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