List of Undergrads

Student listed by the academic year (Fall through Summer) in which they started research in EDG. Students who performed multiple semesters or years of work are indicated with an asterisk after their name.

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2024-2025
Evelyne Morisseau* (Fall 2024-Spring 2025): Assistive sleeve
Conor Van Bibber (Fall 2024): PCB design, Ice gripper

2023-2024
Sanzhar Abatov (Spring 2024): Slip sensing demo
Alahe Akhavan* (Fall 2023-Spring 2025): Assistive spoon / Robot arm control optimization / Assisted grasping in the home
Steph Akakabota (Summer 2024): Fish inspired robotics
Jasmine Escobedo* (Summer 2024-Spring 2025): Assistive sleeve
Orlando Munoz (Summer 2024): Squirrel inspired foot design
Sebastian Pereyras* (Summer 2024-Spring 2025): Fish robot
Sophia Zhou (Summer 2024): Grasp taxonomy, Smart suction cup manufacturing

2022-2023
Eduardo Godinez Diaz (Summer 2023): RoboFish
Hubert Liu (Spring 2023): Pneumatic regulator
Angelica Pena* (Summer 2023-Spring 2024): Mobile robotics systems
Aldo Gonzalez Ruiz (2022): Worm bot initial testing
Rebecca Consta (2022): hand assistance
Chris Huang* (2022-Spring 2024): granular tugging robots
Derrick Ma* (Summer 2022-Summer 2024): hand assistive device design
Anuj Raichura (2022): hand assistance
Westin White (2022): hand assistance, VPT

2021-2022
Chang Bo* (Summer 2022-Spring 2023): Fire gripper
Haoxiang “Lucas” Huang* (Spring-Summer 2022): Dorsal Grasper
Amani Lawrence (Summer 2022): Millirobot ensembles hardware
Dafne Renteria (Summer 2022)
Yuqing Wang (Summer 2022): Smartphone Haptics
Elaine Llacuna* (Fall 2021-Spring 2022): Squirrel jump biomechanics (Polypedal lab collaboration): landing rod design
Nicholas Currie (Fall 2021): Squirrel jump biomechanics (Polypedal lab collaboration): Field testing hardware
Daniel Pack* (Fall 2021 – Spring 2022): Haptics testbed development
Calvin Stevens (Fall 2021): Rover weight shifting and sand testbed
Joanne Lee (Spring 2022): Haptics testbed
Franklin Ho* (Spring 2022-Spring 2024): Haptics testbed

2020-2021
Malyka Norville (Summer 2021): Pacific mole crab inspired burrowing
Anjana Saravanan* (Summer 2021 – Spring 2022): Haptics of the human fingertip via smartphones
Keilani Adachi* (Summer 2021 – Spring 2022): Variable force transmissions for assisted grasping
Kellen O’Rourke* (Fall 2020 – Spring 2021): Squirrel foot simulation and deeplabcut
Lekha Duvvoori* (Fall 2020 – Fall 2021): Squirrel jump biomechanics (Polypedal lab collaboration): Force data analysis and volar pad testing
Miguel Nepomuceno* (Fall 2020 – Spring 2021): Human haptics
Gabriela Gutierrez* (Spring 2021 – Summer 2021): Human haptics
Stanley Wang* (Summer 2021 – Summer 2022): Squirrel jump biomechanics (Polypedal lab collaboration): Force data analysis
Frank Aliaga Augui* (Spring 2021 – Fall 2021): Squirrel jump biomechanics (Polypedal lab collaboration): Kinematic video point tracking

2019-2020
Kristin Yamane* (Fall 2019 – Spring 2021): Pacific mole crab inspired burrowing
Junlong Li* (Fall 2019 – Fall 2021): Open Source Ocean One Hand & Fire-resistant gripper
Anya Shrivastava* (Fall 2019 – Spring 2022): Human-portable ROV & Fire-resistant gripper
Nayesha Gandotra* (Fall 2019 – Summer 2020): Human-portable ROV
Joshua Fajardo* (Fall 2019 – Spring 2021): Human haptics
Krish Nayar* (Spring 2020 – Spring 2021): Assistive wrist driven orthosis design & digging robots
Ashlyn D’Orazio* (Spring 2020 – Summer 2020): Assistive mitten design
Natalia Perez (Summer 2020): Firefighting robot design
Hou Woei Lim* (Fall 2019 – Spring 2020): Human haptics
Isabel Paredes* (Fall 2019 – Spring 2020): Human-portable ROV

2018 – 2019
Mohammad Kamil Shams* (Fall 2018 – Spring 2020): Human-portable ROV
Ethan Chung* (Rose Hills Summer Fellow, Fall 2018 – Spring 2020): Skin mechanics
Daniel Santos* (NSF LSAMP, Cal NERDS, Summer 2019 – Fall 2019): Coral sampling
Philippe Nadeau (NSERC Scholarship, Summer 2019): Tactile sensing under water
Kristen Kafkaloff* (Fall 2018 – Fall 2019): Tactile sensing under water & created EDG logo!
Licheng Yu* (Summer 2019 – Fall 2021): Wearable grasp assistance device for grasping with the back of the hand
Madison Hales* (Spring 2019 – Spring 2020): Ocean One hand updates and coral sampler
Wenny Miao (Summer 2019): Digging robot legs
Alex Buckley (Spring 2019): Augmenting Human Dexterity class support
Lucie Derbier (Spring 2019): Wearable grasp assistance device
Johnathan Chiu (Fall 2018): ROV Haptic feedback
Weikun Wu (Summer 2019): Wearable grasp assistance device

2017-2018
Dominic Melville** (Summer 2018 – Summer 2021): Underwater tactile sensing, Human-portable ROV, Fish biomechanical measurements, granular materials… almost everything
Menglong Guo* (Summer 2018 – Fall 2018): Ocean One hand updates
Prithvi Akella (Spring 2018): BlueROV2
Emily Stednitz (Spring 2018): BlueROV2