OUR TEAM


Sree Kalyan Patiballa

Principal Investigator
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering


UA Faculty Profile

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Postdoc, Mechanical Eng. and Material Science, Yale, 2021
Ph.D., Systems Engineering, University of Illinois, 2020
M.S., Aerospace Engineering, University of Illinois, 2014
B.Tech., Mechanical Engineering, Amrita University, 2013

GRADUATE STUDENTS


Shammo Dutta

4th-year Doctoral Student

Design of Mechanical Metamaterials and Soft Robotics

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B.Tech., Mechanical Engineering, Amrita University, 2021

Raydah Nudrat Turna

3rd-year Doctoral Student

Civil Metamaterials and Variable Stiffness Materials

B.Tech., Mechanical Engineering, Khulna University of Engineering and Technology, 2022

Eshwar P. Raman

2nd-year Doctoral Student

Soft robotics and actuators

B.Tech., Mechanical Engineering, Amrita University, 2020

UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS


Christopher Roussakies

Senior Year Undergraduate Student

Recreating snapping shrimp claw as a compliant mechanism

Mechanical Engineering, University of Alabama

Aidan Fraas

Sophomore Year Undergraduate Student

Fiber Reinforced Elastomeric Enclosures (FREEs)

Mechanical Engineering, University of Alabama

Lab Alumni


Abhai Anand

Senior year Highschool Student

Pneu-Nets Bending Actuators

B.S. in Biomedical Engineering, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 2024-Present

Alabama School of Fine Arts, 2024