Farong Wang
PhD student · Fall 2025
MS, Johns Hopkins University, 2025
AURAS Lab · UT Knoxville
People
Our researchers work across robotics, embodied intelligence, physical simulation, and biomedical applications.
PhD Students
Nan Xiao
PhD student · Fall 2025
MS, University of California San Diego, 2025
Tom Olesch
PhD student · Spring 2026
MS, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, 2025
Gabriel Johnson
PhD student · Fall 2026
MS, UTK
Master's & Undergraduate Students
Patrick Burke
Undergraduate student
Second-year Computer Science student, EECS, UTK
Alumni
Visiting Students
- Zehua Wu
- Visiting MS student from the University of Pennsylvania, Summer 2025
- Yunxin Fan
- Visiting MS student from Stanford University, Summer 2025
Master's Alumni
- Ethan Eisenhauer
- MS 2025; PhD @ UMich
- Luke Whatley
- MS 2025; PhD student with Dr. Catherine Schuman
- Anik Muhury
- PhD student with Dr. Rachael Burns
- Matthew Minton
- MS 2025 in Physics