People

Faculty Members

Dylan Losey

Dylan is an Assistant Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department at Virginia Tech.

Graduate Students

Sagar Parekh

Sagar is a PhD student in the Mechanical Engineering Department. He is interested in robots that influence humans.

Shaunak Mehta

Shaunak is a PhD student in the Mechanical Engineering Department. He is interested in physical human-robot interaction.

Shahabedin (Shahab) Sagheb

Shahab is an Assistant Collegiate Professor and a PhD student in the Mechanical Engineering Department. He is interested in humans and robots that learn, collaborate, and compete.

Benjamin Christie

Ben is a PhD student in the Mechanical Engineering Department. He is supported in part by the US Army Engineering Research and Development Center.

Robert Ramirez Sanchez

Robert is a PhD student in the Mechanical Engineering Department. He is interested in robots that reason over vision and language.

Yinlong Dai

Yinlong is a PhD student in the Mechanical Engineering Department. He is interested in the intersection of robotics, vision, and machine learning.

Undergraduate Students

Grace Brotherson

Grace is an undergraduate student in the Mechanical Engineering Department.

Keone Leao

Keone is an undergraduate student in the Mechanical Engineering Department.

Andre Keyser

Andre is an undergraduate student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.

Casey Grothoff

Casey is an undergraduate student in the Mechanical Engineering Department.

Ryan Jeronimus

Ryan is an undergraduate student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.

Brandon Franco

Brandon is an undergraduate student in the Mechanical Engineering Department.

Phd & Postdoc Alumni

Heramb Nemlekar

Postdoctoral Scholar, 2024-2025 (Next - Assistant Professor at CSUN)

Ananth Jonnavittula

PhD Student, 2020-2024 (Next - Foundation)

Soheil Habibian

PhD Student, 2020-2024 (Next - Apple)

Other Alumni

Maya Keely

MS Student, 2023-2025

Joshua Hoegerman

MS Student, 2022-2024 (Next - The Boeing Company)

Emily Paul

High School Student, 2023 (Next - Undergrad at Georgia Tech)

Forrest Meng

Undergraduate Student, 2023 (Next - Grand Charter)

Soham Gandhi

Undergraduate Student, 2023 (Next - Texas Instruments)

Neema Ahmadian

Undergraduate Student, 2022 (Next - PhD Student at Virginia Tech)

Ritish Shailly

MS Student, 2021 - 2022 (Next - Amazon)

Naman Seth

Undergraduate Student, 2021 (Next - Torc Robotics)

Sounak Chakrabarti

Undergraduate Student, 2020-2021 (Next - MS Student at Virginia Tech)

James Mullen Jr.

Undergraduate Student, 2020-2021 (Next - PhD Student at University of Maryland)