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
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)
NSF Research Fellow
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)
