People

Principal Investigator

Michael T. Tolley, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, UC San Diego

tolley@ucsd.edu

Office 

FAH, room 3102

9500 Gilman Drive #0411

La Jolla, CA 92093-0411

Postdocs

Dr. Dongting Li (co-advised with Prof. Gravish)

dongtingli@ucsd.edu

Dr. Myungsun Park (co-advised with Prof. Pawlak)

mypark@ucsd.edu

Dr. Yichen Zhai

yiz659@eng.ucsd.edu 

Ph.D. Students

Iman Adibnazari

Electrical Engineering

iadibnaz@eng.ucsd.edu

Allyson Chen

Mechanical Engineering

aechen@ucsd.edu


Anoush Sepehri (co-advised with Prof. Morimoto)

Mechanical Engineering

asepehri@ucsd.edu


Hoseung (Harry) Seo

Mechanical Engineering


Jacobo Cervera Torralba

Mechanical Engineering

jcerveratorralba@ucsd.edu


Jiayao (Nancy) Yan (co-advised with Prof. Hwang)

Mechanical Engineering

jiy352@eng.ucsd.edu


M.S. Students

Christina Chase-Markopoulou (co-advised with Tania Morimoto)

Mechanical Engineering


Tara Len

Mechanical Engineering


Aniruddha Nayak

Mechanical Engineering


Shenglin Yang

Mechanical Engineering


Undergraduate Students

Emily Huang

Mechanical Engineering


Suyeon Jeong

Mechanical Engineering (visiting student from SNU)


Eesa Khan

Mechanical Engineering


George Nakoud

Mechanical Engineering


Paola Rosales

Aerospace Engineering


Commencement 2022

Alumni

Visiting Faculty

Prof. Yong-Lae Park, visiting professor from Seoul National University (2019-2020)


Postdoctoral fellows and graduate students

Yuxiang Kang, M.S., (2022-2023)

Korkut Eken, M.S., (2021-2023)

Chengzhe (Jay) Jia, M.S. (2021-2023)

Xiaoran Zha, M.S. (2021-2023)

Alexander Poirier, M.S. (2021-2023)

Surya Thoguluva-kumaran-babu, M.S. (2022-2023)

Emily Lathrop, Ph.D. (co-advised with Prof. Gravish; 2017-2022)

Michael Ishida, M.S./Ph.D. (2016-2022)

Saurabh Jadhav, Ph.D. (2015-2022)

Will Hakes Weston-Dawkes, Ph.D. (2015-2022)

Dev Gulati, B.S./M.S. (2020-2022)

Sidney Huen, B.S./M.S. (2019-2021)

Dylan Drotman, Ph.D. (2015-2021)

Jessica Sandoval, Ph.D. (2016-2021)

Adriane Minori, Ph.D. (2015-2021)

Paul Glick, Ph.D. (2015-2021)

Junda Chen, M.S. (2020-2021).

Yulin Li, M.S. (2019-2021).

Shaghayegh (Anem) Yekepar, M.S. (2019-2021)

Ben Shih, Ph.D. (2015-2020)

Charlie Jen-Hsuan Hsiao, M.S. (2018-2020)

Caleb Christianson, Ph.D. Nanoengineering (2014-2019)

Jamie Luong, M.S. (2017-2019)

Matt Suiter, M.S. (2016-2019)

Maya deVries, postdoc (2016-2018)

Daniel Ortiz, B.S. & M.S. (2015-2018)

Yangting Sun, M.S. (2018)

Francis Joseph, M.S. (2016-2018)

Yue Yang, M.S. (2017)

Tom Kalisky, M.S. (2015-2017)

Bocheng Kang, M.S. (2016-2017)

Ramzi Majit, M.S. (2015-2017)

James Harper, M.S. (2014-2015)

Shea Loges, M.S. (2014-2015)


Undergraduate students

Jayden Wood, B.S. (2021-2023)

Allyson Chen, B.S. (2021-2023, transferred to Ph.D.)

Gabrielle Scott, B.S. (2022)

Seph Shia, B.S., (2020-2021)

Karla Ballin B.S., (2021-2022)

Ayush Gaggar B.S.,  (2021-2022)

Irene Sha B.S., (2021-2022)

Judy Mohamad B.S., (2021-2022)

David Sharp B.S., (2017-2021)

Christian Chan, B.S., (2017-2021)

Eric Shnell, B.S., (2017-2021)

Ricky Martin, B.S., (2019-2021)

Steven Molotnikov, B.S., (2019-2020)

Kristen Rosier, B.S., (2019-2020)

Chris Bayag, B.S. (2019-2020)

Andrew Wang, B.S. (2019-2020)

Thomas Xu, B.S. (2018-2020)

Angela Gao, summer student from UCLA (summer 2020)

Philby Wang, B.S.  (2018-2020)

Indira Mulia, B.S. (2017-2019)

Anish Sinha, B.S. (2019)

Enosh Reeder, E4E student from Cal Poly SLO (summer 2019)

Sam Ehrenstein, E4E student from Case Western (summer 2019)

Dylan Kriegman, summer student from Carnegie Mellon (summer 2019)

Romina Roxan Silva, STARS student from UC Berkeley (summer 2019)

Tina Ghafel, B.S., (2017-2018)

Yi Cui, B.S. (2018-2019)

Adrianna Stopol, B.S. (2017-2019)

Sebastian Lee, B.S. (2016-2017, 2018-2019)

Zhaoyuan Huo, B.S. (2016-2019)

Nikki Arm, B.S. (2017)

Billy Yang, summer student from Swarthmore (summer 2018)

Steven Hu, STARS student from National Sun Yat-sen University (summer 2018)

Ayush Giri, STARS student from Howard University (summer 2018)

Chibuike Agba, STARS student from Howard University (summer 2018)

Aaron Ong, B.S. (2014-2018)

Esmeralda Ochoa, B.S. (2015-2018)

Jason Mayeda, B.S. (2017-2018)

Richard Li, B.S. (2017-2018)

Kyle Gillespie,  B.S. (2016-2018)

Kelly Levick, B.S. (2017-2018)

Ricky Yueqi Wang, B.S. (2016-2018)

Avery Hansen, visiting high school student (2016-2017)

Siddarth Govindan, B.S. (2016-2018)

Luis Ramirez, STARS student (summer 2017)

Nathaniel Goldberg, B.S. (2014-2017)

Nick Garrett, B.S. (2016-2017)

Mustafa Ali, B.S. (2015-2016)

Nathan Adera, STARS student (summer 2016)

Philip deZonia, B.S. (2014-2016)

Maris Doherty, B.S. (2015-2016)

Eric Lee, B.S. (2015-2016)

Alejandra Martinez, STARS student (summer 2015)

Kristen Matsuno, B.S. (2015-2016)

Yuka Okina, B.S. (2015-2017)

Kazu Otani, B.S. (2014-2016)

Brenda Pham, B.S. (2014-2016)

Jeff Wang, B.S. (2015-2016)


Visiting Students

Guorui Li, visiting graduate student from Zhejiang University (2018-2019)

Thomas Thuruthel, visiting graduate student from Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna (2018)

YaoTing Xue, visiting undergraduate student from Zhejiang University (2019-2020)

Summer 2020

Summer 2018