Current Members
Joshua A. Schultz, Ph.D.
Research Group Director
Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Dr. Schultz has been the director of the Biological Robotics At Tulsa research group since 2013. His research interests are in all aspects of robot motion and control. This includes grasping and manipulation, legged locomotion, and actuators that are inspired by muscle physiology. He tends to approach problems in this area from the standpoint of how they are accomplished in the bodies of humans and animals.
Dr. Schultz received his Ph.D. from Georgia Institute of Technology in 2012 and was a postdoctoral researcher at Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia before joining The University of Tulsa
Fangjian Chen
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Tulsa Institute for Robotics and Autonomy
Ph.D. University of North Carolina, Charlotte
Spenser Pulleyking
Ph.D. Student, Wilfred Woobank Fellow
BSME, The University of Tulsa, 2017
Bradford Kerst
Ph.D. Student
MS, The University of Tulsa, 2020
BSME, The University of Tulsa, 2018
Bryce Day
Ph.D. Student, Wilfred Woobank Fellow,
M.Eng., The University of Tulsa, 2022
BSME, The University of Tulsa, 2021
Tulsa Undergraduate Research Challenge Fellow, Summer 2020, Summer 2021
Amir Tehrani
Ph.D. Student, Presidential Graduate Assistant,
M.S., Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, 2014
B S., Semnan University 2011
amg0987@utulsa.edu
Sarah Downs
MS Student
BSEE, The University of Tulsa, 2024
sjd5818@utulsa.edu
Research Group Alumni
Ben Prugh
Undergraduate Researcher
BSME 2024
Tulsa Undergraduate Research Challenge Fellow, Summer 2022
Ethan Beard
Undergraduate Researcher/Educational Outreach Coordinator
BSEE 2024
Raashi Karande
Jr. TURC Fellow, Summer 2023
Peter (Phuc Duc Hong) Bui, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Research Associate, 2020–2023
Ph.D., Korea Maritime and Ocean University
Currently Assistant Professor, Christian Brothers University, Memphis, TN
Alejandra Maria Escobar Padilla
EPSCoR Research Experiences for Undergraduates Intern: Oral Roberts University
Summer 2022
Continuing toward the BSME degree at Oral Roberts University
R. Stephen Hester
BSME 2022
Undergraduate Researcher, Tulsa Undergraduate Research Challenge Fellow, Summer 2021
Now in graduate school at Texas A&M University
Achmed Johnson
BSME 2022
Undergraduate Researcher, Tulsa Undergraduate Research Challenge Fellow, Summer 2021
Applying to Graduate Programs
Caleb Fuller, Ph.D.
Ph.D. 2021, MS 2016
Now with Windlift LLC, North Carolina, USA
Joel Mathew
BS, Engineering Physics 2021
Undergraduate Researcher 2018-2021, Tulsa Undergraduate Research Challenge Fellow, Summer 2020
Now in graduate school at Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Braeden Williams
BSME, 2020, BS, Computer Science, 2021 Tulsa Undergraduate Research Challenge Fellow, Summer 2016
Now at Williams Corp., Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA/Computer Engineering Graduate Program, The University of Tulsa
Raveen DeSilva
BSEE 2021
Jr. TURC Fellow (Cascia Hall High School) Summer 2016
Dipayan Das, Ph.D.
Ph.D., 2020
Now with Apple Corp., Austin, TX
Albert Okoh
BSME 2020
Undergraduate Researcher, 2018-2020
Now in Graduate School at The University of Texas, Dallas
Tom Verstraten, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Fulbright Scholar 2018-2019
Now a Professor at Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium
Wesley Liao
BSEE 2018
Undergraduate Researcher, Tulsa Undergraduate Research Challenge Fellow, Summer 2014, Summer 2015
Now a Controls Engineer with Marshalltown, Fayetteville, AR
Nathanael Rake
MS 2017
Now with Enovation Controls, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA
Tyler Morrison, Ph.D.
BSME 2017
Undergraduate researcher 2015-2017
Now a Robotics Applications Engineer with Agility Robotics, Pittsburgh, PA
Samuel Laney
BSME 2016 (MS 2018, Advanced Composite Materials Lab)
Undergraduate Researcher, Tulsa Undergraduate Research Challenge Fellow, Summer 2015
Now Research Engineer, University of Tulsa Institute for Robotics and Autonomy, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA
Michael Martell
MS 2015
Now with Tulsa Winch Group, Jenks, Oklahoma, USA
Rogelio Paredes-Flores
Jr. TURC Fellow, Summer 2014 (Edison High School)
Carpenter in Tulsa Area
