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
Masters
Benjamin Aziel
MEAM 26
Jingshuo Li
MEAM 26
Ken Suzuki
ROBO 27
Manasi Shrekhar
ROBO 26
Neel Mulay
MEAM 26
Samhitha Vedire
ROBO 26
Undergrads
Daniel Zhang
MEAM, Chem 29
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
Ryan Stanford
MEAM 27
Sophie Abramovitz
MEAM 27
Vanessa Gong
MEAM 26
Wilson Hu
CIS 26
Yi Lu Zheng
ESE 28
Zachary Leong
DMD 28
Visitors
Aviel Stein
Visiting Scholar
Alumni
| Name | Program | Degree | Project | Current Position |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dr. Rachel Holladay | MEAM | Ph.D. | TRUSSES | Assistant Professor @ UPenn |
| Dr. Jessica (McWilliams) Weakly | MEAM | Ph.D. | Bistable mechanism | Lecturer @ UPenn |
| Dr. Christopher Kim | MEAM | Ph.D. | Medical, Hypar, Self-Sensing Actuators | Actuator System Engineer @ Tesla |
| Benedict Onyekwe | ROBO | M.S. | Swimmer | |
| Allen Zhou | MEAM | M.S. | Tunable Stiffness | |
| Kefan Wu | ESE | M.S. | Tunable Stiffness | University of Connecticut |
| Yuchen Sun | ROBO, CIS | M.S. | Ph.D. @ National University of Singapore | |
| Chenzhi Lu | ESE | M.S. | ||
| Yifan Yuan | ROBO | M.S. | Plus | |
| Zhiyuan (Annie) Yang | MEAM, MCIT | M.S. | Swimmer | Worked at G.M., now Ph.D. in sunglab, UPenn |
| Dhyey Shah | ROBO | M.S. | DOQ | |
| Chaitanya Gaikwad | IPD | M.S. | Programmable Matter | Tesla |
| Xuelin Wu | MEAM | Staff | CurveQuad | PhD @ CU Boulder |
| Guanyu Chen | MEAM | M.S. | Swimmer | Ph.D. @ UCLA |
| Xueyang Qi | MEAM, ESE | M.S. | DOQ | |
| Solomon Gonzalez | MEAM | M.S. | DOQ | |
| Jaimie Carlson | ROBO | M.S. | REBOund | Amazon Robotics |
| Serena Carson | ROBO | M.S. | Medical | |
| Mason Mitchell | CIS | Staff | Tunable Stiffness, TRUSSES | Pickle |
| Rongqian Qi | ESE | M.S. | Tunable Stiffness | Ph.D. @ George Washington University |
| Ruizhe Wang | ESE | M.S. | Tunable Stiffness | |
| Max Doppelt | ROBO | M.S. | EverCompliant | |
| Paul Young | MEAM | M.S. | TRUSSES | |
| Shaun Fedrick | MEAM | M.S. | ASML | |
| Yipeng Zhang | MEAM | M.S. | Swimmer | |
| Tejas Agarwal | ESE | M.S. | Bistable mechanism | Sahay AI |
| Alec Lanter | MEAM | M.S. | Medical | Naval Surface Warfare Center |
| Yunyi Chu | MEAM | M.S. | Swimmer | |
| Raymond Feng | DMD | B.S. | Kinegami | |
| Andres Zambrano | MEAM | B.S. | Ph.D. @ Brown | |
| Joanna Wang | MEAM | B.S. | ASML | |
| Jun Kwon | MEAM, CS | B.S. | TRUSSES, Tunable Stiffness | |
| Sarah Ho | MEAM | B.S. | Bistable mechanism | Running Tide |
| Isabella Huang | ESE | B.S. | Kinegami | |
| Eric Wang | CIS | B.S. | TRUSSES | |
| Andy Wang | CIS | B.S. | Kinegami | |
| Daniel Lin | ESE | B.S. | Kinegami | |
| Harita Trivedi | BE | B.S. | Medical | |
| Mary Qin | CSCI | B.S. | Morgan Stanley | |
| Emil Schaumburg | CMPE | B.S. | Kinegami | |
| Linda Ting | DMD | B.S. | Amazon Robotics | |
| Brianna Leung | BE | B.S. | Medical, Self-Sensing Actuators | |
| Ling Xu | MEAM | B.S. | Kinegami | Ph.D. @ MIT MechE |
| Celestina Saven | MEAM | B.S. | Mill | |
| Lily Brenner | CIS | B.S. | Programmable Matter | |
| Adithya Selvakumar | ESE | B.S. | Swimmer |
Past Visitors
Isha Naik (Germantown Friends School), 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