Postdoctoral Fellows
- Dr. Oluwaseun Araromi (now Research Scientist at Boston Dynamics AI Institute)
- Dr. Daekyum Kim (now Assistant Professor at Korea University)
- Dr. Lucas Gerez (now Product Development Engineer at Fisher & Paykel Healthcare)
- Dr. Richard Nuckols (now Assistant Professor at University of Waterloo)
- Dr. Ben Shih
- Dr. Hee Doo Yang
- Dr. Franchino Porciuncula
- Dr. Tommaso Proietti – (now Assistant Professor at Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna University, Pisa, Italy)
- Dr. Cameron Hohimer – (now Hardware Development Engineer - Robotics, Amazon, Seattle, WA)
- Dr. Tunc Akbas – (now Senior Software Engineering at Intel Corporation, Austin, Texas)
- Dr. Megan Applegate – (now Clinical Research Scientist at Respiratory Motion, Inc., Watertown, MA)
- Dr. Diogo Schwerz de Lucena – (now Data Scientist at AE Studio/Brazil)
- Dr. Sung woo Park – (now Research Scientist, Hyundai Motor Group, Seoul, South Korea)
- Dr. Chris Payne – (now Lead Hardware Engineer at Viam, New York)
- Dr. Jessica Hunter – (now Owner FocusFit Personal Training)
- Dr. Kahye Song (now researcher at Korea Institute of Science and Technology, Korea)
- Dr. Hongqiang Wang (now Assistant Professor, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China)
- Dr. Lizeth Slot (now Junior Research Group Leader, Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany)
- Dr. Puneet Singh (...)
- Dr. Juha-Pekka Kulmal (now Clinical Biomechanist and Researcher, Finland)
- Dr. Myunghee Kim (now Assistant Prof. at University of Illinois Chicago)
- Dr. Giuk Lee (now Assistant Prof. at Chung-Ang University, Korea)
- Dr. Philippe Malcolm (now Assistant Prof. at University of Nebraska, Omaha)
- Dr. Louis Awad (now Assistant Prof. at Boston University and Associate Faculty Member at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering)
- Dr. Panagiotis Polygerinos (now Assistant Prof. at Arizona State University)
- Dr. Alan Asbeck (now Assistant Prof. at Virginia Tech)
- Dr. Sam Song (now Associate Prof. at the University of Central Florida)
- Dr. Zheng Wang (now Assistant Prof. at the University of Hong Kong)
- Dr. Yigit Menguc (now Assistant Prof. at Oregon State University) – co-advised with Rob Wood
- Dr. Tommaso Ranzani (now Assistant Prof. at BU) – co-advised with Rob Wood
- Dr. Sheila Russo (now Assistant Prof. at BU) – co-advised with Rob Wood
- Dr. Siddharth Sanan (now co-founder of robotics start-up)
- Dr. Ali Alazmani (now Research Scientist, University of Leeds) – co-advised with Dr. Frank Pigula, Children’s Hospital
- Dr. Patrick Aubin (now PI at Veteran’s Administration and Adjunct Faculty at the University of Washington)
- Dr. Babak Hejrati (now Assistant Prof. in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Maine)
- Dr. Hao Su (now Assistant Prof. at CUNY, NY)
- Dr. Ozgur Atalay (now Faculty member, Istanbul Technical University)
- Dr. Asli Atalay (now Faculty member, Istanbul Technical University)
- Dr. Sam Kesner (now Director of Research & Advanced Development at Myomo)
- Dr. Ernesto Martinez-Villalpando (now at Kopin Corporation) – co-advised with Radhika Nagpal
- Dr. Fausto Panizzolo
- Dr. Ignacio Galiana (now Staff Robotics Engineer at Wyss Institute)
- Dr. Stefano De Rossi (former Staff Robotics Engineer at Wyss Institute)
- Dr. Andrew Long (now working in industry in data science)
- Dr. Leonardo Cappello (now postdoc at SSSA, Italy)
Graduate Students
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Dr. Jinwon Chung (now Advanced Control Systems Lead at Verve Motion)
