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

PhD students

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

Hongsik Kim

Ph.D. Candidate 2023 - Cornell
B.S. 2019 Yonsei Univ.
Research: Multiphysics particle manipulation
Email: hk866 at cornell.edu

Master students & Interns

Caleb Schlissel

MEng. Cornell UB.S. 2025, Cornell UniversityResearch: Bat RobotEmail: cms453 at cornell.edu

Robert Bridges

MEng. Cornell UB.S. 2025, Cornell UniversityResearch: Bat RobotEmail: rcb354 at cornell.edu

Stella Taglich

MEng. Cornell UB.S. 2025, Cornell UniversityResearch: Bat RobotEmail: sct72 at cornell.edu

Sasha Logunov

MEng. Cornell UB.S. 2025, Cornell UniversityResearch: Walking RobotEmail: asl297 at cornell.edu

Donny Christian

MEng. Cornell UB.Eng 2018, Bandung Institute of Technology, IndonesiaResearch: AI-assisted hydroponicEmail: dc2266 at cornell.edu

Jinyoung Youn

MEng. Cornell UB.S. 2022, U. Conn.Research: Walking RobotEmail: jy2265 at cornell.edu

Nyra Graham

MEng. Cornell UB.S. 2025, Cornell UResearch: AI-assisted HydroponicsEmail: nig9 at cornell.edu

Kotey Ashie

MEng. Cornell UB.S. 2025, Cornell UResearch: Robotic gripperEmail: kaa86 at cornell.edu

Undergraduate students

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

Julianna Rose

B.S. 2026 (Expected) Cornell

Research: Plant Science

Email: jkr76 at cornell.edu

Chloe Sleeper

B.S. 2026 (Expected) Cornell

Research: Agricultural Science & Information Science

Email: css297 at cornell.edu

Yoojung Joe

B.S. 2025 (Expected) Cornell

Research: Agricultural Science & Information Science

Email: hsj25 at cornell.edu

Harvey Kou

B.S. 2026 (Expected) Cornell

Research: Soap bubbleEmail: hk732 at cornell.edu

Justin Chen

B.S. 2027 (Expected) Cornell

Research: Beet juiceEmail: jc3692 at cornell.edu

Alicia Leem

B.S. 2027 (Expected) Cornell

Research: Plant movementEmail: ayl64 at cornell.edu

Partha Panicker

B.S. 2026 (Expected) Cornell

Research: Bio-fluidsEmail: pbp35 at cornell.edu

Tam Pham

B.S. 2027 (Expected) Cornell

Research: Bat RobotEmail: thp28 at cornell.edu

Alan Munschy

B.S. 2027 (Expected) Cornell

Research: Plastic Collecting RobotEmail: apm238 at cornell.edu

Angus Chang

B.S. 2027 (Expected) Cornell

Research: Bat RobotEmail: sc3295 at cornell.edu

Yuhan Wu

B.S. 2027 (Expected) Cornell

Research: AI detection systemEmail: yw2536 at cornell.edu

Bowen Yu

B.S. 2028 (Expected) Cornell

Research: Agricultural Science & Information Science

Email: by289 at cornell.edu

Isaac Ng

B.S. 2027 (Expected) Cornell

Research: Bat robot

Email: in63 at cornell.edu

Leah Fromm

B.S. 2028 (Expected) Cornell

Research: Plant Science and Biological Fuels

Email: lf448 at cornell.edu

Patrick Wu

B.S. 2028 (Expected) Cornell

Research: Plant Science & Operations Research

Email: pw479 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), Zhengyang Liu (2025; Polymaker Co.)

