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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

Dawit Lee

Research Scientist

Doctoral Students

Ben Shafer

Robotics
Co-advised by Sawicki
NSF ARMS Fellow

Aakash Bajpai

Robotics
Co-advised by Mazumdar
NDSEG Fellow
NSF ARMS Fellow

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

Justine Powell

Robotics
GEM Fellow
UCEM Fellow

Christoph Nuesslein

Robotics
NDSEG Fellow

Dongho Park

Robotics

Carlos Carrasquillo

Robotics
Co-advised by Mazumdar
NDSEG Fellow

Sixu (Jason) Zhou

Mechanical Engineering

Ethan Schonhaut

Mechanical Engineering
X Scholar

Hanjun Kim

Mechanical Engineering

Ryan Casey

Robotics
Co-advised by Mazumdar

Sidd Nathella

Mechanical Engineering
Co-advised by Ting
GTME Interdisciplinary Research Fellowship

Master's Thesis Students

Sujay Kestur

Bioengineering

Kendra Dawson

Biomedical Engineering

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

Christopher Meier (PURA)
Haritaa Mourougassamy
Snehil Mathur
Vibha Iyer
Alixandra Rubin
Aryan Tadwalkar

Rapid Operator Awareness via Mobile Robotics (ROAMR)

Mentors: Carlos Carrasquillo, Aakash Bajpai

Fardeen Khimani
Eddy Wang
Christopher Semali

Knee Exoskeleton

Mentors: Dawit Lee, Sidd Nathella, Kendra Dawson

Mari Cagle Lockhart
Sanghyub Lee
Ophelia Winslett
Maya Sethuraman
Alexandra Mitchell
Luan Le (PURA)
Tara Kimiavi (B.S. thesis)

Activity-Invariant Human Augmentation

Mentors: Keaton Scherpereel, Ethan Schonhaut

Aya Samadi
Richard Weng
Abhiram Ghantta

Multi-Objective Optimization of Torque Assistance

Mentor: Ben Shafer

Caroline Adkins
Richard So
Kaitlyn Tung
Ariel Sauer
Kylie Liu
Ryan Brown
Kiandra Peart
Po Chuan (MS)

Generalized Robotic Assistance for Handling And Manipulation (GRAHAM)​

Mentors: Christoph Nuesslein, Ryan Casey

Kenneth Donahue
Devasena Sitaram
Shreya Terala
Sarasit Sirawattanakul
Amanda Candido Braz Dias
Sathvik Vangavolu
Alex Mitchell (MS)
Gautam Ramesh (MS)
Pranav Sharma (MS)

Hip Exoskeleton

Mentors: Dongho Park, Dean Molinaro, Justine Powell

Rommel Montayre
Ethan Torone
Ryan Ha
Risako Nonaka
Michael Rodyushkin
Varun Mehotra
Jimin An
Kaushal Labba
Ryan Emadi (PURA)
Audrey Ball

Prosthesis

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

Ian Knight
Savannah Patenaude
Rosario Reyes
Andrew Chen
Jason Miller
Donggeon Kim
Saketh Chaluvadi
Cole Johnson
Jeongwoo Cho (MS)

Lab Alumni

Lab Member Degree Year Where They Went Next
Dean Molinaro
Ph.D. Robotics
2023
Boston Dynamics AI Institute (Applied Scientist)
Sujay Kestur
M.S. Bioengineering
2023
Dawit Lee
Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering
2023
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