Lab Members

David Quinn • Senior Scientist
djquinn@andrew.cmu.edu

Dr. Seung Won Lee • Visiting Scholar
seungwo3@andrew.cmu.edu

Kiyn Chin • Postdoc
kiyn@andrew.cmu.edu

Dr. Han Kim • Postdoc
hank2@andrew.cmu.edu

Yafeng Hu • PhD MechE
yafengh@andrew.cmu.edu

Miguel Ianus-Valdivia • PhD MechE
mianusva@andrew.cmu.edu

Guo “Andrew” Sue • PhD MechE
gsue@andrew.cmu.edu

Kevin St.Luce • PhD MechE
kstluce@andrew.cmu.edu

Christina Patterson • PhD MechE
cpatter2@andrew.cmu.edu

Marta Calisto Frietas • PhD ECE
mcalisto@andrew.cmu.edu (co-advised by Mahmoud Tavakoli)

Xiangyun Bu • PhD MechE
xiangyun@andrew.cmu.edu (co-advised by Vickie Webster-Wood)

Chang Oh • MS MechE
chango@andrew.cmu.edu

Vinayak A. • MS MechE
vinayak2@andrew.cmu.edu

Junzhe Hu • MS RI
junzhehu@andrew.cmu.edu

Juee Chandrachud • MS MechE
jueec@andrew.cmu.edu

Tracey Li • MS BME
traceyl2@andrew.cmu.edu

Donggu “Ben” Lee • MS MechE
donggul@andrew.cmu.edu

Natalie Ficca • Undergrad MechE
natalief@andrew.cmu.edu

Dr. Andrew Sabelhaus
Assistant Professor • Boston Univ.

Prof. Khalid Jawed
Assistant Professor • UCLA

Prof. Mohammad Malakooti
Assistant Professor • Univ. Washington

Xiaonan “Sean” Huang
Assistant Professor • Univ. Michigan

Prof. Michael Bartlett
Assistant Professor • Iowa State

Prof. Eric Markvicka
Assistant Professor • Univ. of Nebraska

Dr. Robert Herbert
Assistant Professor • LSU

Prof. Gina Olson
Assistant Professor • UMass Amherst

Dr. Nathan Zavenelli
Assistant Professor • Gonzaga University

Dr. Gun-Hee Lee
Assistant Professor • UNIST

Prof. Wanliang Shan
Assistant Professor • Syracuse

Prof. Chengfeng Pan
Assistant Professor • Zhejiang Univ

Dr. Zach Patterson
Assistant Professor • Case Western University

Dr. Dinesh Patel
Research Scientist • Carnegie Mellon University

Dr. Nolen Keeys
Research Scientist • Apple

Dr. Pratik Khandagale
Postdoc • Univ. Houston

Dr. Michael Ford
Research Scientist • Lawrence Livermore National Lab

Dr. Stuart Diller
CEO & Founder • ESTAT Actuation

Dr. Navid Kazem
CEO • Arieca, LLC

Dr. Alexi Charalambides
CTO • Lifeware Labs, LLC

Dr. Chanho Jeong
Postdoc • Sungkyunkwan Univ.

Dr. Phillip Won
Staff Engineer • ASML

Jiahe Liao
Postdoc • NC State University

Yunsik Ohm
Research Scientist • Meta Reality Labs

Tess Hellebrekers
Research Scientist • Meta AI

Dr. Navid Zolfaghari
Research Scientist • U. Pittsburgh

Bugra Kadri Ozutemiz
Research Scientist • Lifeware Labs

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

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. Beomchan Kang
Senior Research Engineer • Hyundai

Hyesu Choi
PhD Student • Sungkyunkwan Univ.

Dr. Peter Roberts
Postdoctoral Fellow • Carnegie Mellon University

Austin Williams
Boeing

Anthony Wertz
Latitude AI

Mason Zadan
Postdoctoral Fellow • MIT

Michael Vinciguerra
Postdoctoral Fellow • University of Michigan

Richard Desatnik
Northrup Grumman

Raunaq Bhirangi
Postdoctoral Fellow • New York University

Akhil Padmanabha
Research Scientist • Meta Reality Labs

Manuel Reis Carneiro
Postdoctoral Fellow • EPFL

Subin Oh
PhD Student • KAIST

Dr. Kitty Kumar

Dr. Vania Silverio
Assistant Researcher • INESC

Vivek Ramachandran
PhD Student • EPFL

Hesham Zaini
PhD Student • Caltech

Zhijian Ren
PhD Student • MIT

Jessica Yin
PhD Student • Univ. Pennsylvania

Yayati Jadhav
PhD Student • Carnegie Mellon

Sampada Acharya
PhD Student • Carnegie Mellon

Loren Russell
Robotony

Tingyu Cheng
PhD Student • Georgia Tech

Maduran Palaniswamy
Research Engineer • Toyota Research Institute

Ryan Coulson
Mechanical Engineer • Flexiv Ltd.

Yongyi Zhao
PhD Student • MIT

Yichi Luo
PhD Student • EPFL

Wuzhou Zu
PhD Student • Virginia Tech

Zefang Li
PhD Student • Johns Hopkins

Dongye Liu
PhD Student • UC Berkeley

Yichu “Eric” Jin
PhD Student • Harvard

Josh Umo
PhD Student • Clemson

Wenhuan Sun
PhD Student • Carnegie Mellon

Zisheng Ye
PhD Student • Wisconsin-Madison

Daniel Tepayotl-Ramirez
Lockheed Martin

Terri Kent
PhD Student • Carnegie Mellon

Peter Ahn

Zihuan Bai
Researcher • Carnegie Mellon University

Louis Plottel
Re:Build Manufacturing

Aditya Bharambe
Researcher • Carnegie Mellon University

Jose Hinojosa
MS Student • Adolfo Ibáñez University

Houriyeh Majditehran
PhD Student • Georgia Tech

Edgar Aranda-Michel
MD-PhD Student • Carnegie Mellon