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Berk Calli: How can robots help solving the environmental crisis?

Berk Calli [CV]

Assistant Professor
Robotics Engineering Department, Computer Science Department
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
E-mail: bcalli@wpi.eduPhone: +1 (508) 831 5448
Address: 85 Prescott Street, Suite 201, Worcester, MA 01605, USA


Current PhD Students

James Akl
since August 2019

Robotic Metal Scrap Cutting
Robotic Waste Sorting
Ensemble Learning for Grasping

Abhinav Gandhi
since August 2020

Encoderless Robots

Galen Brown
since August 2020

Active Vision for Manipulation

Sreejani Chatterjee
since December 2020

Encoderless Robots

Albert Enyedy
since September 2022

Visual Servoing


Current MS Students

Thira Kismat Patel
since Summer 2023

Dexterous Manipulation with Controlled Sliding

Sairam Venkataramani
since Summer 2023

Dexterous Manipulation with Controlled Sliding

Isabella Feeney
since Summer 2023

Dexterous Manipulation with Controlled Sliding


Former PhD Students

Fadi Alladkani
since August 2019-Spring 2021

Robotic Waste Sorting
Ensemble Learning for Grasping
Robotic Metal Scrap Cutting

 


Former MS Students

Chinmay Todankar
Fall 2022

Robotic Metal Cutting

Sumanth Varma Pericherla
Fall 2022 – Spring 2023

Robotic Metal Cutting

Sumukh Balakrishna
Fall 2022 – Spring 2023

Grasping Benchmarking

Abhay Chhagan Karade
Fall 2022 – Spring 2023

Encoderless Robots

Anagha Dangle
Fall 2022 – Spring 2023

Grasping Benchmarking

Arvind Sureshkumar
Spring 2023

Robotic Metal Cutting

Bharath Kumar Ramesh Babu
Fall 2022 – Spring 2023

Grasping Benchmarking

Uthiralakshmi Sivaraman

Spring 2023

Active Vision for Manipulation

Sri Lakshmi Hasitha Bachimanchi

Spring 2023

Dexterous Manipulation

Rajus Nagwekar
Spring 2023

Robotic Waste Sorting

Krishna Sathwik Durgaraju
Spring 2023

Encoderless Robots

Denny Boby
Spring 2023

Grasping Benchmarking

Kshitij Sharma
Fall 2022

Grasping Benchmarking

Yash Patil
Fall 2022 – Spring 2023

Robotic Metal Cutting

Shreedar Kodate
Spring 2023

Robotic Metal Scrap Cutting

Sayan Das
Fall 2021

Encoderless Robots

Sushmitha Belede
 Summer 2021Fall 2021

Dexterous Manipulation

Chintan Desai
Summer 2021 – Fall 2021

Dexterous Manipulation

Sabhari Natarajan
Fall 2019 Summer 2021

Active Vision for Manipulation

Craig Miller
Fall 2020 Spring 2021

Benchmarking for Robotic Manipulation

Alp Sahin
Spring 2020 Spring 2021

Dexterous Manipulation with Controlled Sliding

Ajay Balasubramanian
Spring 2020

Encoderless Robots

Joshua Raj
Spring 2019 – Spring 2020

Dexterous Manipulation

Chinmay Burgul
Fall 2019 Spring 2020

Dexterous Manipulation

Vamshi Uppununthala
Fall 2019

Encoderless Robots
Gokul Narayanan
Spring 2019 Fall 2019

Dexterous Manipulation
Qinlun Luan
Fall 2019
Encoderless Robots
Yash Sandeep Shukla
Spring 2019 Fall 2019
Dexterous Manipulation
Aditya Gupte
Spring 2019
Dexterous Manipulation
Mihir Deshingkar
Spring 2019
Dexterous Manipulation
Nicholas Smith
Fall 2018Spring 2019
Robotic Grasping
Snehal Dikhale
Fall 2019
Robotic Grasping

Akshay Laddha
Fall 2021

Ensemble Learning for Grasping

Krutarth Ambarish Trivedi
Spring 2022

Robotic Metal Scrap Cutting

Chinmaya Khamesra
Summer 2022

Ensemble Learning for Grasping

Sagarkumar Panchal
Spring 2022 – Fall 2022

Robotic Waste Sorting

Hitesh Bhojwani
since Spring 2022

Dexterous Manipulation

Pratyush Kumar Sahoo
Fall 2021 – Spring 2022

Robotic Metal Scrap Cutting

Kunal Nandanwar
Spring 2022

Dexterous Manipulation

Anujay Sharma
Spring 2022

Dexterous Manipulation

Abhiroop Ajith
Spring 2022

Vision-based Water Filtering

 

 


Former Undergraduate Students

Conrad Tulig
Capstone Project — Fall 2021
Kaitlyn Fichtner
Capstone Project — Fall 2021
Nathan Bargman
Capstone Project — Fall 2021
Garett Ruping
Capstone Project — Fall 2021
Lauren Wach
Capstone Project — Fall 2021
Mary Marquette
Capstone Project — Fall 2021

Mikayla Fischler
Fall 2019 – Spring 2020

Capstone project on

Robotic Waste Sorting

Kyle Heavey
Fall 2019 – Spring 2020

Capstone project on

Robotic Waste Sorting

Arianna Kan
Fall 2019 – Spring 2020

Capstone project on

Robotic Waste Sorting

Khadijah Ibrahim
Women’s Research and Mentorship Program (WRAMP)
WPI Women’s Impact Network (WIN) — Fall 2019

Jehu De la Rosa
Fall 2019 – Spring 2020

Gregory Kashmanian
Fall 2019 – Spring 2020

Nick Kratovil
Fall 2019 – Spring 2020

Molly O’Connor
Fall 2019 – Spring 2020

Owen Smith
Fall 2019 – Spring 2020

Oliver Sanderson
Fall 2019 – Spring 2020

Manjusha Chava
Fall 2019


High School Interns

 

Albi Marini

Massachusetts Life Sciences Center (MLSC) High School Apprenticeship Program – Summer 2022

Gianna Rouse
Women’s Research and Mentorship Program (WRAMP)
WPI Women’s Impact Network (WIN) — Fall 2019

Ivy McDorman
Women’s Research and Mentorship Program (WRAMP)
WPI Women’s Impact Network (WIN) — Fall 2019

Ansh Montani
Summer 2021
Adi Gupta Montani
Summer 2021