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Director:
Prof. Ronald Fearing

Graduate Researchers
Yifan Yu

Postdocs and Visitors:
Dr. Binghan He
Dr. Sareum Kim

Undergraduate Researchers:
Nai Chen Zhao
Chen Dai
Daniel Dapula
Charle Paxson
Maithili Kumar
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Biomimimetic Millisystems Lab Members, Dec. 2023
(l-r) (back) David Guo, Cedric Murphy, Brandon VanBuskirk, Naichen Zhao, Martin Zeng, Chen Dai, Daniel Dapula
(front) Charles Paxson, Dr. Binghan He, Ashley Tigue, Dr. Sareum Kim, Yifan You, Ron Fearing


PhD Alumni
Prof. Kris Pister (PhD Sept. 1992), Prof. UC Berkeley
Dr. Matt Berkemeier (PhD May 1993)
Dr. Edward Nicolson (PhD Dec. 1994), Yaskawa America
Dr. Ken Chiang (PhD Dec. 2000)
Prof. Joseph Yan (PhD Dec. 2002), Senior Lecturer at Univ. of British Columbia
Dr. Gabe Moy (PhD Dec. 2002)
Prof. Rob Wood, (PhD Dec. 2004) Prof. Harvard
Dr. Srinath Avadhanula (PhD May 2006), MathWorks
Dr. Ranjana Sahai (PhD May 2006), post doc Harvard
Prof. Carmel Majidi  (PhD May 2007), Asst. Prof. CMU
Dr. Erik Steltz (PhD May 2008), iRobot
Prof. Jongho Lee (Phd Dec. 2008), Assoc. Prof. GIST
Prof. Aaron Hoover (PhD May 2010), Asst. Prof. Olin College
Dr. Bryan Schubert (PhD May 2011)
Prof. Stan Baek (PhD May 2011), Asst. Prof. US Air Force Academy
Dr. Nick Kohut (PhD May 2013), DASH Robotics
Dr. Paul Birkmeyer (PhD May 2013), SRI International
Dr. Kevin Peterson (PhD May 2013), NEST Inc.
Dr. Andrew Gillies (PhD Dec. 2013), DASH Robotics
Dr. Fernando Garcia Bermudez (PhD Dec. 2013), Yaskawa America
Dr. Cameron Rose (PhD. Dec. 2015) NorthropGrumman
Dr. Duncan Haldane (PhD May 2017), JITX
Dr. Austin Buchan (PhD Aug. 2017), Carbon Robotics
Dr. Jessica S. Lee (PhD May 2018) , Carbon Robotics
Dr. Ethan Schaler (PhD May 2018), JPL
Dr. Carlos Casarez (PhD Aug. 2018) Intuitive Surgical
Dr. Justin Yim (PhD May 2020) post-doc, CMU
Dr. Anusha Nagabandi (PhD Aug. 2020) Covariant
Dr. Conrad Holda (PhD Jul. 2022) Anduril
Dr. Sareum Kim (PhD Sep. 2023) post-doc, EPFL



Alumni
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Alumni (MS)
Edward M. Sladek (MS Dec 1989) Michael B. Cohn (MS May 1992) Charles P. Coleman (MS Nov. 1992)
Bonnie Gray (MS May 1995) Eden Tan (MS May 1995) Ujjwal Singh (MS May 1997)
Jeff Thompson (MS May 2001) Jon Entwistle (MS May 2006) Jaakko Karras (MS May 2013)
Joshua D. Goldberg (MS May 2015)
Jane Esterline (MS May 2016)
Ivan Davydychev (MS Dec. 2016)
David McPherson (MS Dec. 2017)
Michael R. Tong (MS May 2018) Phillip Yang (MS May 2019)
Hayden Sheung (MS May 2020) Tifany Cappellari (MS May 2021)
PostDoc Alumni

Dr.Wolfgang Zesch (1997-1998) Prof. Metin Sitti (1999-2002)
Prof. at CMU		 Prof. Domenico Campolo (2000-2003)
Nanyang Tech. Univ.
Prof. Rick Groff (2003-2006)
Assistant Professor at Clemson Univ.		 Dr. Brian Bush (2010-2011)
NIST 		Dr. DaeHo Lee (2011)
Prof. David Zarrouk (2011-2013)
Ben Gurion Univ. 		Prof. Dongwon Yun (2014-2015)
BRM Lab, DGIST 		Prof. Chen Li (2012-2015)
Johns Hopkins Univ.
Prof. Mark Plecnik (2016-2018)
Univ. of Notre Dame		 Dr. Liyu Wang (2015-2019)
Visitor Alumni

Mr. Eiji Shimada (1999-2000)
NEC Corp.		 Mr. Hiroaki Furuichi (1996)
Hitachi PERL
 Mr. Yohei Maeno (2005-2006)
Nitto Denko Corporation
Joonyoung Roh (2011-2012)
Tohoku Univ. 		Prof. Will Provancher (Fall 2011) Prof. Jung Kim (2012-2013)
KAIST
Prof. TaeWon Seo (2015-2016)
Yeungnam Univ. 		Gwangpil Jung, SNU (2015)
Collaborators

