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Lab Director & Principle Investigator

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Prof. Jiarong Hong

Professor

Mechanical Engineering,  St. Anthony Falls Lab & Minnesota Robotics Institute

Affiliated Faculty in Electrical and Computer Engineering

Chief Technology Officer at AstrinBio

B.S.  University of Science and Technology of China (2005)

M.S. Johns Hopkins University (2008)

Ph.D. Johns Hopkins University (2011)

jhong@umn.edu

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Postdoc Researchers

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Dr. Shyam Kumar Mutil House

B.Tech TKM college of Engineering, Kerala, India (2013)

M.S. & Ph.D. Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India (2020)

smutilho@umn.edu

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Dr. Yue Weng

B.S. Beihang University (2018) 

M.S. University of California San Diego (2020) 

Ph.D. University of California San Diego (2024) 

wengy@umn.edu

Ph.D. Students

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Jiaqi Li

Mechanical Engineering

B.E. University of Science and Technology of China (2019)

li001334@umn.edu

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Delaney Sanborn

Mechanical Engineering

B.S. Iowa State University (2021)

sanbo101@umn.edu

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Nicholas Bravo-Frank

Electrical and Computer Engineering

B.E. University of Victoria (2021)

M.S. University of Minnesota (2023)

bravo095@umn.edu 

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Corey Senger

Computer Science and Engineering

B.S. University of Minnesota (2020)

M.S. University of Minnesota (2024)

senge050@umn.edu

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MS Students

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Srijan K. Pal 

Robotics

B.E. Jadavpur University, India (2022)

pal00036@umn.edu

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Nikil Krishnakumar

Robotics

B.Tech. Vellore Institute of Technology, India (2023) 

krish375@umn.edu

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Rammesh Adhav Saravanan

Robotics

B.Tech. Vellore Institute of Technology, India (2023)

tsarav060@umn.edu

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Shashank Sharma

Robotics

B.Tech. Vellore Institute of Technology, India (2019)

sharm964@umn.edu

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Yuhanqiao Guo

Mechanical Engineering

B.E. Inner Mongolia University of Technology (2024)

guo00624@umn.edu

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Sanskar Pathak

Mechanical Engineering

B.E. Birla Institute of Technology and Science Pilani, Hyderabad Campus (2023)

patha120@umn.edu

Alumni

Postdoc Researchers

Nathaniel Bristow (2021-2022), Principal Engineer, Astrin Biosciences. 

Yun Liu (2016-2017), Assistant Professor, Mechanical and Civil Engineering, Purdue University, Northwest. LinkedIn

Yue Wu (2017-2018), Associate Professor, Beijing Institute of Technology. LinkedIn

Biao Li (2017-2018), Assistant Professor, Harbin Institute of Technology.

Cheng Li (2018-2019), Assistant Professor, Guangdong Technion - Israel Institute of Technology. LinkedIn

Linyue Gao (2018-2020), Assistant Professor, California State University Sacramento. LinkedIn

PhD Students

Mostafa Toloui (2012-2016), Senior Research Scientist, Medtronic, Inc. LinkedIn http://z.umn.edu/mtoloui,

Ashish Karn (2012-2016), Associate Professor, India Institute of Technology, Roorkee. http://www.umn.edu/~karn

Teja Dasari (2014-2018), Wind Energy Research Engineer, Xcel Energy. LinkedIn http://z.umn.edu/teja

Kevin Mallery (2014-2020), Mechanical Engineer II, TSI. LinkedIn

Santosh Kumar Sankar (2014-2020), Product Engineer, KLA Corporation. LinkedIn

Siyao Shao (2015-2020), Entrepreneur In Residence at TandemLaunch Inc. LinkedIn

Aliza Abraham (2016-2021), Postdoctoral Researcher at Institut Recherche sur le Phénomènes Hors Equilibre. LinkedIn

MS Students

Sean Riley (2012-2014). LinkedIn

David Brajkovic (2013-2015), Manufacturing Engineer, SpaceX. LinkedIn

Kaeul (Kayley) Lim (2018-2020), Ph.D. student, Purdue University.

Joseph Haynes (2018-2020). LinkedIn

Leo Kyungduck Yoon (2018-2020), Ph.D. student, Georgia Institute of Technology. LinkedIn

Kenneth Lee (2020 - 2022)

 

Visiting Scholars

Yi An (Chinese Academy of Sciences), 2019-2020

Maximilian Trifonov (Friedrich-Alexander University), 2019-2020

Yunhua Jiang (Harbin Engineering University), 2016-2017

Renfang Huang (Tshinghua University), 2016-2017

Zhou Zhou (Ocean University of China), 2018-2020

Buyu Guo (Ocean University of China), 2019-2020

Shijie Qin (Zhejiang University), 2017-2018

Lei Cao (Tshinghua University),  2014-2015

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