GRAVISH LAB - Key Persons


Curtis Sparks


Daniel I. Goldman

Job Titles:
  • Adviser

Emily Lathrop

Currently: Emily is currently an engineering consultant at the Rand Corporation Emily was co-advised by Prof. Tolley. She worked on developing new soft-robotic technologies for robot mobility on granular and real-world substrates.

James Lynch

Currently: James is currently an engineering consultant at Exponent James studied the interaction between aerodynamic forces and compliant actuators in a dynamically scaled flapping wing robot.

Nick Gravish

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor
  • Associate Professor, UC San Diego

Shivam Chopra

Currently: Shivam is currently an engineer at ATI industrial Shivam's PhD work focused on design principles for robot movement within granular media.

Wei Zhou

Currently: Wei is currently an engineer at Cisco systems Wei's PhD work focused on how to design ground based robots that move through body oscillation, and that can interact through contact to create collective movements.