Faculty
Aaron Johnson

Aaron Johnson

Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Courtesy: Robotics & ECE
Post-Doctoral Researchers
Aja Carter

Aja Carter

Ph.D. Earth & Environmental Science
University of Pennsylvania 2020
Ph.D. Students
Diana Frias Franco

Diana Frias Franco

Ph.D. in Robotics
Steven Man

Steven Man

Ph.D. in Robotics
Co-Advised by Sarah Bergbreiter
Naomi Oke

Naomi Oke

Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering
David Ologan

David Ologan

Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering
Wensen Liu

Wensen Liu

Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering
Master's Students
Nathan Sun

Nathan Sun

M.S. in Mechanical Engineering
2026
Jingbo Zhang

Jingbo Zhang

M.S. in Mechanical Engineering
2026
Derek Fan

Derek Fan

M.S. in Mechanical Engineering
2026
David Seong

David Seong

M.S. in Mechanical Engineering
2026
Dylan Leong

Dylan Leong

M.S. in Mechanical Engineering
2026
Thomas Chun Fai Lee

Thomas Chun Fai Lee

M.S. in Robotics
2027
Ben Gu

Ben Gu

M.S. in Robotics
2027
Victor Soto Castro

Victor Soto Castro

M.S. in Mechanical Engineering
2027
Jerry Peng

Jerry Peng

M.S. in Mechanical Engineering
2026
Chisom Obiora-Egbuziem

Chisom Obiora-Egbuziem

M.S. in Mechanical Engineering
2027
Chan Kyu Lee

Chan Kyu Lee

M.S. in Mechanical Engineering
2027
Bhavagyna Vegunta

Bhavagyna Vegunta

M.S. in Mechanical Engineering
2026
Aryan Chandra

Aryan Chandra

M.S. in Mechanical Engineering
2026
George Ortiz

George Ortiz

M.S. in Mechanical Engineering
2027
Undergraduate Students
Cordelia Pride

Cordelia Pride

B.S. in Mechanical Engineering
2026
Heidi Lou

Heidi Lou

B.S. in ECE
2027
Damian Molina

Damian Molina

B.S. in Mechanical Engineering
2026
Nicole Ortuno

Nicole Ortuno

B.S. in Mechanical Engineering
2027
Kamya Singh

Kamya Singh

B.S. in ECE
2027
Ricky Castro

Ricky Castro

B.S. in Mechanical Engineering
2027
Alex Werth

Alex Werth

B.S. in Mechanical Engineering
2028
Chris Keefe

Chris Keefe

B.S. in Mechanical Engineering
2026
Serge Douge

Serge Douge

B.S. in Mechanical Engineering
2026
Josh Tsang

Josh Tsang

B.S. in Mechanical Engineering
2026
Shravani Vedagiri

Shravani Vedagiri

B.S. in ECE
2028
James Shin

James Shin

B.S. in Mechanical Engineering
2028
Alumni

Visiting Scholars & Postdoctoral Fellows

Dr. Vivek Thangavelu (Postdoc 2023–2025) — Assistant Professor at Arizona State University
Dr. Justin Yim (Postdoc 2020–2022) — Assistant Professor at UIUC
Dr. George Council (Postdoc 2020–2021) — Ford
Dr. Vahidreza Molazadeh (Postdoc 2020) — NIH, GM
Dr. Amir Patel (Visiting Scholar 2018) — Associate Professor at UCL, U. Cape Town

Ph.D. Students

Dr. Ardalan Tajbakhsh (ME 2025) — Zebra Technologies, Amazon Robotics
Dr. Paul Nadan (Robotics 2025) — Nimble
Dr. J. Joe Payne (ME 2024) — Relativity Space, Amazon Robotics
Dr. James Zhu (ME 2024) — LAAS-CNRS
Dr. Sean Wang (ME 2024) — Zoox, Anduril
Dr. Catherine Pavlov (ME 2023) — Collaborative Robotics, NASA JPL
Dr. Nathan Kong (ME 2022) — Amazon Robotics
Dr. Joseph Norby (ME 2022) — Apptronik
Dr. Ankit Bhatia (Robotics 2022) — Amazon Robotics

