PEOPLE
Principal Investigator
Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering & Biological Sciences
Senior Research Scientist, Institute for Human and Machine Cognition (IHMC)
Research Staff
Senior Research Scientist, Mechanical Engineering
Postdoctoral Fellows
Postdoctoral Fellow, Biomedical Engineering
eFellows Postdoctoral Fellow
Co-advised by Dr. Lena Ting
PhD Students
Ph.D. Candidate, Mechanical Engineering
Co-advised by Dr. Richard Nichols
Ph.D. Candidate, Robotics
NSF ARMS Fellow, NSF Graduate Research Fellow
Co-advised by Dr. Aaron Young
Ph.D. Student, Bioengineering
GEM Fellow, Herbert P. Haley Fellow
Ph.D. Student, Robotics
NSF Graduate Research Fellow
Ph.D. Student, Biology
GAANN Fellow
Co-advised by Dr. Young-Hui Chang
Ph.D. Student, Bioengineering
GTME Interdisciplinary Research Fellowship
Co-advised by Dr. Lena Ting
Houriyeh Majdi
Ph.D. Student, Robotics
President’s Fellow, Herbert P. Haley Fellow
Co-advised by Dr. Emily Sanders
Master's Thesis Students
M.S. Student, Mechanical Engineering
Non-Thesis M.S. and Undergraduate Teams
Leestma
Christopher Meier (BME; PURA), Haritaa Mourougassamy (CS), Vibha Iyer (BME), Snehil Mathur (ECE), Alixandra Rubin (ME), Aryan Tadwalkar (BME)
Schroeder/Trejo
Minho Lee (ME), Wesley Ho (ME), Nicole Sen (BME), Benjamin Rahimitabar (BME), Megan Ramaswami (BME), Shom Chandra (BME), Jacques Singham (ME), Colton Yee (BME)
Alshareef
Olivia Moore (BME; PURA), Lauren Harris (BME), Massimiliano Iaschi (ME)
Shafer
Caroline Adkins, Richard So, Kaitlyn Tung, Ariel Sauer, Kylie Liu, Ryan Brown, Kiandra Peart, Po Chuan (MS)
Lab Alumni
| Name | Degree | Year | Where they went next |
|---|---|---|---|
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Qingyi Lou |
M.S. Bioengineering |
2024 |
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Ben Shafer |
Ph.D. Robotics |
2023 |
Entrepreneurial Post-Doctorate Researcher at ESTAT Actuation |
|
Lindsey Trejo |
Ph.D. Bioengineering |
2023 |
Biomechanics & Motion Capture Specialist at EA Sports |
|
Jordyn Schroeder |
Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering |
2023 |
Associate at McKinsey |
|
Jonathan Gosyne |
Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering |
2022 |
Biomechanics Associate at Exponent |
|
Laksh Kumar Punith |
Ph.D. Robotics |
2022 |
Research Scientist at University of Michigan Robotics |
|
Owen Beck |
Postdoctoral Fellow |
2022 |
Assistant Professor at University of Texas - Austin |
|
Jacob Stephens |
M.S. Biomedical Engineering |
2022 |
PhD student at Emory with Lena Ting |
|
Luis Rosa |
M.S. Mechanical Engineering |
2022 |
Robotics Development Lead at Covariant |
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Pawel Golyski |
Ph.D. BioEngineering |
2022 |
Research Scientist at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center |
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Max Anderton |
M.S. Mechanical Engineering |
2022 |
Mechanical Engineer at Sandia National Labs |
|
Max Shepherd |
Postdoctoral Fellow |
2021 |
Assistant Professor at Northeastern University |
|
Emily Abbott |
Postdoctoral Fellow |
2020 |
Postdoctoral Fellow at Temple University |
|
Emily McCain |
Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering (NCSU) |
2019 |
Research Scientist at Center for the Intrepid |
|
Jonathan Doering |
Ph.D. Biomedical Engineering (UNC/NCSU) |
2018 |
Research Consultant in Research Triangle Park, NC |
|
Taylor Dick |
Postdoctoral Fellow |
2017 |
Lecturer (i.e. Assistant Professor) at University of Queensland |
|
Sasha Philius |
M.S. Biomedical Engineering (UNC/NCSU) |
2017 |
Mechanical Engineer at a telecommunications contractor in Research Triangle Park, NC |
|
James McCall |
M.S. Biomedical Engineering (UNC/NCSU) |
2017 |
PhD student at NC State with Derek Kamper |
|
Richard Nuckols |
Ph.D. Biomedical Engineering (UNC/NCSU) |
2017 |
Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University |
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Tracy Norman Giest |
Postdoctoral Fellow |
2016 |
Director of Biomechanics Research at Fitbit Inc. |
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Michael Browne |
M.S. Biomedical Engineering (UNC/NCSU) |
2016 |
Postdoctoral Fellow at Johns Hopkins University |
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Kota Takahashi |
Postdoctoral Fellow |
2015 |
Assistant Professor in the Center for Research and Human Movement Variability at the University of Nebraska-Omaha |
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Audrey Westbrook |
M.S. Biomedical Engineering (UNC/NCSU) |
2015 |
Lead Research Engineer for Motion Analysis Lab at High Point University |
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Michael Bruce Wiggin |
Ph.D. Biomedical Engineering (UNC/NCSU) |
2014 |
Design Engineer at TransEnterix Inc. |
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Benjamin Robertson |
Ph.D. Biomedical Engineering (UNC/NCSU) |
2014 |
Senior Research Scientist at Edgewise Inc. |
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Nabil Khan |
M.S. Biomedical Engineering (UNC/NCSU) |
2013 |
Software Engineer at Start Up Company in Research Triangle Park |
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Caitlin Mahon |
M.S. Biomedical Engineering (UNC/NCSU) |
2013 |
Research Engineer at Walter Reed Army Medical Center |
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Dominic J. Farris |
Postdoctoral Fellow |
2012 |
Lecturer (i.e Assistant Professor) at University of Exeter |
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Austin Hampton |
M.S. Biomedical Engineering (UNC/NCSU) |
2012 |
Senior Biomedical Engineer at Department of Veterans Affairs |
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Philip Matta |
M.S. Biomedical Engineering (UNC/NCSU) |
2012 |
Financial Analyst at Goldman Sachs |