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People

Meet the Robot Control Lab at The University of Texas at Dallas.

The Robot Control Lab at UT Dallas studies robotics, nonlinear control, and machine learning. Our group brings together mathematical modeling, optimization, and learning for robotic locomotion and manipulation.

Lab director

Aykut C. Satici

Associate Professor of Systems Engineering

Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science
The University of Texas at Dallas

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Aykut C. Satici

Graduate students

Yunus Emre Danabas

Yunus Emre Danabas

Ph.D. student
Joined Fall 2026

B.S. (double major), Mechatronics Engineering and Electronics Engineering, Sabancı University, Istanbul.

Angelo Matthew Mariano Pimienta

Angelo Matthew Mariano Pimienta

Ph.D. student
Joined Fall 2026

B.S. and M.S., Computer Science, The University of Texas at Dallas.

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