Aykut Önol

Aykut Önol is a roboticist and PhD alumnus affiliated with the Toyota Research Institute, based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He earned his doctorate in Computer Engineering from Northeastern University in 2020, where his dissertation focused on contact-implicit trajectory optimization for planning dynamic, contact-rich robotic motions. His research expertise includes trajectory optimization, contact modeling, and humanoid robot control, with applications spanning nuclear industry tasks and disaster response robotics.