Members and People

PhD (Current)

PhD (Alumni)

Masters (Current)

Masters with Thesis

Masters (Alumni)

Undergraduates

Senior design Teams High school

Summer intern

Yonas Tadesse, PhD

Director of the Humanoid, Biorobotics and Smart Systems (HBS Lab) and Principal Investigator (PI) Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering,

Mechanical Engineering Department/ Affiliate to Electrical Engineering Department

/an affiliate to Alan MacDiarmid NanoTech Institute

Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science

The University of Texas at Dallas (UTD)

Group pictures

PhD Students /postdoc- Current

Research Interest • Biorobotics system • Manufacturing design • Optimization of energy

systems • Sustainable energy • Solar energy technologies

Current Project • Advanced manufacturing ,

Additive manufacturing • Bioinspired robotics

PhD Dissertation

Research Interest • Robotics • Smart materials • Soft Robotics

Current Project • Bioinspired robotics Jellyfish • Bioinspired robotics Octopus

PhD Dissertation

Research Interest • Biorobotics system • Machine Learning

Current Project • Humanoid Robots • Robotic Hands

PhD Dissertation

Armita Hamidi , PhD

(Assistant Professor )

Google Scholar Yara Almubarak (PhD Candidate)

Google Scholar Abhishek Singh (PhD Candidate)

PhD graduated/ Alumni

Lianjun Wu, PhD (Assistant Professor) Department of Manufacturing Engineering Georgia Southern University Statesboro Campus Statesboro, Georgia United States Google Scholar Dissertation: Twisted and Coiled

Polymer Muscles and Structures for

Robotics Application

Lokesh Kumar, PhD (Postdoc Research Associate) Miami University Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering Oxford, Ohio, United States Google Scholar Dissertation: iGrab Hand Orthosis:

Design and Development Using Twisted

and Coiled Polymer Muscles

Akshay Potnuru, PhD (Lecturer) University of Southern California Los Angeles, California United States Google Scholar Dissertation: Composite Filament

and Coiled SMA for the Fabrication

of Robots

Lianjun Wu, PhD

Lokesh Kumar, PhD

Akshay Potnuru, PhD

Armita Hamidi , PhD Mechanical Engineering, Department UTD Google Scholar Dissertation: Additive Manufacturing of

Heterogeneous Composites for Biomimetic

Robots

Mohsen Jafarzadeh, PhD (Research Faculty) University of Colorado Spring field, Colorado United States Google Scholar Dissertation: Creating Interactive Social

Robots and Multimodal Control of

Robotic Hands with Artificial Muscles

Armita Hamidi , PhD Mohsen Jafarzadeh, PhD

Masters (Alumni- Non Thesis)

Aniket Joshi

(Fall 2018)

Shameek Kulkarni

(Fall 2018)

Om Anand Sharma

( SP 2018)

Saumya Yadav

(spring 2017)

Yuechen Li

(summer 2016)

Rohit Bhattacharjee

(SP2015) with Dr. Balakrishnan

Srabonti Chakraborty (SP2015)

with Dr. Balakrishnan

Giridara Varma Elumalai (SP2015) with Dr. Balakrishnan

Vadivel Selvaraj

(SP2015) with Dr. Balakrishnan Arpita Nigam

(SP2015) with Dr. Gans Suhas Kopparam Babu

(SP2015) David Shawn Kennedy(SP2015)

with Dr. Gregg Sai Kuma Marri

(SP2015) Luis Naranjo (SP2015) with Dr.

Gregg

Masters (Current)

Current Project Research in Thermally Actuated Artificial Muscles (TCP Muscles) for Robotic Hand in Pick and Place Operation. Design, Fabrication and Characterization of the Artificial Muscles using Smart Materials to achieve Optimized output in resemblance to Human Behavior. LinkedIn

Current Project Soft robots Bioinspired

robotics Artificial Muscles

(TCP Muscles) 2-ply TCP

muscles embedded

Current Project Robotic hand Mechanism

design 2-Ply TCP

muscles Ventilator

Current Project Robotic hand

EMG controlled Testing and

Characterization of circuits Deep learning

Darshan Palani Vivek Panchal Matthew Muller Vikram Louis Michael

Masters with Thesis

Akshay Potnuru, with Thesis 2012 (MS) Thesis “Low Noise, Interactive

Robotic System for Psychiatric

Rehabilitation of Children”

Miles Larkin, with Thesis 2013 (MS) Thesis “A rotary

multimodal hybrid energy

harvesting device powered

by human motion.”

