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Members

Principal Investigator (PI)
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Assistant Professor

Director, Laboratory for Soft Machines & Electronics (SME Lab)

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Electrical, Computer, and System Engineering

Case School of Engineering
Case Western Reserve University

 

Investigator, Advanced Platform Technology (APT) Center

Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center

Office: 441 Glennan, 10900 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44106-7222

Email: ccao@case.edu

Phone: 216-368-2984

Postdoc Associates & Visiting Scholars
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Dr. Y. Jin

Postdoc Associate

Research topics: Soft robotics & Soft electronics

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Dr. L. Zhang

Visiting Professor

Research topics: Soft Robotics

Graduate Students
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Joel Warren

PhD Student 

Research Interests: Advanced materials and Additive manufacturing

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Riddhi Srinivasan

MS Student 

Research Interests: Soft robotics, Soft electronics

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Jeffrey Kagle

PhD Student 

Research Interests: Advanced materials and Additive manufacturing

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Jordan Gray

MS Student 

Research Interests: Soft robotics, Soft actuators

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Shariful Islam

PhD Student 

Research Interests: Soft robotics, Soft electronics

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Nikhil Bondala

MS Student 

Research Interests: Soft robotics, Soft electronics

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Ashwin Menon

MS Student 

Research Interests: Robotics

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S. Mwendamberi

MS Student 

Research Interests: Printed electronics

Undergradutes
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Eliza Opalka

Undergraduate Student

Research Interest: Soft robots

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Shion Kato

Undergraduate Student

Research Interest: Soft robots

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Maria Tuepker

Undergraduate Student

Research Interest: Flexible electronics, Stretchable electronics, Biointegrated electronics  

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Lekha Joy

Undergraduate Student

Research Interests: Soft robots

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Brenda Martinez 

Undergraduate Student

Research Interest: Soft electronics, IoTs

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Luca Ciampaglia

Undergraduate Student

Research Interests: Soft robots

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