People

“All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.” -Marie Curie

“Everything is awesome, everything is cool when you’re part of a team” – In Lego Movie

Sunghwan "Sunny" Jung

Professor 2022-Present, BEE, Cornell University
Assoc. Prof. 2018-22, BEE, Cornell University
Assist. & Assoc. Prof 2009-18, Virginia Tech
Instructor 2007-09 Applied Math, MIT
Postdoc 2005-07 Applied Math, Courant Institute
Ph.D. 2005 Physics, University of Texas at Austin

Email: sj737 at cornell.edu

Mary Salcedo

Postdoc 2022- Cornell
Postdoc 2019-22 Virginia Tech
Ph.D. 2019 Harvard U.
B.Eng. 2012 Univ. of Washington

Research: Insect mechanics

Email: mks276 at cornell.edu

Zhengyang Liu

Postdoc 2024- Cornell
Postdoc 2021-23 ESPCI
Ph.D. 2021 U. of MN
B.Eng. 2014 Tsinghua U.

Research: Fluid mechanics

Email: zl948 at cornell.edu

Hosung Kang

Visiting Scholar 2023- Cornell
Research scientist at LG
Postdoc 2015-17 Virginia Tech
Ph.D. 2015 SKKU
B.S. 2011 SKKU

Research: Mechanics

Email: hk766 at cornell.edu

PhD students

Jisoo Yuk

Ph.D. Candidate 2020 - Cornell
M.S. 2019 SKKU
B.S. 2017 SKKU
Research: Bio-fluid mechanics; impact
Email: jy486 at cornell.edu

Abhradeep Maitra

Ph.D. Candidate 2020 - Cornell
B.S. 2020 IIT Kharagpur
Research: Bio-fluid mechanics; flying
Email: am3326 at cornell.edu

Crystal Fowler

Ph.D. Candidate 2022- Cornell
B.S. 2021 Utah State Univ.
Research: Plant-fluid mechanics
Email: crf78 at cornell.edu

Yicong Fu

Ph.D. Candidate 2022 - Cornell
B.S. 2022 UVA
Research: Animal bio-mechanics
Email: yf357 at cornell.edu

Master students & Interns

Tianbin Liu

MS Cornell UB.S. 2022 Research: Bio-roboticsEmail: tl869 at cornell.edu

Yajing Wang

MEng. Cornell UB.S. 2023 Research: HydroponicsEmail: yw2634 at cornell.edu

Julia Adler

MEng. Cornell UB.S. 2023 Research: Bat robotEmail: jga49 at cornell.edu

Anthony Nicolaides

B.S. 2024 Cornell Research: Plant scienceEmail: ajn68 at cornell.edu

Lian Liao

MEng. Cornell UB.S. 2023 Research: Snail robotEmail: ll987 at cornell.edu

Isaac Newcomb

MEng. Cornell UB.S. 2023 Research: BiomechanicsEmail: idn6 at cornell.edu

Jin Ryu

MEng. Cornell UB.S. 2024 Research: Plastic collecting robotEmail: jfr224 at cornell.edu

Kesekoseah Mauro

MEng. Cornell UB.S. 2023 Research: Plastic collecting robotEmail: knm46 at cornell.edu

Mingda Li

MEng. Cornell UB.S. 2023 Research: Insect catcherEmail: ml2787 at cornell.edu

Kim Vivar

MEng. Cornell UB.S. 2023 Research: BiomechanicsEmail: kmv47 at cornell.edu

Undergraduate students

Matthew Huang

B.S. 2024 (Expected) Cornell Research: Bird morphologyEmail: mkh66 at cornell.edu

Rehan Marshall

B.S. 2026 (Expected) Cornell Research: Plant scienceEmail: rpm239 at cornell.edu

Yany Lin

B.S. 2026 (Expected) Cornell

Research: Bubble cleaning

Email: yl2884 at cornell.edu

Afia Berkoh-Kyeremeh

B.S. 2026 (Expected) Cornell

Research: Fish gill

Email: abb247 at cornell.edu

Andrew Piatetsky

B.S. 2029 (Expected) Cornell

Research: Hydroponics

Email: ap2356 at cornell.edu

Justin Wang

B.S. 2029 (Expected) Cornell

Research: Plant

Email: jw2694 at cornell.edu

Julianna Rose

B.S. 2026 (Expected) Cornell

Research: Plant Science

Email: jkr76 at cornell.edu

Yoojung Joe

B.S. 2025 (Expected) Cornell

Research: Agricultural Science & Information Science

Email: hsj25 at cornell.edu

Cole Gilbert

B.S. 2025 (Expected) Cornell

Computer Science

Research: Agricultural Science & Information Science

Email: nsg68 at cornell.edu

Chloe Sleeper

B.S. 2026 (Expected) Cornell

Biological Engineering

Research: Agricultural Science & Information Science

Email: css297 at cornell.edu

FORMER LAB MEMBERS

Postdocs:
Jean-Francois Louf (2016; Prof. at Auburn U.), Hosung Kang (2018; Scientist in LG), Seungho Kim (2019; Prof. at Busan Nat. Univ.), Anupam Pandey (2022; Prof. at Syracuse Univ.), Navid Hooshanginejad (2022; SharkNinja Co.), Akihito Kiyama (2023; Prof. at Saitama Univ.), Mary Salcedo (2024; ASU Program manager)

PhD students:
Saikat Jana (2013; Prof. at Ulster U.), Sean Gart (2015; Researcher at ARL), Peng Zhang (2016; Prof. at Tennessee Tech), SeongJin Kim (2017; Scientist at KIST), Brian Chang (2018; Cambridge Design P'ship), Ehsan Esmaili (2020; Engineer at Western Digital), Zixuan Wu (2024; postdoc at Syracuse Univ.)

