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Lab Director
Eric Diller, Ph.D., P.Eng.
- Clarice Chalmers Chair of Engineering Design
- Associate Professor
- Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
- PhD Carnegie Mellon University, U.S.A.
- BS & MS, Case Western Reserve University, U.S.A.
- Dr. Diller has led the Microrobotics Lab since 2014. His work is on micro-scale robotics and bio-inspired novel locomotion systems, and features fabrication and control relating to remote actuation of micro-scale devices using magnetic fields, micro-scale robotic manipulation, and smart materials.
- Dr. Diller is the recipient of the MIE Department Early Career Teaching Award, the UofT Connaught New Researcher Award, the Ontario Early Researcher Award, the I.W. Smith Award from the Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineers, the Dean’s Catalyst Professorship from the UofT Dean of the Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering, the McCharles Prize for Early Career Research Distinction from the Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering, the Professional Engineers Ontario Young Engineer Medal, and the Early Academic Career Award in Robotics and Automation from the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society.
Research Team
Majid Roshanfar
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
- Starting Sept 2023
- Ph.D., Concordia University
- M. Eng, University of Tehran
- Co-supervised with Dr. James Drake & Dr. Thomas Looi from SickKids Hospital
Zhaoxin (Jason) Li
Ph.D. Student
- Starting May 2019
- M. Eng, University of Toronto
- B. Eng, South China University of Technology, China
Xiaoyun Liu
Ph.D. Student
- Starting September 2019
- MASc, Columbia University, USA
- B. Eng, Harbin Institute of Technology, China
Haley Mayer
Ph.D. Student
- Starting September 2020
- B.Eng, University of Guelph
- Co-supervised with James Drake at SickKids Hospital
Daniel Sieben
Ph.D. Student
- Starting September 2021
- B. Sc, University of Calgary
- M. Sc, University of Calgary
Erik Fredin
Ph.D. Student
- Starting September 2021
- M.Sc.Eng. Lund University, Sweden
Chloe Pogue
Ph.D. Student
- Starting January 2022
- Co-supervised with Professor Burgner-Kahrs
- MASc, University of Toronto
- B.Eng, McGill University
Anastasia Aubeeluck
Ph.D. Student
- Starting May 2023
- MASc, University of Toronto
- BASc, University of Toronto
Taeyoung Lee
MASc Student
- Starting January 2023
- B. Tech, McMaster University
Ann Ping
MASc Student
- Starting September 2023
- BMSc, Western University
Larissa Jin
MASc Student
- Starting September 2023
- BEng, Carleton University
Research Assistants
Yuanzhe (Felix) Deng
Undergraduate Student
- Starting May 2023
- BASc Candidate – Mechanical Engineering
Alumni
Post-Doctoral Researchers
- Dr. Changyan He, 2021-2023
- Dr. Jaekwang Nam, 2019-2020
- Dr. Peyman Shokrollahi, 2017-2019
Ph.D. Alumni
- Dr. Cameron Forbrigger, graduated 2023
- Dr. Priscilla Lai, graduated 2023
- Dr. Mohammad Salehizadeh, graduated 2020
- Dr. Sajad Salmanipour, graduated 2020
- Dr. Onaizah Onaizah, graduated 2019
- Dr. Jiachen Zhang, graduated 2018
Masters Alumni
- Robin Liu, MASc. 2022
- Zhuo Fan Bao, MASc. 2022
- Lyle Gauthier, MASc. 2022
- Monisha Naik, MASc. 2022
- Nancy Wu, MASc. 2022
- Adam Schonewille, MASc. 2022
- Mihai Nica, MASc. 2020
- Andrew Lim, MHSc. 2019. Co-supervized with James Drake at SickKids Hospital
- Tianqi Xu, MASc. 2018
- Omid Youssefi, MASc. 2018
- Saba Sabetian, MASc. 2018 Co-supervised with James Drake at SickKids Hospital
- Patrick Ryan, MASc. 2017
- Zhe Li, MASc. 2017
Undergraduate Researchers
- Ardavan Alaei Fard, 2023
- Nayaab Ali, 2023
- Shreesh Mahapatra, 2023
- Akshat Verma, 2023
- Chenqi Li, 2022
- Mulan Wu, 2022
- Maxwell Zheng, 2022
- Soham Purohit, 2022
- Khaled Gaber, 2022
- Daniel Esser, 2021
- Sviatoslav Leniuk, 2020
- Youyang Li, 2020
- Alexi Tracey, 2020
- Sumanth Kandala, 2019
- Alexandre Poersch, 2018
- Gurtej Bhasin, 2018
- Ernest Lau, 2018
- Seifeldin Hassan, 2016-2018
- Jessica Campos, 2017
- Ahmed Ujjainwala, 2017
- Daniel Franca, 2016
- Vishal Gupta, 2016
- Piyush Jain, 2016
- Xian Wang, 2014
- Hweedo Chan, 2014
High School Interns
- Joe Ajoy, 2014