, Inc. after a postdoctoral position at the University of Southern California.
- Nnamdi Nwagwu: Thesis Robotics MS student 2022-2024.
- Susan Liu: Project AI MS student 2023-2024. Now at Intel.
- Ramya Challa: Project Robotics MS student 2022-2024. Now at Microsoft.
- Rafael Morales: Thesis Robotics MS student 2022-2024. Now at Agility Robotics.
- Jai'La Crider: Project Robotics MS student 2022-2024. Now at Apple.
- Ayan Robinson: Project Robotics MS student 2022-2024. Now at Vanderdale.
- Madison Shippy: Thesis Robotics MS student 2021-2023. Now at Medtronic.
- 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 Meta.
- Hannah Brown: Thesis Robotics MS student 2019-2021. Now at Northrop Grumman.
- Ashwin Vinoo: Project Robotics MS student 2018-2020. Now at Ashling.
- Lara Rupnawar: undergraduate researcher 2023-26. Lara was part of the URSA Engage program and Robotics REU Site in 2023.
- Adeline Schneider: undergraduate researcher 2023-26. Lara was part of the URSA Engage program and Robotics REU Site in 2023.
- Heather Amistani: summer 2025 REU student from University of Nevada, Reno.
- Joanna Gutierrez: summer 2025 REU student from University of Texas, Rio Grande Valley.
- Kevin Sabbe: Kevin was a 2024 REU student (from Oregon State University) and undergraduate researcher with the lab 2024-25. After this undergraduate experience, he joined the lab as a graduate researcher.
- Sarah Woods: summer 2023 REU student from Oregon State University. Sarah continued on with undergraduate research in the lab 2023-24.
- 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.
- Anthony Santiago: undergraduate researcher during 2026 (URSA Engage Awardee during the 2026 cycle).
- Anthony Contreras: undergraduate researcher during 2025-26.
- Tobias Kohn: undergraduate researcher during 2025 (URSA Engage Awardee during the 2025 cycle).
- Wonjin Yang: undergraduate researcher during 2025 (URSA Engage Awardee during the 2025 cycle).
- Stayce Mockel: undergradaute researcher 2023-24. Stayce completed her honors thesis on robot form and nonverbal expression with the lab.
- Kate Metcalf: undergraduate researcher during 2024 (URSA Engage Awardee during the 2024 cycle).
- Lily Oliphant: undergraduate researcher during 2024.
- Janelle Godinez: undergraduate researcher during 2023-2024 (2023 OSU STEM Leaders awardee).
- DeAndre Walcott: undergraduate researcher 2022-2023 (URSA Engage awardee during the 2022 cycle).
- Ibrahim Syed: undergraduate researcher 2021-2024 (joint Music Technology and Computer Science Degree).
- Kayla Asakawa: undergraduate researcher during 2023.
- Emily Shannon: undergraduate researcher 2020-2023.
- Carlana So: undergraduate researcher during 2023 (URSA Engage awardee during the 2023 cycle).
- Isabella Mann: undergraduate researcher during 2023 (URSA Engage awardee during the 2023 cycle).
- Huy Nguyen: undergraduate researcher during 2022 (URSA Engage awardee during the 2022 cycle).
- Murphy James: undergraduate researcher during 2022 (URSA Engage awardee during the 2022 cycle).
- Kahlan Fleiger-Holmes: undergraduate researcher during 2022 (URSA Engage awardee during the 2022 cycle).
- Misael Torres: undergraduate researcher during 2020-2022 (2020 OSU STEM Leaders awardee).
- Tyler Phelps: undergraduate researcher during 2021 (URSA Engage awardee during the 2021 cycle).
- Rabecka Moffit: undergraduate researcher during 2021 (URSA Engage awardee during the 2021 cycle).
- Christine Zhan: undergraduate researcher 2019-2022 (URSA Engage awardee during the 2020 cycle).
- Paris Myers: Honors College undergraduate researcher 2020-2021.
- Timothy Bui: Honors College undergraduate researcher 2019-2021.
- Lilian Chan: undergraduate researcher 2019-2021. Did an honors thesis with the lab.
- Joshua Phelps: summer 2020 undergraduate researcher from Brown University.
- Anne Zander: visiting artist from the Portland comedy scene, 2026.
- Kate Ladenheim: visiting artist from the UCLA Department of Wolrd Cultures/Dance, 2025-26.
- 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.