Dylan is an Assistant Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department at Virginia Tech. He researches learning and control algorithms for personalizing robots that collaborate with people.
Postdocs and Visiting Scholars
Heramb Nemlekar
Heramb is a Postdoctoral Associate in the Mechanical Engineering Department. He is interested in assistive robots that quickly learn and adapt to human preferences.
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.
Maya Keely
Maya is a Master's student in the Mechanical Engineering Department.
Balamurugan (Bala) Ramachandran
Bala is a PhD student in the Mechanical Engineering Department. He is interested in how robots can influence humans.
Robert Ramirez Sanchez
Robert is a Master's student in the Mechanical Engineering Department.
Undergraduate Students
Brandon Franco
Brandon is an undergraduate student in the Mechanical Engineering Department.
Forrest Meng
Forrest is an undergraduate student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
Soham Gandhi
Soham is an undergraduate student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
Neema Ahmadian
Neema is an undergraduate student in the Mechanical Engineering Department.
High School Students
Emily Paul
Emily worked on developing rigid and soft robotic grippers (Summer 2023).
