Our team is comprised of dedicated students who are passionate about advancing the field of robot locomotion through cutting-edge research and outside-the-box ideas

Dr. Alireza Ramezani

Assistant Professor 

Research Focus – 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

Dr. Eric Sihite

Postdoc 
PhD, UC San Diego

Graduate Students

Adarsh Salagame
PhD Computer Engineering
Perception & Controls
Bibek Gupta
PhD Computer Engineering
Controls

Maria Gianello
PhD
Accelerated Hardware
Paul Ghanem
PhD
Machine learning
Kevin Wu
PhD Computer Engineering
Machine learning
Chenghao Wang
PhD
Controls

Aniket Dhole
MS Electrical and Computer Eng.
Controls
Kaushik Venkatesh Krishnamurthy
MS Mechanical Engineering
Controls
Rohit Hiraman Rajput
MS Robotics
Perception and ML
Shreyansh Pitroda
MS Mechanical Engineering
Controls

Xuejian Niu
MS Mechanical Engineering
Hardware & Controls
Yizhe Xu
MS Mechanical Engineering
Hardware & Controls
Santosh Rao
MS Mechanical Engineering
Hardware

Kruthika Gangaraju
MS Robotics
Controls
Minghua Wang
MS Robotics
Controls

Undergraduate Students

Alex Qiu
Andre Caetano

Brandon Petersen
Hamza Iqbals
Henry Noyes
Ian McCarthy
Jailynh Yeo
Jason Widjaja
Juliane Hyvert
Kartikey Agarwal
Konrad Sroka
Neha Bhattachan
Nolan Smithwick
Tae Yang
Yash Bhora