- Thesis: Lightweight, Non-Restrictive, and Adaptive Back Exosuit for Use in Dynamic Lifting Environments
- Haedo Cho, MS (now advised by Professor Slade)
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Dr. Jinsoo Kim (now a postdoc at Stanford University)
- Thesis: Soft Hip Exosuit Optimization for Improving Mobility in Healthy Young Adults and Individuals with Parkinson’s Disease
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Dr. Ciaran O’Neill (now a postodoc at MIT)
- Thesis: Textile-based Soft Wearable Robots for Upper-Limb Rehabilitation and Assistance
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Dr. Evelyn Park
- Thesis: Design of Wearable Robots for the Hip and Knee for Gait Assistance with Selective Mechanical Transparency
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Dr. Sangjun Lee (working as an Applied Biomechanics Researcher at Apple)
- Thesis: Soft Exosuits for Improved Walking Efficiency and Community Based Post-Stroke Gait Rehabilitation
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Dr. Brendan Quinlivan (working as a Technical Product Manager at Verve Motion)
- Thesis: Soft Exosuits for Improved Walking Efficiency and Community Based Post-Stroke Gait Rehabilitation
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Dr. Jaehyun Bae (now at Apple)
- Thesis: Soft Exosuit for Paretic Ankle Assistance in Post-Stroke Gait Rehabilitation
- Taira Miyatake, MS (working in software industry in Japan)
- Martina Moyne (now Senior Human Factors Engineer/part time Lecturer Dublin, Ireland)
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Dr. Ellen Roche (starting in 2017 at MIT as Assistant Professor in Mechanical Engineering/IMES), co-advised with David Mooney at Harvard SEAS
- Thesis: A Multi-faceted Approach to Cardiac Repair
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Dr. Donal Holland (now Assistant Professor at University College Dublin, Ireland), co-advised with Gareth Bennett at Trinity College Dublin
- Thesis: Process, Precedent, and Community: New Learning Environments for Engineering Design
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Dr. Fionnuala Connolly (now at Medtronic) co-advised with Katia Bertoldi
- Thesis: Mathematical Models for Guiding Pneumatic Soft Actuator Design
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Dr. Ye Ding
- Thesis: Control and Optimization of Soft Exosuit to Improve the Efficiency of Human Walking
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Dr. Joshua Gafford (now postdoc at Vanderbilt University) co-advised with Rob Wood
- Thesis: Modular Robotic Systems for Interventional Endoscopy
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Faye Wu, MS (graduated with a PhD from MIT), co-advised with Dan Frey at MIT
- MS Thesis: Multi-probe robotic positioner for cryoablation in MRI
Research Staff
- Max Herman (now at Capital One)
- Kinjal Shah (now at Aperçu Diagnostics)
- Kristin Nuckols (now at Imago Rehab)
- Francesco Bertacchi (now at WurQ)
- Dr. Dmitry Popov (now at WurQ)
- Tazzy Cole (...)
- Dorothy Orzel
- Dheepak Arumukhom Revi (PhD Student at BU)
- Diana Wagner (now at 99Degrees)
- Nathalie Farster-Degenhardt (now at Verve Motion)
- Mike Rouleau (now at Verve Motion)
- Patrick Murphy (now at Verve Motion)
- Chrissy Glover (now at Imago Rehab)
- Brice Iwangou (now at Verve Motion)
- Nicolas Menard (now at Viam)
- Lexine Schumm (now at Verve Motion)
- Dr. Ignacio Galiana (now at Verve Motion)
- Asa Eckert Erdheim (now at FormLabs)
- Jonathan Foster (...)
- Sapna Shah (...)
- Alex Beaudette (...)
- Ryan Gulland (...)
- Brittany Cohen (...)