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.), Jisoo Yuk (2025; postdoc at Univ. of Oslo)

Master students:
2012: Navish Wadhwa (Prof. at Arizona State University), 2017: Sam Koski (Associate Director at Raytheon), 2019: Yao Xiao, Zachary Otterpohl (Commonwealth Fusion Systems), Aman Agarwal, Wilson R. Llivichuzhca Pillco (US Army), Benjamin Lee, 2020: Yohan Sequeira (PhD at Virginia Tech), Mark Gottlieb (Engineer at GM), Kate Thomas (Program Manager at L3Harris), 2021: Karl Frohlich (Senior Systems Engineer at Ultima Genomics), Sheila Balu (Engineer at Zoox), Christopher Kutil (Robotic Process Engineer), Emily Wang, Matthieu Fuchs, Joey Tomei (Lockheed Martin), Sarah MacGregor (Anduril Industries), Marielle Mullon (Daimler Truck North America), Pray Xu (PhD candidate at Tufts), 2022: Joseph Lee (PhD candidate at Cornell), Harshul Sahni (Palantir), Bryan Cisz (Manufacturing Engineer WWTP), Cheng Chang, Melody Yu (Anduril Industries), Yiheng Zhu, Youhan Yuan, Maggie Chen (Boeing), Chelsea Frisch (Amtrak), Ning Ting Ni (Jaros, Baum & Bolles), 2023: Guoxuan Dong, Eli Vicarte (Walt Disney Imagineering), Weilun Wang, Xinying Min, Cameron Hamidi, Mariko McMurtry (Mechanical Design Engineer at Northwood), Sharon Hsu (Inrad Optics), Andres Garcia (Boston Consulting Group), Raye Liu, Ivy Young (Philips), Guoxuan Dong, Ramit Machhan (Mechanical Design Engineer at ASML), 2024: Kim Vivar (R&D Engineer at Prysmian), Julia Adler (Energy Engineer at Goldman Copeland Associates), Isaac Newcomb, Kesekoseah Mauro (Mechanical Design Engineer at Neuralink), Lian Liao, Yajing Wang, Mingda Li, 2025: Tianbin Liu (Beijing Academy of AI), Noah Hartman (Environmental Air Specialist at NextEra Energy), Samir Tandon, Layne Sulton (Mechanical Engineer at Anduril), Ta-jung Lin, Kelly Wei, Jacob Lujanac, Anthony Coffin-Schmitt (Research Technician at Cornell), Edison Tai, Ting-Yu Liu (Engineer at Taurus Industrial Group), Elan Chen, Allison Thompson, Bor-Jiun Tseng, Zayana Khan (TAP at Morgan Stanley), James Koga (SDE at Amazon), Caleb Schlissel,

Intern students:
2012: Brice Slama (Arianegroup), 2014: Ming Long (Direction générale de l'armement), Gabriel Guenoun (Saint-Gobain Research North America), Minsu Jang, 2015: Stephane Poulain (Postdoc at U. Oslo), Florent Debenedetti (ELIS; Circular services at work), Pierre Ntoh Song (Festo), Zishan Waheed, 2017: Romain Paris (ONERA), Paul Dewost, Pranav Shukla (Exotrail), Agathe Boutaud (Carbon Cutter), Louis Laurentin, Loic Etienne (Aliaxis), Yashraj Bhosale (2018), Kinjal Bhar (2019), Kaleb Roncatti (2020), Aneek Chakraborty (2020), Gabriella Barsaglini (2021), Philip Adjei (2021), Jerome Bouthillon (2022), Lucas Descloitres (2025), Jorik Pelsma (2025), Juan Otalora (2025)

Undergraduate students (total 108):

Class of 2028 (3): Bowen Yu, Patrick Wu, Leah Fromm
Class of 2027 (12): Andrew Piatetsky, Shirlyne Kirui, Alicia Leem, Faiza Huda, Edison Chen, Justin Chen, Yuhan Wu, Tam Pham, Alan Munschy, Angus Chang, Isaac Ng, Bowen Yu
Class of 2026 (8): Yany Lin, Rehan Marshall, Afia Berkoh-Kyeremeh, Julianna Rose, Chloe Sleeper, Harvey Kou, Ty Oshima, Partha Panicker
Class of 2025 (4): Yoojung Joe, Cole Gilbert, Christine Yang, Jake Gelfand
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