Early-Career Spotlight
2025
Winners
Dorsa Sadigh (Stanford University)
Zac Manchester (Carnegie Mellon University)
2024
Winner
Stefan Leutenegger (Technical University of Munich)
2023
Winners
Harold Soh (National University of Singapore)
Michael Posa (University of Pennsylvania)
2022
Winners
Henny Admoni (Carnegie Mellon University)
Jens Kober (TU Delft)
2021
Winners
Hae-Won Park (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)
Jana Tumova (KTH Royal Institute of Technology)
2020
Winners
Jeannette Bohg (Stanford University)
Byron Boots (University of Washington)
Luca Carlone (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
2019
Winners
Angela Schoellig (University of Toronto)
Marco Pavone (Stanford University)
2018
Winners
Maya Cakmak (University of Washington)
Stefanie Tellex (Brown University)
Sergey Levine (University of California, Berkeley)
2017
Winner
Sertac Karaman (MIT)
2016
Winner
Sangbae Kim (MIT)
2015
Winners
Sami Haddadin (Leibniz University Hanover)
Robert J. Webster III (Vanderbilt University)
2014
Winners
Julie A. Shah (MIT)
Ashutosh Saxena (Cornell)
2013
Winners
Siddartha Srinivasa (CMU)
Hadas Kress-Gazit (Cornell)
2012
Winners
Jan Peters (TU Darmstadt)
Cyrill Stachniss (U Freiburg)
Charlie Kemp (Georgia Tech)
2011
Winners
Aaron Dollar (Yale)
Drew Bagnell (CMU)
2010
Winners
Russ Tedrake (MIT)
Pieter Abbeel (UC Berkeley)
2009
Winner
Katherine Kuchenbecker (U Penn)
2008
Winners
Eric Klavins (University of Washington)
Rob Wood (Harvard University)
2007
Winners
Noah J. Cowan (Johns Hopkins University)
Hod Lipson (Cornell University)