Group

Current Group

• Matei Ciocarlie (faculty)
• Pedro Piacenza (associate research scientist)
• Ava Chen (PhD student)
• Zhanpeng He (PhD student, co-advised with Shuran Song)
• Jingxi Xu (PhD student, co-advised with Shuran Song)
• Eric Chang (PhD student)
• Sharfin Islam (PhD student)
• Katelyn Lee (PhD student)
• Joaquin Bernardo Palacios (PhD student)
• Lennart Schulze (PhD student, co-advised with Carl Vondrick)
• Geoffrey Wu (undergraduate student)
• Abigail Langer (undergraduate student)
• Kathryn Lampo (undergraduate student)
• Phillippe Wu (undergraduate student)
• Yolanda Zhu (undergraduate student)
• Benjamin Hong (undergraduate student)
• Jamie Palmer (MS student)
• Sarah Park (MS student)
• Amr El-Azizi (MS student)
• Yifeng Cao (MS student)
• Andrew Liu (MS student)
• Kai Jiang (MS student)

Alumni - Postdoctoral Researchers

• Bing Song (2020). Next position:  Robotics Research Fellow, HP-NTU Digital Manufacturing Corporate Lab
• Long Wang (2019). Next position: Assistant Professor, Stevens Institute of Technology

Alumni - PhD students

• Gagan Khandate (PhD, 2024). Thesis: "Towards Embodied Dexterous Intelligence" [arXiv coming soon, video of defense seminar]. Next position: Staff Research Scientist, Boston Dynamics
• Tristan Luca Saidi (PhD student, 2023-2024)
• Emily Hannigan (PhD, 2023). Thesis: "On the Creation and Use of Forward Models in Robot Motor Control" [pdf]
• Maximilian Haas-Heger (PhD, 2021). Thesis: "Grasp Stability Analysis with Passive Reactions" [arXiv, video of defense seminar]. Next position: Software Engineer, Nuro.ai.
• Tianjian Chen (PhD, 2021). Thesis: "On the Interplay between Mechanical and Computational Intelligence in Robot Hands" [pdf]. Next position: Applied Scientist, Amazon Robotics.
• Pedro Piacenza (PhD, 2020). Thesis: "Data-driven Tactile Sensing using Spatially Overlapping Signals" [pdf]. Next position: Robotics Research Scientist, Samsung AI Center NY
• Sangwoo Park (PhD, 2020). Thesis: "Advancing the Functionality and Wearability of Robotic Hand Orthoses Towards Activities of Daily Living in Stroke Patients" [pdf]. Next position: ultra-stealthy wearable tech NYC startup.
• Cassie Meeker (PhD, 2020). Thesis: "Intuitive Human-Machine Interfaces for Non-Anthropomorphic Robotic Hands" [pdf, video of defense seminar]. Next position: Applied Scientist, Amazon Robotics AI.

Alumni - MS and undergraduate students

• Grace Munger (undergraduate student)
• Connor Lee (undergraduate student)
• Matheu Campbell (undergraduate student)
• Lily Bresee (MS student)
• Runsheng Wang (MS student)
• Dongxiao Yang (MS student)
• Joaquin Palacios (MS student)
• Pedro La Rotta (MS student)
• Akshay Venkatesan (MS student)
• Katherine O'Reilly (undergraduate student)
• Alex Deli-Ivanov (undergraduate student)
• Calvin Moon (undergraduate student)
• Jannie Zhong (undergraduate student)
• Tycho Bogdanowitsch (undergraduate student)
• Eray Baykal (undergraduate student)
• Qianhuang Li (MS student)
• Pedro La Rotta (MS student)
• Patrick Meng (MS student)
• Toby Kreiman (MS student)
• Wenxi Chen (MS student)
• Siddharth Singi (MS student)
• Rohan James (MS student)
• Johnson Adams (MS student)
• Carolyn David (MS student)
• Siqi Shang (MS student)
• Xingshei Wei (MS student)
• Cameron Mehlman (MS student)
• Aaron Xie (undergraduate student)
• Alvin Pan (MS student)
• Han Lin (MS student)
• Paul Baessler (MS student)
• Noel Isaac Robles (MS student)
• Kevin Mahoney (MS student)
• Preethika Chivukula (MS student)
• Lily Bresee (undergraduate student)
• Nikita Sai Manjuluri (undergraduate student)
• Seth Dennis (undergraduate and MS student)
• Rich Gedney (MS student)
• Jobin Binoy George (MS student)
• Ciara Little (undergraduate student)
• Katelyn Mitchell (undergraduate student)
• Tianyi Zhang (MS student)
• Tianmu Wang (MS student)
• Jai Agrawal (MS student)
• Aditya Jain (MS student)
• Sandip Patel (MS student)
• Shubham Chavan (MS student)
• Delphine Lepeintre (undergraduate student)
• Brayan Arias (MS student)
• Ji Yin (MS student)
• Andrei Shylo (MS student)
• Yang Liu (MS student)
• Magdy Gad (MS student)
• Joshua Katz (MS student)
• Kat Chen (undergraduate student)
• Adheli Gonzalez (undergraduate student)
• Leon Kim (undergraduate student)
• Alina Ying (undergraduate student)
• Jerry Zhang (MS student)
• Guoqing Zhang (MS student)
• Deepak Ravishankar (MS student)
• Benedikt Dietmar (MS student)
• Kang Yang (undergraduate student)
• Adrian Lasrado (MS student)
• Benjamin Saeks (MS student)
• Mitchell Miya (undergraduate student)
• John Monroe Pederson (undergraduate student)
• Clayton Baumgart (MS student)
• Kurian Mathew (MS student)
• Beatrice Surui Liang (MS student)
• Antong Liu (MS student)
• Nelson Lin (MS student)
• Jinzhao Chang (MS student)
• Wenda Xu (MS student)
• Brian Jin (MS student)
• Sydney Sherman (undergraduate/MS student)
• Tom Rasmussen (undergraduate student)
• Joe Shepley (undergraduate student)
• Carol Jung (undergraduate student)
• Ruijia Yang (undergraduate student)
• Weipeng Dang (MS student)
• Yuchen Xiao (MS student)
• Sze Wun Wong (MS student)
• Mengyu Wu (MS student)
• Benjamin Czerwin (MS student)
• Ferdinand Paul Stockmann (MS student)