Dr. Ye Zhao is an Assistant Professor at the George Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering and a member of the Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines. He is also affiliated with Decision and Control Laboratory, Machine Learning …

Jul 12, 2022 · Dr. Ye Zhao, Assistant Professor at the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, Director of the Laboratory for Intelligent Decision and Autonomous Robots (LIDAR) and member of the Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines, has been granted an NSF CAREER Award of ~$595,000.00 over a period of 5 years. Ye and his team will use ...

Oct 18, 2022 · George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering Assistant Professor Ye Zhao was announced as one of 25 recipients of the 2023 Office of Naval Research’s (ONR) Young Investigator Award. The ONR’s Young Investigator Program targets early-career scientists whose research carries significant potential for technological advancement and ...

March 10, 2025. Five faculty members in the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering have been awarded promotions, effective August 15, 2025.

Sep 14, 2023 · Zhao, Zhu, Yu, and Mehta are currently in the process of preparing a journal manuscript on the research, with Matthew and Christian as co-authors. The tentative title of the manuscript is “A robotic hand for object identification through tactile sensing and neural networks.”

At Georgia Tech Galassi worked in the Space Systems Design Lab on the RECONSO CubeSat with Marcus Holzinger and Glenn Lightsey in the School of Aerospace Engineering, and spent a semester working with Ye Zhao in the Woodruff School on a robotic hand demonstration for International Robotics Week.

On Wednesday, September 11, 2019, a breakfast was held to honor prestigious fellowship award winners from within the College of Engineering. Woodruff School students from the mechanical engineering, nuclear engineering, and bioengineering programs received a total of 49 fellowships awarded this year.

Dr. Ye Zhao (ME) Dr. Boris Prilutsky (BIOS) SUMMARY. Neural feedback pathways arise from a variety of sensory receptors. The firing of muscle spindles is nonlinearly related to length and velocity, while Golgi tendon organs measure active contractile force. Understanding the functions of these pathways during voluntary movement is important ...

Research in the Automation, Robotics and Control area varies from fundamental research in control theory to the conception, design, and prototype evaluation of innovative mechatronics systems and applications to automation. Research in mechatronics focuses on the fusion of mechanical and electrical disciplines in modern engineering processes, aimed at achieving a cost-effective, optimal ...

May 4, 2023 · Advisors: Ye Zhao and Patricio Vela Area of Research: Perception-informed motion planning for legged systems What this fellowship means to me: “This fellowship represents an opportunity to completely invest myself in the world of robotics and perform challenging, high-impact research that brings inspiration and betterment to everyone, and not ...