People

                                 

Principal Investigator (PI)

Yang Tao, Ph.D. P.E.
Professor of Bioengineering

Ph.D., The Pennsylvania State University, 1991
M.S., University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 1988
B.S., Nanjing Institute of Technology, 1982

Office: 4120 A. James Clark Hall
Email: ytao@umd.edu Phone: 301-405-1189
Web: blog.umd.edu/taolab/

 

Current members:

Maxwell Holmes (Lab manager)

B.S., Mechanical Engineering
University of Maryland, College Park, 2015

Office: 4113 A. James Clark Hall
Email: mholmes6@terpmail.umd.edu

 

 

 

 

Gary Seibel (Research Engineer)

Department of Environmental Science and Technology
Office: 0530C Animal Sci./Ag. Engr. Bldg.
Email: gseibel@umd.edu
Phone: 301-405-1181

 

 

 

 

Dongyi Wang (Affiliate Professor- former Ph.D. Student )

B.S., Electronic Engineering, Fudan Unversity, China, 2016
Visiting student, Electrical Engineering, The Chinese University of Hongkong, 2014.8-2014.12

 

Office: 4113 A. James Clark Hall
Email: dywang@terpmail.umd.edu
Web: https://blog.umd.edu/dywang/

 

 

Mohamed Ali (Ph.D. Student)

B.S., Bioengineering, George Mason University

Office: 4113 A. James Clark Hall
Email: mali93@umd.edu

 

 

 

 

Anjana Hevagan (Ph.D. Student)

B.S., Bioengineering, University of Maryland

Office: 4113 A. James Clark Hall
Email: ahevagan@terpmail.umd.edu

 

 

 

Chiao-Yi Wang (Ph.D. Student)

M.S., Bioengineering, National Taiwan University
B.S., Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University

Office: 4113 A. James Clark Hall
Email: cyiwang@umd.edu

 

 

Talita Alessandra Da Silva (Ph.D. Student)

M.S., Aeronautical & Mechanical Engineering, Aeronautics Institute of Technology (ITA)
B.S., Mechanical Engineering, Aeronautics Institute of Technology (ITA)

Office: 4113 A. James Clark Hall
Email: talibioe@umd.edu

Undergraduates & Interns:

 

 

James Cobau, Mechanical Engineering 2022

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ben Wu, Bioengineering 2022

 

 

 

 

 

 

Caleb Wheeler, Mathematics & Computer Science 2023

 

 

 

 

 

 

Spencer Chen, Computer Engineering & Mathematics 2024

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mark Jung, Computer Science 2024

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Alex Chen, Computer Science 2024

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ravidu Hevaganinge, Bioengineering 2024

 

 

 

 

 

Julian Cooper, Eleanor Roosevelt High School 2022

 

Alumni:

Yibin Ying, 2001, Visiting scholar, now President of Zhejiang A&F University, Professor at Zhejiang University

Hansong Jing, 2003, Ph.D. now Group manager at JBT crop.

Xin Chen, 2003, Ph.D., now Group manager at ENSCO

Xuemei Cheng, 2004, Ph.D., now Director of Industry Vision Automation

Abby Vogel, 2007, Ph.D., now UMD

Fenghua Jin, 2008, Ph.D., now Group manager at Cognex

Bin Zhu, 2008, Ph.D., now Director at Leidos

Lu Jiang, 2009, Ph.D., now Assistant Professor at JHU

Lei Qin, 2009, Ph.D., now Assistant Professor at Harvard

Canran Ge, 2015, M.S., now Software Engineer at Microsoft

John Lin, 2016, Ph.D., now Production manager at California Strawberry Commission

Chao Ni, 2018, Visiting scholar, now Associate Professor at Nanjing Forestry University

Lili Hao, 2019, Visiting scholar, now Assistant Professor at Shandong Jianzhu University

Nikhil Mehra, 2020, M.S., now Software and Robotics Engineer at Allied Technology, LLC

Recent undergraduate students:

Nick Williams, now Software Engineer in BlackRock

Luke Mahon, now Mechanical Engineer at Herrick Technology Laboratories

Devon Cogan, now Mechanical Engineer at Naval Sea Systems Command