People

Panos Artemiadis

Director, Professor of Mechanical Engineering

partem@udel.edu

Panos Artemiadis received his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) in Greece, in 2009. Then he worked as a postdoctoral research associate in the Mechanical Engineering Department, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He worked as an Assistant Professor in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Arizona State University since 2011 and then as an associate professor until 2019, when he joined the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Delaware, where he is currently a Professor. He is the recipient of the 2014 DARPA Young Faculty Award, the 2014 AFOSR Young Investigator Award, and he is an ASME Fellow.

Bradley Hobbs

Graduate Student (Ph.D.)

Bradley Hobbs received his B.S. in Mechatronics Engineering from Middle Tennessee State University. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering focused on modeling post-stroke hemiparetic gait for improved robot-assisted neuro-rehabilitation

Email: bwh@udel.edu

Charikleia Angelidou

Graduate Student (Ph.D.)

Charikleia Angelidou received her Diploma in Mechanical Engineering and her MSc in Autonomous Systems and Robotics from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) in Greece. She has worked in the field of Robotic Process Automation as a software developer from 2020 – 2021. She is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering on the performance analysis of an ankle-foot prosthesis with controllable impedance in dynamic environments.

Email: cangelid@udel.edu

Jesus Orozco

Graduate Student (Ph.D.)

Jesus Orozco received his B.S. and M.Eng. in Aerospace Engineering from Texas A&M University. He also worked in the Flight Dynamics Facility at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in support of Launch Vehicles, Human Space Flight, and various on-orbit spacecraft. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering focused on electroencephalographic feedback on subject engagement in infants with the use of a robotic swarm.

Email: jaon@udel.edu

Stergios E. Bachoumas

Graduate Student (Ph.D.)

Stergios E. Bachoumas received his Diploma in Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) in 2019. He also received his M.Sc. in Autonomous Systems and Robotics from NTUA in 2022. His research is focused on creating multimodal interfaces for the interactions between human operators and swarms of robots.

Email: stevbach@udel.edu

Shubham Kumbhar

Graduate Student (Ph.D.)

Shubham S. Kumbhar received his dual degree (B.Tech. + M.Tech) in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT Bombay) in India, in 2022. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering focused on developing control frameworks for physical human-humanoid collaboration.

Email: shubhamk@udel.edu

Ben Caro

Master's in Robotics Student

Ben Caro received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Delaware in May 2024. He is currently pursuing a Master’s degree in Robotics, focusing on creating a simulated environment robot swarm control.

Email: bencaro@udel.edu

Riya Baranwal

Master's in Robotics Student

Riya Baranwal earned her B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the National Institute of Technology Srinagar in India. She is pursuing a Master’s in Robotics, focusing on human interaction and understanding.

Email: riyabara@udel.edu

Connor Ludwin

Master's in Robotics Student

Connor Ludwin received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Delaware in May 2024. He is currently pursuing a Master’s degree in Robotics, focusing on analyzing gait data on compliant surfaces.

Email: ludwicon@udel.edu

John (Jack) Cahill

Undergraduate Student Mechanical Engineering

Jack Cahill is pursuing his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering with a Minor in Mathematics at the University of Delaware Honors College. He is focusing on human-swarm interaction.

Email: jccahill@udel.edu

Steven Giorgi

Undergraduate Student Mechanical Engineering

Steven Giorgi is pursuing his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Delaware. He is focusing on developing new controllers for a quadruped robot by utilizing a machine learning framework.

Email: sgiorgi@udel.edu

Brennan Sieglen

Undergraduate Student Mechanical Engineering

Brennan Sieglen is currently pursuing his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering and
Computer Science at the University of Delaware. He is focusing on robotics for gait retraining.

Email: brenps@udel.edu

Louis DiBiase

Undergraduate Student Mechanical Engineering

Louis DiBiase is pursuing his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Delaware. He is focusing on physical human-humanoid robot collaboration and interaction.

