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PEOPLE

LAB ADMINISTRATION
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PI

Professor Robert Wood

Lab Administrator

Hetchen Ehrenfeld

Lab Manager

Greg Freeburn

GRADUATE STUDENTS

Neera Raychaudhuri (G1)

Lauryn Whiteside (G2)

Colter Decker (G2)

Mady Corrigan (G3)

Christian Chan (G3)

Rachel Zoll (G6)

Jennifer Shum (G7)

POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHERS 

Dr. Alyssa Hernandez

Dr. Michelle Yuen

Dr. Elio Challita

Dr. Tony Chen

Dr. Andy Cohen

RESEARCH STAFF

Dr. Michael Karpelson

Daniel Vogt

Dr. Michael Salino-Hugg

Eva Langenbrunner

Matthew Garcia

VISITING MASTER'S STUDENTS

Germain Meyer

Carla Paillardon

May Salama

UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS

Micheal Awah

Soy Choi

Lachlain McGranahan

Daniel Mhrous

ALUMNI

Dr. Perrin Schiebel (Montana State University) 

Dr. Oluwaseun Araromi (Boston Dynamics AI Institute)

Prof. Siyi Xu, PhD 2022 (Unversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

Prof. Cara Nunez (Cornell University)

Prof. Daniel Bruder (University of Michigan)

Dr. Elizabeth Gallardo Hevia, PhD 2023

Dr. Moritz Graule, PhD 2023

Dr. Emma Steinhardt, PhD 2023

Prof. Nak-Seung Patrick Hyun (Purdue University)

Dr. Jessica Sandoval

Prof. Junghan Kwon (Pusan National University)

Prof. Rebecca McGill, PhD 2022 (Villanova University)

Dr. Vanessa Sanchez, PhD 2022

Dr. Clark Teeple, PhD 2022

Dr. Shuguang Li

Prof. Dan Aukes (Polytechnic School, Arizona State University)
Dr. Andy Baisch, PhD 2013 (Vibrant Research LLC)

Dr. Nick Bartlett, PhD 2018 (Wolf Greenfield)

Prof. Kaitlyn P. Becker, PhD 2021 (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Dr. Michael Austin Bell, PhD 2021

Dr. Mustafa Boyvat (Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems)
Prof. Katie Byl (Electrical Engineering, U.C. Santa Barbara)
Prof. Pakpong Chirarattananon (Mechanical & Biomedical Eng., City University of Hong Kong)

Prof. Kevin Chen (Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT)
Prof. Kyujin Cho (Mechanical Engineering, Seoul National University)
Prof. Andres Concha (Adolfo Ibanez University)

Dr. Avik De
Prof. Alexis Lussier Desbiens (Mechanical Engineering, Université de Sherbrooke)

Dr. Neel Doshi, PhD 2019 (Postdoctoral Fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Dr. Mishu Duduta (Medical Devices Fellow, University of Minnesota)
Dr. Pierre-Emile Duhamel, PhD 2017 (Intel) 
Prof. Sam Felton, PhD 2015 (Mechanical Engineering, Northeastern University)
Dr. Ben Finio, PhD 2012 (Lecturer, Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Cornell)
Prof. Sawyer Fuller (Mechanical Engineering, University of Washington)
Dr. Joshua Gafford, PhD 2018 (Postdoctoral researcher, Vanderbilt)
Prof. Kevin Galloway (Mechanical Engineering, Vanderbilt)
Dr. Ben Goldberg, PhD 2017 (John Deere)

Prof. Nick Gravish (Mechanical Engineering, UCSD)
Prof. Frank Hammond III (Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Tech)
Prof. Elliot Hawkes, S.B. 2009 (Mechanical Engineering, U.C. Santa Barbara) 

Prof. Elizabeth Farrell Helbling, PhD 2019
Dr. Nick Hoff, PhD 2011 (joint with R. Nagpal)
Dr. Katie Hoffman, PhD 2013 (Agilent)

Prof. Noah Jafferis 

Prof. Kaushik Jayaram (Mechanical Engineering, UC Boulder)
Dr. Seunghee Jeong (Postdoctoral researcher, Uppsala University)

Prof. Ardian Jusufi (Elec, Mech and Mechatronic Systems, University of Technology Sydney)
Prof. Sangbae Kim (Mechanical Engineering, MIT)
Prof. Jesung Koh (Mechanical Engineering, Ajou University)

Dr. Shunichi Kurumaya (President, Pliant Robotics and Assistant Professor, Chuo University)
Prof. Mirko Kovac (Aeronautics, Imperial College London)
Prof. Rebecca Kramer, PhD 2012 (Mechanical Engineering, Yale)

Prof. Dae-Young Lee (Department of Aerospace Engineering, KAIST)
Dr. Kevin Ma, PhD 2016 (Dish Robotics)
Prof. Carmel Majidi (Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University)
Prof. Zachary Manchester (Aeronautics and Astronautics, Stanford)
Prof. Yigit Menguc (Mechanical Engineering, Oregon State University)
Prof. Andrew Mountcastle (Biology, Bates College)

Prof. Ryan Orszulik (Department of Earth & Space Science and Engineering, York University)
Prof. Onur Ozcan (Mechanical Engineering, Bilkent University)
Prof. Jamie Paik (Mechanical Engineering, EPFL)
Prof. Yong-Lae Park (Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University)
Prof. Nestor Perez-Arancibia (Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, USC)
Prof. Brennan Phillips (Ocean Engineering, University of Rhode Island) 
Prof. Tommaso Ranzani (Mechanical Engineering, Boston University)

Prof. Michelle Rosen, PhD 2018 (Mechanical Engineering, The Cooper Union)
Prof. Sheila Russo (Mechanical Engineering, Boston University)
Dr. Ranjana Sahai
Prof. Jessica Shang, S.B. 2009 (Mechanical Engineering, University of Rochester) 

Dr. Nina Sinatra, PhD 2019 (Google)
Dr. Pratheev Sreetharan, PhD 2012 (founder and CTO, Vibrant Research LLC)
Prof. Hiroto Tanaka (Chiba University)

Prof. Zeynep Temel (Carnegie Mellon University)
Dr. Zhi Ern Teoh, PhD 2016 (Cooper Perkins, Inc.)

Dr. Clark Teeple, PhD 2021 (Postdoctoral researcher, Harvard University)

Prof. Mike Tolley (Mechanical Engineering, U.C. San Diego)
Prof. Eduardo Torres-Jara (Worcester Polytechnic Institute)

Prof. Hongqiang Wang (SUS Tech)
Prof. Michael Wehner (Computer Engineering, University of California, Santa Cruz)
Prof. Peter Whitney, PhD 2012 (Mechanical Engineering, Northeastern University)
Dr. Mark Woodward, PhD 2012 (CTO, Full Spectrum Laser)
Prof. Sang-Hee Yoon (Mechanical Engineering, Inha University)

Dr. Peter York, PhD 2020 (Medtronic)

Prof. Huichan Zhao (Mechanical Engineering, Tsinghua University)

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