PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
Carlotta Mummolo is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. Since September 2018, she is the director of the Coppélia Research Lab, where a diverse team of students and researchers studies the principles of bipedal locomotion and balance stability, with applications in the field of motor rehabilitation. Her research is based on a multidisciplinary approach that integrates fundamental biological and mechanical principles into robotics research platforms to investigate how legged systems move and interact with their environment.
Dr. Mummolo received her bachelor and master degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Polytechnic of Bari (Italy) in 2009 and 2011, respectively, and a second master degree in Mechanical Engineering from New York University (NYU) in 2011. In January 2016, she received two doctoral degrees through a joint Ph.D. program in Mechanical Engineering between Polytechnic of Bari and NYU. Since 2016, Dr. Mummolo has mentored more than 30 students (undergraduate and master) with their thesis dissertations and research activities and had teaching experience in the topics of robot mechanics, robot mobility, simulation tools for robotics, automatic control, system dynamics.
UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS
Elizabeth Archer
B.S. Biomedical Engineering
MASTER STUDENTS
Nikhil Lokesh Chitty
M.S. Electrical Engineering
Prateek Chandra
M.S. Biomedical Engineering
Cruz Donato
M.S. Biomedical Engineering
GRADUATE STUDENTS
Kübra Akbaş, PhD Student, Biomedical Engineering
Kubra received degrees in Mechanical Engineering (B.S., 2018) and Mechatronics and Robotics (M.S., 2019), both from New York University. Over the course of her education, she has worked on research projects focusing on topics such as bipedal locomotion, energy expenditure of actuators, fluid mechanics, and power systems. After her M.S. degree, Kubra spent her summer teaching and connecting with a large class of high school girls how to code through the Girls Who Code program. She looks forward to study how robots and humans move and applying that knowledge to solve challenges in the biomedical field.
VISITING SCHOLARS
Dr. Ilaria Mileti
Visiting Postdoc
University of Rome, La Sapienza
Stefano Pescosolido
Master Student
University of Rome, La Sapienza
LAB ALUMNI
Martina Suglia, University of Rome La Sapienza - 09/2018 - 12/2018
Verdiana Valente, University of Rome La Sapienza - 09/2018 - 12/2018
Giulia Vicentini, University of Rome La Sapienza - 09/2018 - 12/2018
Karen Ayoub, B.S. Biomedical Engineering - 09/2018 - 12/2019
Karina Dsouza, B.S. Biomedical Engineering - 09/2018 - 12/2019
Swathi Pavuluri, B.S. Biomedical Engineering - 09/2018 -12/2019
Mahenoor Shaikh, B.S. Biomedical Engineering - 04/2019 - 08/2019
Brian Mcgrath, B.S. Electronic and Computer Engineering Technology - 04/2019 - 08/2019
Darshan Patel, Middlesex Academy for Allied Health and Biomedical Sciences - 06/2019 - 08/2019