Core Robotics Faculty

The Robotics Center is an Interdisciplinary Program in the Price College of Engineering, featuring faculty from the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, the Department of Mechanical Engineering, and the Kahlert School of Computing. The Director of the Robotics Center is Dr. Jake Abbott. The Director of Robotics Graduate Studies is Dr. Stephen Mascaro. The Robotics Graduate Student Coordinator is Kelly Pearson.

Faculty/Info

Research Interests

Laboratory

Jake Abbott
Professor
Mechanical Engineering
Education: Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering
Johns Hopkins University, 2005
Office: 2676 MEK
E-mail:  jake.abbott@utah.edu
Phone: 801.585.6672
Google Scholar Citations

  • Magnetic manipulation
  • Medical robotics
  • Haptics and telemanipulation

Magnetic & Medical Robotics Lab
Location: 2156 MEK
(Ph: 801.581.3129)

Edoardo Battaglia
Assistant Professor
Mechanical Engineering
Education: Ph.D. in Information Engineering
University of Pisa, 2018
Office: 1339 MEK
Email: edoardo.battaglia@utah.edu
Google Scholar Citations

  • Haptics
  • Grasping and Manipulation
  • Wearable sensing
  • User studies
  • Human-centered robot design
  • Human-robot interaction

Daniel Brown
Assistant Professor
School of Computing
Education: Ph.D. in Computer Science
UT Austin, 2020
Office: 2172 MEB
Email:dsbrown@cs.utah.edu
Google Scholar Citations

  • Robot learning
  • Human-robot interaction

Jacob George
Assistant Professor
Electrical & Computer Engineering
Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
Education: Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering
University of Utah, 2020
Office: 2125B Craig H. Neilsen Rehabilitation Hospital
E-mail: jake.george@utah.edu
Google Scholar Citations

  • Brain-computer interfaces
  • Rehabilitation robotics
  • Neural engineering
  • Bioinspired artificial intelligence
  • Intelligent prostheses and exoskeletons

NeuroRobotics Lab
Location: LL140 Craig H. Neilsen Rehabilitation Hospital

Laura Hallock
Assistant Professor
Mechanical Engineering
Education: Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
University of California-Berkeley, 2021
Office: MEK 2339
E-mail: laura.hallock@utah.edu
Google Scholar Citations

  • Robotic assistance and rehabilitation
  • Neuromusculoskeletal sensing
  • Human–robot control interfaces
  • Machine learning and system identification

Tucker Hermans
Associate Professor
School of Computing
Education: Ph.D. in Robotics
Georgia Institute of Technology, 2014
Office: MEB 2164
Phone: 801.581.8122
E-mail: tucker.hermans@utah.edu
Google Scholar Citations

  • Robot learning
  • Robotic manipulation
  • Computer and robot vision
  • Robot perception

John Hollerbach
Professor
School of Computing
Education: Ph.D. in Computer Science
MIT, 1978
Office: MEB 2196A
Phone: 801.585.6978
E-mail: jmh@cs.utah.edu
Google Scholar Citations

  • Robotics
  • Virtual environments
  • Human motor control

Hollerbach Lab
Location: 2196 MEB

Alan Kuntz
Assistant Professor
School of Computing
Education: Ph.D. in Computer Science
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Office: MEB 2162
E-mail: adk@cs.utah.edu
Google Scholar Citations

  • Shared autonomy
  • Motion planning
  • Design optimization of manipulators and tentacle-like, flexible robots
  • Health care applications

Kam K. Leang
Professor
Mechanical Engineering
Education: Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering
University of Washington, December 2004
Office: 1348 MEK
E-mail: kam.k.leang@utah.edu
Phone: 801.581.3450
Google Scholar Citations

  • Dynamic systems
  • Estimation, planning, and control
  • Multi-agent systems
  • Nanopositioning and scanning probe microscopy
  • Electroactive polymer actuators

Tommaso Lenzi
Associate Professor
Mechanical Engineering
Education: Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa, Italy, 2012
Office: 3340 MEK
E-mail: t.lenzi@utah.edu
Google Scholar Citations

  • Wearable robotics
  • Powered prostheses and exoskeletons
  • Bionics
  • Rehabilitation engineering

