Principle Investigator

Prof. Ehsan T. Esfahani
Associate Professor, Departmenf of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Core Faculty Member, Computational Data Science and Engineering Program

PhD. Mechanical Engineering, University of California Riverside
M.S. Electrical Engineering, University of California Riverside
M.S. Mechanical Engineering, University of Toledo
B.S. Mechanical Engineering, Isfahan University of Technology

Office: 245 Bell Hall, email:ehsanesf(at)buffalo(dot)edu, Phone:(716)645-2517
PhD Students
Hemanth Manjunatha
PhD Student Mechanical Engineering
Fall 2016- Now
Sri Sadhan Jujjavarapu
PhD Student Mechanical Engineering
Fall 2017- Now
Joseph Distefano
PhD Student Mechanical Engineering
Fall 2019- Now
Master Students
Apurvakumar Jani
Fall 2018 - Now
Abhikul Kumar Singh
Fall 2018 - Now
Supreet Pravin Kurdeka
Spring 2019 - Now
Rakesh Suresh Kumar
Spring 2019 - Now
Abhinaba Basu
Fall 2019 - Now
Rahul .
Fall 2019 - Now
Chaitanya B. Thammineni
Fall 2019 - Now
Rammya Iyer
Fall 2019 - Now
Lab Alumni (PhD)
Mostafa Ghobadi
PhD. Aug 2017
Director of Robotics
Intune Products
Amirhossein H. Memar
PhD. Aug 2018
Postdoctoral Research Scientist
Facebook Reality Lab
Amir Baghdadi
PhD. Feb 2019
Postdoctoral Research Scientist
University of Calgary
Lab Alumni (MSc)
Rohit Bhat
MSc. June 2014
Application\Design Engineer
Power Standards Lab., San Francisco CA
Chen Quin
MSc. Dec 2014
Sales Manager
General Electric, Shanghai, China.
Vaibhav Sharma
MSc. Jan 2015
Mechanical Engineer
Illumina, Hayward, CA.
Po-Sheng Wang
MSc. Sep 2015
Software Developer
Antra, Inc., Portland, OR.
Shrey Pareek
MSc. Aug 2015
PhD Student
University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL
Azadeh DinparastDjadid
MSc. Dec 2015
PhD Student
University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI
Zhiqing Zhao
MSc. Dec 2015
Buisness Analyst
Anthem Healthcare Inc., Hanover, MD
Hongfei Lin
MSc. Dec 2015
Mechanical Engineer
Buffalo Automation Group, Buffalo, NY
Yang Yu
MSc. Sep 2016
Graduate Student
University of Clemson, Clemson, SC
Yuxiang Chen
MSc. Feb 2017
Software Engineer
LinkedIn, San Francisco, CA
Fei Chen
MSc. Feb 2017
Mechanical Engineer
Pure Storage., Mountain View, CA
Amit Nenminisseri Mana
MSc. Feb 2017
Software Engineer
LexisNexis State Net, San Francisco, CA
Hemanth Manjunata
MSc. Aug 2017
PhD Student
UB, Buffalo, NY
Sri S. Jujjavarapu
MSc. Aug 2017
PhD Student
UB, Buffalo, NY
Sivakiran Ayyagari
MSc. Aug 2017
Software Developer
Ansys Inc., Pittsburgh, PA
Jingzhi Wang
MSc. Aug 2017
Software Engineer
Wyze Labs, Seattle, WA
Peeyush Rajendra Firodiya
MSc. Aug 2018
Tooling Engineer
General Motors, Tonawanda, NY
Ajaipal Singh Chhina
MSc. Aug 2018
Project Engineer
Aerotek, San Francisco, CA
Kuber Reddy Gorantla
MSc. Aug 2018
Computer Vision Scientist
ChemImage, Pittsburgh, PA
Lab Alumni (BSc)
Frank Repetti
BSc. May 2014
Design Engineer
Cobham plc, Mission System, Orchard Park, NY
James Rogers
BSc. May 2014
Mechanical Engineer
Buffalo Wire WOrks, Buffalo, NY
Brian Le Floch
BSc. May 2015
Resident Engineer
System Technology Inc., Hawthorne, CA
Margaret Klyzek-Lawn
BSc. May 2015
Guidance Navigation and Control Engineer
JHU Applied Physics Lab.
Chams Eddine Mballo
BSc. May 2015
PhD Student
Georgia Tech., Atlanta, GA.
Yi Jui Lee
BSc. May 2015
Graduate Student
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC.
Joaquin Longares Diez
BSc. June 2017
Graduate Student
Universitat Politecnica de Valencia
Joseph Distefano
BSc. June 2019
PhD Student
UB, Buffalo, NY
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Oct 2015

Dr. Esfahani will serve as the conference chair of the 9th Frontiers in Biomedical Devices Conference in the incoming IDETC 2016.


Sep  2015

Dr.Esfahani received funding from National Science Foundations to study cognitive home based rehabilitations.


Aug 2015

Shrey successfully defended his MS thesis. He will starts his PhD studies at UIUC.


Aug 2015

Po Sheng successfully defended his MS thesis.


Aug 2015

Amir received ASME-CIE Graduate Research Poster Award in IDETC 2015.


Aug 2015

Mostafa received ASME-VIB Graduate Research Travel Award.


June 2015

Chams received SUNY Chancellor award for student excellence.


June 2015

Brian and Maggie finished their studies at UB. They will PhD degree at  MIT and University of Florida.


March 2015

Dr.Esfahnai received funding from Institute for Person-Centered Care to develop wearable sensors for home-based monitoring of stroke patients.


Jan 2015

Our BJUI Paper is highlighted in Nature Review.


Dec 2015

Chen successfully defended his MS project.


Dec 2014

Vaibhav successfully defended his MS project. He is joining Type A Machine as an R&D Engineer.


June 2014

Somayeh received travel awards to attend IROS 2014.


June 2014

Rohit successfully defended his MS thesis. He is joining SunEdison as a project Engineer.


April 2014

Margaret received Research and Creativity Scholarship from UB Honor College to develop Spring Origami.


April 2014

Brain and Chams received Research and Creativity Scholarship from UB Honor College to develop modular snake robots.