Director
Dong Zhang, Assistant Professor
Post-doc, Carnegie Mellon University in Mechanical Engineering (2020-2021)
Ph.D./M.S., University of California, Berkeley in Systems Engineering (2020)
B.S., University of Michigan in Civil and Environmental Engineering (2015)
B.S., Shanghai Jiao Tong University in Electrical and Computer Engineering (2015)
E-mail: dzhang [at] ou.edu
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Graduate Students
Yuichi Kajiura
Ph.D. student, Mechanical Engineering [Since Fall 2022]
M.S., Northeastern University in Computer Science (2021-2022)
M.Eng., The University of Tokyo in System Innovation (2019-2021)
Graduate Certificate, Stanford University in Data Mining (2018-2019)
B.Eng., Keio University in Applied Physics and Physico-Informatics (2005-2009)
E-mail: yuichi [at] ou.edu
Jorge Esteban Espin
Ph.D. student, Mechanical Engineering [Since Spring 2023]
M.S., Universidad de los Hemisferios in Project Management (2021-2022)
B.S., National Polytechnic School in Electronic and Control Eng. (2015-2021)
E-mail: jorge.espin [at] ou.edu
Wonoo Choo
Ph.D. student, Mechanical Engineering [Since Spring 2025]
M.E., University of Queensland in Mechatronic, Robotics, and Automation
B.E., University of Queensland in Mechatronic, Robotics, and Automation
E-mail: w.choo [at] ou.edu
Zhicheng Xu
Ph.D. student, Mechanical Engineering [Since Spring 2025]
M.S., Oregon State University in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science (2021)
B.S., Ningbo University in Electrical & Automation Engineering (2016)
E-mail: zhicheng.xu [at] ou.edu
Pero Planinić
M.S./Ph.D. student, Mechanical Engineering [Since Fall 2025]
B.S., University of Oklahoma in Mechanical Engineering (2025)
Email: pero.planinic-1 [at] ou.edu
Haoran Zhu
M.S. student, Mechanical Engineering [Since Fall 2025]
B.S., University of Oklahoma in Mechanical Engineering (2025)
Email: haoran.zhu [at] ou.edu
Undergraduate Students
Ainsley Cradduck-Veal
Undergraduate student, Electrical Engineering | CS Minor
Email: Ainsley.L.Cradduck.Veal-1 [at] ou.edu
Alumni
Michael Williams, now graduate student at The Pennsylvania State University, Mechanical Engineering.
Logan Scott, now with US Navy. [MS Dissertation: State of Health Estimation in Lithium-ion Batteries Using Experimental and Model Driven Approaches]
Bryant Pelkey, now Associate Instrument Engineer at Valero.
Toan Matsumoto, now Mechanical Engineer at KOTOBUKI Seating International
Riley McCue, now at Daimler Truck North America
Ziyad Asli, now Mechanical Design Engineer at Tesla