People

Faculty

Zhenyu Gan

Assistant Professor

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

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

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

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.

Rohit Kumar J

Rohit is a first-year Ph.D. Student working on legged robots, mechanical designs and computer graphics. He is interested in AI, Finite Element modeling and robotic exoskeletons.

Master Students

Jun Zhou

Jun Zhou is a second-year Master’s student in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Syracuse University. He is interested in robotic applications, reinforcement learning, vision-language-action foundation models, and enjoys designing 3D-printed robotic structures.

Undergraduate Students

Connor Christopher Sumner

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

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.

Shan Chai