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CRAB Lab

Complex Rheology And Biomechanics

    Principal Investigator

  • Dr. Daniel I Goldman

  • Daniel Goldman is a Professor in the School of Physics at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where he holds a Dunn Family Professorship. Professor Goldman's research program investigates the interaction of biological and physical systems with complex materials like granular media. He received his B.S. in physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1994. He received his PhD in 2002 from the University of Texas at Austin, studying nonlinear dynamics and granular media. He did postdoctoral work in locomotion biomechanics at the University of California at Berkeley. Professor Goldman became a faculty member at Georgia Tech in January 2007. Professor Goldman is an adjunct member of the School of Biology and a member of the Bioengineering Graduate Program. Prof. Goldman is a Georgia Power Professor of Excellence, a Fellow of the American Physical Society (2014), and has received an NSF CAREER/PECASE award, a DARPA Young Faculty Award, a Sigma Xi Young Faculty award, and a Burroughs Welcome Fund Career Award at the Scientific Interface.

    daniel.goldman[at]physics.gatech.edu

  • Postdocs

  • Christopher Pierce

    PhD, Physics

    Biomechanics and Neurobiology of C. elegans

    cpierce43[at]gatech.edu

  • Ram Avinery

    PhD, Physics

    Emergent Behavior of Robot Collectives

    ravinery3[at]gatech.edu

  • Deniz Kerimoglu

    PhD, Electrical and Electronics Engineering

    Bipedal Locomotion on Granular Media

    dkerimoglu6[at]gatech.edu

  • Hosain Bagheri

    PhD, Mechanical Engineering

    Collective Behavior of Social Insects

    hbagheri[at]gatech.edu

  • PhD Graduate Students

  • Andras Karsai

    Physics

    Air Driven Granular Cavities

    akarsai3[at]gatech.edu

  • Shengkai Li

    Physics

    Active matter on deformable substrate

    shengkaili[at]gatech.edu

  • Kelimar Diaz

    Quantitative Biosciences

    C. elegans locomotion

    kelimar.diaz[at]gatech.edu

  • Kehinde Aina

    Robotics

    Ant robot tunnel excavation

    kaina3[at]gatech.edu

  • Baxi Chong

    Quantitative Biosciences

    Geometric Mechanics

    bchong9[at]gatech.edu

  • Akash Vardhan

    Physics

    Smarticles: Collective behavior of shape changing active matter

    avardhan7[at]gatech.edu

  • Steven Tarr

    Physics

    Active matter with wave-based interactions

    steventarr[at]gatech.edu

  • Tianyu Wang

    Robotics

    Robot Locomotion

    tianyuwang[at]gatech.edu

  • Madison Hales

    Robotics

    Robophysical Modeling of Root Growth Dynamics

    madhales[at]gatech.edu

  • Harry Tuazon

    Bioengineering

    Collective group dynamics of physically entangled active matter and swarm robotics

    htuazon3[at]gatech.edu

  • Aradhya Rajanala

    Quantitative Biosciences

    Root Growth Simulations

    aradhyarajanala[at]gatech.edu

  • Masters Graduate Students

  • Daniel Soto

    Mechanical Engineering

    Quadrapedal C-leg Locomotion through Complex Environments

    dsoto7[at]gatech.edu

  • Juntao He

    Mechanical Engineering

    Centipede Robot Locomotion

    juntaohe2021[at]u.northwestern.edu

  • Zhexin Shen

    Robotics

    BoBbots: Collective behavior of the multi-robot system

    zshen321[at]gatech.edu

  • Undergraduate Students

  • Erin McCaskey

    Computer Science

    Rice Root Growth Dynamics


    emccaskey3[at]gatech.edu

  • Tommie Robinson

    Physics

    Phototactic response and locomotion of biflagellate robots


    trobinson89@gatech.edu

  • Hussain Gynai

    Mathematics

    Relativistic interpretation of multi-body interaction mediated by elastic substrate


