Yanran Ding, Ph.D.Â
Assistant Professor, Department of Robotics, University of Michigan
Dr. Yanran Ding is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Robotics at the University of Michigan. He is the Director of the Agile Robot Control and Design (ARCAD) Lab. Before joining Michigan Robotics in 2023, Dr. Ding was a postdoctoral associate in the Biomimetic Robotics Lab at MIT. He obtained his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, in 2021 and his BS degree from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2015. Dr. Ding received the Best Student Paper Finalist award at IROS 2017 and a Best Paper Finalist award at the Technical Committee on Model-based Optimization for Robotics 2021.
Name
Junze (Eric) Chen
Tianhua Zou
Sajiv Shah
Lena Trang
Gabriel Ramos Salinas
Department
ECE, 2023
ME, 2022
ME, 2023
ME, 2021
MRAD, 2024
Degree
MS, Robotics, 2025
MS, Robotics, 2025
MS, Robotics, 2024
After Graduation
Applied Intuition
PhD student @ UCB