Faculty
David C. Zimmerman Assistant Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Adjunct, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Founder and Director, Laboratory for Advanced Learning, Artificial Intelligence and Control
Member, Intelligent and Autonomous Systems
Member, Advanced Manufacturing Institute
PhD students
Yejin Wi, Graduate Research Assistant, Mechanical Engineering
Theodoros Tavoulareas, Graduate Research Assistant, Mechanical Engineering
Lea Prade Njoua Dongmo, Graduate Research Assistant, Mechanical Engineering
Brandon Voelker (co-supervised with Dr. Pietro Milillo), Graduate Research Assistant,
Geosensing Systems Engineering & Sciences
Razi Hamdi, Graduate Research Assistant, Mechanical Engineering
Paramjit Singh, Graduate Research Assistant, Mechanical Engineering
Rufo Gololcha Udesa, Graduate Research Assistant, Mechanical Engineering
Onyinyechi Ihesiulo Chizuru, Graduate Research Assistant, Mechanical Engineering
M.S. students
Caleb Hairston, MS Engineering Data Science
Undergraduate students
Daniel Okei, B.S. Mechanical Engineering
Muhammad Bhatti, B.S. Mechanical Engineering
Christian Reyes, B.S. Mechanical Engineering
Visitors
Past Visitors
Imanol Gutierrez Pinedo, February-August 2025, International Mentoring Foundation For The Advancement Of Higher Education
Christian Dorado, March 2024- April 2025, International Mentoring Foundation For The Advancement Of Higher Education
Rufo Gololcha Udesa, August 2024-February 2025, Universita’ di Padova, Italy
Razi Hamdi, March-September 2024, Ecole Polytechnique de Tunisie
Anurag Anurag, May-July 2024, IIT Delhi
Alvaro Crespo Santiago, February-December 2023, International Mentoring Foundation For The Advancement Of Higher Education
Rahma Aloui, April – August 2022, Ecole Polytechnique de Tunisie
Divya Choudhary, April – September 2020 (remote due to the pandemic), IIT Delhi
Alumni
Jess Nguyen, B.S. Mechanical Engineering
Urvi Bhatia, B.S. Mechanical Engineering
Arturo De La Barcena, M.S. Mechanical Engineering
Natalie Linde, B.S.Biomedical Engineering, Honors College, SURF 2024 recipient
Britney Rogers, M.S. Mechanical Engineering
Paola Perdomo, B.S. Mechanical Engineering, PURS 2024 recipient
Pankaj Bendre, M.S. Mechanical Engineering
Mehrad Jaloli, Graduate Research Assistant, Mechanical Engineering, January 2020-July 2023, now at Hewlett & Packard
Collin Rhodes, B.S. Mechanical Engineering
Jubin Joseph, Undergraduate Research Assistant, Computer Science
Chloe Tondera, Undergraduate Research Assistant, SURF 2022 recipient, Mechanical Engineering
William Lipscomb, Undergraduate Research Assistant, PURS 2022 recipient, Mechanical Engineering
VinayKumar Kundarapu, M.S. Data Science in Engineering
Nivedita Shanbhag, M.S. Engineering Data Science
Mary B. Bittar, M.S. Engineering Data Science
Subin Varghese, M.S. Engineering Data Science
Maggie A. Forrest, Undergraduate Research Assistant, Mechanical Engineering
Justo Robles Ruvalcaba, Undergraduate Research Assistant, Mechanical Engineering
Shady Alissa, Undergraduate Research Assistant, Mechanical Engineering
Tuan Nguyen, Undergraduate Research Assistant, SURF 2020 recipient, Mechanical Engineering
Past co-supervised students
W. Cannon Lewis II, PhD student in Computer Science, Rice University, Houston
Max Van Wilsum, MSc student in Mechanical, Maritime and Materials Engineering, TU Delft Center for Systems and Control, TU Delft, Delft, The Netherlands