Faculty
Zhenyu Gan
Assistant Professor
Office: 233 Link Hall, Syracuse, NY 13244
email: {zgan02}{at}{syr.edu}
phone: 734.834.4246
Dr. Gan’s general research interests lie at the intersection of robotics and nonlinear dynamics. He enjoys studying systems with interesting dynamical behavior and applying the resulting knowledge to robotic systems such as legged robots and robotic exoskeletons.
PhD Students
Yasser Gurmallah A Alqaham
Office: 0031 Link Hall
email: {ygalqaha}{at}{syr.edu}
Yasser Alqaham is a fourth-year Ph.D. Candidate. He has an academic background in dynamics and control, and mechanical design. He is interested in legged robotics, gait analysis, and trajectory optimization.
Jing Cheng
Office: 0031 Link Hall
email: {jcheng13}{at}{syr.edu}
Jing Cheng is a fourth-year Ph.D. Candidate working on research related to gait analysis of quadrupedal or bipedal animals, studying the energetical optimal motions of legged robots to achieve more robust and natural motions.
Jiayu Ding
Office: 0031 Link Hall
email: {jding14}{at}{syr.edu}
Jiayu Ding is a fourth-year Ph.D. student. His research is related to analyzing the underlying dynamics of animal locomotion and building theoretical models for legged systems.
Master Students
Rohit Kumar J
Office: 0031 Link Hall
email: {rkjakkul}{at}{syr.edu}
Rohit is Master’s Student working on legged robots, mechanical designs and computer graphics. He is interested in AI, Finite Element modeling and robotic exoskeletons.
Haben Tekie Gebrekidan
Office: 0031 Link Hall
email: {htgebrek}{at}{syr.edu}
Haben Tekie Gebrekidan first-year master’s student in Electrical Engineering at Syracuse University. She is interested in Simultaneous localization and Mapping (SLAM), Auto-navigation and Control of mobile robots.
Undergraduate Students
Connor Christopher Sumner
Office: 017 Link Hall
email: {ccsumner}{at}{syr.edu}
Connor is a fourth-year electrical engineering student at Syracuse University. He is interested in the role of embedded systems in robotics. He also has an interest in the implementation of hardware and software in robotics.
Tom Xiao
Office: 017 Link Hall
email: {rxiao14}{at}{syr.edu}
Tom Xiao is a second-year Mechanical Engineering undergraduate at Syracuse University. His passion for robotics and reinforcement learning was ignited during his participation in high school FIRST Robotics Competitions. Tom is also interested in Docker and 3D printing technologies, which complement his work in robotics and automation.
Alumni
Jiayu Yang
Jiayu Yang is working full time as an application Engineer at IPG Automotive in Beijing, China.
Andreea Cristina Merloiu
Andreea Merloiu is now a clinical specialist working at Brain lab in San Francisco, California.
Haben Tekie Gebrekidan
Haben Tekie Gebrekidan is currently a Ph.D. student at Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering
Ayush Saxena
Ayush Saxena is currently employed as a DevOps Support Engineer at INVOLI.
Jeremy Rosh
Jeremy Rosh is working full time as a Project Engineer at V2X
Shane M Sefranksy
Shane is currently working as a Junior Engineer at Flomatic Valves in Glens Falls, New York.
Junxiao Zhao
Zheng Tang
Jingyi He
Deze Liu
Deze is currently a Ph.D. student at Rutgers University.