Venanzio is the recipient of the 2024 MechSE Outstanding Young Alumni Award from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Max is the recipient of the Graduate Research Excellence Award, and Sabrina is the recipient of the Excellence in Undergraduate Research Award.

Sabrina has been honored with the Office of Undergraduate Research’s Excellence in Undergraduate Research Award for the 2024-2025 period at the University of Iowa. This recognition is a testament to her significant contributions to research at the university. Along with this award, Sabrina will receive an OUR Fellowship and a $1000 travel scholarship to attend a professional event related to her field of study.

We're thrilled to announce that Gage MacLin has been selected for the prestigious NASA fellowship by the Iowa Space Grant Consortium at the University of Iowa.

Sabrina showcased her innovative research on creating a flexible soft robotic arm, while Cristian shared his findings on the advanced coordination of large drone swarms.

Undergraduate student Cristian Sanchez has been honored with the NASA Iowa Space Grant Consortium Undergraduate Researcher Scholarship.

Mechanical engineering student Gage receives the esteemed 2023-2024 John F. Kennedy Memorial Fellowship for outstanding work in multi-vehicle coordination and underwater vehicle control. Congrats on this significant achievement!

Undergraduate researcher explores robotics and drones, focusing on motion planning algorithms for drone swarms. Aiming for search and rescue applications, they fly up to 25 quadrotor drones simultaneously and plan to expand to 1000 drones. Their mentor's guidance and research experience motivate them to pursue a career in the field.

Gage’s project (Multi Loop Control of Complex Autonomous Systems) aims to design and implement the guidance and control systems for various autonomous vehicles.

Venanzio Cichella and Tianbao Yang received the 2021 Amazon Research Award for their proposal using ML/optimization for improving robotic motion planning.