Material Robotics Lab Members
Professor Sheila Russo
Prof. Sheila Russo is the founder and director of the Material Robotics Laboratory at Boston University, Department of Mechanical Engineering. Her research interests include medical and surgical robotics, soft robotics, origami-inspired mechanisms, sensing and actuation, and meso- and micro-scale manufacturing techniques. In 2020, she received the NIH Trailblazer Award for New and Early Stage Investigators.
She received her PhD from Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, Italy in 2014. She completed her postdoctoral training at Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering in 2017. Prof. Russo is also the co-founder and co-director of the Soft Materials Processing Core (SMPC) Lab at BU and she holds appointments in Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering. She is also part of the Center for Information & Systems Engineering (CISE) and the Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science & Engineering at Boston University.
Postdoctoral researcher
Yitong Lu, PhD – LinkedIn
PhD students
Arincheyan Gerald – LinkedIn
Daniel Van Lewen – LinkedIn
Hun Chan (Bryan) Lee – LinkedIn
Viola Del Bono – LinkedIn
Franco Juliá Wise – LinkedIn
Kamin Palkawong Na Ayuddhaya – LinkedIn
Chae Woo Lim – LinkedIn
Master students
Jennifer Yeo
Hyunje Cho
Gerardo Lira
Avantika Kothandaraman
Undergraduate students
Sneha Jos
Krya Patel
Victor Perez
Riley Applebaum
Alumni
Click here for a list of past lab members.