Masters Students

Si Heng Teng (Robotics 2025)
Sasha Kroman (ME 2025) - Pinaxis Warehouse Automation
Amey Sheth (ME 2025) - ASML
Weichen Qiu (ECE 2025) — Aluminio
Richa Mohta (ME 2025) - Juxta
Kaustabh Paul (ME 2025) - Roboligent
Karla Soto Cuevas (ME 2025) — Blue Origin
Nate Klein (ME 2025) - Kawasaki Robotics
Honghao Zhu (ME 2024) - Amazon Robotics, PhD at CMU
Selvin Garcia Gonzalez (ME 2024) — Boeing, AFRL
Ian Krause (ME 2024) — ARM Automation
Daniela Castleberg (ME 2023) — Microsoft
Nikhil Chinnalapatti Gopinath (ME 2023) — Walmart Robotics
Shane Deng (ME 2023) — PhD at Northwestern, Cobot
James Kyle (ME 2023) — Holocene, Oxy
Judson Kyle (ME 2023) — Noah Medical, Applied Materials
Hao Luo (ME 2023) — PhD at Notre Dame
Jiming Ren (ME 2023) — PhD at Georgia Tech
Alex Stutt (ME 2023)
Yanhao Yang (ME 2022) — PhD at Oregon State
Qishun Yu (ME 2022) — Plus.ai
Kamal Carter (ME 2021) — Hebi Robotics, Boston Dynamics
Nathan Esantsi (ME 2021) — NASA Goddard
Nikolai Flowers (ME 2021) — Waymo
Jen-Hung Ho (ME 2021) — Volvo
Nicholas Jones (ME 2021) — SpaceX
Akshit Mishra (ME 2021) — Serve Robotics, Near Earth Autonomy
Mike Turski (ME 2021) — GM
Yu-Chun Chen (ME 2020) — Amazon Lab126
Morgan Montalvo (ME 2020) — NASA JPL
Wooshik Kim (ME 2019) — Mathworks
Peter Li (ME 2019) — PhD at U. Toronto
Barrett Werner (ME 2019) — Czero
Adam Zeloof (ME 2019) — Boston Dynamics
Vivaan Bahl (EE 2019) — Apple, OpenAI
Cameron Selby (ME 2018) — BriteLab
Wei Wang (ME 2018) — Pony.ai
Tim Jung (ME 2017) — NASA JPL, Amazon Robotics, Zoox
Xiaohan Jin (CV 2017) — Waymo
Yifan Xing (CV 2017) — Amazon

Undergraduate Alumni

Leo Wang (ECE 2028)
Hopewell Feldmann (ME 2026)
Kim Hansen (ME & BME 2026) - MS at Rice
Ashira Johara (ME 2025) - MS at CMU
Alisha Patel (ME 2025)
Erika Ramirez (ECE 2025) — MS at CMU
Joshua Ramos (ECE 2025) — Amazon
Kendall Hart (ME 2025) — RTX
Catherine Or (ME 2025) — Caterpillar
Jessica Chan (EECS 2025)
Riley Krzywda (CS 2025) — MS at CMU
Anoushka Shrivastava (AI 2025) — MS at CMU
Jai Kumar (ECE & CS 2024) — SpaceX
Matthew Hyatt (ME 2024) — Seegrid
Chiara Rissola (ME 2024) — US Air Force
Fayyad Zakaria (ME 2024) - GM
Ryan Bao (ME 2024) - Intel, Boeing
Alexander Hakim (ME 2024) - Atomic Semi
Amen Assefa (ME 2023) — Nauticus Robotics
Sidney Nimako-Boateng (ME 2023) — DoorDash Labs, MS at CMU, Scale AI
Sarah Stapleton (ME 2023) — SwRI
Jesse Wallace (ME 2023) — Planted Solar, Apple, Zipline
Akshay Chekuri (EECS 2023) — MS at CMU, KEF Robotics
Charles Pun (ME 2023) — Geico
Sathya Subramanian (ME 2023) — Caterpillar
Hannah He (CS 2022) — Aurora
Edward Lu (EE 2022) — PhD at CMU
Andrew Osborn (ME 2022) — Amazon Robotics
Arushi Singh (ME 2022) — MS at CMU, Formlabs
Jeffrey Tsaw (EE 2022) — MS at CMU
Fayyaz Zaidi (EE 2022) — MS at Georgia Tech, Capital One
Adam Chung (ME 2021) — HeartFlow, Vicarious Surgical, MS at GT, iRobot
Sharfin Islam (ME 2021) — PhD at Columbia
Abigail Rafter (ME 2021) — PhD at U. Michigan
Eleanor Seiler (ME 2021) — SpaceX
Erin Wong (ME 2021) — MS at CMU, Telos Health
Brian Buckenham (EE 2021) — MS at CMU
Tom Scherlis (EE & Robotics 2022) — Zipline
Advaith Sethuraman (Robotics 2021) — PhD at U. Michigan
Kusha Maharshi (CS 2021) — Bloomberg
Michael Huang (CS 2021) — AWS
Praxis Bays (ME 2020) — SpaceX, NASA JPL
Victoria Feng (ME 2020) — Tesla
Sydney Howard (ME 2020) — SpaceX
Vinay Mitta (ME 2020) — MS at CMU
Scott Phillips (ME 2020) — Parsons Corporation
Andrew Rosenfeld (ME 2020) — LLNL
Erica Tsai (ME 2020) — Intuitive Surgical
Alton Olson (ECE 2020)
Monica Barragan (ME 2019) — Boeing, Edge Case Research
Madelynne Long (ME 2019) — NASA JPL, Honeybee Robotics
Justin Mitchell (ME 2019) — Amazon Robotics
Hardik Singh (ME 2019) — HEBI, MS at CMU, FarmX
Dhruv Khurana (CS 2019) — Lyft
Michael Auda (ME 2018) — Gecko Robotics, Anduril
Esther Lim (ME 2018) — Google
Natha Singhasaneh (ME 2018) — Chalard, MIT IDM, CrunchLabs
Steven Palmer (CS 2018) — Intuit, Google

Visiting Students

Abdel Zaro (UC Berkeley 2022–2023) - PhD at Georgia Tech
Gargi Sadalgekar (Princeton 2020–2021) — PhD at JHU
Ethan Schumann (Harvard Biodesign Summer 2020) — General Dynamics, Digital Dream Labs
Letong Wang (ShanghaiTech Summer 2019) — MS at CMU
Allen Ren (JHU Summer 2018) — PhD at Princeton