Personnel
Current Personnel
Dennis Hong, PhD – dennishong@ucla.edu
Professor, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, UCLA
Director of RoMeLa: Robotics & Mechanisms Laboratory
Graduate Students
Gabriel Fernandez
gabriel808@gmail.com
Colin Togashi
colin.togashi@gmail.com
“The art challenges the technology, and the technology inspires the art.”
Fadi Rafidi
fadirafidi93@gmail.com
Justin Quan
justinquan@ucla.edu
A weekend wasted isn’t a wasted weekend.
Donghun Noh
donghun.noh@ucla.edu
Yeting (Nick) Liu
liu1995@g.ucla.edu
Hyunwoo (Harry) Nam
harrynam@ucla.edu
Yuki Shirai
yukishirai4869@g.ucla.edu
Website: sites.google.com/view/yukishirai
Kyle Gillespie
gkyle00@gmail.com
Website: http://kyle-gillespie.com/
Alexander Schperberg
aschperberg28@g.ucla.edu
Website: https://sites.google.com/view/alexanderschperberg/
Yusuke Tanaka
yusuketanaka@g.ucla.edu
Mingzhang (Norman) Zhu
normanzmz@g.ucla.edu
Rock with robot!
Quanyou (Fred) Wang
qywang0628@g.ucla.edu
Arturo Flores Alvarez
afloresa@ucla.edu
I am a bot!
Ruochen Hou
houruochen@g.ucla.edu
Yubin Liu
liuyubin@ucla.edu
Aditya Navghare
adityanavghare@gmail.com
Why rely on humans, when robots can do that for you, that too more efficiently.
Ji Sung Ahn
jisungahn@g.ucla.edu
This is the way.
Undergraduate Students
Zichu (Peter) Zhou
zczhou2001@g.ucla.edu
RoMeLa is a magical place.
Alex Xu
alex.xu@ucla.edu
Optimus Prime is my role model.
Contacts
Undergraduate Research Coordinator: Arturo Flores Alvarez, Quanyou Wang
Lab Visits:
Media:
Purchasing: Mingzhang Zhu
Communications:
Publications:
Machine Shop: Fadi Rafeedi, Yeting Liu
Website: Arturo Flores Alvarez, Quanyou Wang
Alumni
Graduate Students (UCLA):
Hosik Chae (PhD 2023)
Daniel Sun (PhD 2023)
Sepehr Ghassemi (PhD 2023)
Taoyuanmin Zhu (PhD 2023)
Min Sung Ahn (PhD 2023)
Jingwen (Aaron) Zhang (PhD 2023)
Eun Sang Cha (PhD 2023)
Junjie Shen (PhD 2022)
Hayato Kato (MS 2022)
Varit Vichathorn (Ohm) (MS 2022)
Xuan Lin (PhD 2020)
Jeffrey Yu (PhD 2020)
Joshua Hooks (PhD 2020)
Xiaoguang(Hawkry) Zhang (PhD 2020)
Alexie Pogue (2020)
Michael Bradley (2018)
Hari Krishnan (MS 2017)
Jeong Hwan Yoon (MS 2016)
Kevin Gim (MS 2016)
Da Eun Park (MS 2016)
Deaho Moon (MS 2016)
Benson Ku (MS 2016)
Yi Zeng (MS 2016)
Aki Saitoh (2015)
Graduate Students (VT):
Derek Lahr (PhD)
Viktor Orekhov (PhD)
Bryce Lee (PhD)
Mike Hopkins (PhD)
Joseph Holler (MS)
Jacob Webb (MS)
Paul D’Angio (PhD 2012)
Jaekwon Han (PhD 2012)
Joe Hays (PhD 2011)
Ping Ren (PhD 2010)
Karl Muecke (PhD 2009)
Panit Howard (MS 2012)
Ryan Colby (MS 2012)
Seungmoon Song (MS 2010)
Gabriel Goldman (MS 2009)
Mark Showlter (MS 2008)
Bryant Burnett (MS 2008)
Jesse Hurdus (MS 2008)
Ivette Morazzani (MS 2008)
John Humphreys (MS 2008)
Shawn Kimmel (MS 2008)
Marilyn Worley (MS 2007)
Jeremy Heaston (MS 2006)
Mark Ingram (MS 2006)
David Henry (2012)
Ya Wang (2009)
Bob Schafrik (2009)
Craig McNally (2009)
Nick Thayer (2009)
Doug Laney (2006)
Hunter McClelland
Eric Williams
J. Blake Jeans
Rob Nguyen
Robert Mayo
Steve Ressler
Coleman Knabe
John Seminatore
Nikolaus Wittenstein
Jason Ziglar
Jack Newton
Mike Rouleau
Jordan Neal
Sebastien Corner
Post-Doc Researchers:
Hak Yi
Kyung Bok Lee
Visiting Researchers:
Prof. Young Jae-Ryoo
Prof. Bohee Lee
Prof. Seungchul Lim
Jin Ho Kyung
Chan Hun Park
Undergraduate Students:
Jordan Abel, Alana Bianes, Kevin Christensen, Brandon Judoprasetijo, Sanghyun Cho, Dong Won Lee, Matthew Dotson, Chun Yin (Kenneth) Chan, Nikhil Hemant Pawar, Seulki Koo, Julienne Bernal, Christopher Wang, David Amano, Disha Samaiyar