- Will Moyo (Bioengineer, Zimbabwe)
- Jed Crystal (Crystal Design Studio)
- Danielle Ryan (Freelance Designer, Chicago)
- Nathan Phipps (Design Consultant, Bingo Designs)
- Ankur Goel (Co-Founder, Stealth Startup, India)
- Sara Berndt (User Experience Designer at SOLIDWORKS, Boston)
- Katarzyna Matlak (Behavioral Designer at McKinsey & Company, Prague, Czechia)
- Philipp Arens (now PhD student at Harvard SEAS)
- Haedo Cho (now PhD student at Harvard SEAS)
- Dr. Nikolaos Karavas (now at Clear Motion)
- Megan Clarke (now PhD student at University of Minnesota)
- Lauren Baker (now PhD student at Harvard SEAS)
- Taylor Greenberg (now MS student at Harvard GSD)
- Kathleen O'Donnell (now at ReWalk Robotics)
- Dabin Choe (now PhD student at Harvard SEAS)
- Chih-Kang Chang (now PhD student at Harvard SEAS)
- Roman Heimgartner (now part of start-up)
- David Van Story (now PhD student at NUIG)
- Maria Athanassiu (now systems engineer at QinetiQ)
- Christine Bibeau (now clinical physical therapist)
- Pawel Kudzia (now PhD student at Simon Fraser University)
- Vanessa Sanchez (now PhD student at Harvard SEAS)
- Yu Meng (Kate) Zhou (now PhD student at Harvard SEAS)
- Jeffrey Peisner (now engineer at Myomo)
- Colette Abah (now PhD student at Vanderbilt University)
- Rachael Granberry (now PhD student at University of Minnesota)
- Chris Siviy (now PhD student at Harvard SEAS)
- Christopher Willis (now engineer at Form Labs)
- Tiffany Wong (now apparel consultant)
- Dr. Kevin Galloway (now Assistant Research Professor at Vanderbilt University)
- Erica Zurawski (now physical therapy student at University of Toronto)
- Jozefien Speeckaert (now PhD student at University of Ghent in Belgium)
- Markus Horvath (now PhD student at MIT)
- Stephen Allen (now PhD student at University of Colorado Boulder)
- Gabe Greeley (now an engineer at Cooper Perkins)
- William Whyte (now PhD student at RCSI/TCD/Harvard, Dublin, Ireland)
- David Dugas (now Electrical Engineering at Octillion Power Systems)
- Fabricio Saucedo (now PhD student at University of Texas, El Paso)
- Shane Stilson (now Senior Principal Systems Engineer Raytheon Missile Systems)
- Gideon Coltof (now co-founder of GeoOrbital)
- Robert Dyer (now Director of Engineering at Portal Instruments)
- Dr. Sam Kesner (now Director of Research & Advanced Development at Myomo)
- Arnar Larusson (now co-founder at Tyme Wear)
- Adam Couture
- Dr. Stefano De Rossi (now CEO, Founder, Leaning Technologies Ltd.)
- Kai Schmidt (now PhD student at ETH Zurich)
- Meysam Torabi (now Senior Robotics Engineer at Think Intuitive Surgical)
Visiting Faculty
- Alexandre Brincalepe Campo (Instituto Federal de Educação de São Paulo, Brazil)
- Denise McGrath (Lecturer, UCD, Ireland)
Visiting Graduate Students
- Alice Patin (EPFL)
- Carolin Lehmacher (Technical University of Munich)
- Jacob Euler-Rolle (ETH Zürich)
- Ignacio Novillo (University of Twente)
- Dennis Friedrich (Technische Universität München)
- Gregoire Bergamo (EPFL)
- Kei Viviane Beck (EPFL)
- Christian Huang (EPFL)
- an Peters (Leibniz University Hannover)
- Julien Erard (EPFL - now at Abbott)
- Christian Mitsch (EPFL - now at Spotify)
- Eva Debette (EPFL)
- Vinicius Cene (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul)
- Lou-Ana Deprey (EPFL)
- Camille Blondin (EPFL)
- Blandine Clement (EPFL)
- Carolina Correia (University of Twente)
- Tim Moser (TU Munich)
- Janet Zhang (Hong Kong Polytechnic University)
- William Whyte (RCSI/TCD, Dublin, Ireland)
- Jan Meyer (ETH, Switzerland)
