Principal Investigator
Postdoctoral Researchers
Max Shepherd, PhD
Graduate Students
Laksh Kumar Punith
Jordyn Schroeder
Luis Rosa
Thendral Govindaraj
Ben Shafer
Jonathan Gosyne
Felicia Davenport
Graduate Student Volunteers
James de Klerk – Mentor: Pawel Golyski, Start: 01/2020, Program: Mechanical Engineering (Non-Thesis Masters)
Undergraduate Students
Eric Slovensky – Mentor: Lindsey Trejo, Start: 08/2019, Program: Biology/BME
Sai Aruru – Mentor: Lindsey Trejo, Start: 02/2020, Program: Mechanical Engineering
Honghao (Adrien) Zhu – Mentor: Lindsey Trejo, Start: 02/2020, Program: Mechanical Engineering
Kasia Fadeeva – Mentor: Lindsey Trejo, Start 02/2020, Program: Mechanical Engineering
Cyrus Newquist – Mentor: Pawel Golyski, Start: 11/2019, Program: Mechanical Engineering
Patrick Kim – Mentor: Pawel Golyski, Start: 11/2019, Program: Mechanical Engineering
Snehith Rayavaram – Mentor: Pawel Golyski, Start: 11/2019, Program: Mechanical Engineering
Nicholas Swaich – Mentor: Pawel Golyski, Start 1/2020, Program: Mechanical Engineering
John Fitton – Mentor: Pawel Golyski, Start 6/2020, Program: Mechanical Engineering
Qingyi Lou – Mentor: Jonathan Gosyne, Start: 09/2019
Reagan Cook – Mentor: Ben Shafer, Start: 01/2020, Program: Mechanical Engineering
Simon Yang – Mentor: Ben Shafer, Start: 01/2020, Program: Mechanical Engineering
Matias Teixeira-Prates – Mentor: Ben Shafer, Start: 01/2020, Program: Biomedical Engineering
Andrew Lockhart – Mentor: Ben Shafer, Start: 05/2019, Program: Mechanical Engineering and Physics
Ian Cullen – Mentor: Jenny Leestma, Start: 01/2019, Program: Mechanical Engineering
Robert Dunning – Mentor: Jenny Leestma, Start: 01/2020, Program: Mechanical Engineering
Ani Benge – Mentor: Jenny Leestma, Start: 01/2020, Program: Biomedical Engineering
Courtney Smith – Mentor: Jenny Leestma, Start: 01/2020, Program: Biomedical Engineering
Izzy Sadek – Mentor: Jenny Leestma, Start: 01/2020, Program: Biomedical Engineering
Project ENGAGES Scholars
Wendy Nevarez-Sanchez – Mentor: Ben Shafer, Start: 06/2019, School: South Atlanta High School
Zachary White – Mentor: Jordyn Schroeder, Start: 06/2019, School: South Atlanta High School
Lab Alumni
Postdoctoral Researchers
Emily Abbott – Active: Fall 2017 – Summer 2020, (Georgia Tech) Currently Postdoctoral Fellow at Temple University in Philadelphia, PA
Taylor Dick – Active: Fall 2016 – Winter 2017, (NC State) Currently Lecturer (i.e. Assistant Professor) at University of Queensland, AUS
Tracy Norman Giest – Active: Fall 2015 – Winter 2016, (NC State) Currently Director of Biomechanics Research at Fitbit Inc. in San Francisco, CA
Kota Takahashi – Active: Fall 2012 – Summer 2015, (NC State) Currently tenure-track Assistant Professor in the Center for Research and Human Movement Variability at the University of Nebraska-Omaha
Dominic J. Farris – Active: Winter 2010 – Fall 2012, (NC State) Currently Lecturer (i.e Assistant Professor) at University of Exeter, UK
PhD Students
Jonathan Doering – Active: Fall 2014 – Fall 2018, (NC State – BME) Currently a Research Consultant in Research Triangle Park, NC Dissertation
Richard Nuckols – Active: Fall 2013 – Summer 2017, (NC State – BME) Currently a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Wyss Institute, Harvard University, Boston, MA Dissertation
Michael Bruce Wiggin – Active: Fall 2009 – Summer 2014, (NC State – BME) Currently a Design Engineer at TransEnterix Inc., a surgical robotics company in Raleigh, NC Dissertation
Benjamin Robertson – Active: Winter 2011-Summer 2014, (NC State – BME) Currently Senior Research Scientist at Edgewise Inc., a muscle physiology start-up in Boulder, CO Dissertation
Masters Students
Sasha Philius – Active: Fall 2015 – Fall 2017, (NC State – BME) Currently a Mechanical Engineer at a telecommunications contractor in Research Triangle Park, NC
James McCall – Active: Fall 2016 – Summer 2017, (NC State – BME) Currently a PhD student at NC State with Derek Kamper
Michael Browne – Active: Fall 2013 – Spring 2016, (NC State – BME) Currently a post-doc at Johns Hopkins with Ryan Roemmich Thesis
Audrey Westbrook – Active: Fall 2013 – Fall 2014, (NC State – BME) Currently Lead Research Engineer for Motion Analysis Lab at High Point University, NC Thesis
Nabil Khan – Active: Fall 2011 – Summer 2013, (UNC Chapel Hill – BME) Currently a software engineer at start up company in Research Triangle Park, NC Thesis
Caitlin Mahon – Active: Spring 2012 – Spring 2013, (UNC Chapel Hill – BME) Currently a Research Engineer at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, DC Thesis
Austin Hampton – Active: Fall 2010 – Summer 2012, (NC State – BME) Currently a Senior Biomedical Engineer at Department of Veterans Affairs in Pittsburgh, PA Thesis
Phil Matta – Active: Fall 2010 – Spring 2012, (UNC Chapel Hill – BME) Currently a financial analyst at Goldman Sachs in Salt Lake City, UT and the Starling Fellow in Entrepreneurship, UNC Kenan-Flagler School of Business Thesis
Undergraduate Students
Jake Peloquin – Mentor: Jordyn Schroeder, Start: 09/2019-05/2020
Andrew Brooks – Mentor: Lindsey Trejo, Active: 10/2019-12/2019
Ryan Fadell – Mentor: Lindsey Trejo, Active: 01/2019-12/2019
Ashley Oldshue – Mentor: Laksh Kumar Punith, Active: 2018-2019
Ryan Huo – Mentor: Pawel Golyski, Active: 2018
High School Students
Jeremiah Newman – Active 2019, Project ENGAGES Scholar
Esmeralda Vazquez – Active 2019-2020, Project ENGAGES Scholar