Our Research Team
Team Members
Meet the talented researchers, students, and staff at the Computational Engineering & Robotics Lab driving innovation across multiple disciplines.
Team Overview
Our collaborative research community at a glance
Moments from CERLAB: Research, collaboration, and innovation
26
Team Members
8
PhD Students
57
Research Areas
196
Alumni
Lab Director
Leading our research initiatives
Dr. Kenji Shimada
Mechanical Engineering; Robotics Institute; Biomedical Engineering
Director
PhD Students
Doctoral researchers advancing our research frontiers
Abdulaziz Almusa
Ph.D.
Mechanical Engineering
Research Areas
Metrology
Aman Chulawala
Ph.D.
Mechanical Engineering
Research Areas
RoboInspection
Erick Ramirez
Ph.D.
Mechanical Engineering
Research Areas
MetalAM
Hanyu Jin
Ph.D.
Mechanical Engineering
Research Areas
UAV
Joe Joseph
Ph.D.
Mechanical Engineering
Research Areas
ShapeAnalysis
Rishi Basdeo
Ph.D.
Mechanical Engineering
Research Areas
TeleSurgery
Xiaoyang Zhan
Ph.D.
Mechanical Engineering
Research Areas
RoboTeam
Zhefan Xu
Ph.D.
Mechanical Engineering
Research Areas
UAV
Postdoctoral Researchers
Leading advanced research initiatives
Tomotake Furuhata
Postdoc
Mechanical Engineering
Research Areas
ActivityTracker, RoboInspection, RoboTeam
Research Staff & Master's Students
Essential contributors to our research mission
Abien Cherian
MS-Research
Mechanical Engineering
Research Areas
UAV
Ashwin Biju Nair
MS-AS
Mechanical Engineering
Research Areas
Metrology
Christopher Obiozor
MS-Research
Mechanical Engineering
Research Areas
RoboInspection
Hanze Liu
MS-Research
Mechanical Engineering
Research Areas
MobileManipulator
Hao Liu
MS-Research
Mechanical Engineering
Research Areas
RoboTeam
Het Sekhalia
MS-Research
Mechanical Engineering
Research Areas
RoboConstruction
Junhao (Eric) Wang
MS-Research
Mechanical Engineering
Research Areas
ActivityTracker
Kanlong Ye
MS-Research
Mechanical Engineering
Research Areas
UAV
Sheitej Sharma
MS-Research
Mechanical Engineering
Research Areas
MobileManipulator
Srinivas Ramineni
MS-Research
Mechanical Engineering
Research Areas
RoboTeam
Victor (Hirotaka) Yin
MS-AS
Mechanical Engineering
Research Areas
UAV
Yash Sakhale
MS-AIE
Mechanical Engineering
Research Areas
RoboConstruction
Amit Regmi
Visiting Researcher
Mechanical Engineering
Research Areas
ShapeAnalysis
Jared Scott
MS-Research
Biomedical Engineering
Research Areas
TeleSurgery
Tushar Nayak
MS-Research
Biomedical Engineering
Research Areas
TeleSurgery
Ziyi Zhang
Research Intern
Mechanical Engineering
Research Areas
RoboConstruction, TeleSurgery
Alumni
Celebrating decades of exceptional researchers and contributors
Ph.D. Alumni
(21 people)Venkat Ayyadevara
Ph.D. 1995-2000
Ko-Hsiu Hou
Ph.D. 1997-2002
Soji Yamakawa
Ph.D. 1998-2002
Murat Gunay
Ph.D. 1997-2003
