People
Meet the lab
Engineers, computer scientists and designers, working with the community partners who test our robots.
Director
Elena Marquez
she/her
Associate Professor and Lab Director
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Research interests are human-robot interaction, assistive technology and soft robotics.
Graduate students
Jordan Lee
they/them
Ph.D. student
Mechanical Engineering
Soft grippers
Priya Raman
she/her
Ph.D. student
Computer Science
Crowd-aware driving
Marcus Owens
he/him
Ph.D. student
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Head-motion control
Sofia Chen
she/her
Master's student
Mechanical Engineering
ReachKit
Staff and undergraduates
Daniel Okafor
Research engineer
Lab staff
Hannah Brooks
Undergraduate researcher
Mechanical Engineering
Luis Ortega
Undergraduate researcher
Computer Science
Grace Kim
Undergraduate researcher
Design, Cultures and Creativity
Alumni
[TO DO: list alumni and where they are now.]