Principal Investigator
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Dr. Daniel I. Goldman
Daniel Goldman is a Professor in the School of Physics at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Professor Goldman's research program investigates the interaction of biological and physical systems with complex materials like granular media.
He received his B.S. in physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1994. He received his PhD in 2002 from the University of Texas at Austin, studying nonlinear
dynamics and granular media. He did postdoctoral work in locomotion biomechanics at the University of California at Berkeley. Professor Goldman became a faculty member at Georgia
Tech in January 2007. Professor Goldman is an adjunct member of the School of Biology and a member of the Bioengineering Graduate Program. Prof. Goldman is a Georgia Power
Professor of Excellence, a Fellow of the American Physical Society (2014), and has received an NSF CAREER/PECASE award, a DARPA Young Faculty Award, a Sigma Xi Young Faculty
award, and a Burroughs Welcome Fund Career Award at the Scientific Interface.
daniel.goldman[at]physics.gatech.edu
Postdocs
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Christopher Pierce
PhD, Physics
Biomechanics and Neurobiology of C. elegans
cpierce43[at]gatech.edu
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Deniz Kerimoglu
PhD, Electrical and Electronics Engineering
Bipedal Locomotion on Granular Media
dkerimoglu6[at]gatech.edu
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Hosain Bagheri
PhD, Mechanical Engineering
Collective Behavior of Social Insects
hbagheri[at]gatech.edu
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Baxi Chong
PhD, Quantitative Biosciences
Geometric Mechanics
bchong9[at]gatech.edu
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Bahadir Çatalbaş
PhD, Electrical and Electronics Engineering
Rover Locomotion on Granular Media
bcatalbas3[at]gatech.edu
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Burak Çatalbaş
PhD, Electrical and Electronics Engineering
Bipedal Locomotion on Granular Media
bcatalbas6[at]gatech.edu
PhD Graduate Students
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Akash Vardhan
Physics
Smarticles: Collective behavior of shape changing active matter
avardhan7[at]gatech.edu
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Tianyu Wang
Robotics
Robot Locomotion
tianyuwang[at]gatech.edu
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Juntao He
Robotics
Centipede Robot Locomotion
jhe391[at]gatech.edu
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Madison Hales
Robotics
Robophysical Modeling of Root Growth Dynamics
madhales[at]gatech.edu
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Aradhya Rajanala
Quantitative Biosciences
Root Growth Simulations
aradhyarajanala[at]gatech.edu
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Jiyeon Maeng
Physics
Bipedal Locomotion on Granular Media
jmaeng8[at]gatech.edu
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Jianfeng Lin
Quantitative Biosciences
Undulatory Motion Neuromechanics
jianf.lin[at]gatech.edu
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James Z. Xu
Quantitative Biosciences
Robotic Locomotion and Biomechanics
zxu699[at]gatech.edu
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Yusuf Ismail
Applied Physiology
Collective Behavior in Slime Mold in Complex Environments
yismail8[at]gatech.edu
Post-Grad Research Assistants
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Tommie Robinson
Physics
Phototactic response and locomotion of biflagellate robots
trobinson89[at]gatech.edu
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Nathan Nguyen
Physics
Low Cost Instrumentation for Cellular Biology
nnguyen369[at]gatech.edu
Masters Graduate Students
Undergraduate Students
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Massimiliano Iaschi
Mechanical Engineering
Biological centipede locomotion in confined conditions
miaschi3[at]gatech.edu
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Esteban Flores
Mechanical Engineering
Closed-loop control of multilegged robots
eflores36[at]gatech.edu
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Matthew Fernandez
Mechanical Engineering
Robotic Locomotion
mfernandez64[at]gatech.edu
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Dmitri Kalinin
