dongtingli@ucsd.edu
Dongting is a joint post-doc with the Tolley lab developing soft robots for exploration in granular environments.
ngravish@ucsd.edu
CV:I am interested in movement dynamics in biology and robotics. I am driven by developing new methods for analysis and generation of locomotion using tools from robotics, computer vision, and physics.
Education
cusparks@eng.ucsd.edu
ruw072@ucsd.edu
r7yang@ucsd.edu
suchae@ucsd.edu
yac003@ucsd.edu
gehe@ucsd.edu
(Post-doc)
Currently: Assistant Professor University of Portland
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Glenna worked in the lab for three years studying legged locomotion of ants on complex, three-dimensional terrain.
(PhD)
Thesis: Enhanced Robot-Environment Interfaces to Improve Locomotion on Natural Terrain
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Currently: Emily is currently an engineering consultant at the Rand Corporation
Emily was co-advised by Prof. Tolley. She worked on developing new soft-robotic technologies for robot mobility on granular and real-world substrates.
(PhD)
Thesis: Design of oscillatory movement for ground-based locomotion and synchronized movement in bioinspired robotics
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Currently: Wei is currently an engineer at Cisco systems
Wei's PhD work focused on how to design ground based robots that move through body oscillation, and that can interact through contact to create collective movements.
(PhD)
Thesis: Towards Reconfigurable and Adaptive Soft Robots via Hybrid Materials, Designs and Mechanisms
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Currently: Mingsong is currently a post-doc at Yale
Mingsong Jiang developed new laminate and soft technologies for bio-inspired robots.
(Masters)
Thesis: A Jagged Anisotropic Mechanically Jamming Appendage for Locomotion
Currently: Aerospace Engineer at Northrop Grumman
(Masters)
Thesis: A Study on the Dynamic Effects of Active Pitch Control in an Flapping Wing Robot with Elastic Element
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Currently: Cymer corporation
(Masters)
Thesis: A compliant thorax design for robustness and elastic energy exchange in flapping-wing robots
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Currently: PhD student at Cornell
(Masters)
Thesis: Synchronization through Manipulation - Indirectly Coupled Oscillating Walking Robots
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(Masters)
Thesis: Design principles for locomotion synchronization in undulatory robot groups
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Currently: PhD student UCLA
(Masters)
Thesis: Learning to walk on rough terrain and collision localization for legged robots with Machine Learning
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Currently: Engineer at Path Robotics
(Masters)
Thesis: Design and analysis of a kirigami-based two-finger micro-gripper
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Currently: Masters student CMU
(Masters)
Thesis: A Voice Coil Based Vibration Platform for Micro Robots Application
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Currently: Engineer Wavemaker labs
(Masters)
Thesis: A three-axis force platform design for cockroach incline climbing analysis
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(Masters)
Thesis: Angular displacement sensing and joint position localization using stretchable fiber-optic sensors in soft flexo-structures
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(Undergraduate)
(Undergraduate)
Currently: PhD program at Yale
(Undergraduate)
Currently: Structural Aerospace Engineer at NASA Johnson Space Center
(Undergraduate)
(Undergraduate)
Currently: PhD student at Johns Hopkins
(Undergraduate)
Currently: Research technician Harvard Medical School
(Undergraduate)
Currently: Masters program at Carnegie Mellon
(Undergraduate)
Currently: Technician Scripps Institute underwater robotics
(Undergraduate)
Currently: Engineer at ASML
(Undergraduate)
Currently: PhD program at MIT
(Undergraduate)
Currently: PhD Student at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
(Undergraduate)
Currently: PhD student at Johns Hopkins
(Undergraduate)
(High-school)
(Lab tech)
Currently: Engineer at Nanocore
Associate Professor, UC San Diego
Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
Franklin Antonio Hall
Office: Room 3101
Labs: Room 3101
ngravish ATSIGN eng.ucsd.edu
