Principal Investigator
Chen Li
Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Faculty Member, Laboratory for Computational Sensing & Robotics
Whiting School of Engineering
Johns Hopkins University
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• Miller Fellow, University of California, Berkeley, 2012-2015
• Ph.D. Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011
• B.S. Physics, Peking University, China, 2005
• Awards & Honors: BYI, ARO YIP, BWF CASI, Miller, Full list
• Paper Awards: 1 Best Paper (Adv Rob); 2 Highlight Papers (Bioinsp Biom, IROS); 2 Best Student Papers (RSS, SICB), 1 Outstanding Paper finalist (ICRA), 5 Best Student Paper finalists (SICB)
• Google scholar, Youtube channel, ORCID, arXiv, Research Gate, GitHub, Linkedin, Twitter
• Goals for students, Mentee Achievements, Mentee Awards
• Research Statement, Mentoring & Teaching Statement, Service Statement
PhD Students
Qihan Xuan
ME, 8/2017-present
B.S. Physics 2017, Peking Univ., China
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Yaqing Wang
ME, 08/2019-present
B.E. ME 2019, Tsinghua Univ., China
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Divya Ramesh
ME, 09/2019-present
M.S.E. EE 2019, UPenn
B.Tech. ECE 2017, VIT Univ., Vellore, India
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Master Students
Zheyu Zhou 
ME, 03/2023-present
B.S Eng. Mechanics 2022, UIUC
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Tarun Senthilvel
ME, 08/2023 - Present
Integrated B.Tech ME, MTech Robotics, IIT Madras, India
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Xiyuan Wang
ME, 09/2023 - Present
B.S ME 2023, HFUT, China
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Undergraduate Students
Yu Xiao
ME, 1/2019-present
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Kyungmo Choi
ME, 2/2023-present
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Luna Liu
CS, 2/2023-present
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Nicholas Llaurado
ME, 3/2023-present
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Catherine Pollard
ME, 9/2023-present
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Daniel Collum
ME, 11/2023-present
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High School Students
Alumni
Qiyuan Fu, PhD 2017-2023, now postdoc at EPFL with Auke Ijspeert
Dissertation: Snake and snake robot locomotion in complex 3-D terrain PDF
Ratan Othayoth, PhD 2016-2021, now postdoc at HHMI Janelia Research Campus with Rob Johnson
Dissertation: Kinetic energy fluctuation-driven locomotor transitions on potential energy landscapes of beam obstacle traversal and ground self-righting, PDF
Sean Gart, postdoc 2016-2018, now Research Scientist at Army Research Lab, Autonomous Systems Division (permanent position)
For more, see CV