People
Principal Investigator
Prof. Ming Luo, Flaherty Assistant Professor
School of Mechanical and Material Engineering
Postdoc scholar: Stanford University, Mechanical Engineering, 2020
PhD: Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Robotics Engineering, 2017
Email: ming.luo@wsu.edu
Phone number: +1 (509)-335-4034
Address: Sloan 211, 405 NE Spokane St, Pullman, WA 99163
PhD students
Justin C. Allen (Starting from 2021 Fall, GAANN Fellow)
School of Mechanical and Material Engineering
Research: Personal robot
BS: WSU, School of Mechanical and Material Engineering 2021
Email: justin.allen3@wsu.edu
Ryan John. Dorosh (Starting from 2022 Fall, Nakahara Fellow)
School of Mechanical and Material Engineering
Research: Agriculture robot
BS: WSU, School of Mechanical and Material Engineering 2022
Email: ryan.dorosh@wsu.edu
Master students
Undergraduate Students
Justin Pilgrim (Boeing Cyber Grant Research Fellow; Work on the AFREE and Soft Exoskeleton)
Christopher Heintz (Boeing Cyber Grant Research Fellow; Work on the AFREE)
Zoe Fichtel (McNair Fellow; Work on the Soft Snake Robot)
Capstone teams:
2022 Spring:
Agriculture robot (With Dr. Karkee): Ryan Dorosh; Ethan Tuck; Jack Spieker; Jodan Kurtz; Jack Coleman.
Hapkit: Connor Austin Toulou; Joshua Latimer; Phillip Andrew Stiles; Jesus R Mendoza.
Collaborators
Dr. Allison Okamura (Stanford, Mechanical Engineering)
Dr. Cagdas Onal (WPI, Robotics Engineering)
Dr. Manoj Karkee (WSU Prosser – IAREC, Biological Systems Engineering)
Dr. Weihong (Katie) Zhong (WSU, School of Mechanical and Material Engineering)
Dr. Tahira M. Probst (WSU, Department of Psychology)
Dr. Matthew D. Whiting (WSU Prosser – IAREC, Department of Horticulture)
Dr. Wenzhen Yuan (CMU, The Robotics Institute)
Dr. Laura Blumenschein (Purdue, Mechanical Engineering)
Thomas Trzpit (Northwestern, Mechanical Engineering)