People
Cynthia Sung, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Mechanical Engineering & Applied Mechanics
Secondary appointment in Computer & Information Sciences
Secondary appointment in Electrical & Systems Engineering
Office: Towne 273
Email: crsung (at) seas.upenn.edu
Phone: (215) 746-6057
Postdoctoral Researchers
Ph.D. Students
Dongsheng Chen
dschen (at) seas.upenn.edu
MEAM
Daniel Feshbach
feshbach (at) seas.upenn.edu
CIS
Shivangi Misra
shivangi (at) seas.upenn.edu
ESE
Gabriel Unger
gunge1 (at) seas.upenn.edu
MEAM
Zhiyuan (Annie) Yang
annieyzy (at) seas.upenn.edu
MEAM
Research Staff
Dong Wook Kim
ROBO
William Hoganson
ROBO
Xuelin Wu
MEAM
Masters
Benedict Onyekwe
ROBO 25
Benjamin Aziel
MEAM 26
Jingshuo Li
MEAM 26
Manasi Shrekhar
ROBO 26
Neel Mulay
MEAM 26
Samhitha Vedire
ROBO 26
Solomon Gonzalez
MEAM 26
Undergrads
Andy Wang
CIS 27
Daniel Lin
ESE 28
Emil Schaumburg
CMPE 27
Eric Wang
CIS 25
Henry Westfall
MEAM 27
Jeffery Oduman
CIS 28
Kayleen Smith
MEAM 27
Kylie Autullo
MEAM 27
Lindsay Fabricant
MEAM, Wharton 26
Lori Brown
CIS 27
Neha Peddinti
CIS 27
Raymond Feng
DMD 26
Ryan Stanford
MEAM 27
Sophie Abramovitz
MEAM 27
Vanessa Gong
MEAM 26
Wilson Hu
CIS 26
Zachary Leong
DMD 28
Alumni
| Name | Program | Degree | Project | Current Position |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adithya Selvakumar | ESE | B.S. | Swimmer | |
| Alec Lanter | MEAM | M.S. | Medical | Naval Surface Warfare Center |
| Allen Zhou | MEAM | M.S. | Tunable Stiffness | |
| Andres Zambrano | MEAM | B.S. | Ph.D. @ Brown | |
| Brianna Leung | BE | B.S. | Medical, Self-Sensing Actuators | |
| Celestina Saven | MEAM | B.S. | Mill | |
| Chaitanya Gaikwad | IPD | M.S. | Programmable Matter | Tesla |
| Chenzhi Lu | ESE | M.S. | ||
| Dr. Christopher Kim | MEAM | Ph.D. | Medical, Hypar, Self-Sensing Actuators | |
| Dhyey Shah | ROBO | M.S. | DOQ | |
| Guanyu Chen | MEAM | M.S. | Swimmer | Ph.D. @ UCLA |
| Harita Trivedi | BE | B.S. | Medical | |
| Isabella Huang | ESE | B.S. | Kinegami | |
| Jaimie Carlson | ROBO | M.S. | REBOund | Amazon Robotics |
| Dr. Jessica (McWilliams) Weakly | MEAM | Ph.D. | Bistable mechanism | Lecturer at University of Pennsylvania |
| Joanna Wang | MEAM | B.S. | ASML | |
| Jun Kwon | MEAM, CS | B.S. | TRUSSES, Tunable Stiffness | |
| Kefan Wu | ESE | M.S. | Tunable Stiffness | University of Connecticut |
| Lily Brenner | CIS | B.S. | Programmable Matter | |
| Linda Ting | DMD | B.S. | Amazon Robotics | |
| Ling Xu | MEAM | B.S. | Kinegami | Ph.D. @ MIT MechE |
| Mary Qin | CSCI | B.S. | Morgan Stanley | |
| Mason Mitchell | CIS | Staff | Tunable Stiffness, TRUSSES | Pickle |
| Max Doppelt | ROBO | M.S. | EverCompliant | |
| Paul Young | MEAM | M.S. | TRUSSES | |
| Rongqian Qi | ESE | M.S. | Tunable Stiffness | Ph.D. @ George Washington University |
| Ruizhe Wang | ESE | M.S. | Tunable Stiffness | |
| Sarah Ho | MEAM | B.S. | Bistable mechanism | Running Tide |
| Serena Carson | ROBO | M.S. | Medical | |
| Shaun Fedrick | MEAM | M.S. | ASML | |
| Tejas Agarwal | ESE | M.S. | Bistable mechanism | Sahay AI |
| Xueyang Qi | MEAM, ESE | M.S. | DOQ | |
| Yifan Yuan | ROBO | M.S. | Plus | |
| Yipeng Zhang | MEAM | M.S. | Swimmer | |
| Yuchen Sun | ROBO, CIS | M.S. | Ph.D. @ National University of Singapore | |
| Yunyi Chu | MEAM | M.S. | Swimmer | |
| Zhiyuan (Annie) Yang | MEAM, MCIT | M.S. | Swimmer | Worked at G.M., now Ph.D. in sunglab, UPenn |
Past Visitors
Alex Chi (Germantown Friends School), Eric Huang (Peddie School), Lilianna Sand (Central High school), Louis Beardell (University of Michigan, BE), Natalie Anfuso (Stevens Institute of Technology), Bao To (Peddie School), Satviki Vasireddy (Princeton Day School), Addison Liu