Johnross Ford, (MS) with Thesis in 2015 Thesis “A simulation

study of mirrored

designs of carbide

inserts of tunnel

boring machine

(TBM) disc cutters.”

Shrenik K. Jain, with Thesis 2017 (MS) Thesis “Fabrication of

Polylactide

Nanocomposite Filament

Using Melt Extrusion And

Filament Characterization

For 3D Printing”

Akshay Potnuru Miles Larkin,

Johnross Ford, Shrenik K. Jain,

Yara Almubarak, with Thesis 2018 (MS) Thesis “Embedded TCP and

SMA Actuators for Use in

Flexible Structures of

Bioinspired Robots and

Humanoids”

Abhishek G. Saxena with Thesis 2018 (MS) Thesis “A real-time

solution enabling

humanoids to efficiently

identify faces and facial

expressions”

Shrey Shah with Thesis 2019 (MS) Thesis “Numerical

Modeling and

Simulation of

Biomedical Devices

and Underwater

Biomimetic Robots”

Vivek Panchal with Thesis 2020(MS)

Thesis “Quadralimb:

Embedded TCP Actuators

in Silicone for Grasping

Tasks and Underwater

Soft Robots”

Yara Almubarak,

Abhishek G. Saxena

Shrey Shah

Vivek Panchal

Adwait Kulkarni (Spring 2015)

Aditya Bhattacharya (Spring 2015)

Mounika Viswanadha (Fall 2015 )

Seethal Jayasankar (Fall 2015 )

Rahul Krishnan (Fall 2015 )

Pranab Tahbildar (Fall 2015 )

Ishan Rastogi (Fall 2015 )

Anmol Sarin (Fall 2015)

Ashvath Sharma (Fall 2015)

Shradha Sharma (Fall 2015)

Keshav Anand (Fall 2015)

Bhuvna Kakodia (Fall 2015)

Adil Noor Mohammed (Fall 2015)

Tarang Sanjiv Brahme spring 2015

Yuan Gong (spring 2015 )

Ranjit Sreenivas (spring 2015 )

Drishti Shah (spring 2015 )

Ankit Tomar (spring 2015 )

Abhijeet Narwal (spring 2015 )

Alec Burns (spring 2014 )

Alex Kollaja (spring 2014 )

Sachin Babu (Summer 2012)

Manoj Kumar (Spring 2013)

Avinash Ramaprakash (Spring 2013)

Poojan Khanpara Debalina Ghosh

Undergraduates (Current)

Current Project

Artificial limbs Artificial muscles- SMA Computer Aided Design

and 3D Printing

Current Project

Artificial muscles- TCP Underwater robots

More information in LinkedIn

Current Project

Artificial muscles- SMA Artificial heart actuated

by SMA

Eric Wenliang Deng (2020) Yash Mahendra(2020) Sayyant Rath (2020)

Current Project

Orthotic hand iGrab hand

Current Project

Artificial muscles- TCPFL Octopus like robot

Current Project

Soft Pneumatic composite actuators (SPC)

Fludojelly

Danial Ali Mehkri(2020) Dorsa Mir Norouzi(2020) Anwer M. Abdurahman(2020)

Former Active members

Indrajeet Chauhan (2017) Anthony M. Gutierrez,(2018) Jasmine Copeland(2018) Nicole Maly (2018) Matthew Punnoose (2018) Jeremy Warren (2018)

Abraham Ayyash (2015) Mohammad Akram (2015)

Senior Design Teams and Groups

Hands On Team –EMG controlled prosthetic hand 2020 Robotic Hand Actuated by TCP Muscles 2018

The Hand and Neural Network Design Team 2018-2019 Octopus like robot 2018

EE EMG Team 2018 Control of Octopus like robot 2018

Robotic hand 2015 ; Senior design competition (First place )

Robotic hand EE -Robotic hand with STM32, 2017

Vibration suppression 2014

Jumping robot team 2014

Robot Arm 2013

Robchess 2012

Wafer handling 2013

High School and Summer Interns

Aditya Arjun

(Nanoexplorer 2015)

Chinwe Appio-Riley (Nanoexplorer 2015)

Rakib Siddique (Nanoexplorer 2015)

Mohamad Salahi (NSF RUE 2015)

Matthew Meyer

(RUE 2012)

Peter-Michael Webb Annesha Dutta Pedro Gaete Daniel D. Moore Elliott, Steven

(Nanoexplorer 2012 (Nanoexplorer 2014) ( NSF Summer 2013)

(Nanoexplorer 2013)

(Nanoexplorer 2014)