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Hanna Kurniawati
CENSAM IRG
Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology Building S16, Level 6, Room 20 Phone : +65-65165592 
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I am currently working with Nicholas Patrikalakis as a postdoctoral associate in the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology. Previously, I worked with David Hsu as a Ph.D. student and then as a research fellow in the Department of Computer Science, National University of Singapore (NUS).
My research goal is to enable autonomous robots to work productively in our world, from carrying out our daily chores to performing dangerous tasks such as search and rescue missions. To this end, my research focuses on computational representations and algorithms to generate reliable motion strategies for autonomous robots. In particular, I have been using random sampling in conjunction with efficient exploitation of domain structure to develop efficient motion planners.
During my Ph.D., I have focused on finding collision-free paths for robots with many DOFs. A planner I have developed is able to solve a simulation of bridge inspection problem involving a hyper-redundant robot with 35 DOFs. Currently, I am extending my Ph.D. research to motion planning under uncertainty.
Prior to my graduate studies, I studied computer science in Faculty of Computer Science, University of Indonesia and also worked there for almost a year.