Now at Carnegie Mellon University studying for his Masters in Robotic Systems Development, he contributes as the Project Manager of an interdisciplinary team that is developing a small jumping toy robot for a customer interested in the applications of this unique form of locomotion.
Marshall Fox mefox (at) andrew.cmu.edu
Marshall Fox worked for the past three years at Schindler Elevator Corporation developing Destination Dispatching technologies used on large building installations with complex traffic handling requirements. While majoring in mechanical engineering at Columbia University where he received his Bachelor of Science, he also obtained extensive mechatronic experience as a result of a computer science minor, related coursework, and experience with the FIRST Robotics organization.
Akshay is currently pursuing Masters in Robotics & Systems Development (MRSD) at Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University. Various topics like Systems Engineering, Robot Mobility, Manipulation and Control, Business Seminars, and Entrepreneurship are included in the curriculum of his course.
Akshay Kumar Jain akshayj (at) andrew.cmu.edu
Akshay graduated from Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati (India) with degree of Bachelor's in Technology in 2012, with a concentration in Artificial Intelligence. He has worked at ETH Zurich(2010), Carnegie Mellon University (2011) and Omnipresent Robot Tech (2012) as a summer intern and has been engaged various research and industry based projects and products in robotics.
Mike is currently studying a variety of topics in the Master's in Robotics System Development (MRSD) program at Carnegie Mellon University. These topics include systems engineering, manipulation, sensing, entrepreneurship, business, and management.
Mike Lewis miclewis (at) andrew.cmu.edu
Mike Lewis received his B.S. in Computer Science from the University of California, Irvine in 2009, after studying Mechanical Engineering and Electrical Engineering at California Polytechnic State University, Pomona, from 2005-2007. From 2008 through 2009 he interned at Broadcom Corporation designing systems to automate silicon characterization and verification. From 2010 to mid-2012, Mike continued to work at Broadcom as an embedded systems software engineer maintaining a reference GNU/Linux distribution for MIPS and ARM-based System-on-Chip (SoC) solutions developed by the company. He also led several efforts to automate many of the system verification processes throughout the company.
After his graduation from the undergraduate study, Ran determined that he was more interested in robotics and decided to pursue a graduate degree in the field. He is currently a student in the Master of Science - Robotic Systems Development program (MRSD) in Carnegie Mellon University.
Ran Wang ranwang (at) andrew.cmu.edu
Ran Wang obtained his B.E. in Computer Engineering from the Chinese University of Hong Kong in July 2012. During his undergraduate study, he conducted a full-year internship in Sun Hung Kai Properties, Hong Kong's largest Real Property Company. He worked as a student programmer and mainly worked on improving and developing the company's leave application database system implemented on IBM Lotus Domino Designer.
Team Responsibilities
The team has divided the work across four key areas: mechanical systems, electronics, software development, and project management & planning. Each area has a designated lead member and support member: