Dr. Yifan (David) Li received his Ph.D. degree under the supervision of Professor Liz Hsiao-Wecksler in 2013 and co-founded his company, Hesai Technology, in 2014. On Febuaray 9th, 2023, Hesai … Read more
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Lab party for Yinan and Abdul!
Liz and graduate students gathered together in the Mechanical Engineering Building on February 9th, 2023, to celebrate Yinan’s acceptance into the Postdoctoral Science Program at Amazon Robotics and Abdul’s newborn … Read more
Congratulations to Maxine He on passing her PhD Qualifying Exam!
Maxine He had successfully passed her qualifying exam for her PhD in neuroscience on January 16th, 2023.… Read more
Congratulations to Dr. Chengzhang Xiao for successfully defending his doctoral thesis!
Chengzhang Xiao successfully defended his doctoral thesis titled ‘Personal Unique Rolling Experience: Design, Modeling and Control of a Rolling Robot’ on November 9th, 2022. Congratulations, Dr. Xiao!… Read more
Congratulations to Dr. Yinan Pei for successfully defending his doctoral thesis!
Yinan Pei successfully defended his doctoral thesis titled ‘Design and validation of Lower- and Upper-Extremity Robotic Medical Education Task Trainers for Neurological Exams’ on November 7th, 2022. Congratulations!

HDCL host Professor Kevin Lynch for MechSE Seminar
Professor Kevin Lynch was invited by Professor Liz Hsiao-Wecksler to give a seminar talk titled ‘Human-robot collaborative manipulation’ in weekly MechSE Seminars on September 20th at 4 pm in 4100 … Read more
HDCL presented a robotic task trainer demo at the Illinois State Neurological Society Meeting in Chicago, Illinois
The arm and leg task trainers were demoed to a group of neurologists attending the Illinois State Neurological Society meeting (Saturday, September 17th) in Chicago, IL, last Saturday, September 17th. … Read more
HDCL host Professor Emeritus Ralph L. Hollis for MechSE Seminar
Professor Ralph Hollis from Carnegie Mellon University was invited by Professor Liz Hsiao-Wecksler as the seminar speaker to share his insights and research on Ballbots during the weekly MechSE Seminar … Read more