Faculty

Alice Agogino, Roscoe and Elizabeth Hughes Professor of Mechanical Engineering, UC Berkeley

Andy Dong, Adjunct Professor of Mechanical Engineering at UC Berkeley and Chair of the MBA in Design Strategy at the California College of Arts.

Staff

Euiyoung Kim, Postdoctoral Scholar, Jacobs Institute of Design Innovation
James (Yusong) Jiang, lead programmer, theDesignExchange

Current M.S./Ph.D. Graduate Students

Julien Caubel, ME
Angelo Brian Cera, ME
Deniz Dogruer, SESAME
Elena Duran, SESAME
Jasmine Gipson, ME
Pierce Gordon, ERG
Colin Ho (on leave at OpenROV), ME
Daniel Lim, ME
Julia Kramer, ME

Jessica Lee (with Ron Fearing), ME
Jianlan Luo, ME
George Moore, ME
Danielle Poreh, ME
Vivek Rao (with Slaw Hermanowicz), ME
Andrew Sabelhaus (Drew), Co-IT Manager, ME
Sonia Travaglini, ME
Alan Zhang, ME, Green Lab Liaison
Edward Liu Zhu, Co-IT & Website Manager, ME

2017-2018 M.Eng. Graduate Students

Wind Power: Bird Safe, Quiet, Aesthetic

Austin Campbell, ME, Advanced Energy
Ali Elashri, ME, Advanced Energy
Erica McClinton, ME, Advanced Energy
Chahal Neema, ME, Advanced Energy
Sponsor: Tom Flynn

Samsung Beyond Smartphones

Purva Juvekar, ME, Product Design
Ashis Ghosh, ME Product Design
Michael Oudenhoven, ME Product Design
Postdoc: Euiyoung Kim

Renault

Stephanie Cantu, ME, Product Design
Etienne Marecal, ME, Product Design
Satish Karagaraj, ME, Product Design
Postdoc: Euiyoung Kim

Laika Spine Tensegrity Robots

Holly Stein, ME Product Design
Nigel Mevana, ME Product Design
Jonathan Marr, ME Product Design
Graduate Mentor: Drew Sabelhaus

6-Bar Spherical Tensegrity Soft Robots

Zareen Cheema, ME, Product Design
Stuart Sonatina, ME, Product Design
Jeff Ying, ME, Product Design
Graduate Mentors: Brian Cera, Alan Zhang and Ed Zhu

Million Hands: Prosthetic Hands for Children through an Open Source Platform, 3D Printers & Sensors

Sina Dabiri, BioE
Jaqueline Nguyen, ME Product Design
Aastha Shah, BioE
Aashish Bhardwaj, BioE
Jose Ramirez, BioE
Annie Lee, ME, Product Design
Graduate Mentor: Daniel Lim

Current PostDocs and Visiting Scholars

Euiyoung Kim, Postdoctoral Fellow, Jacobs Institute of Design Innovation

Binyang Song , Visiting Student, SUTD, Singapore

Jieun (Misa) Kwon, Visiting Graduate Mentor/Affiliate, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

Hao Hong, Visiting Student, Zhejiang University, China

Recent PostDocs, Visiting Scholars

Matilde Bisballe Jensen, PhD Candidate – Engineering Design and Innovation, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering (MTP) in Trondheim.
Chengwei Zhang, Visiting Student, Tsinghua University, China

Soh Kim, Post-Doc, Center for Open Innovation
Kevin Leahy, Fulbright Fellow
Osvaldo Romero, Visiting Student, UNAM

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