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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
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Alumni
| Name | Program | Degree | Project | Current Position |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dr. Rachel Holladay | MEAM | Postdoc | TRUSSES | Assistant Professor of MEAM @ Penn |
| Dr. Wei-Hsi Chen | ESE | Postdoc | Kinegami, DOQ, Tunable Stiffness | Assistant Professor of ECE @ NC State |
| Dr. Dongsheng Chen | MEAM | Ph.D. | Swimmer | |
| Dr. Jessica (McWilliams) Weakly | MEAM | Ph.D. | Bistable mechanism | Lecturer @ Penn |
| Dr. Shivangi Misra | ESE | Ph.D. | TRUSSES, Tunable Stiffness | |
| Dr. Christopher Kim | MEAM | Ph.D. | Medical, Hypar, Self-Sensing Actuators | Actuator System Engineer @ Tesla |
| Chenzhi Lu | ESE | M.S. | ||
| Chaitanya Gaikwad | IPD | M.S. | Programmable Matter | Tesla |
| Benjamin Aziel | MEAM | M.S. | TRUSSES | Draper |
| Benedict Onyekwe | ROBO | M.S. | Swimmer | Thalassa Robotics |
| Allen Zhou | MEAM | M.S. | Tunable Stiffness | |
| Ken Suzuki | ROBO | M.S. | DOQ | |
| Yunyi Chu | MEAM | M.S. | Swimmer | |
| Dong Wook Kim | ROBO | M.S. | DOQ | |
| Dhyey Shah | ROBO | M.S. | DOQ | |
| Yipeng Zhang | MEAM | M.S. | Swimmer | |
| Mason Mitchell | CIS | Staff | Tunable Stiffness, TRUSSES | ROBO Masters @ Penn |
| Eric Sigg | ROBO | M.S. | TRUSSES | SpaceX |
| Xueyang Qi | MEAM, ESE | M.S. | DOQ | |
| Max Doppelt | ROBO | M.S. | EverCompliant | |
| Yuchen Sun | ROBO, CIS | M.S. | Ph.D. @ National University of Singapore | |
| Yifan Yuan | ROBO | M.S. | Plus | |
| William Hoganson | ROBO | M.S. | TRUSSES | |
| Tejas Agarwal | ESE | M.S. | Bistable mechanism | Sahay AI |
| Jaimie Carlson | ROBO | M.S. | REBOund | Amazon Robotics |
| Vanessa Gong | ROBO | M.S. | DOQ | Gecko Robotics |
| Solomon Gonzalez | MEAM | M.S. | DOQ | |
| Jingshuo Li | MEAM | M.S. | Swimmer, TRUSSES | PhD @ George Washington University |
| Guanyu Chen | MEAM | M.S. | Swimmer | Ph.D. @ UCLA |
| Xuelin Wu | MEAM | Staff | CurveQuad | PhD @ CU Boulder |
| Shaun Fedrick | MEAM | M.S. | ASML | |
| Neel Mulay | MEAM | M.S. | Swimmer | |
| Alec Lanter | MEAM | M.S. | Medical | Naval Surface Warfare Center |
| Yushang Cai | ESE | M.S. | Tunable Stiffness | Research Assistant @ Harvard |
| Samhitha Vedire | ROBO | M.S. | Kinegami | |
| Serena Carson | ROBO | M.S. | Medical | |
| Ruizhe Wang | ESE | M.S. | Tunable Stiffness | |
| Paul Young | MEAM | M.S. | TRUSSES | |
| Rongqian Chen | ESE | M.S. | Tunable Stiffness | Ph.D. @ George Washington University |
| Kefan Wu | ESE | M.S. | Tunable Stiffness | University of Connecticut |
| Ishan Ahluwalia | AI | B.S. | Swimmer | |
| Raymond Feng | DMD | B.S. | Kinegami | |
| Brianna Leung | BE | B.S. | Medical, Self-Sensing Actuators | |
| Neha Peddinti | CIS | B.S. | TRUSSES | |
| Sarah Ho | MEAM | B.S. | Bistable mechanism | Running Tide |
| Sharvi Baisiwala | AI | B.S. | ||
| Sophie Abramovitz | MEAM | B.S. | DOQ | |
| Lori Brown | CIS | B.S. | TRUSSES | |
| Ling Xu | MEAM | B.S. | Kinegami | Ph.D. @ MIT MechE |
| Linda Ting | DMD | B.S. | Amazon Robotics | |
| Lily Brenner | CIS | B.S. | Programmable Matter | |
| Andy Wang | CIS | B.S. | Kinegami | |
| Jun Kwon | MEAM, CS | B.S. | TRUSSES, Tunable Stiffness | |
| Caroline Chen | CIS | B.S. | Kinegami | |
| Kayleen Smith | MEAM | B.S. | Medical | |
| Jeffery Oduman | CIS | B.S. | Kinegami | |
| Joanna Wang | MEAM | B.S. | ASML | |
| Henry Westfall | MEAM | B.S. | DOQ | |
| Isabella Huang | ESE | B.S. | Kinegami | |
| Andres Zambrano | MEAM | B.S. | Ph.D. @ Brown | |
| Harita Trivedi | BE | B.S. | Medical | |
| Wilson Hu | CIS | B.S. | TRUSSES | Amazon |
| Emil Schaumburg | CMPE | B.S. | Kinegami | |
| Daniel Zhang | MEAM | B.S. | Medical | |
| Eric Wang | CIS | B.S. | TRUSSES | |
| Mary Qin | CSCI | B.S. | Morgan Stanley | |
| Celestina Saven | MEAM | B.S. | Mill | |
| Kylie Autullo | MEAM | B.S. | Medical, Self-Sensing Actuators | |
| Daniel Lin | ESE | B.S. | Kinegami | |
| Zachary Leong | DMD | B.S. | Kinegami | |
| Adithya Selvakumar | ESE | B.S. | Swimmer |
Past Visitors
Srijon Sarkar (Undergrad at Emory University), Arnesh Das (Masterman High School), Daehyun Kwon (Undergrad at Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology), Erin Rose Boyle (Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Temple University), Isha Naik (Germantown Friends School), Blanca Pamias Lopez (Visiting Postdoc), 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, Joyce Shi (Undergrad at Rice University)

