Current Personnel

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Director of RoMeLa

Dennis Hong, PhD - dhong@vt.edu
Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Director of the Robotics & Mechanisms Laboratory
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Graduate Students

Derek Lahr - dlahr@vt.edu PhD candidate CHARLI-H, CIVT RoMeLa Machine Shop Manager	Eric Williams - eawilli@vt.edu PhD candidate Whole Skin Locomotion Robot RoMeLa Laser Machining Manager
Jeakweon (JK) Han - jk4robot@vt.edu PhD candidate DARwIn & CHARLI-L (RoboCup 2010), MiniHUBO RoMeLa Machinist	Joe Hays - joehays@vt.edu PhD candidate Design Optimization of Dynamic Systems, Parameter Estimation RoMeLa Editor
Mike Hopkins - hopkns@vt.edu PhD candidate Vision Systems - MAGIC2010, RoboCup	Ping Ren - renping@vt.edu PhD candidate Kinematics of Novel Robot Locomotion Mechanisms RoMeLa Librarian, Graduate Instructor
Viktor Orekhov - viktor4@vt.edu PhD candidate DARwIn-HP/LC, CHARLI-H RoMeLa Outreach Activity Coordinator	Seungmoon Song - smsong@vt.edu MS candidate Bipedal Locomotion RoMeLa I Manager
J. Blake Jeans- jbjeans@vt.edu MS candidate Project IMPASS RoMeLa IT Coordinator, RoMeLa II Manager	Paul D'Angio- pcdangio@vt.edu MS candidate Project CoUGAR (MAGIC2010), MiniHUBO RoMeLa Lab Tour Coordinator
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
Ryan Colby - rscolby@vt.edu PhD candidate Blind Driver Challenge RoMeLa Undergraduate Research Coordinator	Bryce Lee - leebryce@vt.edu PhD candidate CHARLI-H RoMeLa Paper Review Coordinator
Panit Howard - panit86@vt.edu MS candidate	Hunter McClelland - hgm@vt.edu PhD candidate Controls for Legged Locomotion