People - DLAR Lab – Syracuse University

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 second-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 second-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 first-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.

Shan Chai

Office: 0031 Link Hall
email: {schai03}{at}{syr.edu}

Shan Chai is a second-year master’s student in Computer Science at Syracuse University. He is interested in Simultaneous localization and Mapping (SLAM), Auto-navigation and Control of mobile robots.

Ayush Saxena

Office: 0031 Link Hall
email: {asaxen09}{at}{syr.edu}

Ayush is a second year Master’s student in Computer Engineering at Syracuse University. His research interests lies in developing smart bots that can adopt and learn autonomously using Sensor Fusion, SLAM, and Computer Vision.

Undergraduate Students

Shane M Sefranksy

Office: 017 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.

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.

Jeremy Rosh

Office: 017 Link Hall
email: {jvrosh}{at}{syr.edu}

Jeremy Rosh is a fourth year Mechanical Engineering student at Syracuse University. He is interested in the different gait patterns of quadrupedal animals along with the hardware and software of robotics.

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.

Alumni

Jiayu Yang

Jiayu Yang is working full time as an application Engineer at IPG Automotive in Beijing, China.