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  • Director
    • Jun Ueda, Ph.D. – Lab Director, Professor, Mechanical Engineering
  • Graduate Students (Ph.D.)
    • Heriberto (Andy) Nieves, PhD Student, Robotics, Fall 2021-
    • Jacob Blevins, PhD Student, Mechanical Engineering, Summer 2022-
    • Hyuk Bin Kwon, PhD Student, Mechanical Engineering, Fall 2023-
  • Visiting Scholar
    • Shintaro Nakatani, PhD, Lecturer, Tottori University (4/1/2024-)
  • Undergraduate Students
    • Alexey Khotimsky, BS Mechanical Engineering, Spring 2022, Summer 2022, Fall 2022, PURA Fall 2023, PURA Fall 2024
    • Tarun Vinodkumar PURA Spring 2024
    • Ethan Ragasa, Fall 2024
    • Daniel Lee, Fall 2024
    • Charles Hong, BME, PURA Spring 2023, PURA Fall 2023 (at EPFL Fall 2024)
    • Yizhong Du (Spring 2024, online Fall 2024)
  • Graduate Students (Robotics MS Capstone)
    • Adam Mazlout (Fall 2024 and Spring 2025)
    • Wuyuqing (Irene) Yang (Fall 2024 and Spring 2025)
  • Graduate Students (co-advised)
    • Josh Posen, Bio-engineering Program (with Dr. Shinohara)

BRHML Alumni: Graduates

PhD Program

  • Joshua Schultz: PhD in Mechanical Engineering, 2012 – Associate Professor, University of Tulsa
  • Billy Gallagher: PhD in Robotics, 2013 – Robotics Engineer, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center
  • David MacNair: PhD in Robotics, 2013 – Academic Professional, Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
  • Melih Turkseven – PhD in Mechanical Engineering, 2016 – Postdoctoral Fellow, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (until 2019), Assistant Professor, Sabanci University, Turkey (2019-)
  • Michael Kim, PhD in Mechanical Engineering 2016, Mechanical Engineering, Auris Health
  • Ellenor Brown – PhD in Applied Physiology 2017 (co-advised with Dr. Shinohara, Applied Physiology), ORISE Postdoctoral Fellow, Staff Fellow at FDA, Apple
  • Euisun Kim, PhD in Mechanical Engineering Spring 2020 (thesis completed in Fall 2019), Mechanical Engineering, BIRDEE Postdoctoral Fellow at CEISMC, Georgia Tech, Teaching Assistant Professor, Drexel University
  • Michael Libretto, PhD in Mechanical Engineering Summer 2021, Apogee Research
  • Waiman Meinhold, PhD in Robotics, Spring 2021, Postdoctoral Fellow, Georgia Tech, September 2021-July 2023
  • Antonio Moualeu, PhD in Mechanical Engineering, Summer 2022
  • Yingxin Qiu, PhD in Mechanical Engineering, Fall 2022
  • Daniel Enrique Martinez, PhD Student, Robotics, Summer 2024

MS Program

  • Greg Henderson: MS in Mechanical Engineering, 2012 – Cerdec – U.S. Army
  • Timothy McPherson, MS in Mechanical Engineering, 2012 – Mathworks Inc.
  • Lauren Lacey – MS in Mechanical Engineering, 2014, Sandia National Laboratories, Zipline
  • Efrain Teran, MS in Mechanical Engineering 2014, Mechanical Engineering – Assistant Professor at the Engineering in Mechanical and Production Sciences, The Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral, Ecuador
  • Chenlu Han, MS in Mechanical Engineering 2014, Mechanical Engineering, Graduate student at the University of British Columbia
  • Quincey Lowery, MS in Mechanical Engineering, ME, Spring 2018, Sandia National Labs
  • Alexander Zabaldo, MS in Mechanical Engineering, Summer 2021  (AE/ME undergraduate, Spring 2018-Fall 2019, MSME, Spring 2020-Summer 2021)
  • Shane Kosieradzki, MS in Mechanical Engineering, Spring 2023, (Fall 2021-Spring 2023)

