{"id":14,"date":"2024-12-10T12:27:25","date_gmt":"2024-12-10T20:27:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/ropal\/?page_id=14"},"modified":"2026-08-06T14:27:29","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T21:27:29","slug":"people","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/ropal\/people\/","title":{"rendered":"Members"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">People<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile is-vertically-aligned-center\" style=\"grid-template-columns:25% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-labs\/uploads\/sites\/3527\/2024\/12\/headshot2024-edited.jpg\" alt=\"Sihui Li\" width=\"150\" class=\"wp-image-164\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-labs\/uploads\/sites\/3527\/2024\/12\/headshot2024-edited.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-labs\/uploads\/sites\/3527\/2024\/12\/headshot2024-edited-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-labs\/uploads\/sites\/3527\/2024\/12\/headshot2024-edited-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-labs\/uploads\/sites\/3527\/2024\/12\/headshot2024-edited-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-labs\/uploads\/sites\/3527\/2024\/12\/headshot2024-edited-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-labs\/uploads\/sites\/3527\/2024\/12\/headshot2024-edited-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-labs\/uploads\/sites\/3527\/2024\/12\/headshot2024-edited-2048x2048.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n\n<p><strong>Sihui Li<\/strong><br>Assistant Professor in Computer Science<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Website: <a href=\"https:\/\/slrepo.github.io\/\">slrepo.github.io<\/a><br>Email: <a href=\"mailto:sihui.li@wsu.edu\">sihui.li@wsu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile is-vertically-aligned-center\" style=\"grid-template-columns:25% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-labs\/uploads\/sites\/3527\/2024\/12\/Me-waterfall-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Jesse Beneventi\" width=\"150\" class=\"wp-image-175\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-labs\/uploads\/sites\/3527\/2024\/12\/Me-waterfall-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-labs\/uploads\/sites\/3527\/2024\/12\/Me-waterfall-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-labs\/uploads\/sites\/3527\/2024\/12\/Me-waterfall-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-labs\/uploads\/sites\/3527\/2024\/12\/Me-waterfall-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-labs\/uploads\/sites\/3527\/2024\/12\/Me-waterfall.jpg 1229w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n\n<p><strong>Jesse Beneventi<\/strong><br>Master&#8217;s student in Computer Science<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Studies sampling-based planning on quantum computers. Joined the lab in 2024.<\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile is-vertically-aligned-center\" style=\"grid-template-columns:25% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-labs\/uploads\/sites\/3527\/2025\/11\/WechatIMG2-3-edited-e1762562033883.jpg\" alt=\"Qisong Zheng\" width=\"150\" class=\"wp-image-220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-labs\/uploads\/sites\/3527\/2025\/11\/WechatIMG2-3-edited-e1762562033883.jpg 221w, https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-labs\/uploads\/sites\/3527\/2025\/11\/WechatIMG2-3-edited-e1762562033883-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 221px) 100vw, 221px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n\n<p><strong>Qisong Zheng<\/strong><br>PhD student in Computer Science<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Research focus: configuration space, distance fields, neural methods.<\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile is-vertically-aligned-center\" style=\"grid-template-columns:25% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-labs\/uploads\/sites\/3527\/2026\/08\/69-e1786051410577.jpeg\" alt=\"Zhongyan Zhang\" width=\"150\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n\n<p><strong>Zhongyan Zhang<\/strong><br>PhD student in Computer Science<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Research focus: motion planning, modeling, sampling-based algorithms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Website: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/zhongyan-zhang-b4a1b9366\/\">LinkedIn<\/a><\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:48px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Robots<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile is-vertically-aligned-center\" style=\"grid-template-columns:25% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-labs\/uploads\/sites\/3527\/2026\/08\/franka-apple.jpeg\" alt=\"Franka Research 3 robot arm\" width=\"150\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n\n<p><strong>Franka Research 3<\/strong><br>7 degree-of-freedom manipulator with precise positioning, force\/torque control, and a two-finger gripper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Website: <a href=\"https:\/\/franka.de\/products\">Franka product page<\/a><\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":44094,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_wsuwp_accessibility_report":null},"categories":[],"tags":[],"wsuwp_university_location":[],"wsuwp_university_org":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/ropal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/ropal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/ropal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/ropal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44094"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/ropal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":31,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/ropal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":250,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/ropal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14\/revisions\/250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/ropal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/ropal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/ropal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14"},{"taxonomy":"wsuwp_university_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/ropal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wsuwp_university_location?post=14"},{"taxonomy":"wsuwp_university_org","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/ropal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wsuwp_university_org?post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}