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

Eric Sigg
ROBO 26

Haoran Lei
ESE 27

Jingshuo Li
MEAM 26

Ken Suzuki
ROBO 27

Manasi Shrekhar
ROBO 26

Samhitha Vedire
ROBO 26

Yushang Cai
ESE 26
Undergrads

Caroline Chen
CIS 26

Daniel Zhang
MEAM 29

Ellen Li
MEAM 29

Henry Westfall
MEAM 27

Ishan Ahluwalia
AI 28

Jeffery Oduman
CIS 28

Kayleen Smith
MEAM 27

Kylie Autullo
MEAM 27

Lindsay Fabricant
MEAM, Wharton 26

Minghui Zhang
ESE 29

Neha Peddinti
CIS 27

Ryan Stanford
MEAM 27

Sophie Lin
MEAM 29

Vanessa Gong
MEAM 26

Wilson Hu
CIS 26

Yi Lu Zheng
ESE 28
Visitors
Alumni
| Name | Program | Degree | Project | Current Position |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dr. Rachel Holladay | MEAM | Postdoc | 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 | |
| Yunyi Chu | MEAM | M.S. | Swimmer | |
| Zhiyuan (Annie) Yang | MEAM, MCIT | M.S. | Swimmer | Worked at G.M., now Ph.D. in sunglab, UPenn |
| Chenzhi Lu | ESE | M.S. | ||
| Yipeng Zhang | MEAM | M.S. | Swimmer | |
| Mason Mitchell | CIS | Staff | Tunable Stiffness, TRUSSES | Pickle |
| Dhyey Shah | ROBO | M.S. | DOQ | |
| Yuchen Sun | ROBO, CIS | M.S. | Ph.D. @ National University of Singapore | |
| Xueyang Qi | MEAM, ESE | M.S. | DOQ | |
| Guanyu Chen | MEAM | M.S. | Swimmer | Ph.D. @ UCLA |
| Max Doppelt | ROBO | M.S. | EverCompliant | |
| Chaitanya Gaikwad | IPD | M.S. | Programmable Matter | Tesla |
| Jaimie Carlson | ROBO | M.S. | REBOund | Amazon Robotics |
| Tejas Agarwal | ESE | M.S. | Bistable mechanism | Sahay AI |
| Neel Mulay | MEAM | M.S. | Swimmer | |
| Solomon Gonzalez | MEAM | M.S. | DOQ | |
| Paul Young | MEAM | M.S. | TRUSSES | |
| Rongqian Chen | ESE | M.S. | Tunable Stiffness | Ph.D. @ George Washington University |
| Ruizhe Wang | ESE | M.S. | Tunable Stiffness | |
| Shaun Fedrick | MEAM | M.S. | ASML | |
| Kefan Wu | ESE | M.S. | Tunable Stiffness | University of Connecticut |
| Alec Lanter | MEAM | M.S. | Medical | Naval Surface Warfare Center |
| Xuelin Wu | MEAM | Staff | CurveQuad | PhD @ CU Boulder |
| Yifan Yuan | ROBO | M.S. | Plus | |
| Serena Carson | ROBO | M.S. | Medical | |
| Sarah Ho | MEAM | B.S. | Bistable mechanism | Running Tide |
| Raymond Feng | DMD | B.S. | Kinegami | |
| Andres Zambrano | MEAM | B.S. | Ph.D. @ Brown | |
| Daniel Lin | ESE | B.S. | Kinegami | |
| Lori Brown | CIS | B.S. | TRUSSES | |
| Zachary Leong | DMD | B.S. | Kinegami | |
| Lily Brenner | CIS | B.S. | Programmable Matter | |
| Sophie Abramovitz | MEAM | B.S. | DOQ | |
| Sharvi Baisiwala | AI | B.S. | ||
| Joanna Wang | MEAM | B.S. | ASML | |
| Isabella Huang | ESE | B.S. | Kinegami | |
| Jun Kwon | MEAM, CS | B.S. | TRUSSES, Tunable Stiffness | |
| Eric Wang | CIS | B.S. | TRUSSES | |
| Andy Wang | CIS | B.S. | Kinegami | |
| Emil Schaumburg | CMPE | B.S. | Kinegami | |
| Harita Trivedi | BE | B.S. | Medical | |
| Mary Qin | CSCI | B.S. | Morgan Stanley | |
| Brianna Leung | BE | B.S. | Medical, Self-Sensing Actuators | |
| Linda Ting | DMD | B.S. | Amazon Robotics | |
| Celestina Saven | MEAM | B.S. | Mill | |
| Ling Xu | MEAM | B.S. | Kinegami | Ph.D. @ MIT MechE |
| 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




