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Principal Investigator

Gregory Sawicki, PhD

Postdoctoral Researchers

 

Owen Beck, PhD

Max Shepherd, PhD

Graduate Students

Laksh Kumar Punith

Jordyn Schroeder

Pawel Golyski

Lindsey Trejo, MS

Luis Rosa

Thendral Govindaraj

Ben Shafer

Jonathan Gosyne

Jennifer Leestma

Felicia Davenport

Max Anderton

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

Lab News

  • Jordyn Schroeder Featured in Georgia Tech Woodruff School Interview! November 3, 2020
  • Lindsey Trejo puts on Latinx in Biomechanix Info Session! October 19, 2020
  • Greg Sawicki and Pawel Golyski Featured on Behind the Microscope in GT BioEngineering Newsletter October 19, 2020
  • Adding Carbon Fiber To Shoe Insoles May Not Improve Running Economy October 13, 2020
  • Jordyn Schroeder and Greg Sawicki Receive NIH R01 Research Supplement! September 17, 2020

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