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
Ken Suzuki
ROBO
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
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
Yi Lu Zheng
ESE 28
Zachary Leong
DMD 28
Visitors
Alumni
| Name | Program | Degree | Project | Current Position |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dr. Jessica (McWilliams) Weakly | MEAM | Ph.D. | Bistable mechanism | Lecturer @ University of Pennsylvania |
| Dr. Christopher Kim | MEAM | Ph.D. | Medical, Hypar, Self-Sensing Actuators | Actuator System Engineer @ Tesla |
| 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. | ||
| Alec Lanter | MEAM | M.S. | Medical | Naval Surface Warfare Center |
| Yifan Yuan | ROBO | M.S. | Plus | |
| Chaitanya Gaikwad | IPD | M.S. | Programmable Matter | Tesla |
| Tejas Agarwal | ESE | M.S. | Bistable mechanism | Sahay AI |
| Dhyey Shah | ROBO | M.S. | DOQ | |
| Zhiyuan (Annie) Yang | MEAM, MCIT | M.S. | Swimmer | Worked at G.M., now Ph.D. in sunglab, UPenn |
| Jaimie Carlson | ROBO | M.S. | REBOund | Amazon Robotics |
| Guanyu Chen | MEAM | M.S. | Swimmer | Ph.D. @ UCLA |
| Serena Carson | ROBO | M.S. | Medical | |
| 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 | |
| Xueyang Qi | MEAM, ESE | M.S. | DOQ | |
| Mason Mitchell | CIS | Staff | Tunable Stiffness, TRUSSES | Pickle |
| Shaun Fedrick | MEAM | M.S. | ASML | |
| Yipeng Zhang | MEAM | M.S. | Swimmer | |
| Yunyi Chu | MEAM | M.S. | Swimmer | |
| Mary Qin | CSCI | B.S. | Morgan Stanley | |
| Sarah Ho | MEAM | B.S. | Bistable mechanism | Running Tide |
| Isabella Huang | ESE | B.S. | Kinegami | |
| Jun Kwon | MEAM, CS | B.S. | TRUSSES, Tunable Stiffness | |
| Joanna Wang | MEAM | B.S. | ASML | |
| Andres Zambrano | MEAM | B.S. | Ph.D. @ Brown | |
| Eric Wang | CIS | B.S. | TRUSSES | |
| Harita Trivedi | BE | B.S. | Medical | |
| Ling Xu | MEAM | B.S. | Kinegami | Ph.D. @ MIT MechE |
| Brianna Leung | BE | B.S. | Medical, Self-Sensing Actuators | |
| Linda Ting | DMD | B.S. | Amazon Robotics | |
| Celestina Saven | MEAM | B.S. | Mill | |
| Lily Brenner | CIS | B.S. | Programmable Matter | |
| Adithya Selvakumar | ESE | B.S. | Swimmer |
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