Lab Members
Principal Investigator

Dr. Hamid Marvi
Associate Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Fulton Entrepreneurial Professor
Contact: [email protected]
Full CV
Ph.D. Students
Morteza Ghiyasi
Mechanical Engineering (Magnetic medical robots)
Contact: [email protected]
Abdulhamid Mathkur
Robotics and Autonomous Systems (Magnetic medical robots)
Contact: [email protected]
Master’s Students
Vamsikrishna Kurakalva
Robotics and Autonomous Systems (Bio-inspired robotic inspection systems)
Maharshi Shukla
Mechanical Engineering (Magnetic medical robots)
Aman Singh
Computer Science (Magnetic medical robots)
Undergraduate Students
Surya Erramilli
Computer Science (Ferrofluidic robots)
Aydin Kabir
Electrical Engineering (Octopus-inspired suction cups)
Noah Layos
Mechanical Engineering (Octopus-inspired suction cups)
Kamron Nazarov
Mechanical Engineering (Bio-inspired robotic inspection systems)
Lab Alumni
Postdoctoral Associates
- Tao Zhang: Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, (Magnetic Medical Robotics) – [email protected]
- Hosain Bagheri: Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, (Locomotion on extreme terrain) – [email protected]
- Mahdi Ilami: Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, (Magnetic medical robots) – [email protected]
Ph.D. Students
- Olga Skowronek: Mechanical Engineering, (Soft Robotics; Now at UTRGV) – [email protected]
- Reza James Ahmed: Mechanical Engineering, (Ferrofluid; Now at Raytheon) – [email protected]
- Mahdi Ilami: Mechanical Engineering, (Magnetic medical robots; Now at Intel) – [email protected]
- Hosain Bagheri: Mechanical Engineering, (Locomotion on extreme terrain; Now at Georgia Tech) – [email protected]
- Andrew Thoesen: Mechanical Engineering, (Granular Helical Scaling Laws; Now at Arizona Public Service) – [email protected]
Visiting Scholars
- Zhong Huang: Ph.D. Student at Tianjin University, Tianjin, China – [email protected]
- Borhan Beigzadeh: Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, (Magnetic medical robots) – [email protected]
Master’s Students
- Emil Roy
- Manoj Rudraboina
- Nihar Masurkar
- Teresa McBryan
- Marko Green
- Prajwal Wanjari
- Drake Morris-Sjolund
- Salaheddin Ahmadi
- Tabsheer Ali Askari
- Siddharth Rohit Jain
- Ankit Das
- Karthik Ramagiri
- Vivek Ajjampur
- Abir Kumar Deb (Now at Intel)
- Sriravali Kamthamraju
- Vrushali Manka
- Sunil Mate (now at Vantage Corporation)
- Ranga Rayudu
- Sujal Tipnis
- Qing Wang
- Peng Wei (now a Ph.D. student at Virginia Tech University)
- Vishwarath Taduru (Test engineer intern at Otterbox)
- Sachin Panchal
- Vijay Senthilkumar
- Ankur Verma
- Queen Nyemekye
- Vidu Jayanetti (Now at USC)
- Alex Gendt (Now at NXP Semiconductor)
- Dakota Edwards (Now at DEKA)
- Jalpesh Bhadra (Now at DEKA)
- Anant Gogate
Undergraduate Students
- Benjamin Bethke
- Darwin Mick (Now at CMU)
- Joey Shitamoto
- Kathleen Paige Farrell
- Ethan Fisher (Now at Honeywell)
- Shaopeng Han
- Carolyn Harvey (now at Orbital ATK)
- Mercedes Herreras Martínez
- Alicia Magann (now a Ph.D. student at Princeton University)
- David McKenna
- Sierra Ramirez
- Leo Lin
- Mason Keck
- Daniel Sanchez (now at Trax International)
- Andre Apostol
- Michael Bejarano
- Douglas Elson
- Daniel Lee
- John Millard
- Ivana Ninkovic
- Isaac Charcos
- Brendan Mance
- Michael Kintscher
- Alex Petras (Now at Raytheon Technologies)
- Brendon Fisher
- Erskine Thompson
- Sachin Subramanian (Now a Ph.D. student at UT Austin)
- Hailey Burch (Now at Intel)
- Megan Householder
- Andrew Sweeney
- Edward Faillace
- Anna Hu
- Clayton Brenner (Now at Intel)
- Joy Arnold
- Christian Sclafani (Now at UC Berkeley as a graduate student)
- Kyle Xue
- Tiffany Hertzell
- Shawn White (Now at Northrop Grumman)