Our team is made up of passionate and driven students who love exploring new ideas and pushing the boundaries of robot locomotion through creative, hands-on research. We welcome all curious minds who share our excitement for building the next generation of robots.

Dr. Alireza Ramezani

Associate Professor, PhD

Design and development of robots with nontrivial morphologies; Analysis and closed-loop feedback design of nonlinear systems; Robot locomotion (legged & fluidic-based); Robotics-inspired biology

• PhD, Mechanical Engineering (Adviser: J. Grizzle), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2014
• MS, Mechanical Engineering (Adviser, R. D’Andrea), Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), 2010
• BSc, Mechanical Engineering, Iran University of Science and Technology, 2007

Honors and Awards:

• 2024 ASME Rising Star Award
• 2024 NSF CAREER (FRR program)
• 2024 Northeastern College of Engineering Impact Award
• Two cover articles for Science (Robotics) Magazine
• One Science Article in the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Science Magazine Altmetric
• Winner of NASA top honer, ARTEMIS Award, with Northeastern Team in 2022 BIG IDEA Competitions 
• Research highlights at Nature
• Winner of 2022 NASA’s Game Changing Program Award
• Winner of 2020 NASA’s Game Changing Program Award
• NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL) Faculty Research Program Position in 2022

Dr. Eric Sihite

Postdoc, PhD, UC San Diego

Robot Modeling and Controls.