Members and People

 

PhD (Current)

PhD (Alumni)

Masters (Current)

Masters with Thesis

Masters (Alumni)

Undergraduates

Senior design Teams

High school

Summer intern

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Yonas Tadesse, PhD

Director of the Humanoid, Biorobotics and Smart Systems (HBS Lab) and Principal Investigator (PI)

Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering,

Mechanical Engineering Department/ Affiliate to Electrical Engineering Department

/an affiliate to Alan MacDiarmid NanoTech Institute

Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science

The University of Texas at Dallas (UTD)

 

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   PhD Students /postdoc- Current

Research Interest

   Biorobotics system

   Manufacturing design

   Optimization of energy systems

   Sustainable energy

   Solar energy technologies

Current Project

   Advanced manufacturing , Additive manufacturing

   Bioinspired robotics

PhD Dissertation

 

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Research Interest

   Robotics

   Smart materials

   Soft Robotics

Current Project

   Bioinspired robotics Jellyfish

   Bioinspired robotics Octopus

 

PhD Dissertation

 

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Research Interest

   Biorobotics system

   Machine Learning

Current Project

   Humanoid Robots

   Robotic Hands

 

 

PhD Dissertation

 

 Armita Hamidi , PhD

(Assistant Professor )

 

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Yara Almubarak

(PhD Candidate)

 

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Abhishek Singh

(PhD Candidate)

PhD graduated/ Alumni

 

Lianjun Wu, PhD

(Assistant Professor)

Department of Manufacturing Engineering

Georgia Southern University

Statesboro Campus

Statesboro, Georgia

United States

Google Scholar

Dissertation:  Twisted and Coiled Polymer Muscles and Structures for Robotics Application

Lokesh Kumar, PhD

(Postdoc Research Associate)

Miami University

Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering

Oxford, Ohio,

United States

Google Scholar

 Dissertation:   iGrab Hand Orthosis: Design and Development Using Twisted and Coiled Polymer Muscles

 

Akshay Potnuru, PhD

(Lecturer)

University of Southern California

Los Angeles, California

United States

Google Scholar

 

Dissertation:   Composite Filament and Coiled SMA for the Fabrication of Robots

Lianjun Wu, PhD

 

 

Lokesh Kumar, PhD

 

 

Akshay Potnuru, PhD

 

 

 

Armita Hamidi , PhD

Mechanical Engineering,

Department

UTD

Google Scholar

 

Dissertation:  Additive Manufacturing of Heterogeneous Composites for Biomimetic Robots

 

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Mohsen Jafarzadeh, PhD

(Research Faculty)

University of Colorado

Spring field, Colorado

United States

Google Scholar

 

Dissertation:  Creating Interactive Social Robots and Multimodal Control of Robotic Hands with Artificial Muscles

 

 

 

Armita Hamidi , PhD

 

Mohsen Jafarzadeh, PhD

 

 

 

 

 

Masters (Current)

Current Project

Research in Thermally Actuated Artificial Muscles (TCP Muscles) for Robotic Hand in Pick and Place Operation. Design, Fabrication and Characterization of the Artificial Muscles using Smart Materials to achieve Optimized output in resemblance to Human Behavior. LinkedIn

 

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Current Project

·    Soft robots

·    Bioinspired robotics

·    Artificial Muscles (TCP Muscles)

·    2-ply TCP muscles  embedded

 

 

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Current Project

·    Robotic hand

·    Mechanism design

·    2-Ply TCP muscles

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Current Project

·    Robotic hand EMG controlled

·    Testing and Characterization

·    of circuits

·    Deep learning

 

 Darshan Palani

 

Vivek  Panchal

 

Matthew Muller

 

Vikram Louis Michael

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Masters with Thesis

Akshay Potnuru,

 with Thesis

2012 (MS)

 

Thesis “Low Noise, Interactive Robotic System for Psychiatric Rehabilitation of Children”

 

Miles Larkin,

 with Thesis

2013 (MS)

 

Thesis “A rotary multimodal hybrid energy harvesting device powered by human motion.”

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Johnross Ford, (MS) with Thesis in 2015

 

Thesis “A simulation study of mirrored designs of carbide inserts of tunnel boring machine (TBM) disc cutters.”

 

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Shrenik K. Jain,

with Thesis

2017 (MS)

 

Thesis “Fabrication of Polylactide Nanocomposite Filament Using Melt Extrusion And Filament Characterization For 3D Printing”

Akshay Potnuru

 

Miles Larkin,

 

 

Johnross Ford,

 

Shrenik K. Jain,

 

 

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Yara Almubarak,

with Thesis

2018 (MS)

 

Thesis Embedded TCP and SMA Actuators for Use in Flexible Structures of Bioinspired Robots and Humanoids”

Abhishek G. Saxena

Abhishek G. Saxena

with Thesis

2018 (MS)

 

Thesis “A real-time solution enabling humanoids to efficiently identify faces and facial expressions”

 

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Shrey Shah

with Thesis

2019

 

Thesis “Numerical Modeling and Simulation of Biomedical Devices and Underwater Biomimetic Robots”

