Current Personnel

Director of RoMeLa

Dennis Hong, PhD - dhong@vt.edu
Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Director of the Robotics & Mechanisms Laboratory
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Eric Williams - eawilli@vt.edu PhD candidate Whole Skin Locomotion Robot RoMeLa Laser Machining Manager	Derek Lahr - dlahr@vt.edu PhD candidate SAFFiR, THOR RoMeLa Shop Manager
Viktor Orekhov - viktor4@vt.edu PhD candidate DARwIn, SAFFiR, THOR RoMeLa Bridgeport Manager	Bryce Lee - leebryce@vt.edu PhD candidate SAFFiR, THOR RoMeLa Paper Review Coordinator
Mike Hopkins - hopkns@vt.edu PhD candidate SAFFiR, THOR Controls, Machine Learning	Hunter McClelland - hgm@vt.edu PhD candidate THALeR Controls, Dynamics, Simulation/Computing
J. Blake Jeans- jbjeans@vt.edu MS candidate Project IMPASS RoMeLa IT Coordinator, RoMeLa II Manager	Rob Nguyen - rnguyen@vt.edu MS candidate Particle-based Localization, DARwIn RoMeLa Treasurer
Robert Mayo - novix@vt.edu MS candidate Project MARS, Hexapod Gait Generation using CPG RoMeLa Electronics Specialist	Steve Ressler - ressler@vt.edu MS candidate SAFFiR, THOR Electronics, Software
Coleman Knabe - knabe@vt.edu MS candidate THOR, CHARLI, HUBO+	Jacob Webb - jdwebb@vt.edu MS candidate THALeR, THOR RoMeLa Webmaster
Joseph Holler - cgjoe11@vt.edu MS candidate SAFFiR, THOR RoMeLa Undergraduate Coordinator	John Seminatore - johnsemi@vt.edu MS candidate CASPER RoMeLa Tour Coordinator
Sebastien Corner - scorner@vt.edu MS candidate Four Legged Locomotion Robot

Taylor Pesek - thpesek@vt.edu	Jack Newton - newtonj@vt.edu
John Stuart Hunter - jstuhunter@gmail.com

And many more senior design, special projects, and student design team members...

Hak Yi - yihak@vt.edu
THOR
SAFFiR

(None presently)