Chandana Paul Chandana Paul works in the field of Artificial Intelligence and uses robots to model and further understand complex biological systems. Her PhD work was in the field of Biped Locomotion, during which she built several simulation and real world biped walking robots.

Doctoral Students

Daniel Brown

David Ashley

Vic Anand Vic's research combines the fields of evolutionary computing and biomechanics. Vic plans to use genetic algorithms to evolve a better mathematical model of hand function

Saurabh Mahapatra Research Interests: Tendon-driven manipulators

Veronica Santos Veronica is interested in the clinical applications of biomechanics research, specifically rehabilitation technology and surgical procedures. Recently, she has been fascinated by functional electrical stimulation technology as well as neural implants. She is interested in neural control of movement and the effects of anatomical variability on models of the human thumb. Currently, she is investigating the ability of robotics-based thumb models to realistically predict maximal static thumbtip forces in 3D using Markov Chain Monte Carlo methods. Veronica's Curriculum Vitae

Madhusudhan Venkadesan

Undergraduate Students

Eren Birben (aka "The Lego Man") MAE Class of '06

Alex Deyle Biological & Environmental Engineering Class of '06

Eric Samorodnitsky Biological & Environmental Engineering Class of '06

Richard Wallace Ducharme MAE Class of '04

Joshua Savrin MAE Class of '04

Alumni

Christopher Kim Graduate student, University of Chicago, MAE Class of '04.

Stanley Song MAE Class of '03, MEng Class of `04

Nicole Graf MAE Class of '03.

Manuel Hernandez MAE Class of '03

Joseph Munaretto MAE Class of '03

Salvador Turrubiartes Visiting Undergraduate Researcher from UC Berkeley '03

Laurel Kuxhaus Graduate student, University of Pittsburgh, MAE M.S. '03.

Michael Lin MEng Class of '02

Jeonghoon Oh MEng Class of '02

Jonathan Pearlman MAE M.S. '02

Jennifer Pretz MAE Class of '02

Luis Rodriguez NASA Sharp Plus Fellow

Joel Skaliotis ECE MEng Student at Cornell University

Niels Smaby MEng Class of '02

Michal Weisman MAE Class of '02, MEng Class of '02

Paul Menno Scholten MAE Class of '02

Nathan Wilson MEng Class of '01, Graduate student, MIT

Matthew Schmucker MAE Class of '01

Xiaozheng Zhong MEng Class of '01, at Amazon.com

Kirana Ramakrishna MAE Class of '01

Michael Graffeo MAE Class of '00, MEng Class of '01. at Cordis, Inc., a division of Johnson and Johnson

Rebecca Avrin Visiting Research Associate, Graduate student, University of Delaware, BEE/MAE Class of '00.

Natalia Castillo, MD Visiting Scientist, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation.