Neurobionics Lab

People

Faculty

Elliott J. Rouse, PhD
Associate Professor, Robotics & Mechanical Engineering

Postdoctoral Fellows

Laksh Kumar Punith, PhD
Post-doc, Robotics

Staff

Emily Klinkman, MS
Research Engineer & Lab Manager, Robotics
Varun Shetty, MS
Research Engineer, Robotics
Senthur Raj
Research Engineer, Robotics

PhD Students

Nikko Van Crey
PhD Student, Robotics
Kevin Best
PhD Student, Robotics
Zach Bons
PhD Student, Mechanical Engineering
Emily Bywater
PhD Student, Mechanical Engineering
Nundini Rawal
PhD Student, Mechanical Engineering
Riley Pieper
PhD Student, Robotics
Christopher Nesler
PhD Student, Robotics
Japmanjeet Singh Gill, MS
PhD Student, Robotics
Nana Porter-Honicky
PhD Student, Mechanical Engineering
Ellie Wilson
PhD Student, Mechanical Engineering
Anushka Rathi
PhD Student, Mechanical Engineering
Paola Rioja
PhD Student, Mechanical Engineering

Master’s Students

Nick Pett
Master's Student, Mechanical Engineering
Xinyuan (Caesar) Guo
Master's Student, Mechanical Engineering

Undergraduate Students

Neil Wagner
Undergraduate Student, Mechanical Engineering
Megan Giacobetti
Undergraduate Student, Mechanical Engineering

Visiting Scholars

Soham Chowdhury
Visiting Scholar, Mechanical Engineering
Andrea Berettoni
Visiting Scholar, Mechanical Engineering

Residents

Natalie Wong, MS
Prosthetics Resident,

Alumni

Postdocs

Gray Thomas, 2022, Michigan (Research Investigator, University of Michigan)

Varun Joshi, 2021, Michigan (Postdoc, University of Michigan)

Tyler Clites, 2020, Michigan (Assistant Professor, UCLA)

Timothy Reissman, 2016, Northwestern (Assistant Professor, University of Dayton)

Doctoral Students

Yves Nazon II – Mechanical Engineering, 2023, Michigan

Leo Medrano – Mechanical Engineering, 2023, Michigan (Robotics Algorithms and Controls Engineer, Intuitive Surgical)

Ung Hee Lee – Mechanical Engineering, 2022, Michigan (Software Researcher, Nuro)

Kimberly Ingraham – Mechanical Engineering 2021, Michigan (Assistant Professor, University of Washington)

Amanda Shorter – Mechanical Engineering 2021, Northwestern (Research Engineer, MIT)

Alejandro Azocar – Mechanical Engineering, 2020, Michigan (Biomechatronics Hardware Engineer, Apple)

Max Shepherd – Biomedical Engineering, 2019, Northwestern (Assistant Professor, Northeastern University)

Master’s Students

Varun Shetty – Robotics, 2022, (PhD Student, NC State)

Shengwen Liu – Mechanical Engineering, 2022, Michigan (Mechatronics Engineer, Lam Research)

Maurice (Mo) Miro – Mechanical Engineering, 2022, Michigan (Simulation Engineer, Stellantis)

Andrew Vigotsky – Biomedical Engineering, 2019, Northwestern

Brandon Peterson – Robotics, 2019, Michigan (PhD Student, UCLA)

Hashim Quraishi – Biomedical Engineering, TU Delft (Development Engineer, Evalan)

Rachel Harris – Robotics, 2018, Michigan (Controls Engineer, Dephy)

Chien-Wen (Wayne) Pan – Robotics, 2018, Michigan (PhD Student, Arizona State University)

Alex Wind – Biomedical Engineering, 2018, Northwestern (Medical Student, University of Illinois at Chicago)

Ricki Irwin – Robotics, 2016, Northwestern (Controls Engineer, HDT Robotics)

Christopher Nesler – Biomedical Engineering, 2016, Northwestern (PhD Student, University of Michigan)

Jeff Lee – Biomedical Engineering, 2016 (Product Development Engineer, Smith & Nephew)

Claire Melvin – Mechanical Engineering, 2016 (NPI Manufacturing Engineer, Intuitive Surgical)