Master students:
Navish Wadhwa (2012), Sam Koski (2017), Yao Xiao (2019), Zachary Otterpohl (2019), Aman Agarwal (2019), Wilson R. Llivichuzhca Pillco (2019), Benjamin Lee (2019), Yohan Sequeira (2020), Mark Gottlieb (2020), Kate Thomas (2020), Karl Frohlich (2021), Sheila Balu (2021), Christopher Kutil (2021), Emily Wang (2021), Matthieu Fuchs (2021), Joey Tomei (2021), Sarah MacGregor (2021), Marielle Mullon (2021), Pray Xu (2021), Joseph Lee (2022), Harshul Sahni (2022), Bryan Cisz (2022), Cheng Chang (2022), Melody Yu (2022), Yiheng Zhu (2022), Youhan Yuan (2022), Maggie Chen (2022), Chelsea Frisch (2022), Ning Ting Ni (2022), Guoxuan Dong (2023), Eli Vicarte (2023), Weilun Wang (2023), Xinying Min (2023), Cameron Hamidi (2023), Mariko McMurtry (2023), Sharon Hsu (2023), Andres Garcia (2023), Raye Liu (2023), Ivy Young (2023), Guoxuan Dong (2023), Ramit Machhan (2023), Kim Vivar (2024), Julia Adler (2024), Isaac Newcomb (2024), Kesekoseah Mauro (2024), Lian Liao (2024), Yajing Wang (2024),

Intern students:
Brice Slama (2012), Ming Long, Gabriel Guenoun, Minsu Jang (2014), Stephane Poulain, Florent Debenedetti (2015), Pierre Ntoh Song, Zishan Waheed (2016), Romain Paris, Paul Dewost, Pranav Shukla (2017), Agathe Boutaud, Louis Laurentin, Loic Etienne, Kinjal Bhar, Yashraj Bhosale (2018), Kinjal Bhar (2019), Kaleb Roncatti (2020), Aneek Chakraborty (2020), Gabriella Barsaglini (2021), Philip Adjei (2021), Jerome Bouthillon (2022)

Undergraduate students (total 97):

Class of 2027 (1): Andrew Piatetsky
Class of 2026 (4): Yany Lin, Rehan Marshall, Afia Berkoh-Kyeremeh, Julianna Rose
Class of 2025 (1): Yoojung Joe
Class of 2024 (6): Jenna Ceraso, Janeth Manyalla, Rachel Bocian, Anthony Nicolaides, Matthew Huang, Corey Reese
Class of 2023 (7): Jenna Rotheram, Caroline Graves, Meredith Brafman, Andy Park, Sharon Wang, Sofia Kashtelyan, Rachel Havriliak
Class of 2022 (8): Kyra Frederick, Truman Tse, Emily Chou, Ben Cooke, Dan Morton, John Jaicks, Tim Sheppard, Regina Casimiro-Nunez
Class of 2021 (6): Saloni Bhargava, Garrett Bimstefer, Leena Park, Anuj Baskota, Paul Casavant, Gayatri Prakash
Class of 2020 (3): Katelee Averett, Jessie Johnson, Karl Frohlich
Class of 2019 (2): Naila Sayani, Yohan Sequeria
Class of 2018 (2): Michael Valosin, Dan Mangels
Class of 2017 (8): Jalil Hasanyan, Andrew Marino, Thomas Magelinski, Dan Morris, Logan Nelson, Justin Howell, Brandon Yasin, Emerson Ham
Class of 2016 (6): Alex Ochs, Jim An, Grace Ma, Tim Zehnbauer, Thomas Moore, Austin Mituniewicz
Class of 2015 (7): Matt Croson, Josh Mull, Sara Fleetwood, Will Crowe, Taylor Smock, Craig Jackson, Tim Stoddard
Class of 2014 (12): Uma Balakumar, Taylor Kroeller, Jordan Plahn, Jacqueline Rizzi, Joe Sabanosh, Ethan Compton, Daniel Diggs, Suphassorn Eaksen, Padraic Flynn, Christian Irvin, James Richardson, Katie Norris
Class of 2013 (10): Aja Eddins, Brian Chang, Katie Sherman, Alex Kotsch, Kemper Fox, Carolyn Roberts, Joe Danehower, Staci Hooker, Callan Gillespie, Austin Fergusson
Class of 2012 (9): Justin Watts, Daniel Chique, Gary Nave, EJ Park, William Green, Cadence Martin, Dawn Jackson, Thomas Haugh, Randy Goodnight
Class of 2011 (2): Jacob Moyer, Kelly Tate
Class of 2010 (3): Sarah Goral, Jennifer Tolley, Deacons Aquino