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People

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Winter 2018 CHARM Lab Members

Principal Investigator

Allison Okamura

Title:
Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Email:
aokamura [snail] stanford [period] edu -> mailto:aokamura [snail] stanford [period] edu
Phone:
650-721-1700
Address
Building 550, Room 107, 416 Escondido Mall
Stanford, CA 94305-4021
Webpage:
School of Engineering profile
Personal webpage

Staff

Crystal Pennywelll

Title:
Administrator
Email:
crystal [period] pennywell [snail] stanford [period] edu -> mailto:crystal [period] pennywell [snail] stanford [period] edu
Phone:
650-498-9887
Address
Building 560, Room 205, 424 Panama Mall
Stanford, CA 94305-2232

Postdocs and Research Scientists

Ming Luo

Project:
Soft Robots, Haptics
Education:
Ph.D in Robotics, Worchester Polytechnic Institute
MS in ISAT, Southeastern Louisiana University
BS in ECE, Tian Jin Polytechnic University, China
Email:
mingluo [snail] stanford [period] edu -> mailto:mingluo [snail] stanford [period] edu
Webpage:
Ming's Webpage

Giada Gerboni

Project:
Robotic Needle Steering
Education:
PhD in Biorobotics, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, Italy
MS in Biomedical Engineering, University of Pisa, Italy
BS in Biomedical Engineering, University of Pisa, Italy
Email:
ggerboni [snail] stanford [period] edu -> mailto:ggerboni [snail] stanford [period] edu
Webpage:
Giada's Webpage

MS/PhD Students

Sophia Williams

Project:
Needle Steering
Education:
BS in Engineering, Harvey Mudd College
Email:
sophiarw [snail] stanford [period] edu -> mailto:sophiarw [snail] stanford [period] edu
Webpage:
Sophia's Webpage

Cara Welker

Project:
Rehabilitation Robotics
Education:
BSE in Biomedical Engineering,
BSE in Chemical Engineering,
Vanderbilt University
Email:
cgwelker [snail] stanford [period] edu -> mailto:cgwelker [snail] stanford [period] edu
Webpage:
Cara's Webpage?

Julie Walker

Project:
Control and Analysis of Haptic Systems
Education:
BS in Mechanical Engineering, Rice University
Email:
juliewalker [snail] stanford [period] edu -> mailto:juliewalker [snail] stanford [period] edu
Webpage:
Julie's Webpage

Nathan Usevitch

Project:
3D Shape Displays
Education:
BS in Mechanical Engineering, Brigham Young University
Email:
usevitch [snail] stanford [period] edu -> mailto:usevitch [snail] stanford [period] edu
Webpage:
Nathan's Webpage?

Jacob Suchoski

Project:
Tactile Feedback for Virtual Reality Applications
Education:
MS in Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University
BS in Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan
Email:
jsucho [snail] stanford [period] edu -> mailto:jsucho [snail] stanford [period] edu
Webpage:
Coming Soon.

Sean Sketch

Project:
Sensory Augmentation for Post-Stroke Movement Rehabilitation
Education:
MS in Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University
BSE in Mechanical Engineering, Princeton University
Email:
ssketch [snail] stanford [period] edu -> mailto:ssketch [snail] stanford [period] edu
Webpage:
Coming Soon.

Cole Simpson

Project:
Rehabilitation Robotics
Education:
MS in Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
BS in Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
BA in Music, Emory University
Email:
cssimps [snail] stanford [period] edu -> mailto:cssimps [snail] stanford [period] edu
Webpage:
Cole's Webpage

Mike Salvato

Project:
Haptics
Education:
MS in Computer Science, MIT
BS in Computer Science, MIT
Email:
msalvato [snail] stanford [period] edu -> mailto:msalvato [snail] stanford [period] edu
Webpage:
Coming Soon

Melisa Orta

Project:
Haptics for Education
Education:
Coming soon.
Email:
melisao [snail] stanford [period] edu -> mailto:melisao [snail] stanford [period] edu
Webpage:
Coming Soon.

Cara Nunez

Project:
Haptics
Education:
MS in Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University
International Engineering Program, University of Rhode Island
BS in Biomedical Engineering, University of Rhode Island
BA in Spanish, University of Rhode Island
Email:
nunezc [snail] stanford [period] edu -> mailto:nunezc [snail] stanford [period] edu
Webpage:
Coming Soon.

Margaret Koehler

Project:
Particle Jamming Shape Display
Education:
BS in Mechanical Engineering,
Stanford University
Email:
mkoehler [snail] stanford [period] edu -> mailto:mkoehler [snail] stanford [period] edu
Webpage:
Margaret's Webpage?

Brian Do

Project:
Soft Robotics
Education:
BS in Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Tech

Email:
brianhdo [snail] stanford [period] edu -> mailto:brianhdo [snail] stanford [period] edu
Webpage:
Coming Soon

Darrel Deo

Project:
The Role of Haptic Feedback in Motor Learning and Control
Education:
MS in Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University
BS in Robotics Engineering,
University of California, Santa Cruz
Email:
ddeo [snail] stanford [period] edu -> mailto:ddeo [snail] stanford [period] edu
Webpage:
Darrel's Webpage

Margaret Coad

Project:
Design and Control of a Soft Growing Robot for Search and Rescue Applications
Education:
MS in Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University
BS in Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Email:
mmcoad [snail] stanford [period] edu -> mailto:mmcoad [snail] stanford [period] edu
Webpage:
Coming Soon

Zonghe Chua

Project:
Motor Learning and Training in Surgical Robotics
Education:
BS in Mechanical Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Email:
chuazh [snail] stanford [period] edu -> mailto:chuazh [snail] stanford [period] edu
Webpage:
Zong's Portfolio

Yuhang Che

Project:
Human-Robot Collaboration for Multilateral Manipulation
Education:
BS in Mechanical Engineering,
Shanghai Jiao Tong University,
Purdue University
Email:
yuhangc [snail] stanford [period] eduu -> mailto:yuhangc [snail] stanford [period] eduu
Webpage:
Yuhang's Webpage

Laura Blumenschein

Project:
Robotics
Education:
MS Mechanical Engineering,
BS Mechanical Engineering,
Rice University
Email:
lblumens [snail] stanford [period] edu -> mailto:lblumens [snail] stanford [period] edu
Webpage:
Laura's Webpage?

