DIRECT Lab Team
Leadership
Dr. Mario founded the DIRECT lab in 2021 and currently has five Ph.D. students, eight Masters students, several undergraduate research assistants, and one high school intern. If you would like to join us, scroll to the bottom.
Meet the team
We value diligent effort, with a healthy dose of fun. If you have an interest in our work, we will find a place for you to apply your knowledge and background.
PhD Students
Kobra Bohlourihajar
Robbie Buck
Zarin Shamma
Huzefe Kocab
Huzeyfe Kocabas is interested in exploring swarm robotics that reduce the overall time of task completion. He is specializing in auction-based approaches.
In his available time, he likes to tinker with various Unix/Linux-based operating systems and look for ways to use those systems more effectively. He also likes to play the first version of Age of Empires, a strategy game from 1997, in his free times (probably not during his Ph.D.
Christopher Allred
Christopher is Christopher, a delicate but complex individual. Much like a French omlette.
Taylor Anderson
Currently is the top of the leaderboard in the DIRECT Lab Super Smash Bros. Nuf sed. Also, not sure why he's in this section.
Masters Students
Carter Bailey
"I enjoy being in the outdoors especially when I can be on my bike. You can sometimes find me in the lab working on code or robots. My research ranges from training machine learned models to creating path planners for specific purposes"
Chad
Colton Hill
Johnathan Kunz
Laurel Bingham
Tayler Baker
Ryan Anderson
Brian Callister
Undergraduate Students
Gabe Tonks
Madison Patch
Johnathan Craig
Trey Crowther
Join the team
Contact us to find your place in the DIRECT Lab! We look forward to meeting you.