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Lab Members

Faculty

He (Helen) Huang, Ph. D., FAIMBE, FIEEE [CV]

Jackson Family Distinguished Professor, UNC/NCSU Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering

Director, Closed-Loop Engineering for Advanced Rehabilitation (CLEAR)

Ming Liu, Ph.D.

Research Associate Professor, UNC/NCSU Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering
 

Varun Nalam, Ph.D.

Research Assistant Professor, UNC/NCSU Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering

Staff

Samantha Teves

Research Coordinator

B.S. in Biology

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Research Fellows

 

Woolim Hong, Ph.D.

NIDILRR ARRT Fellow, NIDILRR Switzer Fellow, Co-mentor with Dr. Jing Feng

Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering

Texas A&M University

 

Joshua Tacca, Ph.D.

Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering

University of Colorado, Boulder

Yuchen Yan, Ph.D.

Ph.D. in Automotive Engineering

Clemson University

Graduate Students

Amirreza Naseri

Ph.D. Student
NC State/UNC Biomedical Engineering

(MS in Mechanical Engineering at Tarbiat Modares University)

Brendan Driscoll

NIH Fellow; Ph.D. Student
NC State Electrical and Computer Engineering

(BS in Electrical and Biomedical Engineering at URI)

Austin Mituniewicz

NSF Fellow; Ph.D. Student
NC State/UNC Biomedical Engineering

(BS in Mechanical Engineering at Virginia Tech)

John Patterson

Ph.D. Student
NC State Electrical and Computer Engineering

(BS in Electrical Engineering at the U of South Carolina)

Soe Lin Paing

Ph.D. Student

NC State Mechanical Engineering

(MS in Mechanical Engineering at ASU)

Xinyi Liu

Ph.D. Student
NC State/UNC Biomedical Engineering

(MS in Robotics at the U of Michigan)

Reilly Stafford

Ph.D. Student
NC State Mechanical Engineering
Co-advising with Dr. Kate Saul

(BS in Mechanical Engineering at NC State)

Huan Min

Ph.D. Student
NC State Mechanical Engineering

(MS in Mechanical Engineering at JHU)

Jangwhan Ahn

Ph.D. Student
NC State/UNC Biomedical Engineering

(MS in Sport Science at Seoul National University)

Pinar Onal

Master Student (non thesis)
NC State/UNC Biomedical Engineering

Alumni
Former Trainees in Pre- or Post-doctoral Programs (their position right after completion of the programs)

I-Chieh (EJ) Lee, Ph.D.
Abbas Alili, Ph.D. (Post-doc at Wake Forest University)
Joseph Berman, Ph.D. (Former NIH F31 fellow; Research Engineer, Novo Nordisk)
Wentao Liu. Ph.D. (Software engineer, Mathworks,inc.)
Noah Rubin, Ph.D. (Staff Scientist, NIH)
Qiang Zhang, Ph.D. (Assistant Prof., University of Alabama)
Aaron Fleming, Ph.D. (Former NIH F31 fellow; Post-doc at Duke University)
Robert Hinson, Ph.D. (UNC M.D./Ph.D. Program to complete MD training)
Minhan Li, Ph.D. (Research Engineer, Argo AI)
Bretta Fylstra, Ph.D., (Former NSF GRFP fellow, Post-doc, Hanger Clinic)
Xikai Tu, Ph.D. (Professor, Wuhan Institute of Technology, China)
Boxuan Zhong, Ph.D. (Research Scientist, Facebook/Meta)
Lizhi Pan, Ph.D. (Associate professor, Tianjin University, China)
Yue Wen, Ph.D. (Post-doc, Shirley Ryan Ability Lab; Current Assistant Professor at the University of Central Florida)
Andrea Brandt, Ph.D. (Editor, American Journal Experts)
Stephanie Huang, Ph.D. (Research Engineer, Apple Inc.)
Ting Zhang, Ph.D. (Professor, SooChow University, China)
Wen Wu, Ph.D. (Post-doc, the University of Melbourne)
Fan Zhang, Ph.D. (Post-doc, Kesseler Foundation)
Dustin Crouch, Ph.D. (Assistant Professor, the University of Tennessee, Knoxville)
Jun Liu, Ph.D. (Associate Professor, Wuhan Institute of Technology, China)

Former Trainees in Master Program

MS with thesis

Elia Späte, M.S. Mechanical Engineering at ETH, Zürich (visiting MS student)
Chinmay Shah, M.S., Mechanical Engineering (DEKA Inc)
Fiona Popp, M.S., Electrical Engineering (Dephy, Inc., Boston)
Sameer Upadhye, M.S., Mechanical Engineering
Ashling Lupiani, M.S. Biomedical Engineering
Alex Boatwright, M.S. Biomedical Engineering
Peter Bohlen, M.S. Biomedical Engineering
Ding Wang, M.S. Biomedical Engineering

Non thesis Master

Vikas Shetty, M.S. (Non thesis), Mechanical Engineering (Tesla)

Other Important Former Lab Members

Jeff Olander, Ph.D. (Assistant Technical Supervisor, UNC at Chapel Hill)
David Lee (Ph.D. program at Boston University)

Former Undergraduate Students

Most of our undergraduate students’ research was (is) supported by NSF REU, Abram Scholar, NC State Undergraduate Research Award, NAE Grant Challenge Scholarship; If we forgot to add your name into the list and you would like to be listed, please email us nrel.ncsu@gmail.com.

Minh Tran (MAE), Vibhavari Vempala, Thomas Doman, Charles Humphries, Kellie Chieu, Ashley Perry, Davis Clairborne, Abby Thomas, Alyssa Cox, Shane King, Chrisopher Mehling, Benjamin Kantner, Shahryar Rashid, Caroline Li, Daniel Zurlo, Brian Kim, Nicholas Witham, Andrew Harmody, Victoria Ou, Ben Long, Ziwei Liu (ECE); Samuel Fox; Davis Ottesen; James Runda; Coral Austin; Semuel Sites; Luke Tucker; Jake Skigen; Anthony Kyu; Joshua Peck, Madeline Dudley, Albert Choi, Glen Brain, Jeff Bercaw, Sahil Sethi, Kaia Spero, Leilani Walker, David Du, Bryson Wicker, Michael Clark, Jack Schierlmann, Ryan Garry, Zhengduan Du, Kaitlynn Whimpenny, Ben Perrin, Marshall Harkrider, Jesse Carr, Yashica Paramkusham, Anthea Spirko (Cornell), Geigh Neill (CS), Nita Prabhu, Sydney Schwartz, Samuel Duncan, Madeline Dudley, Dezmum Roper-Bryant (ECE), Avery Murry, Xavier Caceres