Team

Sam Kriegman

Director

 

Assistant Professor,

Northwestern University


Depts. of Comp Sci, Mech Eng, Chem & Bio Eng

David Matthews

Staff Scientist


Comp Sci

2022–


differentiable robots

Antara Sen

PhD student


Applied Physics

2022–


biological robots


co-advised by 

Monica Olvera de la Cruz 

Tyler Hummer

PhD student

 

Mech Eng

2022–


modular robots

Muhan Li

PhD student


Comp Sci

2023


complex robots

Chen Yu

PhD student


Comp Sci

2023


tbd

Luke Strgar

PhD student


Comp Sci

2023


tbd

Isabel Zhong

Masters student


Biomed Eng and Comp Sci

2023


evolutionary robotics

Lingji Kong

Masters student


Comp Sci

2023-


large language robots

Lindsay Bogar

Masters student


Chem & Bio Eng

2023


artificial life

Elli Beres

Undergrad intern


Comp Sci and Math

2023


developmental robotics

Talia Ben-Naim

Undergrad intern


Comp Sci

2023


neuromorphic robots

Daniel Shamsoddini 

Undergrad intern


Comp Sci

2023–


evolutionary robotics

Dylan Wu

Undergrad intern


Comp Sci and Linguistics

2023–


symbol grounding

Shirley Zhang

Undergrad intern


Comp Sci

2023–


tbd

Eliot Dunn

High school intern


Robotics

2023–

Luna

Lab dog


Dept. of Zoology

2012

Douglas Blackiston

Collaborator & Advisor


Senior Scientist, 

Tufts University


Dept. of Biology

Run 52

Lab Mascot


Dept. of Zoology

2019

Elaine Liu

Masters student


Mech Eng

2023


modular robots

Sam Kriegman

Kriegman in the microinjection room of Michael Levin's lab at Tufts University in the Fall of 2021, one year before joining Northwestern

Photographer: M. Scott Brauer (copyright; all rights reserved).

Doug Blackiston and Sam Kriegman

Blackiston (left) and Kriegman at Tufts. 

Sept 2021. 

Photographer: M. Scott Brauer (copyright; all rights reserved).

Kriegman (right) dressed as a robot. 

Halloween, 1994.