Cynthia Sung, Ph.D.
Gabel Family Term Assistant Professor
Mechanical Engineering & Applied Mechanics
Secondary appointment in Computer & Information Sciences
Secondary appointment in Electrical & Systems Engineering
Email: crsung (at) seas.upenn.edu
Office: Towne 273
Phone: (215) 746-6057
Postdoctoral Researchers
(MEAM)
rhollada (at) seas.upenn.edu
(ESE)
weicc (at) seas.upenn.edu
Ph.D. Students
(MEAM)
cyoonjae (at) seas.upenn.edu
(MEAM)
dschen (at) seas.upenn.edu
(CIS)
feshbach(at)seas.upenn.edu
(ESE)
shivangi (at) seas.upenn.edu
(MEAM)
gunge1 (at) seas.upenn.edu
annieyzy (at) seas.upenn.edu
Research Staff
(Robotics ’24)
(CIS)
(Robotics ’24)
(MEAM ’24)
Master’s Students
(MEAM ’25)
(ESE ’24)
(MEAM ’26)
(MEAM ’25)
(ESE ’25)
(MEAM ’26)
(MEAM ’25)
Undergraduates
(ESE ’27)
(CIS ’27)
(CIS ’26)
(CIS ’25)
(CMPE ’27)
(MEAM ’27)
(MEAM ’26)
(MEAM ’27)
(MEAM ‘26, Wharton ‘26)
(CIS’ 27)
(DMD ’26)
(MEAM ’27)
(MEAM)
(CIS ’26)
(DMD ’28)
Visitors
Alumni
| Alumni | Degree | Program | Currently |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dr. Jessica Weakly | Ph.D. | MEAM ’24 | Lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania |
| Ling Xu | M.S. | MEAM’ 24 | Ph.D. at MIT MechE |
| Xueyang Qi | M.S. | MEAM ’24, ESE ’24 | |
| Rongqian Chen | M.S. | ESE ’23 | Ph.D. at George Washington University |
| Kefan Wu | M.S. | ESE ’24 | University of Connecticut |
| Lily Brenner | B.S. | CIS ’26 | |
| Yunyi Chu | M.S. | MEAM ’24 | |
| Brianna Leung | B.S. | BE ’25 | |
| Chenzhi Lu | M.S. | ESE ’24 | |
| Sarah Ho | B.S. | MEAM ’23 | Running Tide |
| Tejas Agarwal | M.S. | ESE ’23 | Sahay AI |
| Chaitanya Gaikwad | M.S. | IPD ’23 | Tesla |
| Alec Lanter | M.S. | MEAM ’23 | Naval Surface Warfare Center |
| Guanyu Chen | M.S. | MEAM ’22 | Ph.D. at UCLA |
| Yuchen Sun | M.S. | ROBO ’21, CIS ’22 | Ph.D. at National University of Singapore |
| Mary Qin | B.S. | CSCI ’22 | Morgan Stanley |
| Celestina Saven | B.S. | MEAM ’22 | Mill |
| Linda Ting | B.S. | DMD ’22 | Amazon Robotics |
| Joanna Wang | B.S. | MEAM ’22 | ASML |
| Shaun Fedrick | M.S. | MEAM ’22 | ASML |
| Zhiyuan (Annie) Yang | M.S. | MEAM ’21, MCIT’21 | Worked at G.M., now Ph.D. in sunglab, UPenn |
| Yifan Yuan | M.S. | ROBO ’21 | Plus |
| Max Doppelt | M.S. | ROBO ’20 | EverCompliant |
| Jaimie Carlson | M.S. | ROBO ’19 | Amazon Robotics |
| Andres Zambrano | B.S. | MEAM ’19 | Ph.D. at Brown |
Past Visitors
- 2024 summer: 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)