Jeffrey Ichnowski

Prior to his work at CMU, Jeffrey Ichnowski was a post-doctoral researcher in the RISE lab and Ken Goldberg’s AUTOLAB at the University of California at Berkeley. He holds a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he was advised by Ron Alterovitz and Jan Prins; he also holds a B.A. in computer science and asian studies with honors from the University of California at Berkeley. Between his B.A. and Ph.D., he founded numerous startups and was the principal architect at SuccessFactors, Inc., one of the world's leading cloud-based software-as-a-service companies. His research interests are in robot grasp and motion planning in dynamic environments using cloud-based high-performance computing, optimization, and deep learning.