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Director

Jaydev P. Desai

Professor

Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology
Director – RoboMed Laboratory

313 Ferst Drive, Suite 3112
Atlanta, GA 30332

Phone: 404-385-5381
Email: jaydev@gatech.edu

Curriculum Vitae


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

Ronghuai Qi

Ph.D. – Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering, University of Waterloo, Canada (August 2019)
R.A. – Mechanical and Automation Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong October 2012)
M.S. – Automation, University of Science and Technology of China, China (June 2009)
B.S. – Mechanical and Materials Engineering, Xi’an University of Architecture and Technology, China (July 2006)

Research Interests: Medical Robotics, Rehabilitation Robotics, Mechanism Design, Modeling, Optimization and Control, etc.

Contact: rqi30@gatech.edu


Graduate Students

Nancy Deaton 

Ph.D. – Robotics (in progress)
B.S. – Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology (May 2018)

Research Interests: Medical Robotics, Sensing Technologies, etc.

Contact: njdeaton@gatech.edu


Namrata Nayar

Ph.D. – Robotics (in progress)
M.S. – Mechanical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin (May 2019)
B.S. – Mechanical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Trichy, India (June 2017)

Research Interests: Medical Robotics, Mechanism Design and Control

Contact: namrata.nayar@gatech.edu


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


 Undergraduate Students

Jared Grinberg
B.S. – BME, B.S. – Mathematics
Spring 2022 – present
Contact: jgrinberg6@gatech.edu


Juan Martinez
B.S. – BME
Pre-med
Summer 2021 – present
Contact: jmartinez306@gatech.edu


Abigail Swiger
B.S. – BME
Pre-med
Spring 2022 – present
Contact: aswiger3@gatech.edu


Yuanning Liu
B.S. – ME, B.S. – CS
Robotics Minor
Spring 2022 – present
Contact: yliu3217@gatech.edu


Eric Hu
B.S. – BME
CS Minor in Computing and Intelligence
Fall 2021 – present
Contact: ehu39@gatech.edu


Priya Soneji
B.S. – ME
Robotics Minor
Fall 2022 – present
Contact: psoneji3@gatech.edu


Mesum Ali Zaidi
B.S. – ME, concentration in Automation and Robotics
CS Minor in Computing and Intellegence
Fall 2022 – present
Contact: mesum.zaidi@gatech.edu


Jacob Haygood
B.S. – CS
Fall 2022 – present
Contact: jhaygood7@gatech.edu


Prior Graduate Students, Post-Docs, Staff, and Visiting Faculty

Phillip Tran (Ph.D 2022) – Robotics Research Engineer at Aurora Flight Sciences

Kent Yamamoto (Tech Temp – Research Support: 2021-2022) – Ph.D Candidate at Duke University

Patrick Lis (M.S. 2021) – Validation Engineer at Barry-Wehmiller Design Group, NC, USA

Yash Chetan Chitalia (Ph.D. 2021) – Post-Doc at Harvard Medical School and Boston Children’s Hospital, MA, USA

Seokhwan Jeong (Post-Doc: 2018-2020) – Assistant Professor at Sogang University, South Korea

Florian Heemeyer (Visiting Researcher 2019-2020) – Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany

Anirudh Choudhary (M.S. 2019) – Ph.D Candidate at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA

Nahian Rahman (Post-Doc: 2017-2019) – Research Fellow 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.

Xuefeng Wang (Post-Doc: 2017 – 2018) – Assistant Professor at University of Alabama,  Tuscaloosa, AL, USA.

Chad Kessens (Ph.D. 2018) – U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD, USA.

Hardik J. Pandya (Post-Doc: 2012-Jan 2016) –  Assistant 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) – Assistant Professor at Incheon National University, Incheon, South Korea

Dennis Nesline (M.S. 2015) – Controls Engineer II, MilliporeSigma

Wenxue Zhao (M.S. 2015) – Engineer, Intuitive Surgical

Carolyn Adkins (M.S. 2014) – Naval Officer, USN.

Elif Ayvali (Ph.D. 2014) – Staff Research Scientist, Auris Health, Inc.

Uhn Joo Na (Visiting Faculty 2013-2014) – Associate Professor at Kyungnam University, Changwon, South Korea

Rajarshi Roy (Ph.D. 2013) – Postdoc at Vanderbilt University

Bo Yang (Ph.D. 2013) – Staff Systems Engineer (Robotics and Control), Auris Health, Inc

Mingyen Ho (Ph.D. 2013) – Systems Engineer, Auris Health, Inc.

Kevin Lister (Ph.D. 2012) – Corvid Technologies.

Zhan Gao (Post-Doc: 2007-2010)

U-Xuan Calvin Tan (Post-Doc: 2009-2011) – Assistant Professor at Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD), Singapore.

Anand Pillarisetti (Ph.D. 2008) – Staff Mechanical Engineer, Woodward, Inc.

Gregory Tholey (Ph.D. 2007) – Senior Mechanical Engineer, Kulicke & Soffa

Teeranoot Chanthasopeephan (Ph.D. 2006) – Assistant Professor, Deputy Director – Advanced Technology Center for Manufacturing Institute of FIeld roBOtics (FIBO), King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi, Thailand.

Tie Hu (Ph.D. 2006) – Olympus Surgical Technologies America.

Christopher Kennedy (Ph.D. 2004) – University of Pennsylvania Perelman Center for Advanced Medicine, Department of Radiation Oncology.


Prior Undergraduate Students

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)

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