William Yang has successfully defended his doctoral dissertation, “Controlling Contact Transitions for Dynamic Robots,” under the guidance of Michael Posa, Assistant Professor in Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics. […]
Tom Celenza Successfully Defends Doctoral Dissertation
Tom Celenza has successfully defended his doctoral dissertation, “Enhancing Photophoretic Levitation using Three-dimensional Structures for Flight in the Mesosphere and on Mars,” under the guidance of Igor Bargatin, […]
Capaldi Receives Spring 2024 Outstanding TA Award
Luc Capaldi, a PhD student in the Tertuliano Lab, has received the “Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award in Mechanical Engineering” for the Spring 2024 semester. Capaldi was honored for […]
Xueyang Qi Defends Master’s Thesis on the Dynamic Origami Quadruped Robot
Master’s students have the option to write and defend a thesis at the end of their two-year program. Xueyang Qi, a 2024 graduate with a double major in […]
Beyond the Grasp: Innovative Robotics Research Wins Outstanding Student Paper Award
Will Yang, a fifth year doctoral candidate, has been recognized for his work in dynamic motion robotics at the recent Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS) Conference which took […]
Pushing the Limits of Scientific Discovery with Machine Learning
What if scientists and policy-makers could automate and optimize the filtering of the massive amount of data available across each system they interact with to pull out information […]
Walker Gosrich Successfully Defends Doctoral Dissertation
Walker Gosrich has successfully defended his doctoral dissertation, titled “Multi-Robot Coordination and Cooperation via Graph-Based Computation,” while under the advisory of Mark Yim, Asa Whitney Professor of Mechanical […]
MEAM MSE Students Compete at ICRA 2024
MEAM MSE students independently competed at IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2024 in Japan. The team, comprised of four students from the class of 2025 […]
PhD Candidate Awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
Daelan Roosa, a rising third-year PhD candidate, has been awarded the National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship for his work in soft robotics and material science. Roosa, […]
Ryan Black Successfully Defends Dissertation
Ryan Black has successfully defended his doctoral dissertation titled “Computational Fluid-Structure Interaction Modeling of the Cardiovascular System” under the mentorship of Assistant Professor George I. Park. His research aims […]