Lab Members

Dr. Mohammad Malakooti • Postdoc
PhD 2015 • U. Florida
malakooti@cmu.edu

Dr. Michael Ford • Postdoc
PhD 2018 • U. Santa Barbara
mford2@andrew.cmu.edu

Stuart Diller • Postdoc
PhD 2019 • CMU
studiller@gmail.com

Bugra Kadri Ozutemiz • PhD MechE
kozutemi@andrew.cmu.edu

Chengfeng Pan • PhD MechE
chengfep@andrew.cmu.edu

Xiaonan “Sean” Huang • PhD MechE
xiaonanh@andrew.cmu.edu

Tess Hellebrekers • PhD RI
tessh@andrew.cmu.edu

Pratik Khandagale • PhD MechE
pratik.khandagale701@gmail.com

Keene Chin • PhD RI
keenec@andrew.cmu.edu

Jiahe Liao • PhD RI
liao@cmu.edu

Yunsik Ohm • PhD MechE
yohm@andrew.cmu.edu

Houriyeh Majditehran • PhD MechE
hmajdite@andrew.cmu.edu
(co-advised with Sarah Bergbreiter)

Zach Patterson • PhD MechE
zpatters@andrew.cmu.edu

Justin Bobo • PhD MechE
jbobo@andrew.cmu.edu
(co-advised with Phil Leduc)

Ryan Coulson • MS RI
rcoulson@andrew.cmu.edu

Zhijian Ren • MS MechE
zhijianr@andrew.cmu.edu

Jessica Yin • Senior MechE
jessicay@andrew.cmu.edu

Yayati Jadhav • MS MechE
yayatij@andrew.cmu.edu

Edgar Aranda-Michel • MD-PhD
edgararandamichel@gmail.com
(co-advised with Dennis Trumble)

Nolen Keeys • MS BME
nkeeys@andrew.cmu.edu
(co-advised with Phil Leduc)

Dongye Liu • MS MechE
dongyel@andrew.cmu.edu

Prof. Khalid Jawed
Assistant Professor • UCLA

Prof. Michael Bartlett
Assistant Professor • Iowa State

Prof. Wanliang Shan
Assistant Professor • Univ. Nevada, Reno

Dr. Alexi Charalambides
CTO • Lifeware Labs, LLC

Prof. Eric Markvicka
Assistant Professor • Univ. of Nebraska

Dr. Kitty Kumar

Dr. Andrew Fassler
Postdoctoral Fellow • Air Force Research Lab

Dr. Lauren Finkenauer
Postdoctoral Fellow •
Lawrence Livermore National Lab

Dr. James Wissman
Postdoctoral Fellow • Naval Research Lab

Dr. Tong Lu
Chief Operating Officer • Pastoral, Inc.

Dr. Navid Kazem
CEO • Arieca, LLC

Dr. Steven RichÂ
Postdoctoral Fellow • Univ. of Tokyo / RIKEN

Vivek Ramachandran
PhD Student • EPFL

Hesham Zaini
PhD Student • Caltech

Loren Russell
Robotony

Tingyu ChengÂ
PhD Student • Georgia Tech

Peter Roberts
Universidad Adolfo Ibañez

Yichu “Eric” Jin
PhD Student • Harvard

Josh Umo
PhD Student • Clemson

Wenhuan Sun
PhD Student • Carnegie Mellon

Dr. Navid ZofaghariÂ
Research Scientist • U. Pittsburgh

Daniel Tepayotl-Ramirez
Lockheed Martin

Terri Kent
PhD Student • Carnegie Mellon

Peter Ahn

Zisheng Ye
PhD Student • Wisconsin-Madison

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