Postdoctoral Students

Sangeun Choi (2003-2004, 2005) - Now at ABB Research, USA
Myun Joong Hwang (2008-2009) - Now at Samsung Research, South Korea
Ozkan Bebek (2008-2011) - Now faculty member at Ozyegin University, Turkey

PH.D Students

Ozkan Bebek (January 2008) - Now faculty member at Ozyegin University, Turkey
Thesis: Robotic-Assisted Beating Heart Surgery Suriya Natsupakpong (December 2009) - Now faculty member at King Mongkut 's University of Technology, Thonburi, Thailand
Thesis: Physically Based Modeling and Simulation for Virtual Environment Based Surgical Training Michael Fu (March 2011) - Now faculty member at Case Western Reserve University
Thesis: Computational Models and Analyses of Human Motor Performance in Haptic Manipulation Pasu Boonvisut (May 2013)
Thesis: Active Exploration of Deformable Object Boundary Constraints and Material Parameters Through Robotic Manipulation Data Mark Renfrew (In progress, Ph.D. candidate)
Russell Jackson (In progress, Ph.D. candidate)
Taoming Liu (In progress, Ph.D. candidate)
Erdem Eser Tuna (In progress, Ph.D. candidate)
Tipakorn Greigarn (In progress, Ph.D. candidate)
Orhan Ozguner (In progress)

MS Students

Nathan Wedge (August 2004) - Now at Case Western Reserve University
Thesis: Analysis of Cellular Cardiac Bioelectricity Models towards Computationally Efficient Whole-Heart Simulation Jason Rotella (August 2004) - Now at Lincoln Labs
Thesis: Predictive Tracking of Quasi Periodic Signals for Active Relative Motion Cancellation in Robotic Assisted Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery Michael Fu (November 2005) - Continued as PhD Student
Thesis: Assessment of EEG Event-Related Desynchronization in Stroke Survivors Performing Shoulder-Elbow Movements Venkata Kode (November 2005) - Now at Visicon Inspection Technologies, Napa, CA
Thesis: Design and Characterization of a Novel Hybrid Actuator Using Shape Memory Alloy and D.C. Motor for Minimally Invasive Surgery Applications Paul Jacobs (October 2006)
Thesis: Collision Detection and Response and Haptic Interaction in Virtual Environment Simulation with Deformable Objects Christian Miller (July 2007) - Now at University of Texas at Austin
Thesis: A Simulation and Regression Testing Framework for Autonomous Vehicles Jonathan Hearn (January 2008) - Now at National Instruments, Austin, TX
Thesis: Competitive Medical Image Segmentation with the Fast Marching Method Mark Renfrew (June 2009) - Continued as PhD Student
Thesis: A Comparison of Signal Processing and Classification Methods for Brain-Computer Interface Nathan Brown (January 2010) - Now at Los Alamos National Laboratories
Thesis: Accelerating SEM Depth Map Building with the GPU Brandon Evans (May 2010)
Project: A C++ MML Parser for Use in Systems Biology Taoming Liu (September 2010) - Continued as PhD Student
Thesis: Design and Prototyping of a Three Degrees of Freedom Robotic Wrist Mechanism for a Robotic Surgery System Erdem Eser Tuna (September 2011) – Graduated from Bilkent University, Continued as a PhD Student Thesis: Heart Motion Prediction Based on Adaptive Estimation Algorithms for Robotic-Assisted Beating Heart Surgery Nathaniel Poirot (In progress)

Visiting Students

Keehoon Kim (Ph.D. student from Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), South Korea, 2003-2004)
Svend Johannsen (B.S./M.S. student from Danmarks Tekniske Universitet (Technical University of Denmark), Copenhagen, Denmark, 2004-2005)
Fan Liang (Ph.D. student from Beihang University, Beijing, China, 2008-2010)
Eser Erdem Tuna (M.S. student from Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey, 2010-2011)
Tetsuya Horiuchi (Ph.D. student from University of Tokya, Japan, 2011-2012)

Undergraduate Research

Jason Rotella (Spring 2003 – Summer 2003)
Paul Jacobs (Summer 2003 – Summer 2004)
Christian Miller (Summer 2004)
Svend Johanssen (Fall 2004 – Summer 2005)
Christopher Shoemaker (Spring 2005, Fall 2005 – Spring 2007)
David Prabhu (Spring 2006 – Spring 2007)
Tim Franke (Spring 2006 – Summer 2007)
John Pao (Summer 2006 – Fall 2006)
Andrew Hershberger (Fall 2006 – Summer 2008)
Robin Hu (Summer 2007 – Spring 2008)
Michael Hornfeck (Fall 2007 – Spring 2008)
Kenneth Hornfeck (Fall 2007 – Spring 2008)
BarbaraJoy Jones (Summer 2008 – Fall 2008, Summer 2009)
Fang Zhou (Fall 2008, Summer 2009)
Akshaya Annavajhala (Summer 2009)
Deeptha Babu (Summer 2009)
Justin Lee (Summer 2009)
Joshua Dudik (Summer 2010)
Joshua Matzek (Summer 2010 – Fall 2010)
Kumiko Sano (Summer 2010 – Fall 2011)
John Adams(Spring 2011 – Fall 2012)
Stephan Nieuwoudt (Spring 2011)
Conner Balin (Summer 2011)
Eric Young (Summer 2011 – Summer 2013)
Lu Yu (Summer 2011 – Fall 2011)
Sean Kruer (Summer 2011)
Chendi Jin (Spring 2012)
Andrew Ritosa (Summer 2012)
Eddie E. Massey, III (Summer 2012 – Spring 2013)
Nathaniel Poirot (Spring 2013 – Spring 2014)
Diego Waxemberg (Spring 2013 – Summer 2013)
Marmeny Infante (Spring 2013)
Xueyu “Jack” Hu (Summer 2013)
Leah Feitl (Summer 2013, Spring 2014 – Fall 2014)
Haoran “Rick” Yuan (Summer 2013 – Fall 2013, Summer 2014)
Reinhardt “Kam” Criss (Spring 2014 – Spring 2015)
Kaustubh Desai (Spring 2014 – Fall 2014)
Jose Nazario (Summer 2014 – Fall 2014)
Kristina Collins (

Undergraduate Research

Dan Meismer, Mark Renfrew (Spring 2004
Rocco Parro, Ran Ari-Gur, Chase Peers (Fall 2004)
Jonathan Hearn, Robert Kofsky (Spring 2005)
Mark Bell (Summer 2005)
Hyung J. Kim (Summer 2005)
Di Xiao, Noah Berland, Mariam Nawawi, Yunni Hairuddin (Fall 2005)
Nasrulridza Yusuf, Mohd Zariff Amin Abu Bakar (Fall 2006)
Mike Monkiewicz, Drew Wallet (Fall 2006)
Tim Franke (Spring 2008)
Christopher Shoemaker, Mark Notargiacomo, Mike Spence (Fall 2008)
Kumiko Sano, Cory Breed, Edward Yanosik (Spring 2011)