Chandan Aladahalli
Ph.D. 2001-2004
Roshan Quadros
Ph.D. 2001-2005
Miguel Vieira
Ph.D. 2003-2006
Daigo Tanaka
Ph.D. (BME) 2002-2007
Arbtip (Aom) Dheeravongkit
Ph.D. 2004-2007
Emily Monahan
Ph.D. 2004-2007
Frank Hammond
Ph.D. 2006-2010
Erick Johnson
Ph.D. 2006-2010
Matthew Staten
Ph.D. (CEE) 2007-2010
Iacopo Gentilini
Ph.D. 2007-2012
Tsung-Hsien Wang
Ph.D. (Architecture) 2005-2011
Rob Keelan
Ph.D. 2010-2015
Anjali Sehrawat
Ph.D. 2010-2015
Di Deng
Ph.D. 2016+
Wentai Zhang
Ph.D. 2017+
Ryan Hoover
Ph.D. 2017+
Zhefan Xu
Ph.D. 2019+
Postdoctoral Researchers
(7 people)Burak Kara
Postdoc 2004-2007
Mun-Bo Shim
Postdoc 2003-2005
Ki-Yong Cho
Postdoc 2005-2007
Peter Yu
Postdoc 2007-2008
In-Ho Song
Research Associate 2010-2012
Mustafa Shabbir Kurbanhusen
Postdoc 2011-2012
Tomotake Furuhata
Associate Engineer 2002+
Master's Alumni
(135 people)Megan Hazen
MS 1997-1998
Jia-Huei Liao
MS 1997
Ben Cheng
MS 1999
Naveen Viswanath
MS 1998-1999
Karthick Chilaka
MS 1998-1999
Tian Zhou
MS 1999-2000
Ho-Kook Lee
MS 2000-2002
Leslie Gennari
MS 2002-2003
Elisabeth Kuebler
MS 2003
Robert Oberreuter
MS 2004-2006
Michael Ballinger
MS 2005-2007
Ravichandra Varma Buddharaju
MS 2006-2007
Michael DeSpenza
MS 2006-2008
Mark Roberts
MS 2006-2008
Namjung Kim
MS 2007-2009
Pearce Stanek-Johnson
MS 2008-2010
Jung H. Park
MS 2008-2010
Prashin Sharma
MS 2008-2010
Xiaobo (Davy) Wang
MS 2017+
Fang Shu
MS 2018+
Vivek Anand
MS 2019
Miguel Martinez
MS 2019
Austin Hsu
MS 2019
Fernando Paulino
MS 2019
Connor Leemhuis
MS 2019
Congyi Michael Wang
MS 2019
Xiao Jiang
MS 2019
Zhenwei Liu
MS 2019
Rit Bezbaruah
MS 2019
Tiecheng (Milo) Wang
MS 2019
YuRee Chu
MS 2019
Louise Xie
MS 2019
Edward Guo
MS 2019
Jincheng Lu
MS 2019
Nabarun Banerjee
MS 2019
Cory Ye
MS 2019
Yi Cui
MS 2019
Joe Joseph
MS 2019
Quan (Leo) Chen
MS 2019
Qindong Zhang
MS 2019
Shrirang Sanjay Patki
MS 2019
Aditya Narayan Das
MS 2019
Kyshalee Vazquez-Santiago
MS 2019
Jorge Vasquez Albornoz
MS 2019
Fengyi (Emily) Yu
MS 2019
Aparna Nair
MS 2020
David Topping
MS 2020
Mia Ritter
MS 2020
Abhishek Bamotra
MS 2020
Kristin Kye
MS 2020
Luke Schmitt
MS 2020
George Ralph
MS 2020
Zhongyuan Liu
MS 2020
Yash Surana
MSCDM 2020
Alanna Mitchell
MS 2020
Wenbo Zhao
MS 2020
Shitong (Michael) Pang
MS 2020
Xinyu Wang
UG 2020
Rafael Marmol
MS 2020
Ryley Starta
UG 2020
Ashwin Nehete
MS 2020
Xikai Dai
MS 2020
Yun-Jui Tu
MS 2020
Matthew Chin
MS 2020
Sharvit Dabir
MS 2020
Ramon Williams
MS 2020
Li-Yang Chiang
MS 2020
Vaibhav Shete
MS 2020
Tianyu Ren
MS 2020
Kerou Zhang
MS 2020
Harsh Dhruva
MS 2020
Jerry (Baihan) Chen
MS 2020
Yao Lu
MSCDM 2020
Yuta Hoashi
MS 2020
Neel Pawar
MS 2021
Yuyao Li
MS 2021
Shivani Saboo
MS 2021
Shengqiang Chen
MS 2021
Samuel Schiller
MSCDM 2021
Karanveer Singh
MSCDM 2021
Yiping Dong
MS 2021
Dijing Zhang
MS 2021
Yumeng Xiu
MS 2021
Garykalan Gengatharan
MS 2021