    hgynai@gatech.edu

  • Eva Erickson

    Physics

    Centipede Locomotion

    eerickson31[at]gatech.edu

  • Venny Kojouharov

    Mechanical Engineering

    Spacetime Swimming

    velinkojouharov[at]gatech.edu

  • Joseph Brunner

    Physics

    Planar Orbits of a Mass-Pulley System

    jbrunner9[at]gatech.edu

  • Noah Egan

    Computer Science

    Replicating ant bridge self-assembly using a robophysical active matter system

    negan7[at]gatech.edu

  • Joonha Hwang

    Mechanical Enginerring

    Swarm Excavation amd Construction

    jhwang321[at]gatech.edu

  • Valerie Zborovsky

    Mechanical Enginerring

    Limbless Robot Locomotion

    vzborovsky[at]gatech.edu

  • Karson Lewis

    Physics

    General relativity simulations using robots on an elastic membrane

    jlewis368[at]gatech.edu

  • Former Lab Members

  • Aamir, Mohammed
    Abbas, Rida
    Aguilar, Jeff, PhD (now at Hi Fidelity Genetics)
    Astley, Henry (now at University of Akron as an assistant professor)
    Bande-Ali, Azeem
    Board, Tommy
    Braun, Zack
    Brown, Andrew
    Brown, Malcolm
    Buffardi, Luke
    Carruthers Ferrero, Alexandra
    Cassidy, Grace
    Caveney, Meredith
    Chang, Alex
    Chau, Jessica
    Chen, Lillian
    Chen, Sandy
    Conn, Nate
    Coyle III, Edward
    Crane, Jeremiah
    Daffon, Kevin
    Ding, Yang, PhD, (now assistant professor at Beijing Computational Science Research Center) website here
    Dominguez, Camila
    Dutta, Bahnisikha
    Everett, Dominique
    Garcia, Mateo
    Glenn, Robbie
    Goddard, Zachary
    Gosyne, Jonathan
    Gravish, Nick, PhD, (now at UCSD as an assistant professor) website here
    Grossman, Elan
    Guigou, Danny
    Guin, Santhosh C.
    Harber, Evan
    Hathaway, Duncan
    Hines, Nathan
    Hubbard, Alex


  • Hubicki, Christian, PhD
    Jacobson, Matt
    Kamor, Adam
    Kim, Allison
    Kingsbury, Mark, PhD
    Koh, Ariel, (now at SpaceX)
    Kohle, Pushkar
    Kuckuk, Robyn
    Lau, Loretta
    Lee, Yean
    Levenfeld, Vlad
    Levy, Laura
    Li, Chen, PhD, (now Assistan Professor at John Hopkins) website here
    Li, Edmond
    Linevich, Vadim MS
    Lofaro, Olivia
    London, Lionel
    Lowder, Mark
    Maisonneuve, Marine
    Maladen, Ryan, PhD, (now at Procter Gamble)
    Margolis, Joshua
    Marvi, Hamid, PhD, (now Assistant Professor at ASU) website here
    Masse, Andrew
    Mazouchova, Nicole, (now at Temple)
    McInroe, Ben
    McFarland, Ciera
    Mendel, Daniel
    Miller, Graham
    Monaenkova, Daria (now at DOW)
    Mukadam, Mustafa
    Murray-Cooper, Mason
    Muthukrishnan, Pranav
    Newsome, Richard
    Nori, Apoorva
    Ozkan Aydin, Yasemin, PhD
    Paez, Margot
    Park, Jungsoo
    Parker, John, (now at University of Chicago as a grad student)

  • Qian, Feifei,PhD, (now Assistant Professor at USC)
    Reiser, Jennifer,PhD (now Assistant Professor at Emory University)
    Rodriguez, Greggory
    Rogers, Shakirah
    Roy, Max
    Saldana, Luis
    Savoie, Will, PhD
    Seidel, Max
    Sen, Amrita
    Schiebel, Perrin E, PhD
    Sharpe, Sarah, PhD, (now at Exponent Technical Consulting)
    Shen, Jeff
    Shin, Patrick
    Shrivastava, Siddharth
    Slatton, Andrew
    Srivastava, Romik
    Stinnett, Zackary
    Taz, Humaira
    Tomkinson, Ian
    Ward, Nicholas
    Warkentin, Ross MS, (now at Kuka Robotics)
    Weeks, Chad
    Wells, Shea
    Winter, Noah
    Xiong, Xiaobin
    Xiao, Charles (now at UC Santa Barbara)
    Yared, Michael
    Yildirim, Baris
    Yip, Vanessa
    Young, Amber
    Zhang, Tingnan, PhD, (now at Google)

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