Jared Strader

Background

About Jared Strader

I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Oakland University. My research interests generally lie in the intersection of perception, decision making, and scene understanding for robotic systems. Previously, I was a Research Scientist from 2023-2025 and and Postdoctoral Associate from 2021-2023 in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) where I was fortunate to work with Prof. Luca Carlone in the SPARKlab. In 2021, I received a Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering with a focus on perception-aware planning for robotic systems from the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at West Virginia University (WVU) where I was advised by Prof. Yu Gu, and I was a visiting researcher and affiliate from 2018-2019 at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) working with Dr. Kyohei Otsu and Dr. Ali-akbar Agha-mohammadi. From 2014-2016 under the advisement of Prof. Yu Gu, I led the software development for perception and navigation for the WVU team in NASA’s Centennial Sample Return Robot Challenge (SRRC) winning for 1st place in the 2015 and 2016 challenges.