People
Principle Investigator
Julian Tao, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
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: Google Scholar
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Dr. Tao is an associate professor in the School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment at Arizona State University. He also serves as a Senior Investigator at the NSF Engineering Center for Bio-mediated and Bio-inspired Geotechnics (CBBG). Before joining ASU in 2018, Dr. Tao was an assistant professor at The University of Akron. He holds a Bachelor’s degree from China University of Geosciences (Wuhan), a Master’s degree from Tongji University, and a Ph.D. degree from Case Western Reserve University (2013). He is the PI of a number of projects funded by CBBG, the university, and state and federal agencies. He also serves on the editorial board of ASTM Journal of Testing and Evaluation and serves on committees in ASCE, TRB, SPIE, and IEEE. Dr. Tao is the recipient of the NSF CAREER Award in 2017. He was also awarded the Young Civil Engineer of the Year (2017) by the ASCE Akron-Canton Section for “promoting professionalism and the advancement of the civil engineering profession”.
Ph.D. Students
Yong Tang
2018-present
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: GWC 131
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Research: Awn-inspired Burrowing Mechanisms and Robots
Yi Zhong
2019-present
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: GWC 131
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Research: Bio-inspired Underground Sensing and Communication
Xiwei Li
2020-present
co-advised with Dr. Leon van Paassen
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: GWC 131
: CV
Research: Nature-inspired scour countermeasures
Sarina Shahhosseini
2021-present
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: GWC 131
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Research: Self-burrowing robotics, robot–granular material interaction
M.S. Students
Undergraduate Students
Mohan Parekh
2021-present
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Research: Rapid prototyping, Self-burrowing robotics
Former Postdoctoral Scholars
- Huang, Sichuan (2021)
Former Students
Ph.D. Students
- Huang, Sichuan (2015-2020)
- Li, Junhong (2014-2018)
- Tao, Hui (2014-2018)
M.S. Students
- Dishika Agrawal (2022-2023)
- Manthan Rajendra Pai (2022-2023)
- Md Ragib Shaharear (2021-2023)
- Enns, Andrew (2019-2021)
- Pandey, Ganesh (2016-2018)
- Bao, Ruotian (2015-2017)
- Hu, Jie (2014-2016)
- Lieske, Brendan (2015-2016)
- Mopur, Goutham (2015-2016)
- Fellows, Candice (2013-2014)
Undergraduate Students
- Ardente, Alexandra (2019-2021)
- Vladich, Zakary (2021-2021)
- Wong, Preston (2020-2021)
- Dages, Stephen (2019-2020)
- Holden, Khem (2019-2019)
- Lee, Lindsay (2019-2019)
- Choi, Hyun (2019-2019)
- Jreissat, Makram (2019-2019)
- Green, Nathaniel (2017-2017)
- Baker, Gwen (2016-2017)
- Gutwein, Daniel (2015-2015)
- Cymbal, Matthew (2014-2015)