BRHML Alumni: Visitors, Postdocs and Undergraduates

  • Maximilian P Hertanto, UROP, ME (Spring 2009, Fall 2009)
  • Jessie W Martin, UROP, ME (Spring 2009, Summer 2009)
  • Ming Ding, Visiting Student from NAIST, Japan (March 2009) (Currently Assistant Professor at NAIST, Japan, Associate Professor at Nagoya University)
  • Kazuki Namima, Visiting Student from Ritsumeikan University (August 2009)
  • Moiz Hyderabadwala, MS Student, ME, (Sep.2008 – Dec.2009)
  • Danielle Martin, UROP, ME (Spring 2010)
  • Sana Ali, UROP, ME (Summer 2010)
  • Yuichi Kurita, Visiting Scholar (Spring 2010-Spring 2011) (Currently Professor at Hiroshima University)
  • Colin Andrew, UROP, ME (Spring 2011)
  • Trey Davenport, III, UROP, ME (Spring and Summer 2011)
  • Joshua Hooks, REU, University of Maryland (Summer 2012)
  • Pham Thi Thu Hang, , Visiting Scholar (Spring 2012)
  • Brandon Whitt, UROP, ME (Spring 2012-Summer 2012)
  • Yoshihiro Nakata, Visiting PhD student from Osaka University (Jan. 2012-Sep. 2012) (Assistant Professor at Osaka University, Associate Professor at University of ElectroCommunications)
  • James Shealy, UROP, ME (Fall 2011- Fall 2012)
  • James Veldhorst, UROP, ME (Summer 2013)
  • Debapriya Bhattacharjee, UROP, ME (Summer 2013) (currently at Penn State)
  • Caleb Amaram, BS, ME (Fall 2013 )
  • Arnold Maliki, MS ME (UROP Summer 2013, MS Special Program Spring 2014), Mechanical Engineering
  • Ravi Haksar, BS, Mechanical Engineering (Fall 2013 – Spring 2014) PURA Spring 2014 (Currently a graduate student at Stanford University)
  • Benjamin Breton, MS, Mechanical Engineering (co-advised, main advisor Dr. Feigh, Aerospace Engineering)
  • Sean Kilbride, BS, Mechanical Engineering (Fall 2013 – Spring 2014)
  • Johnathan Williams, Robotics SURE REU, Tuskegee University (Summer 2014) (currently a graduate student at Purdue University)
  • Jonathan Lai, CCEFP REU, Arizona State University (Summer 2014) (currently a graduate student at Texas A&M University)
  • Cole Simpson, MS, Mechanical Engineering (co-advised, main advisor Dr. Shinohara, Applied Physiology) (Currently a graduate student at Stanford University)
  • Fernando de Caralt, Undergraduate exchange student, Spring 2015
  • Gyeong H Lee, , Undergraduate exchange student, Spring 2015
  • Florian Ginner, Undergraduate exchange student, Fall 2014 (Currently a graduate student at TUM)
  • Alex Brady, MS Special Problem, GTL, Spring 2015
  • Jesus Partida, CCEFP REU, UC Merced, Summer 2015
  • Gregory Forbes, NSF SURE REU, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Summer 2015 (currently a graduate student at Stanford)
  • Ilya Kovalenko, BS, Mechanical Engineering (Spring 2014 -) Air Products UG Research Award, Spring 2014, PURA Fall 2014, Tech Temp, Summer 2015 (currently a PhD student at the University of Michigan), Assistant Professor, Pennsylvania State University
  • Matthew Hollingworth, , BS Mechanical Engineering, Summer 2015, MS Mechanical Engineering, Special Project, Fall 2015
  • Kelvin Chong, BS Mechanical Engineering, Spring 2016
  • Suzanne Garner, BS Mechanical Engineering,  Spring 2016
  • Xing Liu, BS Mechanical Engineering, Summer 2016
  • Nam Su Yuk, Samsung Electronics, Visiting Scholar, January 2016-January 2017
  • Nayef Ahmar, PhD Student, Electrical and Computer Engineering (co-advised, main advisor Dr. Shinohara, Applied Physiology)
