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Current Members

Former Members

PhD & Postdoctoral

Hans Riess

Postdoctoral Researcher, Now: Research Scientist, ECE, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Kavin Sivakumar

Ph.D. in Electrical & Computer Engineering, Now: ML Research Engineer, Garden

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Yan Zhang
Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science, Now: Research Scientist, Amazon Inc.

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Panagiotis Vlantis
Postdoctoral Researcher

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Luke Calkins
Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science, Now: Senior Controls Engineer, ASML

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Xusheng Luo
Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science, Now: Postdoctoral Fellow, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University

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Reza Khodayi-mehr
Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science, Now: Computer Vision Software Engineer, Intuitive

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Davood Hajinezhad
Postdoctoral Researcher, Now: Principal Data Scientist, Fidelity Investments

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Yiannis Kantaros
Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science, Now: Assistant Professor, ECE, Washington University, St. Louis

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Meng Guo
Postdoctoral Researcher, Now: Assistant Professor, College of Engineering, Peking University, China

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Wann-Jiun Ma
Postdoctoral Researcher, Now: Director of Data Science, Saks

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Soomin Lee
Postdoctoral Researcher, Now: Senior Applied Scientist, Amazon Inc.

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Charles Freundlich
Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science, Now: Senior Manager, Engineering Automation Software, Tesla Motors

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Nikolaos Chatzipanagiotis
Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science, Now: Senior Research Scientist, Amazon Inc.

Masters

Dillon Sandhu
M.Sc. in Computer Science, Next position: Ph.D. student at Duke University

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Jim Turner
M.Sc. in Computer Science

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Yijie (Jayson) Zhou
M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science

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Shiqi Sun
M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science

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Chenyu Liu
M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science

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Mu Jia
M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science, Next position: Ph.D. student at UC Irvine

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Dongyao Lei
M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science

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Haozhe Wang
M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science

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Ryan Connolly
M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science

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Yuankai Zhu
M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science

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Yihui Feng
M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science

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Fangyan Shen
M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science

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Litao Qiu
M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science

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Qitong Gao
M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science, Next position: Ph.D. student at Duke University

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Zhaoyun Xiong
M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science

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Nithesh Reddy Nelvoy
M.Sc. in Electrical & Computer Engineering

Undergraduate

Lukas Dannull

CS Undergraduate student

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Yanpeng Yuan
CS Undergraduate student

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Kenneth Marenco
ME Undergraduate student


Himanshu Jain
ECE Undergraduate student


Achilles Dabrowski 
ECE Undergraduate student

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Savini Prematilleke

ME Undergraduate student


Reed Cone Le Beaumont

ME Undergraduate student


David Laub

ME Undergraduate student, Next position: Software engineer at Amazon Robotics


Cole Garda

ME Undergraduate student (Pratt Fellow)


Nikhil Vanderklaauw

ME Undergraduate student


Jihane Bettahi

ECE Undergraduate student (Pratt Fellow), Next position: Software engineer at Microsoft


Thomas Monson

ME Undergraduate student


Chanwook Oh

ECE Undergraduate student (Pratt Fellow), Next position: Ph.D. student at the University of Southern California


Yang Liu

ME Undergraduate student (Pratt Fellow)


Visrut Sudhakar

CS Undergraduate student, UNC Chapel Hill, Next position: Software engineer at Apple


Addison Howenstine

ECE Undergraduate student


Parker Hao

ECE Undergraduate student


Qian Wang

ECE Undergraduate student


Alexander Ching

ME Undergraduate student


Tayyab Wasim

ECE Undergraduate student (Pratt Fellow)


Tosin Omofoye

ME Undergraduate student (Pratt Fellow)


Negatu Asmamau

ECE Undergraduate student (Pratt Fellow)


Kevin Nikolaus

ME Undergraduate student (Pratt Fellow)


Nicholas Albertson

ME Undergraduate student, Next position: M.Sc. student at Virginia Tech


Alex Zhu

ECE Undergraduate student (Pratt Fellow), Next position: Ph.D. student at the University of Pennsylvania


Challen Herzberg-Brovold

ME Undergraduate student (Pratt Fellow)


Davis Bolster

ME Undergraduate student, Next position: Structural analysis engineer at Boeing

Contact
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Duke University

Department of Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science

Hudson Hall, Box 90300
Durham, NC 27708, USA

michael.zavlanos AT duke DOT edu

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