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Bianca’s MS Thesis Defense
On May 7th, 2026, Bianca Youlton successfully defended her MS thesis, titled “Design and Development of an Origami-Inspired Robotic Arm with Camera for Cotton Leaf Disease Detection and Classification.” Congratulations and the best of luck on your new job at Caterpillar! Thanks to Drs. Pandey and Zheng for serving on her advisory committee.
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Title: “Collaborative Research: CPS: Medium: A Smart System for Reducing Piglet Pre-weaning Mortality”
Dr. Kiju Lee collaborates with Dr. Ziteng Xu (PI, Project Lead, TAMU), Dr. Jeff Weigert (TAMU), Dr. Jianfeng Zhou (U. of Missouri), and Dr. Tim Safranski (U. of Missouri) on a project funded by USDA-NIFA through the NSF Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) program.
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Hayyam, Naomi, Kiju, Neha, and Paul
The ART Lab participated in the Arts in Robotics Exhibition at ICRA 2025, held in Atlanta, GA, on May 21, 2025. For this installation, we presented a monochromatic floral composition, with all flowers rendered in black, complemented by virtual butterflies visualized through Microsoft HoloLens. The experience was further enhanced by immersive audio delivered through the headset, creating a cohesive and multi-sensory artistic interaction.
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ART Lab celebrated graduation of Yuan Wei and Shrikrishna Gad. Congratulations!!
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Shrikrishna with Dr. Lee
Congratulations, Shrikrishna, on successfully defending your MS thesis on “Developing Compact Scalable Robotic Hardware Platform to Enhance Agricultural Data Collection and Soil Monitoring”!
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From the left, Dr. Hardin, Dr. Lee, *Dr. Wei*, Dr. Bagavathiannan, and Dr. Kim (on screen).
Yuan Wei successfully defended his PhD dissertation titled “Design and Development of a Multi-Terrain Robot and Collaborative Multi-Robot System” on February 20, 2025. Congratulations, Dr. Wei!
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David Ho (MEEN BS ’24), Hayyam Iqbal (MEEN Grad), Naomi Drori (MEEN Undergrad), Paul Moubarak (MEEN Undergrad), and Dr. Kiju Lee created an interactive robotic flower art, named The BLOOM, and showcased it at a San Francisco Symphony’s SoundBox event, curated by Carol Reiley, on April 5-6, 2024.
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Kangneoung’s PhD Defense: Dr. Kalafatis (on the screen), Dr. Langari, Dr. Rathinam, Dr. Kangneoung Lee, and Dr. Lee.
Kangneoung defended his doctoral dissertation, entitled “ADVANCED AUTONOMOUS ALGORITHMS FOR VERSATILE TERRAIN NAVIGATION AND MULTIROBOT COVERAGE CONTROL,” on February 8th, 2024. Congratulations!
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From left: Yuan, Ajinkya, Akash, Neha, Kangneoung, Annalisa, Dominic, and Jordan.
Annalisa has successfully defended her MS thesis on March 10, 2023. Congratulations! We thank the committee members, Dr. Darbha and Dr. Quek.
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Elisabeth successfully defended her MS thesis on e-Cube games for older adults. Congratulations!
