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Lab Members

Principal Investigator

Dr. Aaron Young

Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering

Research Faculty

Kinsey Herrin

Senior Research Scientist

Taryn Harvey

Research Engineer

Dr. Keya Ghonasgi

Postdoctoral Fellow

Doctoral Students

Jennifer Leestma

Robotics
Co-advised by Sawicki
NSF GRFP Fellow
NSF ARMS Fellow

Keaton Scherpereel

Robotics
Co-advised by Inan
NSF GRFP Fellow
NSF ARMS Fellow

Jairo Maldonado

Robotics
Ford Foundation Fellow
NSF ARMS Fellow

Christoph Nuesslein

Robotics
NDSEG Fellow

Dongho Park

Robotics

Carlos Carrasquillo

Robotics
Co-advised by Mazumdar
NDSEG Fellow
UCEM Fellow

Sixu (Jason) Zhou

Mechanical Engineering

Ethan Schonhaut

Mechanical Engineering
X Scholar
UCEM Fellow

Hanjun Kim

Mechanical Engineering

Ryan Casey

Robotics
Co-advised by Mazumdar

Sidd Nathella

Mechanical Engineering
Co-advised by Ting
GTME Interdisciplinary Research Fellowship

Yash Mhaskar

Robotics

Kyle Kaveny

Mechanical Engineering

MASTERS Students

Justine Powell

Robotics
GEM Fellow
UCEM Fellow

Research Teams

We conduct research in our lab with the help of fantastic research teams made up of non-thesis Master’s and undergraduate students that work with our graduate students.  All students below participate in our lab through the Georgia Tech VIP Program unless otherwise noted (MS: non-thesis Master’s, other fellowships).  For more information about how to get involved with our research group, check out our Joining the Lab page.

Human Balance Augmentation

Mentor: Jenny Leestma

Snehil Mathur (PURA)
Vibha Iyer
Alixandra Rubin
Aryan Tadwalkar
Ryan Emadi (also on AIHA)

Knee Exoskeleton

Mentors: Sidd Nathella

Farinaz Zahiri
Brett August Menard
Emily Rice
Arina Kucinskaja
Dennis Green

Activity-Invariant Human Augmentation

Mentors: Ethan Schonhaut, Keaton Scherpereel

Aya Samadi
Abhiram Ghanta
Erin Kelly
Ella Lawrence
Ryan Emadi (also on HBA)

Prosthesis

Mentors: Jairo Maldonado, Christoph Nuesslein, Jason Zhou, Hanjun Kim

Rosario Reyes
Jason Miller
Gwyneth O’Sullivan
Andrew Chen
Elliot Huang (PURA)
Ayush Baweja
Cole Johnson (PURA)
Olivia Starkey
Hetaben Sutaria
Jeongwoo Cho (MS)
Ian Knight
Aadi Vadhavkar
Nakailey Jackson
Aparna Jagannathan
Aarnav Sawant
Joseph Walter
Sanjana Menon
Savannah Patenaude

Generalized Robotic Assistance for Handling And Manipulation (GRAHAM)​

Mentors: Christoph Nuesslein, Ryan Casey

Devasena Sitaram
Kenneth Donahue
Colton Sui Chiu Yee
Joophil Jeong
Sarasit Sirawattanakul
Shreya Terala
Amanda Dias
Guatam Ramesh (MS)
Pranav Sharma (MS)

Hip Exoskeleton

Mentors: Dongho Park, Yash Mhaskar

Jimin An
Sunho Park
Melodie Walla
Ethan Torone
Michael Rodyushkin
Bryan Lugo-Capula
Kaushal Labba
Elizabeth Chu
Aleksandar Boskovic
Yi Jiang
Samar Vora
Audrey Ball

Lab Alumni

Lab Member Degree Year Where They Went Next
Ben Shafer
Ph.D. Robotics
2023
ESTAT Actuation (Entrepreneurial Post-Doctorate Researcher)
Kendra Dawson
M.S. Biomedical Engineering
2023
Aakash Bajpai
Ph.D. Robotics
2023
Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab (Senior Professional Staff)
Dean Molinaro
Ph.D. Robotics
2023
Boston Dynamics AI Institute (Applied Scientist)
Sujay Kestur
M.S. Bioengineering
2023
Walter Reed National Military Medical Center (Biomedical Engineer in EACE)
Dawit Lee
Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering
2023
Stanford University (Postdoctoral Fellow in Bioengineering)
Ian Cullen
M.S. Mechanical Engineering (Thesis)
2022
Ossur (Mechanical Engineer)
Reese Peterson
M.S. Mechanical Engineering (Thesis)
2022
IHMC Robotics (Exoskeleton Controls Developer)
Emily Upton
M.S. Bioengineering (Thesis)
2022
Dynocardia (Algorithm Development Engineer)
Postdoctoral Fellowship
2021
Northeastern University (Assistant Professor)
Amy Pan
Postdoctoral Fellowship
2021
OMRON Robotics (Robotics & Control Systems Engineer)
Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering
2021
GameChanger Analytics (Algorithm Development Engineer)
Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering
2021
MIT (Postdoctoral Fellow in Brain & Cognitive Sciences)
Ph.D. Robotics
2021
Facebook Reality Labs (Visiting Research Scientist)
Pooja Moolchandani
M.S. Mechanical Engineering (Thesis)
2021
KPMG (Data, Analytics, and AI Consultant)
Jared Li
M.S. Mechanical Engineering (Thesis)
2020
IHMC Robotics (Mechanical Engineer)
Pratik Kunapuli
M.S. Electrical & Computer Engineering (Thesis)
2020
University of Pennsylvania (CIS Ph.D. Student in GRASP Lab)
Jeff (Hsiang) Hsu
M.S. Mechanical Engineering (Thesis)
2019
May Mobility (Embedded Engineer)
Trent Rankin
M.S. Electrical & Computer Engineering
2019
Apple (Software Engineer)

Research Collaborators

At Georgia Tech

Name Affiliation
Greg Sawicki
Mechanical Engineering and Biological Sciences
Ani Mazumdar
Mechanical Engineering
Frank Hammond
Mechanical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering
Jun Ueda
Mechanical Engineering
Omer Inan
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Michael Mayo
Georgia Tech Research Institute
Court Bevins
Georgia Tech Research Institute
Hong Yeo
Mechanical Engineering
Matthew Gombolay
Interactive Computing
Ye Zhao
Mechanical Engineering

Outside of Georgia Tech

Name Affiliation
Aaron Ames
California Institute of Technology
Elliott Rouse
University of Michigan
Xiangrong Shen
University of Alabama
Nick Fey
University of Texas - Austin
Eric Ambrose
California Institute of Technology
Rachel Gehlhar
California Institute of Technology

Clinical Collaborators

Name Affiliation
Geza Kogler, MSPO
Kennesaw State University
Lee Childers, PhD, CP, CO, CFI
Center for the Intrepid, Brooke Army Medical Center
Benjamin Rogozinski, DPT
Emory University
Erin Eggebrecht, DPT
Children's Healthcare of Atlanta
Kelly Moore, DPT
Children's Healthcare of Atlanta
David Westburry, MD
Shriners Hospital for Children
Trisha Kesar, PT, PhD
Emory University