Email: ldibiase@udel.edu

Alumni

Name and Degree graduated with

Vaughn Chambers, Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, UD

Chrysostomos Karakasis, Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, UD

Camryn Scully, MS in Robotics, UD

Yashwanth Tekumudi, MS in Robotics, UD

Jensen Gaither, BS in Mechanical Engineering, UD

Emiliano Quinones Yumbla*, Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, ASU

Matthew Cavorsi*, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, Harvard

Zachary The, MS in Robotics, UD

Rob Samuelson, MS in Robotics, UD

Jack Swift, BS in Mechanical Engineering, UD

Sydney Przywara, BS in Mechanical Engineering, UD

Michael Rosen, BS in Mechanical Engineering, UD

Ajitesh Singh, MS in Robotics, UD

Justin Hunt*, Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, ASU

Carly Thalman, Ph.D. in Systems Engineering, ASU

Allysa Mae Tuano, BS in Mechanical Engineering, UD

Lynsey Lehmann, BS in Mechanical Engineering, ASU

Enoch M. O’Neal, BS in Mechanical Engineering, ASU

Michael Drolet, BS in Computer Science, MA in Mathematics, ASU

Daniel Lee, BS in Mechanical Engineering, ASU

Alexander Fulginiti, BS in Mechanical Engineering, ASU

Brandon Dubbs, BS in Mechanical Engineering, ASU

Harsh Lal, MS in Mechanical Engineering, ASU

Junxin Wang, MS in Mechanical Engineering, ASU

Ruby Obeng, MS in Biomedical Engineering, ASU

Linda Fou, MS in Mechanical Engineering, ASU

Bryan Whitsell, Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, ASU

George Konstantinos Karavas, MS in Mechanical Engineering, ASU

Jeffrey Skidmore, Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, ASU

Masood Nevisipour*, Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, ASU

Robert Holgate*, Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, ASU

Shreya Udupa, BS with Honors in Mechanical Engineering, ASU

Andrew Barkan, BS with Honors in Mechanical Engineering, ASU

Daniel Larsson, MS in Aerospace Engineering, ASU

Mark Ison, Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, ASU

Alison Gibson, BS in Mechanical Engineering, ASU

Elena Whitton, BS with Honors in Mechanical Engineering, ASU

Yuting Wang, MS in Mechanical Engineering, ASU

Chris Antuvan, MS in Mechanical Engineering, ASU

Harshil Patel, MS in Mechanical Engineering, ASU

Eric Yanez, BS with Honors in Mechanical Engineering, ASU

Gerald O’Neill III, BS with Honors in Mechanical Engineering, ASU

Vincent Bevilacqua, BS with Honors in Mechanical Engineering, ASU

Jennifer Megan Mincieli, BS with Honors in Mechanical Engineering, ASU

Dillon Card, BS with Honors in Mechanical Engineering, ASU

Akshat Baveja, MS in Mechanical Engineering, ASU

Ryan Frost, MSE in Mechanical Engineering

Jeremy Johnson, BSE in Mechanical Engineering

Xavier Vargas, BSE in Mechanical Engineering

Stephen Warren, BSE in Mechanical Engineering

William Lee, BSE in Mechanical Engineering

Taylor Cerchie, BSE in Mechanical Engineering

Brad Shoemaker, BSE in Mechanical Engineering

Jonathon Houda, BSE in Mechanical Engineering

Where they are now

Grant Street Group

Johnson & Johnson

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Mesodyne

University of Puerto Rico

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W. L. Gore & Associates

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Globus Medical

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Salesforce

Sol Robotics, Nikon

Apple

ASML

pursuing PhD in ASU

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Intel

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pursuing Ph.D. in ASU

Honeywell Aerospace

Peraton Labs

SoftWear Automation, Inc

Research Scientist, Ohio State University

Seismic

Bringham Young University – Idaho

Virgin Orbit

pursuing Ph.D. in University of California Berkeley (NSF Graduate Fellow)

pursuing Ph.D. in Georgia Tech

Abelee

SpaceX (NSF Graduate Fellow)

US Navy

Intel Corporation

Biofourmis

Progressive Machine and Design

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SaaS Operations at Shotzoom Software / CoachNow

ViaSat Inc

SpaceX

Amazon

pursuing Ph.D. in Boston University

Honeywell Aerospace

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Philips

Intel Corporation

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ON Semiconductor

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