I am always excited to serve on PhD committees outside of the University of Illinois. It exposes me to research ideas and culture in other places and gives me a chance to participate in many interesting topics. Below is a list of PhD students whose committees I have proudly served on.

1. Nuzhet Atay, Department of Computer Science, Washington University, currently serving. Adviser: Burchan Bayazit.
2. Liang-Jun Zhang, Department of Computer Science, University of North Carolina, currently serving. Adviser: Dinesh Manocha.
3. Juan-Pablo Gonzalez, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, currently serving. Adviser: Tony Stentz.
4. Aaron Morris, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, currently serving. Adviser: Red Whittaker.
5. James Solberg, Motion and Sensing in Electrosensory Systems, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University, defended November 2007. Advisers: Malcolm MacIver and Kevin Lynch.
6. Tarik Nahhal, Model-Based Testing of Hybrid Systems, Joseph Fourier University and VERIMAG/CNRS, Grenoble, France, defended October 2007. Advisers: Thao Dang and Oded Maler
7. Jur van den Berg, Path Planning in Dynamic Environments. Department of Information and Computing Sciences, University of Utrecht, defended April 2007. Jur is currently a post-doc at UNC. Adviser: Mark Overmars.
8. Dave Ferguson, Single Agent and Multi-agent Path Planning in Unknown and Dynamic Environments, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, defended September 2006. Advisors: Tony Stentz and Sebastian Thrun. Dave works at Intel Research Pittsburgh and was the planning lead on the winning team of the DARPA Urban Challenge in 2007.
9. Chris Urmson, Navigation Regimes for Off-Road Autonomy, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, May 2005. Advisors: Reid Simmons and Red Whittaker. In 2007, Chris was the Director of Technology at CMU for the DARPA Urban Grand Challenge, and they won!
10. Leonard Jaillet, Probabilistic Methods for the Planning of Reactive Movements (in French), LAAS/CNRS, Toulouse, France, defended 2005. Adviser: Nicola Simeon. Leonard is currently Post-Doc at LAAS/CNRS.
11. Morten Strandberg, Robot Path Planning: An Object-Oriented Approach, KTH, Stockholm, Sweden (I served as Faculty Opponent), defended October, 2004. Adviser: Bo Wahlberg. Morten currently works for ABB robotics in Sweden.
12. Prasun Choudhury, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University, defended 2004. Adviser: Kevin Lynch.
13. Juan Cortes, Motion Planning Algorithms for General Closed-Chain Mechanisms, LAAS/CNRS, Toulouse, France, defended December 2003 (I served as Rapporteur). Adviser: Nicola Simeon. Juan is currently Researcher of CNRS.
14. Robert Bohlin, Robot Path Planning, Dept. of Industrial Mathematics, Chalmers University, Sweden (I served as Faculty Opponent), defended June, 2002. Adviser: Bo Johansson. Robert currently develops motion planning algorithms and tools for industry at the Chalmers Research Centre of Industrial Mathematics.