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
Ph.D. Students
Dongsheng Chen
dschen (at) seas.upenn.edu
MEAM
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
Masters
Haoran Lei
ESE 27
Jiaming Chen
MEAM 27
Jilu Wang
ESE 27
Lindsay Fabricant
ROBO 27
Manasi Shrekhar
ROBO 26
Zhaoqi (Jackie) Wang
ESE 27
Undergrads
Alfred Gao
MEAM 29
Daniel Zhang
MEAM 29
Eliane Juang
MEAM 29
Elias Chavez
MEAM 28
Ellen Li
MEAM 29
Ishan Ahluwalia
AI 28
Minghui Zhang
ESE 29
Neha Peddinti
CIS 27
Ryan Stanford
MEAM 27
Sofia Padilla Regules
MEAM 29
Sophie Lin
MEAM 29
Yi Lu Zheng
ESE 28
Yucheng Liu
ESE 29
Visitors
Arnesh Das
Masterman High School
Aviel Stein
Visiting Scholar
Daehyun Kwon
Undergrad at Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology
Joyce Shi
Undergrad at Rice University
Srijon Sarkar
Undergrad at Emory University
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. 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 |
| Benjamin Aziel | MEAM | M.S. | TRUSSES | |
| Benedict Onyekwe | ROBO | M.S. | Swimmer | |
| Allen Zhou | MEAM | M.S. | Tunable Stiffness | |
| Ken Suzuki | ROBO | M.S. | DOQ | |
| Yipeng Zhang | MEAM | M.S. | Swimmer | |
| Chenzhi Lu | ESE | M.S. | ||
| Xueyang Qi | MEAM, ESE | M.S. | DOQ | |
| Yunyi Chu | MEAM | M.S. | Swimmer | |
| Dong Wook Kim | ROBO | M.S. | DOQ | |
| Dhyey Shah | ROBO | M.S. | DOQ | |
| Yifan Yuan | ROBO | M.S. | Plus | |
| Chaitanya Gaikwad | IPD | M.S. | Programmable Matter | Tesla |
| Xuelin Wu | MEAM | Staff | CurveQuad | PhD @ CU Boulder |
| Tejas Agarwal | ESE | M.S. | Bistable mechanism | Sahay AI |
| Vanessa Gong | ROBO | M.S. | DOQ | Gecko Robotics |
| Solomon Gonzalez | MEAM | M.S. | DOQ | |
| Guanyu Chen | MEAM | M.S. | Swimmer | Ph.D. @ UCLA |
| Eric Sigg | ROBO | M.S. | TRUSSES | SpaceX |
| William Hoganson | ROBO | M.S. | TRUSSES | |
| Ruizhe Wang | ESE | M.S. | Tunable Stiffness | |
| Jingshuo Li | MEAM | M.S. | Swimmer, TRUSSES | PhD @ George Washington University |
| Samhitha Vedire | ROBO | M.S. | Kinegami | |
| Serena Carson | ROBO | M.S. | Medical | |
| Neel Mulay | MEAM | M.S. | Swimmer | |
| Paul Young | MEAM | M.S. | TRUSSES | |
| Mason Mitchell | CIS | Staff | Tunable Stiffness, TRUSSES | Pickle |
| Max Doppelt | ROBO | M.S. | EverCompliant | |
| Shaun Fedrick | MEAM | M.S. | ASML | |
| Jaimie Carlson | ROBO | M.S. | REBOund | Amazon Robotics |
| Rongqian Chen | ESE | M.S. | Tunable Stiffness | Ph.D. @ George Washington University |
| Yushang Cai | ESE | M.S. | Tunable Stiffness | Research Assistant @ Harvard |
| Alec Lanter | MEAM | M.S. | Medical | Naval Surface Warfare Center |
| Yuchen Sun | ROBO, CIS | M.S. | Ph.D. @ National University of Singapore | |
| Kefan Wu | ESE | M.S. | Tunable Stiffness | University of Connecticut |
| Jun Kwon | MEAM, CS | B.S. | TRUSSES, Tunable Stiffness | |
| Kayleen Smith | MEAM | B.S. | Medical | |
| Andy Wang | CIS | B.S. | Kinegami | |
| Brianna Leung | BE | B.S. | Medical, Self-Sensing Actuators | |
| Raymond Feng | DMD | B.S. | Kinegami | |
| Joanna Wang | MEAM | B.S. | ASML | |
| Sophie Abramovitz | MEAM | B.S. | DOQ | |
| Jeffery Oduman | CIS | B.S. | Kinegami | |
| Sarah Ho | MEAM | B.S. | Bistable mechanism | Running Tide |
| Henry Westfall | MEAM | B.S. | DOQ | |
| Sharvi Baisiwala | AI | B.S. | ||
| Mary Qin | CSCI | B.S. | Morgan Stanley | |
| Harita Trivedi | BE | B.S. | Medical | |
| Isabella Huang | ESE | B.S. | Kinegami | |
| Daniel Lin | ESE | B.S. | Kinegami | |
| Eric Wang | CIS | B.S. | TRUSSES | |
| Andres Zambrano | MEAM | B.S. | Ph.D. @ Brown | |
| Emil Schaumburg | CMPE | B.S. | Kinegami | |
| Wilson Hu | CIS | B.S. | TRUSSES | Amazon |
| Lori Brown | CIS | B.S. | TRUSSES | |
| Linda Ting | DMD | B.S. | Amazon Robotics | |
| Caroline Chen | CIS | B.S. | Kinegami | |
| Ling Xu | MEAM | B.S. | Kinegami | Ph.D. @ MIT MechE |
| Celestina Saven | MEAM | B.S. | Mill | |
| Kylie Autullo | MEAM | B.S. | Medical, Self-Sensing Actuators | |
| Lily Brenner | CIS | B.S. | Programmable Matter | |
| Zachary Leong | DMD | B.S. | Kinegami | |
| Adithya Selvakumar | ESE | B.S. | Swimmer |
Past Visitors
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