Current members

PhD students

  • Fulin Li

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    Fulin Li PhD student working on wearable knee exosuits.

    Affiliations

    Fulin graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering and Automation from Harbin Institute of Technology. She pursued master's degree in Control Systems at Imperial College London, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering. She conducts experiments to design a wearable knee exo-suit with an angle dependent impedance. The design has biological inspirations from natural structures such as fish-scales that provide state dependent impedance to survive in dynamic environments.

  • Barry Mulvey

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    Barry Mulvey PhD student working on deformable robots.

    Affiliations

    Barry received the BSc degree in Electronic Engineering and the ME degree in Electronic and Computer Engineering with First Class Honours from University College Dublin (Ireland). He subsequently worked as a Software System Design Engineer for Analog Devices (USA) before starting his PhD at the Dyson School of Design Engineering. Barry was awarded the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Doctoral Training Partnership (DTP) CASE PhD scholarship for his doctoral work which focuses on real-time multi-modal sensor integration for mobile robots in unstructured environments, as part of the EU-funded Natural Intelligence project. He recently won the mid-stage Amazon - Imperial Robotics PhD Prize for Outstanding Achievement in Robotics. He is a member of IEEE, the IET, and Engineers Ireland where he has served on Council and as Chair of the Young Engineers Society. He is also the Founding Chair of the Imperial Robotics Postgrads Network under the Imperial Robotics Forum.

  • Yukun Ge

    PhD student

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    Yukun Ge PhD student working on origami inspired endoscopic capsules.

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    Yukun conducts experiments to develop soft origami inspired endoscopic capsules that move both forward and backwards under the peristaltic waves just by changing the shape of the capsule. This allows us to collect more data from potentially anomalous intestine tissue. Yukun won the Amazon-Imperial Robotics Forum award for the outstanding PhD research in robotics in 2023.

  • Parvathi Sunilkumar

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    Parvathi Sunilkumar PhD student working on soft fingertips.

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    Parvathi studies the role of fingertip morphology in texture classification in her PhD. She received her Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering with First Class Honours from Government Engineering College Thrissur, India, being the Institute and District topper. Thereafter she did her research internship at Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore. She did her Masters in Mechanical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Palakkad, for which she was awarded the ISTE-GSFC National Award for Best thesis. She is also the recipient of National Bal Shree honour in the field of Creative Scientific Innovations organised by National Bal Bhavan, Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India and NTSE (National Talent Search Exam) Scholarship, conducted by the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT), Government of India.

  • Tonghui Tang

    PhD student

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    Tonghui Tang PhD student working on soft sensor skins.

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    Tonghui graduated from Shandong University in 2022 with Outstanding Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, earning First Class Honours and the title of Mechanical Future Star. In 2023, he pursued and awarded Master's degree in Human and Biological Robotics at Imperial College London. Subsequently, he commenced his Design Engineering Ph.D. studies in December 2023 at the Dyson School of Design Engineering, generously supported by a full scholarship. His research ambitiously bridges soft robotic technology with percussion tomography. By focusing on this synergy, he aims to revolutionize non-invasive imaging techniques, greatly enhancing our ability to understand and visualize human tissues. This work not only underscores the potential of interdisciplinary approaches but also promises significant advancements in medical diagnostics and treatment planning.

  • Xinran Wang

    PhD student

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    Xinran Wang PhD student working on soft continuum robots with growing spines.

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    Xinran graduated from Virginia Tech, USA, in 2018 with a Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering. In 2020, he pursued and was awarded a Master's degree in Computer Science from the University of Birmingham, UK. Subsequently, he commenced his Ph.D. studies in November 2020 at the Dyson School of Design Engineering. His research focuses on the design, modeling, and control of continuum robots with variable stiffness and curvature. This work aims to enhance the capabilities and versatility of traditional soft robotic arms, transforming the ways in which soft continuum robots engage with and manipulate objects within constrained environments. He is currently working on Amazon Sponsored Project utilizing the continuum robot with growing spine.

Research Assistants

  • Jonah Hewett

    Research assistant

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    Jonah Hewett Research Assistant - EU funded Natural Intelligence project

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    Jonah pursued an MEng in Bio medical Engineering at Imperial College London, graduating in 2023 with First Class Honours. He is currently working on designing passively adaptive end-effectors for quadruped robots. These robotic legs take inspiration from the embodied intelligence found in the joints and hooves of mountain goats, with the goal of enabling better robotic locomotion in alpine terrain. This project, funded under the European Horizon 2020 program, forms part of the wider Natural Intelligence initiative, which aims to equip quadruped robots with the ability to autonomously monitor changes in ecologically important environments.

  • Elyse Marshall

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    Elyse Marshall Research Assistant - EPSRC funded RoboPatient project

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    Elyse is a 2023 Design Engineering MEng graduate from Imperial College London. She is working in the Morph Lab on a medical simulator to help students to learn critical diagnosis skills. The project focuses on developing a portable, accessible, and low-cost haptic enabled mouse to enable realistic and multi-sensory interaction with a virtual patient. Elyse is passionate about designing with users in mind and creating efficient systems that solve problems.

  • Matvey Boguslavskiy

    Student

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    Matvey Boguslavskiy Research assistant working on space robotic hands with haptic feedback for extra vehicular applications.

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    Matvey is an alumni of the Dyson School of Design Engineering at Imperial College. During this time he has led the Imperial College Space Society for over 2 years working on a number of projects including a competition Rover and a Solar Sail CubeSat. He is also a huge proponent of 'hackathons' - having organised and won many over the last few years. In his spare time he has played rugby, written short stories, and climbed mountains.At the Morph Lab, he first completed his MEng thesis on 'Improving Astronaut Dexterity on EVA' with a hydraulic exoskeletal solution, for which he won the Institution of Engineering & Technology prize. Since then, he has worked at the lab as a Research Assistant developing a novel knee joint for simplifying robotic control.If you're interested in how robotics, space development, and novel manufacturing techniques can help make the future look how the future should - reach out at hi@matvey.contact

  • Ana Lopez Figueroa

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    Ana Lopez Figueroa Research Assistant - EPSRC funded RoboPatient project

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    Ana graduated in 2023 with an MEng degree in Biomedical Engineering at Imperial College London. She thoroughly enjoys working at the intersection between medical engineering, robotics and design, and is currently developing a novel neonatal infant model to enhance endotracheal intubation training for clinicians. This formed her Master’s thesis, and she is now furthering its development by refining the oromandibular mechanics, sensors and anatomy, as well as conducting experiments to observe how human factors and feedback affect fine motor skill learning. This research is being carried out in collaboration with the Centre for Advanced Pediatric & Perinatal Education (CAPE) at Stanford Medical School.

  • Chris Kalogroulis

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    Chris Kalogroulis Research Assistant - EU funded Natural Intelligence project

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    Chris graduated in 2023 with a first-class honour from the Design Engineering MEng course at Imperial College London. He is now working in Morph lab designing new feet for mountain climbing quadruped robots. Working with Jonah, they have taken inspiration from Alpine Ibex and made hoof-inspired feet which work with the environment and take advantage of the natural features of the mountainous terrain without any electronics or control. During their first year he won UK Young Engineer and during the course of university, he found a love in robotics and created ROPHIO for his Master’s project, an affordable and novel modular self-reconfigurable swarm robot for swarm software development.