People

Lab members

Principal Investigator

Dr. Daniel Goldman
Associate Professor in the School of Physics, Adjunct Professor in the School of Biology, Member Graduate Bioengineering Program
contact:daniel.goldman [at] physics.gatech.edu
Full CV (Georgia Tech format)

Visiting Scientist

Dr. Paul Umbanhowar
Research interests lie in the area of nonlinear and complex physics with a focus on the dynamics of granular media.
contact:umbanhowar [at] northwestern.edu
website: http://www.mech.northwestern.edu/web/people/faculty/umbanhowar.php

Postdocs

Daria Monaenkova
PhD, Materials Science, Nest construction of fire-ants in granular media
contact: dmonaenkova3 [at] mail.gatech.edu

Graduate students

Jeff Aguilar
PhD student, Mechanical Engineering, Robot hopping on sand
contact: gth657s [at] gatech.edu

Nick Gravish
PhD student, Physics, Dynamics of active and passive granular media
contact: nick.gravish [at] gmail.com
personal website: http://www.physics.gatech.edu/~ngravish3/

Mark Kingsbury
PhD student, Physics, Bipedal robot walking on granular media
contact: mkingsbury3 [at] gatech.edu

Feifei Qian
PhD student, Electrical Engineering, Locomotion on heterogeneous granular media
contact: qianfeifei_china [at] gatech.edu

Sarah Sharpe
PhD student, Bioengineering, Muscle activity in sand-swimming lizards
contact: ssharpe [at] gatech.edu

Tingnan Zhang
PhD student, Physics, Simulation of granular media
contact: tingnan1986 [at] gatech.edu

Special-problems graduate students

Perrin Scheibel
PhD Student, Sidewinding locomotion on sand
contact: pschiebel3 [at] gatech.edu

Will Savoie
PhD Student, Resistive force theory of GM
contact: wsavoie [at] gatech.edu

Undergraduate students

Azeem Bande-Ali
PHYS, Locomotion on sand
contact: a.bandeali [at] gmail.com

Luke Buffardi
Physics, locomotion in hetrogeneous GM
contact: lukebuffardi [at] gatech.edu

Edward Coyle III
Applied Physics and Public Policy, Social dynamics of ants.
contact: lukebuffardi [at] gatech.edu

Robyn Kuckuk
BME, locomotion in wet granular media
contact: rkuckuk3 [at] gatech.edu

Kevin Daffon
ME, OctoRoACH robot locomotion on granular media
contact: kevin.daffon [at] gatech.edu

Vlad Levenfeld
PHYS, Sand walking robots
contact: vlevenfeld [at] gmail.com

	Ben McInroe PHYS, Quadruped robot walker contact: bmcinroe3 [at] gatech.edu
	Greggory Rodriguez PHYS, Fire ant traffic behavior and interactions contact: grodriguez6 [at] gatech.edu
	Max Roy PHYS, Robot locomotion on inclines contact: mroy3 [at] gatech.edu

Humaira Taz
Wesleyan College, intern, robot locomotion on sand
contact: hxtaz [at] wesleyancollege.edu

Former Lab Members

Crane, Jeremiah

Ding, Yang, PhD, (now at U. Southern California as a postdoc, website here)

Everett, Dominique

Garcia, Mateo

Glenn, Robbie

Grossman, Elan

Guigou, Danny

Guin, Santhosh C.

Hathaway, Duncan

Jacobson, Matt

Kamor, Adam

Kohle, Pushkar

Lau, Loretta

Lee, Yean

Levy, Laura

Li, Chen, PhD, (now at UC Berkeley as a Miller Postdoctoral Fellow) website here

London, Lionel

Maladen, Ryan, PhD, (now at Proctor & Gamble)

Mazouchova, Nicole, (Now at Temple) website here

Masse, Andrew

Mendel, Daniel

Miller, Graham

Saldana, Luis

Shen, Jeff

Slatton, Andrew

Stinnett, Zackary

Ward, Nicholas

Weeks, Chad

Yildirim, Baris

Yip, Vanessa