Polypedal Lab, Dept. of Integrative Biology, UC Berkeley
Prof. Robert Full

TeleImmersion Lab, EECS UC Berkeley
Prof. Ruzena Bajcsy

Javey Research Group
Prof. Ali Javey

Video and Image Processing Lab
Prof. Avideh Zakhor

Levine Research Group
Prof. Sergey Levine

Animal Flight Laboratory, Dept. of Integrative Biology, UC Berkeley
Prof. Robert Dudley

Maboudian Group, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, UC Berkeley
Prof. Roya Maboudian

Prof. Pieter Abbeel

Autumn Lab, Dept. of Biology, Lewis and Clark College
Prof. Kellar Autumn

Harvard Microrobotics Lab
Prof. Robert Wood



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Biomimimetic Millisystems Lab Members, Jan. 2018
(l-r) (row 1) Michael Tong, Laura Brandt, Ethan Schaler, Anusha Nagabandi, Jessica Lee
(row 2) Eric Wang, Loren Jiang, Dr. Liyu Wang, Justin Yim
(row 3) Dr. Mark Plecnik, Ben McInroe, Carlos Casarez, Phillip Yang, Davis Yang, Ron Fearing
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Llama with Ben and Jessica, Loren and Jessica, April 27, 2018

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Biomimimetic Millisystems Lab, Jan. 2016
(l-r) (row 1) Ron Fearing, James Lam, Richard Doan, Anusha Nagabandi, Ethan Schaler, Jessica Lee, Cem Koc, Robert Spark
(row 2) Scout Heid, Justin Yim, Jane Esterline, Ivan Davydychev, Can Koc, Brian Su
(row 3) Dr. Mark Plecnik, Ben McInroe, David McPherson, Dr. Liyu Wang, Carlos Casarez, Austin Buchan, Duncan Haldane, Prof. TaeWon Seo
(not present Andrew Pullin, Parsa Mahmoudieh)
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Exploratorium visit, Aug. 2017

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Biomimimetic Millisystems Lab Members, Sep. 2013
(l-r) (row 1) Andrew Pullin, Dr. Chen Li, Cameron Rose, Ethan Schaler, Andrew Chen, Jessica Lee, Andrew Gillies, Jonghun Kwak
(row 2) Robert Ou, Ian Krase, Ron Fearing, Carlos Casarez, Austin Buchan, Duncan Haldane, Fernando Garcia Bermudez 		group sep13
Biomimimetic Millisystems Lab Members, Feb. 2015
(l-r) (row 1) Ron Fearing, Cameron Rose, Jane Esterline, Ethan Schaler, Jessica Lee, James Lam
(row 2) Andrew Pullin, Sebastian Miller-Hack, Gwangpil Jung, Dr. Dongwon Yun
(row 3) Carlos Casarez, Michael Coe, Duncan Haldane, Austin Buchan, Josh Goldberg, Can Koc
(not present Dr. Chen Li, Emily Chen, Maruchi Kim)
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Biomimimetic Millisystems Lab Members, Oct 2012.
(l-r) (row 1) Ron Fearing, Andrew Pullin, Cameron Rose, Ethan Schaler, Ryan Julian, Prof. Jung Kim
(row 2) Nick Kohut, Jaakko Karras, Paul Birkmeyer, Owen Lu
(row 3) Kevin Peterson, Andrew Gillies, Duncan Haldane, Fernando Garcia Bermudez, Austin Buchan, Ian Krase

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Biomimimetic Millisystems Lab  group BBQ, May 2011.
(l-r) (row 1) Jaakko Karras, Andrew Pullin, Stan Baek, DaeHo Lee
(row 2) Andrew Gillies, Nick Kohut, Kevin Peterson, Paul Birkmeyer, Fernando Garcia Bermudez, Ron Fearing
group picture Nov. 2009
Biomimimetic Millisystems Lab research group, Nov. 2009.
(l-r) (row 1) Xiao-Yu Fu, Paul Birkmeyer, Kevin Ma, Stan Baek. (row 2)  Ron Fearing, Kevin Peterson, HyunOh Song, Michael Cohen, Korok Chatterjee. (row 3) Bryan Schubert, Andrew Gillies, Fernando Garcia Bermudez, Aaron Hoover
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Biomimimetic Millisystems Lab research group, Jan. 2008.
(l-r) (row 1) Stan Baek, Kevin Ma, Jason Keller
(row 2)  Erik Steltz, Kevin Peterson, Paul Birkmeyer, Jongho Lee, Ron Fearing (row 3) Aaron Hoover, Fernando Garcia Bermudez, Bryan Schubert
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Biomimimetic Millisystems Lab research group, Jan. 2007.
(l-r) (row 1) Carmel Majidi, Erik Steltz, Jongho Lee (row 2) Minerva Pillai, Michael Reyes, Stan Baek, Dennis Wang (row 3) Bryan Schubert, Aaron Hoover, Fernando Garcia Bermudez, Ron Fearing 		Gecko research group, Sept. 2005.
(l-r) Stan Baek, Rick Groff, Carmel Majidi, Ron Fearing, Yohei Maeno
MFI Research Group 2003
MFI research group, 2003.
(l-r) Rob Wood, Erik Steltz, Srinath Avadhanula
MFI Group celebrating flight mill 2001
MFI Lab Research Group, Aug. 2001.
Tao Su, Mimmo Campolo, Metin Sitti, Srinath Avadhanula, Rob Wood, Ron Fearing, Joe Yan