Nathaniel Agharese

Project:
Soft Robotics in Search and Rescue Applications
Education:
BS in Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University

Email:
agharese [snail] stanford [period] edu -> mailto:agharese [snail] stanford [period] edu
Webpage:
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Visiting Scholars and Students

Dr. Dangxiao Wang

Title:
Professor at Robotics Institute, Beihang University (Visiting Professor)
Projects:
Haptics
Education:
PhD, Robotics Insitute, School of Mechanical Engineering and Automation, Beihang University, Beijing China
ScM, College of Astronautics, Northwestern Polytechnic University, Xi'an, China
BS, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Shaanxi Insitute of Technology, Shaanxia, China
Email:
hapticwang [snail] buaa [period] edu [period] cn -> mailto:hapticwang [snail] buaa [period] edu [period] cn
Webpage:
Human-machine Interaction Lab

Carine Rognon

Title:
Visiting Scholar
Projects:
Rendering the sensation of flying from a drone to a human
Education:
Currently, PhD student in Robotics, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL)
MS in Biomedical Engineering, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETHZ), with a Master Thesis at the University of Tokyo
BS in Microengineering, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL)
Email:
carine [period] rognon [snail] epfl [period] ch -> mailto:carine [period] rognon [snail] epfl [period] ch
Webpage:
Linkedin
NCCR Robotics

Christian Duriez

Title:
Research Director at INRIA (Visiting Scholar)
Projects:
Modeling, simulation & control of soft robots
Short Bio:
- PhD in robotics from University of Evry & CEA (France) in 2004
- Post-Doc at the CIMIT SimGroup in Boston in 2005
- Team member of Alcove and Shacra teams at Inria (Surgical simulation, haptics, interaction & soft tissue models, ...) between 2006 and 2014
- Team leader of Defrost team (Inria & University of Lille) since 2015: Defrost website
Email:
christian [period] duriez [snail] inria [period] fr -> mailto:christian [period] duriez [snail] inria [period] fr
Webpage:
Christian's Webpage

Rotators, Undergraduate Researchers, High School Interns, Etc.

Summer 2018:
Tiger Sun, tgsun@stanford.edu (SURI, drone haptics and fingertip haptics)
Tita Kanjanapas, smitak2@stanford.edu (SURI, soft wearable haptics)
Sadie Cutler, sadie.cutler@gmail.com (REU, vine robot)
Josey Oquendo, oquendoy@stanford.edu (da Vinci training)
Bethany Chaffin, bchaffin@stanford.edu (educational haptics)
Claus Omolo, claus2@stanford.edu (educational haptics)
Sean Williams, williams9sean@gmail.com (educational haptics)
Daniel Shuldman, eliasds@berkeley.edu (educational haptics)
Anthony Anderson, anthony.anderson@claytonvalley.org (educational haptics)
Sarah Brennan, sbrenn@stanford.edu (BSME 2.0 lab development)
Zach Blum, zblum25@stanford.edu (BSME 2.0 lab development)
Imogen Farlie, imogen.farlie@hotmail.co.uk (Surgical learning)

Spring 2018:
Tiger Sun, tgsun@stanford.edu, (drone haptics)
Elyse Chase, elysec@stanford.edu (haptics)
Winston Liao, wliao18@stanford.edu (vine robot)
Javier Reyna, jreynaz@stanford.edu (vine robot)
Josey Angeli Oquendo, oquendoy@stanford.edu (da Vinci training)
Bethany Chaffin, bchaffin@stanford.edu (educational haptics)

Collaborators

Kara Flavin, M.D. (Clinical Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery and Neurology & Neurological Sciences, Stanford University Medical Center)

Maarten Lansberg, M.D., Ph.D. (Associate Professor of Neurology & Neurological Sciences, Stanford University Medical Center)

Mark Cutkosky, Ph.D. (Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University)

Jake Abbott, Ph.D. (Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, University of Utah)

Tarik Massoud, M.D., Ph.D. (Professor of Radiology, Stanford University Medical Center)

Gloria Hwang, M.D. (Clinical Assistant Professor of Radiology, Stanford University Medical Center)

Paul Laeseke, M.D., Ph.D. (Resident Physician, Stanford University Medical Center)

Sean Follmer, Ph.D. (Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University)

Ken Goldberg, Ph.D. and Pieter Abbeel, Ph.D. (UC Berkeley)

Lab Alumni

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Past Lab Photos

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Lab Jobs

  • Lab data storage & backup (Dropbox), MATLAB Server - Yuhang
  • Webmaster, software record management - Mike
  • Equipment/materials, software, and lab clean up - Laura & Cara W
  • New 3D printer - Ming
  • Shop coordinator - Jake
  • Laser cutter - Cole (other currently approved users: Sean, Nathan, Sophia, Cara N., Brian)
  • Makerbot management - Melisa
  • UV laser cutter coordinator - Giada
  • Lab safety coordinator, Building Evacuation Response Team (BERT) member - Sean & Cara N.
  • Meeting/events coordinator - Sophia
  • Lab tour/demo coordinator - Margaret C. & Nathan
  • Outreach coordinators - Darrel, Brian, Nathaniel
  • Human subjects - Allison