Rohan Jay wins Summer 2026 PURA Award!
Congratulations to Rohan Jay who has joined a long and prestigious crowd of LIMBS Lab PURA awardees!
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Pitch Perfect: Debojyoti Biswas Named Postdoc Champion!
Huge shoutout to Dr. Debojyoti Biswas from LIMBS Lab for taking home the Postdoc Champion title in this year’s EmpowerYour Pitch 2025: Postdoc Edition! For the first time ever, postdocs were invited to join the competition, which brought together postdocs from across five schools at Johns Hopkins. Debojyoti’s winning talk was entitled “Making Sense of the Uncertain World.” Debojyoti was one of two postdoctoral co-champions. Congrats Debojyoti!
Three Freshly Minted LIMBS PhDs!
Congratulations to Dr. Michael Wilkinson, Dr. Di Cao, and Dr. Yu Yang, who all defended their dissertations within the span of about a month! Dr. Wilkinson defended his on December 11, 2024, Dr. Cao defended on January 16, 2025, and just a week later Dr. Yang defended on January 21, 2025. Three amazing students who all showed great grit and determination through the challenges of the pandemic, ultimately producing outstanding dissertation work that will surely stand the test of time!
Congratulations to Krystal Lan!
Krystal was honored at the Spring 2024 Convocation Awards as a recipient of this year’s William N. Sharpe, Jr. Award for Student Involvement. Bill Sharpe founded our department and was a beloved senior colleague of mine when I arrived, so it is wonderful to see our undergraduate researcher receive this honor. Congrats Krystal!
Congratulations Dr. Deng!
Congratulations to Dr. Siming Deng for successfully defending his dissertation, entitled “Modeling and Gait Control for Principally Kinematic Locomotion Systems” today, December 15, 2023.
Noah Cowan elevated to IEEE Fellow
The IEEE Board of Directors, at its November 2023 meeting, elevated Noah Cowan to IEEE Fellow, effective 1 January 2024 “for contributions to sensing, navigation, and control in animals and machines”.
Joy Yeh wins PURA award
Congratulations Dr. Lashkari!
The LIMBS laboratory is pleased to announce the successful PhD Dissertation Defense of Dr. Shahin Lashkari. His thesis “Place Cells to Path Planning: A Neuro-inspired Approach Toward 3D Trajectory Prediction in Robotics” broke new ground on understanding how the brain represents spatial information during challenging locomotor behaviors. Congrats!
Yu Yang receives multiple teaching awards!
Mr. Yu Yang, PhD student in the LIMBS laboratory, has received multiple TA awards, including the Whiting School of Engineering Teaching Assistant Award and the Creel Family Teaching Award in Mechanical Engineering, the latter of which puts him in the company of multiple LIMBS lab members (Di Cao, Brian Woronowicz, and Shahin Lashkari). Congrats, Yu!
Saba Zerefa gives her final REU talk
Saba Zerefa, a visiting summer REU student from Harvard, presented her work entitled “Making Sense: Decoding active sensing via tracking behavior in weakly electric fish” for the annual LCSR REU program presentations on Friday August 5, 2022.
Great work!!