HGN Lab for Bionic Engineering
Location: 3333 MEK

Steve Mascaro
Associate Professor (Lecture)
Mechanical Engineering
Education: Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering
MIT, 2002
Office: 1151 MEK
E-mail: smascaro@mech.utah.edu
Phone: 801.581.7228
Google Scholar Citations

  • Robotics and mechatronics
  • System dynamics and control
  • Haptics, sensors and actuators
  • Human-machine systems

Mark Minor
Associate Professor
Mechanical Engineering
Education:  Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering
Michigan State University, 2000
Office: 2153 MEK
E-mail: minor@mech.utah.edu
Phone: 801. 587.7771
Google Scholar Citations

  • Design, modeling, and control of mobile robots — ground based and under-actuated climbing robots
  • Robotic Educational Tools
  • Medical Robotic Instrumentation

Robotic Systems Lab
Location: 2030 MEK
(PH: 801.581.9018)

Faculty Emeritus

Haohan Zhang
Assistant Professor
Mechanical Engineering
Education:  Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering
Columbia University, 2019
Office: 2568 MEK
E-mail: haohan.zhang@utah.edu
Google Scholar Citations

  • Design and control of wearable robotics
  • Assistive technology and rehabilitation
  • Physical human-robot interaction
  • Sensorimotor and biomechanics
  • Parallel mechanisms

Sanford Meek
Associate Professor Emeritus
Mechanical Engineering
Education:  Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering
University of Utah, 1982
E-mail: meek@mech.utah.edu
Google Scholar Citations

  • Biocontrol systems
  • Robotics

Affiliated and Auxiliary Faculty

Faculty/Info

Research Interests

Laboratory

Peter Fino
Associate Professor
Health and Kinesiology
Education: Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering
Virginia Tech
Phone:  (801) 213-1363
E-mail: peter.fino@utah.edu
Google Scholar Citations

  • Biomechanics and neural control of walking
  • Rehabilitation devices
  • Balance control

Henry Fu
Associate Professor
Mechanical Engineering
Education: Ph.D. in Physics
University of California-Berkeley, 2006
Office: 2563 MEK
Phone: (801) 581-4119
E-mail: henry.fu@utah.edu
Google Scholar Citations

  • Low-Reynolds number hydrodynamics
  • Biomechanics and biophysics
  • Complex biomaterials
  • Microrobotics

Tom Henderson
Professor
School of Computing
Education: PhD in Computer Science
The University of Texas at Austin, 1979
Office: WEB 2871
E-mail: tch@cs.utah.edu
Google Scholar Citations

  • Robotics (Autonomous Systems and Learning)

Hanseup Kim
Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Education: PhD in Electrical Engineering
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
Office: SMBB 3709
E-mail: hanseup.kim@utah.edu
Google Scholar Citations

  • The design, fabrication, and system integration of micro/nano sensors, actuators, circuits; biomedical microsystems
  • Energy harvesting devices for integrated, wireless, distributed, and portable microsystems

Shad Roundy
Associate Professor
Mechanical Engineering
Education: Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering
University of California-Berkeley
Office: 1153 MEK
E-mail: u0785282@utah.edu
Google Scholar Citations

  • Robot Sensors and Actuators

Kota Takahashi
Associate Professor
Health and Kinesiology
Education:  Ph.D. from the Biomechanics and Movement Science Interdisciplinary Program
University of Delaware
Office: HPER NORTH 200
Phone: 801-581-7558
E-mail: kota.takahashi@utah.edu
Google Scholars Citations

  • Rehabilitation robotics (prosthetics, exoskeletons)
  • Biomechanics and energetics of locomotion
  • Thermoregulation

Scott Uhlrich
Assistant Professor
Mechanical Engineering
Education: Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering
Stanford University
Office: 2343 MEK
E-mail: scott.uhlrich@utah.edu

  • Computer vision and machine learning
  • Neuromusculoskeletal simulation
  • Assistive devices
  • Human-device interaction

Yin Yang
Associate Professor
School of Computing
Education: Ph.D.
University of Texas-Dallas
Office: MEB 3454
Phone: (801) 585-7594
E-mail: yin.yang@utah.edu
Google Scholar Citations

  • Graphics, Vision, and Visualization
  • Simulation
  • Machine Learning
  • Robotics