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.
Graduate Students
Yasser Gurmallah A Alqaham
Office: 0031 Link Hall
email: {jcheng13}{at}{syr.edu}
Yasser Alqaham is pursuing a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering. 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 first-year Ph.D. student 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}
Undergraduate Students
Shane M Sefranksy
Office: 0031 Link Hall
email: {smsefran}{at}{syr.edu}
Shane Sefransky is a third-year Mechanical Engineering student at Syracuse University. He has an interest in robotics and offroading, developed during his participation in high school VEX robotics and as the President of Cuse Baja, Syracuse University’s offroad car building team.
Ruohan Xu
Office: 0031 Link Hall
email: {rxu134}{at}{syr.edu}
Ruohan Xu is a second-year student in Mechanical Engineering at Syracuse University. He is the Vice President of the Orange Robotics Club at Syracuse University since 2019 and the recipient of the 2020 Syracuse University Office of Student Living Resident of the Year & Student Leader Award.