Director
Jaydev P. Desai 
Professor
Cardiovascular Biomedical Engineering Distinguished Chair
Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology
313 Ferst Drive, Suite 3112
Atlanta, GA 30332
Phone: 404-385-5381
Email: jaydev@gatech.edu
Staff
Drew Elliott
Research Technician II
B.S. – Aerospace Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology (2018)
Research Interests: Mechanical Design, Robotics, Medical Imaging, Controls
Contact: drew.elliott@gatech.edu
Lab Affiliates
Kinsey Herrin
Senior Research Scientist
Prosthetics Residency, University of Michigan, 2013
Orthotics Residency, Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, 2011
M.S. Prosthetics and Orthotics, Georgia Institute of Technology (2010)
B.S., Chemistry, University of Georgia (2008)
Research Interests: Wearable robotics, Rehabilitation, Disabilities, Clinical outcomes
Contact: kinsey.herrin@gatech.edu
Postdoctoral Fellow
Revanth Konda
Ph.D. – Mechanical Engineering, University of Nevada Reno (December 2023)
M.S – Mechanical Engineering, Northern Illinois University (December 2018)
B. Tech – Mechatronics, Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University (May 2016)
Research Interests: Soft Robotics, Surgical Robots, Robotic Design, Modeling and Control, etc.
Contact: rkonda30@gatech.edu
Ph.D. Students
Sharan Ravigopal
Ph.D. – Robotics (in progress)
M.S. – Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology (May 2020)
B. S. – Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology (December 2019)
Research Interests: Medical Robotics, Medical Imaging, Mechanism Design
Contact:sravigopal5@gatech.edu
Timothy Brumfiel 
Ph.D.- Robotics (in progress)
M.S. – Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology (May 2022)
B.S. – Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology (May 2020)
Research Interests: System Dynamics and Controls, Medical Robotics, Sensing Technologies
Contact: tbrumfiel4@gatech.edu
Nidhi Malhotra
Ph.D. – Robotics (in progress)
M.Tech. – Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Varanasi, India (May 2021)
B. Tech. – Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Varanasi, India (May 2021)
Research Interests: Medical Robotics, Sensing, Control
Contact:nmalhotra37@gatech.edu
C. Cloud Barre
Ph.D. – Robotics (in progress)
B.S. – Mechanical Engineering, Harvard College (May 2023)
Research Interests: Medical Robotics, Compliant Actuators, Mechanical System Modeling
Contact: cloud@gatech.edu
Amber Rothe
Ph.D. – Robotics (in progress)
B.S. – Biomedical Engineering, Milwaukee School of Engineering (May 2023)
B. S. – Computer Engineering, Milwaukee School of Engineering (May 2023)
Research Interests: Medical robotics, Modeling, Control
Contact: amber.rothe@gatech.edu
Masters Students
Arthas Yang
M.S. – Robotics (in progress)
B.S. – Mechanical Engineering, The Ohio State University (December 2023)
Research Interests: Medical robotics, Voice Recognition
Contact: arthasyang@gatech.edu
Undergraduate Students
Diya Sreejith Nair
B.S. – BME (in progress)
Robotics Minor
Fall 2024 – present
Contact: dnair37@gatech.edu
Prior Graduate Students, Post-Docs, Staff, and Visiting Faculty
Nancy Deaton (Ph.D 2024) – Assistant Professor at Duke University
Namrata Nayar (Ph.D 2024) – Post-Doctoral Fellow in Dupont Laboratory, Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, USA
Ronghuai Qi (Post-Doc: 2021-2023) – Assistant Professor at University of Nevada-Las Vegas
Phillip Tran (Ph.D 2023) – Post-Doctoral Fellow in Dupont Laboratory, Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, USA
Kent Yamamoto (Tech Temp – Research Support: 2021-2022) – Ph.D Student at Duke University
Patrick Lis (M.S. 2021) – Process Engineer at B. Braun Medical Inc., Irvine, California, USA
Yash Chetan Chitalia (Ph.D. 2021) – Assistant Professor at University of Louisville, USA
Seokhwan Jeong (Post-Doc: 2018-2020) – Assistant Professor at Sogang University, South Korea
Florian Heemeyer (Visiting Researcher 2019-2020) – Ph.D. Student at ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Anirudh Choudhary (M.S. 2019) – Ph.D Candidate at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA
Nahian Rahman (Post-Doc: 2017-2019) – Research Associate at Bristol Robotics Laboratory (BRL), UK
Jun Sheng (Ph.D. 2019) – Assistant Professor at University of California Riverside (UCR), CA, USA
Kihan Park (Ph.D. 2019) – Assistant Professor at University of Massachusetts Dartmouth (UMassD), MA, USA
Shing Shin Cheng (Ph.D. 2018) – Assistant Professor at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), Hong Kong, China.
