Professors, PIs, and Clinical Collaborators
J. Kenneth Salisbury, Ph.D.
Research Professor
Departments of Computer Science, Surgery
Courtesy Appointment in Department
of Mechanical Engineering
Current Students
Shenli Yuan
Ph.D. Candidate,
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Jerome Nowak
Ph.D. Candidate,
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Connor Yako
Ph.D. Candidate,
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Sandesh Manik
M.S. student,
Design Impact Program
Former Students
Brian Jo
Graduated with Ph.D.,
Institute of Computational
and Mathematical Engineering (ICME)

Tony Pratkanis
Undergraduate,
Department of Computer Science

Michael Yip
Graduated with Ph.D.,
Department of Bioengineering

Reuben Brewer
Graduated with Ph.D.,
Department of Mechanical Engineering

Jonas Forsslund
Ph.D. Candidate,
School of Computer
Science and Communication
KTH Royal Institute of Technology

Cédric Schwab
Masters Candidate,
Virtual Reality and Active
Interfaces (VRAI) Group,
École Polytechnique Fédérale
de Lausanne (EPFL)

Jeff Schlosser, Ph.D.
Graduated with Ph.D.,
Department of Mechanical Engineering

Kevin Loewke, Ph.D.
Graduated with Ph.D.,
Department of Mechanical Engineering

Curt Salisbury, Ph.D.
Graduated with Ph.D.,
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Stanford University

Sean Walker, Ph.D.
Graduated with Ph.D.,
Department of Computer Science

Ben Wilson
Graduated with Masters,
Department of Mechanical Engineering
- Remis Balaniuk, Post-Doc, Deformable Tissue Simulation
- Roman Devengenzo, Maters Student, Force Feedback Grips for Haptic Interactions
- Derek Gaw, Undergrad (summer), Embedding haptics in movies
- Unnur Gretarsdottir, MS Student, Haptics for the desktop environment
- Paul Nangeroni, MS student, Mechanism Design
- Josh Oechslin, MS student, Robotics
- Kirk Phelps, MS Student, Serpentine Robots, Tactile Interfaces, Tele-Dermatology
- Lee Redden, MS Student, Haptics
- Brandon Stafford, MS student, Human-Friendly Robotics, CANbus control
- Josh Stern, Undergrad (summer), GPU-accelerated physical simulation
- Yuka Teraguchi, Undergrad (summer), Haptics in downloadable media
- Doug Wilson, Undergrad (summer), Rendering techniques for surgical simulation
- Ashley Wellman, MS Student, Personal Robotics
- Lauren Wessel, MS student, Personal Robotics
- Sue-Lynn Wu, MS Student, Serpentine Robots, Robot-Assisted Surgery