Rich Pantaleo

Project Role: Project Co-Leader, Mechanical Engineering Leader
Education: CIT, Carnegie Mellon University
Active Years: 2005-present

Bio:  I joined the project my freshman year (fall 2005) as the only Mech E. Kevin and I built the first pennywhistle robot in the old PRB before it was torn down. I constructed Trombonophone myself during the Spring semester. I also built snarebot and made Xylobot 3.0. I've been a co-leader of the project since the spring semester of my sophomore year. I like machining and building stuff in general. I also play piano and trumpet. I'm most famous for hexabot (video | instructables)

Erica Sandbothe

Project Role: Project Co-Leader, Computer Science Leader
Education: CS, Carnegie Mellon University
Active Years: 2005-present

Bio:  Erica Sandbothe is the Computer Science leader of RobOrchestra. She was one of the founding members when the group formed in 2005 and developed the original improvisation algorithm using cellular automata. Since then, she has turned the focus of the improvisation towards statistical probability and Markov chains. She has also written the RobOrchestra SURG grants from 2005-2008, and edited the 2008-2009 grant.

Barkin Aygun

Project Role: Computer Science
Education: CS, Carnegie Mellon University
Active Years: 2005-2008

Bio:  n/a

Kevin Woo

Project Role: Electrical Engineering
Education: ECE, Carnegie Mellon University
Active Years: 2005-2008

Bio:  n/a

Laura Abbott

Project Role: Computer Science
Education: MatSci, Carnegie Mellon University
Active Years: 2006-present

Bio:  n/a

Daniel Shope

Project Role: Lead Engineer on Flutophone
Education: MechE, Carnegie Mellon University
Active Years: 2006-present

Bio:  My role in RobOrchestra has been focused mainly on re-envisioning the flutophone project and creating a feasible and asthetically pleasing deisgn. I enjoy working in SolidWorks and creating 3D models of my sketches before beginning construction. This year my focus is on the redesign of Snarebot. It's a pretty exciting project and I'm anxious to see the resulting product.

Justin Scheiner

Project Role: Lead Electrical Engineer
Education: ECE, Carnegie Mellon University
Active Years: 2006-present

Bio:  Justin Scheiner is a Junior Electrical and Computer Engineering major currently interested in Robotics and Computer Vision. He built the 2nd Xylobot as well as the electronics for the newest Xylobot, and microcontroller code to interface with the composition algorithms.

Katherine Coste

Project Role: Lead Engineer on Stringbot
Education: MatSci, Carnegie Mellon University
Active Years: 2007-present

Bio:  n/a

Lesley Linne

Project Role: Computer Science
Education: CS, Carnegie Mellon University
Active Years: 2007-present

Bio:  Lesley Linne is a CS sophomore with a minor in robotics. She joined RobOrchestra because it combines her interest in robotics with her love of music. Within the project, she works on algorithm generation as well as wiimote-robot interaction.

Greg Williams

Project Role: Computer Science
Education: CS, Carnegie Mellon University
Active Years: 2007-present

Bio:  Greg Williams is a junior in Computer Science with a minor in Music Technology. He joined Roborchestra because he found it to be an interesting application of computer music, with interesting challenges to think about. He currently works on the music-generation algorithm.

Matthew Kaemmerer

Project Role: Computer Science
Education: CS, Carnegie Mellon University
Active Years: 2007-present

Bio:  n/a

Andrew Burks

Project Role: Project Leader for Bassbot
Education: MechE, Carnegie Mellon University
Active Years: 2008-present

Bio:  I'm a Mechanical Engineering major, hopefully with a minor in robotics. I was born and bred in Richmond, VA. I got interested in robOrchestra because i wanted to make a harmonica bot. That hasn't happened yet but i'm not discounting it yet. I like to play soccer and design/build things in my spare time from class.

Jay Kim

Project Role: Computer Science
Education: MechE, Carnegie Mellon University
Active Years: 2008-present

Bio:  n/a

Rohan Aletty

Project Role: Computer Science
Education: MechE, Carnegie Mellon University
Active Years: 2008-present

Bio:  n/a

Tongbo Huang

Project Role: Computer Science
Education: MechE, Carnegie Mellon University
Active Years: 2008-present

Bio:  n/a

Gloria Yue Yuan

Project Role: Computer Science
Education: CS, Carnegie Mellon University
Active Years: 2008-present

Bio:  n/a