- Sven Engelhardt (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)
- Florian Haufe (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
- Denise Martineli Rossi (Department of Biomechanics, Medicine and Rehabilitation of Locomotive Apparatus, University of São Paulo, USP, Brazil)
- Thomas Thalhofer (TU Munich, Germany)
- Martin Grimmer (Technische Universitat Darmstadt, Germany)
- Simona Crea (Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa, Italy)
- Cliff Bargar (Stanford University)
- Michael Baumann (TU Munich, Germany)
- Arne Menz (TU Munich, Germany)
- Luis Nicolini Fernando (Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Brazil)
- Andreas Frutiger (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
- Conn Hastings (Royal College of Surgeons, Ireland)
- Markus Horvath (TU Munich, Germany)
- Hugh O’Neill (Royal College of Surgeons, Ireland)
- Stefano De Rossi (Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, Italy)
- Kai Schmidt (TU Berlin, Germany)
- Lucia Schuster (TU Munich, Germany)
- Diana Wagner (Rhode Island School of Design)
- Robert Wohlfarth (TU Munich, Germany)
- Thiago Ribeiro Teles dos Santos (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil)
- Vanessa Lara de Araujo (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil)
- Johann Bernhardt (University of Applied Sciences Technikum, Vienna, Austria)
Undergraduate Students
- Lana Wagner
- Megan Coram
- Ruben Fonseca
- Truman Jones
- Aidan Kimberley
- Ludovico Rollo
- Fouzia Raza
- Jessica Devilla
- Kasey Hu
- Cameron Maltman
- Joseph Sanchez
- Dylan Li
- Rainy Michelsen
- Charlie Colt-Simmons
- Harrison Young
- Julia Davis
- Adham Meguid
- Kyle Yoshida
- Jan Bruedigam (TU Munich, Germany)
- Anthony Bogachev
- Keegan Mendez
- Eric Rodrigo
- Krithika Swaminathan (MIT)
- Sohaila Aboutaleb (University of Cairo)
- Toni Divic
- Christopher Schenck (Georgia Tech)
- Shaan Erickson
- Rami Hamzey (Boston University)
- Marielena Velasco (Universidad de Ingeniería y Tecnología, Peru)
- Dallas Schray
- Patrick Slade (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
- Gregory Stankiewicz (RPI)
- Kerrie Wu (MIT)
- Maya Cole (Hampton University)
- Ciera Bryan (University of South Florida)
- Karin Santos (Universidade Federal do ABC, Brazil)
- Wanderley Rodrigues (Federal University of Goias, Brazil)
- Rafaela Sampaio (Technological Education Federal Center Celso Suckow da Fonseca, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
- Marco Grinet (Johns Hopkins University)
- Joshua Pachter (University of Rochester)
- Katerina Soltero (University of Texas, El Paso)
- Jillian Lee – now a PhD student an Yale in mechanical engineering
- Omar Hoblos (Wentworth)
- Ting-Ting Liu
- Emily Rogers
- Stephanie Warner
- Emily Savage
- Demetrio Anaya
- Tonatiuh Liévano Beltrán
- Emily Marie Boggs
- Johnathan Budd
- Gary Carlson
- Ishan Chatterjee
- Andrés de la Llera Kurth
- Ali Forelli
- Brandon Gerberich
- Alex Golden (U Vermont)
- Andreas Haggerty
- Andrew Harris
- Heather Hawkes
- Juan Hernandez-Campos
- Ola Kalinowska (MIT)
- Erik Kraus
- Mat Kulesza
- Daniel Leichus
- Anisa Li
- Stacey Lyne
- Mikhaila Marecki
- Fergal McGovern (University College Dublin)
- Nikhil Mehandru
- John Miller (NC State)
- Steven Obiajulu (MIT)
- Brendan Quinlivan (Olin College)
- Luke Salisbury
- Jessica Wu
- Matthew Yarri
- Rashid Yasin
- Sloan Zimmerman
High School Students
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Ethan Liss-Roy
- Tynan Seltzer
- Andrew Meersand
- Simone Braunstein