# Lab Alumni **Postdoctoral Fellows** - Dr. Chih-Kang Chang (now at Skip) - Dr. Digby Chappell (now Associate Professor at Oxford University) - Dr. Prabhat Pathak (now Assistant Professor at Seoul National University of Science and Technology) - Dr. Christina Lee (now at Exponent) - Dr. Connor McCann (now Assistant Professor at Worcester Polytechnic Institute) - Dr. Yichu Jin (now at Meta Reality Labs) - Dr. Jonathan Alvarez (now at SandboxAQ) - Dr. Nicholas Bira (now at Fleet Robotics) - 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** - Dr. Yichu Jin - Thesis: Tracking Joint Kinematics and Muscle Kinetics with Multimodal Wearable Sensors - Dr. Yu Meng (Kate) Zhou - Thesis: Assisting and evaluating upper extremity movements with wearable systems - Dr. Jonathan Alvarez - Thesis: Multi-Modal Deformation Sensing for Evaluating Muscle Function - Dr. Krithika Swaminathan - Thesis: Experimental and Analytical Methods for Understanding User Gait Biomechanics in Response to Soft Ankle Exosuits  - 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) - 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 - Dr. Ciaran O’Neill (now a postodoc at MIT) - Thesis: Textile-based Soft Wearable Robots for Upper-Limb Rehabilitation and Assistance - Dr. Evelyn Park - Thesis: Design of Wearable Robots for the Hip and Knee for Gait Assistance with Selective Mechanical Transparency - 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 - 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 - 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) - 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* - 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* - Dr. Fionnuala Connolly (now at Medtronic) co-advised with Katia Bertoldi - *Thesis: Mathematical Models for Guiding Pneumatic Soft Actuator Design* - Dr. Ye Ding - *Thesis: Control and Optimization of Soft Exosuit to Improve the Efficiency of Human Walking* - Dr. Joshua Gafford (now postdoc at Vanderbilt University) co-advised with Rob Wood - *Thesis: Modular Robotic Systems for Interventional Endoscopy* - 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** - Jesse Grupper - Emilia Mann (now PhD student at Rice University) - Marija Bakoc - John Paul Bonadonna - Mark Etzelmueller - Jason Cherin - 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** - Farasoa Deborah Rajaona (EPFL) - Pierre Gaultier (ETH Zürich) - Flore Barde (EPFL) - 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** - Ethan Liss-Roy - Tynan Seltzer - Andrew Meersand - Simone Braunstein