OUR TEAM

Sree Kalyan Patiballa
Principal Investigator
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering
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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