Lab Members

The Harvard Biodesign Lab brings together a highly multidisciplinary group of researchers and staff from the engineering, industrial design, apparel and medical communities to develop technologies that augment and restore human performance. In addition to traditional academic research, the lab is also highly translation-focused and has a track record of securing and delivering on large government funded projects (e.g. DARPA Warrior Web) that partially or fully support dedicated staff engineers who are part of the Wyss Institute’s translation team and work directly alongside the academic researchers.


Biodesign Lab 2014 Summer Trip to Purity Springs	Biodesign Lab 2017 Lab Retreat at Friendly Crossways

Professor Conor Walsh (PI)

Conor is the John L. Loeb Associate Professor of Engineering and Applied Sciences at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and a Core Faculty Member at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering.

Lab Administrator

Frey Tesfaye

Postdoctoral Researchers and Research Associates

	Dr. Tunc Akbas Postdoctoral Research Fellow
	Dr. Megan Applegate Postdoctoral Research Fellow
	Dr. Oluwaseun Araromi Postdoctoral Research Fellow - co-advised with Rob Wood
	Dr. Cameron Hohimer Postdoctoral Research Fellow
	Dr. Richard Nuckols Postdoctoral Research Fellow - co-advised with Rob Howe Website
	Dr. Franchino Porciuncula Postdoctoral Research Fellow
	Dr. Tommaso Proietti Postdoctoral Research Fellow
	Dr. Puneet Singh Postdoctoral Research Fellow - co-advised with Maurice Smith
	Dr. Kahye Song Postdocoral Research Fellow
	Dr. Hee Doo Yang Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Graduate Students

	Lauren Baker (G1)
	Myles Cooper (G1)
	Ethan Schumann (G1)
	Dabin Choe (G2)
	Chih-Kang Chang (G2)
	Connor McCann (G2) Website
	Jonathan Alvarez (G2)
	Krithika Swaminathan (G3)
	Yichu Jin (G3)
	Jinwon Chung (G3)
	Vanessa Sanchez (G3) Website
	Yu Meng (Kate) Zhou (G3)
	Christopher Siviy (G4)
	Martina Moyne (G4) – co-advised with Donal Holland at UCD
	Jinsoo Kim (G5)
	Ciaran O’Neill (G5)
	Evelyn Park (G5)
	Sangjun Lee (G6)
	Brendan Quinlivan (G6)
	Jaehyun Bae (G6)

Research Staff and Wyss Staff Collaborators

	Philipp Arens Research Fellow
	Dheepak Arumukhom Revi Research Fellow
	Alex Beaudette Research Fellow Website
	Haedo Cho Research Fellow
	Megan Clarke Research Fellow
	Jed Crystal Industrial Designer Website
	Asa Eckert Erdheim Robotics Engineer
	Nathalie Farster-Degenhardt Functional Apparel Designer
	Dr. Ignacio Galiana Robotics Engineer
	Chrissy Glover Research Fellow Website
	Ankur Goel Research Fellow Website
	Max Herman Software Engineer
	Brice Iwangou Electrical Research Assistant
	Dr. Nikolaos Karavas Controls Engineer
	Nicolas Menard Research Fellow
	Will Moyo Research Fellow
	Patrick Murphy Electromechanical Engineer
	Kristin Nuckols Occupational Therapist
	Dorothy Orzel Functional Apparel Designer Website
	David Perry Staff Engineer
	Dr. Dmitry Popov Wyss Technology Development Fellow Website
	Mike Rouleau Electromechanical Engineer
	Andreas Rousing Electrical Engineer
	Danielle Ryan Functional Apparel Designer
	Lexine Schumm Research Fellow
	Sapna Shah Research Fellow
	Diana Wagner Functional Apparel Designer