Aditya Ramakrishnan
MS 2021
Nitika Suresh
MSCDM 2021
Parth Malpathak
MS 2021
Tanmay Chinchanikar
MS 2021
Wangyingshuai (Richard) Dong
MS 2021
Abdullatif Al Alsheikh
MS 2021
Yolnan Chen
MS 2021
Ruchita Sinha
MS 2021
Shreyas Misra
MS 2021
Zichong Yang
MS 2021
Vatsal Ketankumar Joshi
MS 2021
Chenhao Yang
MSCDM 2021
Jiajun Ji
MS 2021
Sourojit Saha
MS 2021
Aditya Manish Rathi
MS 2021
Aris Faria Chavez
MS 2021
Rishi Basdeo
MS 2021
Aneesh Pawar
MS 2021
Yanwen Wang
MS 2021
Xinyang Chen
MS 2021
David (Wenyu) Wu
MS 2021
Sebastian Vargas
MS 2022
Aoqian Zhang
MS 2022
Shravan Kumar Gulvadi
MS 2022
Linji Wang
MS 2022
Yu Cao
MS 2022
Saurabh Borse
MS 2022
Yue (Sam) Yin
MS 2022
Dajun Tao
MS 2022
Aomeng Li
MSCDM 2022
Zihao Li
MS 2022
Kenrick Tjandra
MS 2022
Arpit Sahni
MSCDM 2022
Jaydeep Ramnani
MS 2023
Taichen Ling
MSCDM 2023
Hima Ravindra
MS 2023
Atharva Manohar Mhaskar
MSCDM 2023
Prakhar Bhardwaj
MS 2023
William (Lexiang) Ou
MS 2023
Rithwik Jayanth
MS 2023
Peizhi (Richard) Chen
MSCDM 2023
Hemant Kumar Sharma
MS 2023
Aman Chulawala
MS 2023
Kevin Chou
MSCDM 2023
Kaiyuan Zhang
MS 2023
Aviral Chharia
MS 2023
Chris Suzuki
MS 2023
Mya Chappell
MS 2023
Nischal Gandige Suresha
MS 2023
Run Wang
MS 2023
Ryan Tarr
MS 2023
Undergraduate Researchers
(22 people)Reiji Watanabe
UG 2001
Matt Carlson
UG 1997-1998
Susan Swithenbank
UG 1999
Bedirhan Cinar
UG 1999
Chris Hynes
UG 2002
Mike Duke
UG 2003
Renata Melamud
UG 2002-2003
Matt Rosa
UG 2003
John Reifenberg
UG 2003
Dhruv Sharma
UG 2018+
Sydney Baker
UG 2018
Kyle Bannerman
UG 2018
Julia Lu
UG 2018
Lucas Moiseyev
UG 2018
Edward Bruce
UG 2018
Yizhe Liu
UG 2018
Tomasz Swierzewski
UG 2018
Miyu Kojima
UG 2020
Linda (Jinru) Zhou
UG 2021
Jocelyn Su
UG 2021
Hazel Cline
UG 2021
Helen Yuemin Mao
UG 2021
Visiting Scholars
(11 people)Taichi Watanabe
Visiting Professor 2002
Myung W. Suh
Visiting Professor 2001-2002
Yasushi Yamaguchi
Visiting Professor 2003
Joon-Seong Lee
Visiting Professor 2003-2004
Shigeru Kuriyama
Visiting Professor 2004
Murat Gunay
Visiting Asst. Professor 2006-2007
Mikio Terasawa
Visiting Professor 2008
Jeongsam Yang
Visiting Professor 2012-2013
Hidetaka Kajikawa
Visiting Scholar 2021
Yoriko Ogawa
Visiting Scholar (YKK) 2021
Tomohisa Matsuda
Visiting Researcher 2020
Join Our Team
We are always looking for talented and motivated individuals to join our interdisciplinary research team. Whether you're interested in pursuing graduate studies, postdoctoral research, or collaborative partnerships, we welcome applications from diverse backgrounds.
PhD Positions
Full funding available for exceptional candidates with research interests in our focus areas
Postdoc Opportunities
Competitive fellowships and research positions for advanced researchers
Visiting Scholars
Collaboration opportunities for international researchers and industry partners