Tommaso Ranzani
2026 REU Project: Coming Soon Professor Tommaso Ranzani leads the Morphable Biorobotics Lab whose focus is robotic technologies for medicine, surgery, rehabilitation, and exploration. Dr. Ranzani has extensive experience in the development of medical robots for Minimally Invasive Surgery (MIS). He explored different technologies and developed a number of manufacturing paradigms to design and manufacture […]
Darren Roblyer
2026 REU Project: Coming Soon Dr. Roblyer’s research group develops new label free imaging modalities to diagnose disease and monitor therapies. A main thrust of the lab is development of new wearable and handheld technologies that can provide earlier assessments of therapy effectiveness for cancer, cardiovascular diseases, kidney disease, and others. Previous REU/RET Projects Include: […]
Sheila Russo
2026 REU Project: Pneumatically Tunable Soft Optical 3DOF Contact Sensor for Force and Touch Detection Professor Sheila Russo’s Material Robotics Lab focuses on the design, mechanics, and manufacturing of novel multi-scale and multi-material biomedical robotic systems.background is at the intersection of biomedical robotics, soft robotics, advanced manufacturing, and advanced materials technologies. Her research focuses on […]
Andrew Sabelhaus
2026 REU and RET Projects: Coming Soon Led by Prof. Andrew Sabelhaus, the Soft Robotics Control Lab builds artificial intelligence into soft and flexible robots. The team seeks to combine the benefits of softer robots, such as safer contact with the environment and humans, with algorithms and control systems that allow them to perform practical tasks. They focus […]
Michelle Sander
2026 REU Project: Coming Soon The Sander group explores optical material interactions to develop novel laser sources in the infrared and mid-infrared wavelength regime. Our research focuses on novel ultrafast devices and how ultrafast and photothermal light interactions can fuel new applications in biomedical imaging and material characterization. We study femtosecond pulse generation techniques (1 […]
Aaron Schmidt
Previous REU/RET Projects Include: Thermal Conductivity of Insect Wings (2015)
Sahar Sharifzadeh
Previous REU/RET Projects Include: Computational Design of Organic Semiconductors (2016)
Michael L. Smith
Previous REU/RET Projects Include: Micropatterning for Traction Measurements (2017) Tensional Homeostasis of smooth muscle (2016)
Minjung Son
2026 REU Project: Controlling Energy Flow in Biological Chromophores with Light–Matter Hybrid States Research in the Son Group aims to understand the photophysical mechanisms of how energy and charge flow in molecular, materials, and biological systems, which largely govern their function. To explore these mechanisms and dynamics, we utilize ultrafast optical spectroscopy and microscopy. In […]
Will Sprecher
Will Sprecher was the Director of Manufacturing for Leuko Labs. Previous REU/RET Projects Include: PointCheck Case Design (2023)