Physics
Limbless Robot Locomotion in a Lattice
dkalinin3[at]gatech.edu
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Malone Hemsley
Physics
High DoF rover maneuvering on granular slopes
malone.hemsley[at]morehouse.edu
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Aric Ting
Electrical Engineering
Sensor development for multilegged robots
ating8[at]gatech.edu
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Donoven Dortilus
Mechanical Engineering
Limbless Robot Design
ddortilus3[at]gatech.edu
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Galen Tunnicliffe
Physics
Aquatic Robotic Locomotion
gtunnicliffe3[at]gatech.edu
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Anna Lay
Biology
Centipede Turning Locomotion
alay8[at]gatech.edu
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Delfin Aydan
Mechanical Engineering
Sidewinding in Centipedes
daydan3[at]gatech.edu
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Saesha Kapoor
Biology
Live Plant Imaging and Circumnutation
skapoor84[at]gatech.edu
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Darren Tan
Computer Science
Navigation for multilegged robots
dtan67[at]gatech.edu
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Vincent Nienhusser
Mechanical Engineering
Centipede Robotic Locomotion
vnienhusser3[at]gatech.edu
High School Students
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Sabrina Scarpinato
Centipede Robotics
sscarpinato3[at]gatech.edu
Summer Students
Former Lab Members
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Aamir, Mohammed
Abbas, Rida
Aguilar, Jeff, PhD (now at Hi Fidelity Genetics)
Aina, Kehinde, PhD
Astley, Henry (now at University of Akron as an assistant professor)
Avinery, Ram, PhD
Bande-Ali, Azeem
Bhumkar, Anushka
Board, Tommy
Braun, Zack
Brown, Andrew
Brown, Malcolm
Buffardi, Luke
Carruthers Ferrero, Alexandra
Cassidy, Grace
Caveney, Meredith
Chang, Alex
Chau, Jessica
Chen, Lillian
Chen, Sandy
Conn, Nate
Coyle III, Edward
Crane, Jeremiah
Daffon, Kevin
Diaz, Kelimar, PhD
Ding, Yang, PhD, (now assistant professor at Beijing Computational Science Research Center)
Dominguez, Camila
Dutta, Bahnisikha, PhD
Egan, Noah
Erickson, Eva
Everett, Dominique
Garcia, Mateo
Glenn, Robbie
Goddard, Zachary
Gosyne, Jonathan
Gravish, Nick, PhD, (now at UCSD as an assistant professor)
Grossman, Elan
Guigou, Danny
Guin, Santhosh C.
Harber, Evan
Hathaway, Duncan
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Hines, Nathan
Hubbard, Alex
Hubicki, Christian, PhD
Hwang, Joonha
Jacobson, Matt
Kamat, Malhar
Kamor, Adam
Karsai, Andras, PhD (now at Northrop Grumman)
Kim, Allison
Kingsbury, Mark, PhD
Koh, Ariel, (now at SpaceX)
Kohle, Pushkar
Kojouharov, Venny
Kuckuk, Robyn
Lau, Loretta
Lauria, Andres
Lee, Yean
Levenfeld, Vlad
Levy, Laura
Li, Chen, PhD, (now Assistant Professor at John Hopkins)
Li, Edmond
Li, Shengkai, PhD
Linevich, Vadim MS
Lofaro, Olivia
London, Lionel
Lowder, Mark
Maisonneuve, Marine
Maladen, Ryan, PhD, (now at Procter Gamble)
Manning, Andie
Margolis, Joshua
Marvi, Hamid, PhD, (now Assistant Professor at ASU)
Masse, Andrew
Mazouchova, Nicole, (now at Temple)
McCaskey, Erin
McInroe, Ben
McFarland, Ciera
Mendel, Daniel
Miller, Graham
Monaenkova, Daria (now at DOW)
Mukadam, Mustafa
Murray-Cooper, Mason
Muthukrishnan, Pranav
Newsome, Richard
Nori, Apoorva
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Ozkan Aydin, Yasemin, PhD (now Assistant Professor at University of Notredame)
Paez, Margot
Park, Jungsoo
Parker, John, (now at University of Chicago as a grad student)
Qian, Feifei,PhD, (now Assistant Professor at USC)
Rieser, Jennifer,PhD (now Assistant Professor at Emory University)
Rodriguez, Greggory
Rogers, Shakirah
Roy, Max
Saldana, Luis
Savoie, Will, PhD
Seidel, Max
Sen, Amrita
Schiebel, Perrin E, PhD
Sharpe, Sarah, PhD, (now at Exponent Technical Consulting)
Shen, Jeff
Shen, Zhexin
Shin, Patrick
Shrivastava, Siddharth
Slatton, Andrew
Soto, Daniel
Srivastava, Romik
Stinnett, Zackary
Tarr, Steven
Taz, Humaira
Teder, Erik
Tomkinson, Ian
Treers, Laura (now assistant professor at UVM)
Tuazon, Harry
Wagner, Naomi
Ward, Nicholas
Warkentin, Ross MS, (now at Kuka Robotics)
Weeks, Chad
Wells, Shea
Winter, Noah
Xiong, Xiaobin
Xiao, Charles (now at UC Santa Barbara)
Xu, James
Yared, Michael
Yildirim, Baris
Yip, Vanessa
Young, Amber
Zborovsky, Valerie L
Zhang, Tingnan, PhD, (now at Google)