Alina He

Sep 2025 - Current / 6 months

Ethics Case Study development for Cruise Autonomous Vehicle Incident

Ashley Park

Sep 2025 - Current / 6 months

Developed two cases on ethics in East versus West Surveillance systems

Enquiang Yuan

Sep 2025 - Current / 6 months

Developed Ethics Case Study on Autonomous Selection of Refugee processes

Evan Kusa

Oct 2024 - Current / 1 year

R&D Staff and PhD student under Prof. Brian Mann with collaberative research in robotics lab internventions

Robotics and Engineering Ethics Education

  • Lessons Learned in Developing ROS Asynchronous Tutorials for Robotics course: Guided versus Inquiry based Learning

Kylie Gancos

Aug 2025 - Current / 7 months

Phantom Materials Development

Zachary Bickley

Sep 2025 - Current / 6 months

Autonomous Vehicle simmulation for ethics case study

Zachary Deutsch

Sep 2025 - Current / 6 months

Work on intersection of Ethics and LLMs for education to be presented at ASEE


Aaron Thomas

Jan 2025 - May 2025 / 4 months

Robotic Octopus design, simmulation, and characterization

Alexandra Riviera

Aug 2022 - Dec 2022 / 5 months

MS poster on drone power estimation

Allison Geohringer

Jan 2023 - Dec 2024 / 2 years

Controller design for IV End Effector project, ECE Undergraduate Research honorable mention and ME Graduate with Distinction

Amanda Smith

Aug 2024 - May 2025 / 9 months

Started systematic development and testing of phantom material for torso for the Oca Lab, work presented at Duke Medical Robotics Symposium 2025

Andre Lopez

Aug 2024 - Dec 2024 / 5 months

Developed transformer mars rover wheels to traverse various terrains

Annika Haughey

Aug 2024 - Current / 2 years

Developed and published impacts of ML Ethics Case Study for application in various courses, primary advisor for technical research Brian Mann

Robotics and Engineering Ethics Education

  • Case Study: Using Synthetic Datasets to Examine Bias in Machine Learning Algorithms for Resume Screening

Cameron Reid

Jan 2025 - May 2025 / 4 months

Extended Class Project in surgical knot tying analysis for poster presented at ISMR

Medical Robotics

  • Open-Source Experimental Design for Assessing Surgical Knot-Tying Skill with Computer Vision

Dawen Huang

Aug 2024 - Apr 2025 / 9 months

MS Poster on Robotic Arm Manipulation Safety Envelope Device and Characterization

Gordon Li

Sep 2025 - Dec 2025 / 3 months

Interactive Ethics Case Study on the development of Deep Fakes

Hala Kanaan

Aug 2025 - Dec 2025 / 4 months

Phantom Developmet

Hongzheng Cui

Aug 2023 - Dec 2024 / 1 year

Work on trust in autonomous vehicles based on eHMI interfaces, paper presented at ROMAN 2025

Human Robot Interaction

  • The Impact of External Human-Machine Interfaces on Pedestrian Crossing Intention

Jinze Lyu

Dec 2025 - Current / 4 months

MS Poster on Nonlinear MPC planning for Robot arm manipulation

Juan Lasso-Velasco

Jul 2022 - Dec 2022 / 6 months

Arm stiffness estimation for robotic ultrasound for MS poster and as part of paper presented at ROMAN 2024

Human Robot Interaction

  • Trust, Safety and Efficacy of Autonomous Robotic Ultrasound Vascular Imaging Collection on Human Subjects

Junxian Zhu

Jan 2026 - Current / 3 months

Quadruped Robot for balancing on various terrains [MS Poster expected Fall 2026]

Kate Flanagan

Jan 2025 - May 2025 / 4 months

Performed literature review and developed first prototype materials for multi tissue phantom, work presented at Duke Medical Robotics Symposium 2026

Muhammad Shaikh

May 2025 - Aug 2025 / 3 months

Human Robot interaction in Companion robotics

Nohemi Sepulveda

Jan 2025 - Current / 1 year

First master student at Duke to be selected for NC Space grant for her research on sensor fusion models for motion sickness

Paavana Srinivas

Aug 2023 - Apr 2024 / 9 months

Deans Research Award and MS Poster in Robotics Education interventions for Sensor calibration tutorials

Rebecca Edelman

Jan 2025 - May 2025 / 4 months

Robotic Octopus design and characterization

Richard Kim

Aug 2022 - May 2025 / 3 years

First student in the Oca Lab, worked for 4 semesters on an Autonomous IV project presented at ICRA workshop.

Medical Robotics

  • Design of Modular Robotic Arm End Effector for IV Catheter Insertion

Rucha Patil

Aug 2022 - Dec 2024 / 2 years

Independent study on detecting Bias in AI alghorithms

Santiago Brito

Aug 2024 - Dec 2024 / 5 months

MS poster on exploratory pre,post testing of Robotics lab tutorials

Sarah Glomski

Jan 2025 - May 2025 / 4 months

Extended Class Project in surgical knot tying analysis for poster presented at ISMR

Medical Robotics

  • Open-Source Experimental Design for Assessing Surgical Knot-Tying Skill with Computer Vision

Shaan Narayan

Jan 2025 - May 2025 / 4 months

Graduate with distinction for applied human robot interaction work on robotic scrub nurse

Shivansh Gupta

Sep 2025 - Dec 2025 / 3 months

Developed Interactive Map for policy on security cameras on surveillance ethics case study

Shuxiang Cui

Aug 2023 - Apr 2024 / 9 months

MS poster on robotic calligraphy

Will Chen

May 2024 - Aug 2024 / 3 months

Summer effort on building medical robotic platforms for courses and research in EE for safe ultrasound in dynamic testing

Medical Robotics

  • Design and Evaluation of a Compliant Quasi Direct Drive End-effector for Safe Robotic Ultrasound Imaging

Yu Zhou

Jan 2023 - May 2023 / 4 months

MS poster on Angle and distance effects on RGBD detection