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
Deze Liu
Office: 0031 Link Hall
email: {dliu10}{at}{syr.edu}
Deze Liu is a second-year master’s student in Mechanical Engineering at Syracuse University. He is interested in the programming of legged robots.
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.
Junxiao Zhao
Office: 0031 Link Hall
email: {jzhao76}{at}{syr.edu}
Junxiao Zhao 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.
Zheng Tang
Office: 0031 Link Hall
email: {zhtang}{at}{syr.edu}
Zheng Tang is a second-year master’s student in Computer Science. He is interested in gaits and kinematics of legged 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.
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.
Jeremy Rosh
Office: 0031 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.
Alumni
Jiayu Yang
Jiayu Yang is working full time as a 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.