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