Xuefeng Wang (Post-Doc: 2017 – 2018) – Assistant Professor at University of Alabama, AL, USA.
Chad Kessens (Ph.D. 2018) – Autonomous Robotics Researcher at U.S. Army DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory, WA, USA.
Hardik J. Pandya (Post-Doc: 2012-Jan 2016) – Associate Professor at Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, India. (Previously, he was a postdoctoral fellow at Brigham and Women’s Hospital – Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, MA, USA)
Yeongjin Kim (Post-Doc: 2013-2016) – Associate Professor at Incheon National University, Incheon, South Korea
Dennis Nesline (M.S. 2017) – Process Development Engineer III, Controls at Viant Medical, MA, USA
Wenxue Zhao (M.S. 2015) – Senior Application Architect at SenseTime, China
Carolyn Adkins (M.S. 2014) – Naval Officer, United States Navy
Elif Ayvali (Ph.D. 2014) – Staff Systems Engineer at Cruise, CA, USA
Uhn Joo Na (Visiting Faculty 2013-2014) – Associate Professor at Kyungnam University, Changwon, South Korea
Rajarshi Roy (Ph.D. 2013) – Research Scientist at Corvid Technologies, NC, USA
Bo Yang (Ph.D. 2013) – Software Engineer at Meta, CA, USA
Mingyen Ho (Ph.D. 2013) – Senior Staff Controlls and Robotics Engineer, Auris Health, Inc., CA, USA
Kevin Lister (Ph.D. 2012) – Corvid Technologies
Zhan Gao (Post-Doc: 2007-2010)
U-Xuan Calvin Tan (Post-Doc: 2009-2011) – Associate Professor, Chair (SUTC Institutional Review Board) at Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD), Singapore.
Anand Pillarisetti (Ph.D. 2008) – Project Engineer at Parker Aerospace, GA, USA
Gregory Tholey (Ph.D. 2007) – Senior Staff Mechanical Engineer at Kulicke & Soffa, PA, USA
Teeranoot Chanthasopeephan (Ph.D. 2006) – Associate Professor at King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi, Thailand.
Tie Hu (Ph.D. 2006) – Senior Robotics Engineer at Hyperfine Research, Inc., CT, USA
Christopher Kennedy (Ph.D. 2004) – Adjunct Assistant Professor of Radiation Oncology at University of Pennsylvania Perelman Center for Advanced Medicine, PA, USA
Prior Undergraduate Students
Paula Gil Corredor
Aditya Dalal
Mirna Jaber
Sophia Kyriacou
Jared Grinberg
Mariam Misabishvili
Juan Martinez
Abigail Swiger
Yuanning Liu
Eric Hu
Mesum Ali Zaidi
Jacob Haygood
Lauren Henley
Asees Singh
Netra Gandhi
Maxina Sheft
Grace Trimpe
Nikhil Chittaluru
Golda Gershanok
Nicolas Castro
Lichao Tang
Fanzh Lyu
Alec Mills
Lexi Bohm
Yujin Choi
Hannah Paterson
Hanhao Zhang
Shlok Natarajan
Ahmed Siddiqui
Chungho Patrick Woo
Jin Alice Bok
Gabrielle E. Lonsberry
Jack Corelli
Danielle Khoo (Fall 2013)
Zack Brandes (2013-2014)
Ankita Verma (2017-2019)
