Lab Members

Dr. Dinesh Patel • Research Scientist
dineshpa@andrew.cmu.edu

Dr. Beomchan Kang • Postdoc
beomchan@andrew.cmu.edu

Dr. Nathan Zavenelli • Postdoc
nzavanel@andrew.cmu.edu

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

Dr. Gun-Hee Lee • Postdoc
gunheel@andrew.cmu.edu

Kiyn Chin • PhD RI
kiyn@andrew.cmu.edu

Peter Roberts • PhD MechE
ptrobert@andrew.cmu.edu

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

Anthony Wertz • PhD RI
awertz@cmu.edu

Mason Zadan • PhD MechE
mzadan@andrew.cmu.edu

Michael Vinciguerra • PhD MechE
mvincigu@andrew.cmu.edu
(co-advised with Lining Yao)

Richard Desatnik • PhD MechE
rdesatni@andrew.cmu.edu
(co-advised with Phil Leduc)

Raunaq Bhirangi • PhD RI
rbhirang@andrew.cmu.edu
(co-advised with Abhinav Gupta)

Akhil Padmanabha • PhD RI
akhilpad@andrew.cmu.edu
(co-advised with Zackory Erickson)

Austin Williams • PhD MSE
austinwi@andrew.cmu.edu

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

Manuel Reis Carneiro • CMU-Portugal PhD ECE
mreiscar@andrew.cmu.edu
(co-advised with Mahmoud Tavakoli)

Subin Oh • Visting Scholar
subino@andrew.cmu.edu

Guo “Andrew” Sue • MS RI
gsue@andrew.cmu.edu

Aditya Bharambe • MS MechE
avbharam@andrew.cmu.edu

Zihuan Bai • MS BME
zihuanb@andrew.cmu.edu

Louis Plottel • MS RI
lmplotte@andrew.cmu.edu

Kevin St.Luce • Undergrad ECE
kstluce@andrew.cmu.edu

Jose Hinojosa • Visting Scholar
jihinojo@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 Â
Assistant Professor • LSU

Prof. Gina Olson Â
Assistant Professor • UMass Amherst

Dr. Nolen KeeysÂ
Research Scientist • Apple

Dr. Pratik Khandagale
Postdoc • Univ. Houston

Prof. Wanliang Shan
Assistant Professor • Syracuse

Prof. Chengfeng Pan
Assistant Professor • Zhejiang Univ.

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 JeongÂ
Postdoc • Sungkyunkwan Univ.

Dr. Phillip WonÂ
Staff Engineer • ASML

Jiahe LiaoÂ
Postdoc • Max Planck Institute

Yunsik OhmÂ
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. Zach PattersonÂ
Postdoc • MIT

Hyesu ChoiÂ
PhD Student • Sungkyunkwan Univ.

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 LuoÂ
PhD Student • EPFL

Wuzhou ZuÂ
PhD Student • Virginia Tech

Zefang LiÂ
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

Houriyeh Majditehran
PhD Student • Georgia Tech

Edgar Aranda-Michel
MD-PhD Student • Carnegie Mellon