Josiah Hanna Assistant Professor, UW--Madison

Students

Current PhD Students

Nicholas Corrado
Representative Publication: On-Policy Policy Gradient Reinforcement Learning Without On- Policy Sampling

Brahma Pavse
Representative Publication: State-Action Similarity-Based Representations for Off-Policy Evaluation

Adam Labiosa
Representative Publication: When to Plan: Learning to Select Between Reactive Control and Deliberative Planning

Yunfu Deng
Representative Publication: Abstract Sim2Real through Approximate Information States.

William Cong
Representative Publication: Simultaneous Deep Model-Based Reinforcement Learning and State Inference under Partial Observability

Sangwoo Shin
Representative Publication: Articulated-Body Dynamics Network: Dynamics-Grounded Prior for Robot Learning

Mo Xu (co-advised w/ Bilge Mutlu)

Current MS Students

  • Dmitry Pinchuk
  • Nabanita Bag
  • Ashvin Anilkumar
  • Omker Khade
  • Devesh Maheshwari
  • Khyathi Vagolu

Current Undergraduate Students

  • Harry Huang
  • Ben Hong
  • Tanvi Reddy
  • Ryan Gao
  • Stuti Pandey
  • Pranav Mehrotra

Alumni

  • Subhojyoti Mukherjee, Ph.D. (co-advised w/ Rob Nowak, Qiaomin Xie, next Research Scientist at Adobe)
  • Yucheng Huang, B.S. (next PhD Student at UW -- Madison ECE)
  • Aaron Yuan, B.S.
  • Haochen He, B.S. (next Google)
  • Apoorva Mittal, M.S. (next Software Engineer at Stripe)
  • Arun Ravi, M.S. (next Google)
  • Abhishek Kumar, M.S.
  • Yoon Chae Na, M.S.
  • John Balis, M.S.
  • Yuxiao Qu, B.S. (next PhD Student at CMU)
  • Anshuman Senapti, M.S. (next PhD Student at Boston University)
  • Alan Zhong, B.S. (next Garmin)
  • Adhit Sankaran, B.S. (next MS Student at Cornell)
  • Andrew Wang, M.S. (next Waymo)
  • Chen Li, B.S. (next MS Student at University of Chicago)
  • Yuhao Li, B.S. (next Researcher at University of Massachusetts -- Amherst)
  • Duohan Zhang, M.S. (next PhD Student at Penn State)
  • Zisen Shao, B.S. (next MS Student at Maryland)
  • Kaustubh Dwivedi, M.S.
  • Lucas Poon, B.S. (next PhD Student at Oregon State)
  • Shreyansh Sharma, M.S. (next ServiceNow)
  • Nora Tseng, B.S.

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    • Spring 2026: CS 639: Autonomous Robotics
    • Fall 2025: CS 839: Topics in RL
    • Spring 2025: CS 639: Autonomous Robotics
    • Fall 2023: CS 760: Machine Learning
    • Spring 2023: CS 540: Intro to AI
    • Fall 2022: CS 839: Topics in RL
    • Fall 2021: CS 540: Intro to AI
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