PEOPLE
Meet the team behind the mLab Robotics.


DR. YIGIT MENGUC
Lab Director
Assistant Professor of Robotics, Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science
Postdoc, Wyss Insitute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University, 2014
Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, 2011
M.S. Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, 2009
B.S. Mechanical Engineering, Rice University, 2006

OSMAN DOGAN YIRMIBESOGLU
Ph.D. Student, Robotics
B.S Mechanical Engineering (ranked 1st in DM Programs), Ozyegin University, 2015 B.S. Electrical and Electronics Engineering (ranked 3rd), Ozyegin University, 2014

STEPH WALKER
Dual Ph.D. Student, Materials Science & Robotics
B.S. Chemical Engineering, Oregon State University, 2014
B.A. Applied Science (Graphic Design), San Diego State University, 2007

URANBILEG DAALKHAIJAV
Ph.D. Candidate, Chemical Engineering
B.S. Bioengineering, Oregon State University, 2009
M.S. University of Saskatchewan 2012

GINA OLSON
Ph.D. Student, Robotics
B.S. Mechanical Engineering, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
M.S. Mechanical Engineering, California Institute of Technology

CALLIE BRANYAN
Ph.D. Student, Robotics
B.S. Mechanical Engineering with Mathematics minor, University of Arizona, 2016

NICK BIRA
Ph.D. student, Robotics
B.S. Biological Engineering, University of Missouri, Columbia

CALLEN VOTZKE
Ph.D. Student, Robotics and Electrical Engineering
(co-advised by Prof. Matthew Johnston)
B.E. Engineering Sciences, Darmouth College, 2013
GRADUATE RESEARCHERS
UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCHERS

DYLAN TRUSH
B.S. Mechanical Engineering

DAVIS RAYE
B.S. Mechanical Engineering

JACOB RUEBEN
B.S. Chemical Engineering

TESSA VAN VOLKENBURG
B.S. Chemical Engineering

KURT WYATT REINSCHMIDT
B.S. Mechanical Engineering

DUNCAN O'BOYLE
B.S. Mechanical Engineering

KHAWATER HUSSEIN
B.S. Mechanical Engineering

JULIA KHOURY
B.S. Bioengineering

LEAH HANEN
B.S. Mechanical Engineering
LAB ALUMNI

ALEX ZATOPA
M.S., Robotics

SAMANTHA HEMBLEBEN
M.S., Robotics

JOHN MORROW
M.S., Robotics