  • Antonio Moualeu, PhD Student, Mechanical Engineering (currently at the Conventual Franciscans)
  • Kevin Pluckter, BS Mechanical Engineering, Summer 2015-Spring 2017 (MS at CMU) (Currently at Intuitive Surgical Inc.)
  • Boao Xia, BS Mechanical Engineering, Summer 2016-Spring 2017 (currently a graduate school at the University of Pennsylvania)
  • Victoria DeMatteis, PhD Student, Robotics (Summer 2017)
  • Atsushi Okabe, Visiting MS Student, The University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan, Fall 2017
  • John Rose, BS Mechanical Engineering, Fall 2017
  • Tiffanie Yang, BS Mechanical Engineering, Fall 2017
  • Geoffrey Horowitz, MS Special Problems, ME, Fall 2017
  • Justin Ashtiani, ISyE, Summer 2018
  • Keerthana Murali, MS ME, Spring 2018-
  • Terese Martinez, MS Student, ME, Fall 2017 and Spring 2018 (non-thesis)
  • Christian Croxton, BME undergraduate student, Summer 2018
  • Kentaro Takemura, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Tokai University, Japan, March 2018-September 2018
  • Beatriz Fusaro, ME, Fall 2017, Spring 2018, Fall 2018
  • Hardik Sangwan, ME, Fall 2018
  • Gylianne Tyndall, BME, Fall 2018
  • Jae Hyun Kim, ME, Spring 2019
  • Ishrat Arora, ME, Spring 2019
  • Rohan Katoch, PhD Student, Robotics, (BS, Mechanical Engineering (Spring 2014);  PURA Spring 2014, Tech Temp Fall 2014-Spring 2015)
  • Kaoru Teranishi, MS student, University of Electra-Communications, Japan, 2020
  • Manju Sivasankar, NSF SURE REU, University of Delaware , Summer 2021 (currently in the graduate program at Northwestern University)
  • Nidhi Shanghavi, BS Mechanical Engineering, Fall  2021
  • Michael Baugh, BS Mechanical Engineering, Fall  2021
  • Allen Zhou, BS Mechanical Engineering, Fall  2021
  • Shanlong (Joe) Yu, BS Mechanical Engineering, Fall  2021, Spring 2022 (PURA, awarded)
  • Maria Patni, BS Computer Science, Fall 2021, Spring 2022
  • Deborah Cohen, BS Mechanical Engineering, Spring 2022
  • Natasha Najmi, BS Mechanical Engineering, Spring 2022
  • Emma Tsaur, MS Mechanical Engineering, Special Program, Spring 2022
  • Divyesh Ved, BS Mechanical Engineering, Spring 2022, Summer 2022
  • John Travnik, BS Mechanical Engineering, Spring 2022, Summer 2022
  • Julie Yan, BS Mechanical Engineering, Spring 2022
  • Candace Kang, BS Mechanical Engineering, Summer 2022
  • Xiaofeng Zhao, BS Mechanical Engineering, Summer 2021, Fall 2021, Spring 2022
  • Alexey Khotimsky, BS Mechanical Engineering, Spring 2022, Summer 2022, Fall 2022
  • Alaz Cig, BS Mechanical Engineering, Spring 2022, Fall 2022 (PURA)
  • Hyuk Bin Kwon, BS Mechanical Engineering, Summer 2022, Fall 2022, PURA Spring 2023
  • Saahas Yechuri, BS Mechanical Engineering, Fall 2022, PURA Spring 2023
  • Abhinav Vemulapalli, BS Computer Science, Spring 2023
  • Siddhanth Vashista, BS Computer Science, Spring 2023
  • Adrian Ng, BS Electrical Engineering, Spring 2023
  • Divyam Kumar, BS Mechanical Engineering, Spring 2023
  • Hiroaki Kawase, Visiting PhD Student, University of ElectroCommunications, Japan, March 2022 – March 2023
  • Kazuki Yamada, Visiting Student, School of Medicine, Hiroshima University, April 2023-July 2023
  • Margaret Fontaine, BS Mechanical Engineering, Spring 2024
  • Hector Mur Lopez, BS Mechanical Engineering, Spring 2024

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