 

 

 

Yara Almubarak,

 

 

Abhishek G. Saxena

 

 

Shrey Shah

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                                                                                

Masters (Alumni- Non Thesis)

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Shameek Sushil Kulkarni

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Aniket Joshi

(Fall 2018)

Shameek Kulkarni

(Fall 2018)

Om Anand Sharma

( SP 2018)

Saumya Yadav

(spring 2017)

Yuechen Li

(summer 2016)

Rohit Bhattacharjee

(SP2015) with Dr. Balakrishnan

Srabonti Chakraborty (SP2015) with Dr. Balakrishnan

 

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Giridara Varma Elumalai            

(SP2015) with Dr. Balakrishnan

Vadivel Selvaraj

(SP2015) with Dr. Balakrishnan

Arpita Nigam

(SP2015) with Dr. Gans

Suhas Kopparam Babu  

(SP2015)

David Shawn Kennedy(SP2015) with Dr. Gregg

Sai Kuma Marri  

 (SP2015)

Luis Naranjo   (SP2015) with Dr. Gregg

 

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Adwait Kulkarni

(Spring  2015)

Aditya Bhattacharya

(Spring  2015)

Mounika Viswanadha

(Fall  2015 )

Seethal Jayasankar

(Fall  2015 )

Rahul Krishnan

(Fall  2015 )

Pranab Tahbildar

(Fall  2015 )

Ishan Rastogi

(Fall  2015 )

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Anmol Sarin  

(Fall  2015)                                 

Ashvath Sharma           

(Fall  2015)                

Shradha  Sharma

(Fall  2015)

Keshav Anand     

(Fall  2015)                          

Bhuvna Kakodia      

(Fall  2015)      

Adil Noor Mohammed      

(Fall  2015) 

Tarang Sanjiv Brahme 

spring 2015      

Ranjit Sreenivas

 

UT Dallas Battlebots team 

Yuan  Gong

(spring 2015  )                       

Ranjit Sreenivas    

(spring 2015  )                                     

Drishti Shah

(spring 2015  )                                    

Ankit  Tomar      

(spring 2015  )                                        

Abhijeet Narwal     

(spring 2015  )                                    

Alec Burns        

(spring 2014  )                                   

Alex Kollaja        

(spring 2014  )                                

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Sachin Babu        

(Summer 2012)         

Manoj Kumar      

(Spring 2013)                    

Avinash Ramaprakash 

(Spring 2013)                     

Poojan Khanpara

Debalina Ghosh

 

 

 

 

Undergraduates (Current)

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Current Project

  • Artificial limbs
  • Artificial muscles- SMA
  • Computer Aided Design and 3D Printing

LinkedIn

 

 

Current Project

  • Artificial muscles- TCP
  • Underwater robots

 

More information in LinkedIn

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Current Project

  • Artificial muscles- SMA
  • Artificial heart actuated by SMA

 Eric Wenliang Deng (2020)

 

Yash Mahendra(2020)

 

Sayyant Rath (2020)

 

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Current Project

  • Orthotic hand
  • iGrab hand

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 Current Project

  • Artificial muscles- TCPFL
  • Octopus like robot

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Current Project

  • Soft Pneumatic composite actuators (SPC)
  • Fludojelly

 Danial Ali Mehkri(2020)

 

 Dorsa Mir Norouzi(2020)

 

  Anwer M. Abdurahman(2020)

 

 

 

 

Former Active members

 

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Indrajeet Chauhan (2017)

Anthony M. Gutierrez,(2018)

Jasmine Copeland(2018)

Nicole Maly (2018)

 Matthew Punnoose (2018)

Jeremy Warren  (2018)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Abraham Ayyash (2015)

Mohammad Akram (2015)

 

 

 

 

                                                            

 

Senior Design Teams and Groups  

 

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Hands On Team –EMG controlled prosthetic hand 2020

Robotic Hand Actuated by TCP Muscles 2018

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The Hand and Neural Network Design Team 2018-2019

 Octopus like robot 2018

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EE EMG Team 2018

Control of Octopus like robot 2018

 

 

 

 

Senior Design STM32

Robotic hand  2015 ; Senior design competition  (First place )

 

 Robotic hand EE -Robotic hand with STM32, 2017

Vibration suppression 2014

 

Jumping robot team 2014

 

UT Dallas Machine Shop

 

Robot Arm 2013

 

 Robchess 2012

 

Wafer handling 2013 

 

 

High School and Summer Interns

 

 

 

 

Aditya Arjun

(Nanoexplorer 2015)

 

Chinwe Appio-Riley

(Nanoexplorer 2015)

 

Rakib Siddique

(Nanoexplorer 2015)

 

Mohamad Salahi  (NSF RUE 2015) 

 Matthew Meyer

(RUE 2012)

 

 Peter-Michael Webb

(Nanoexplorer 2012

Annesha Dutta

(Nanoexplorer 2014)

 Pedro Gaete

 ( NSF Summer 2013)

 

Daniel D. Moore

(Nanoexplorer 2013)

 

Elliott, Steven

(Nanoexplorer 2014)