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Sajeda Musa Abakar

Undergraduate, Bioengineering
Ug Oct, Hume Center

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Mail Code: 2085
samuya@stanford.edu

Naohisa Yahagi

Professor of Medicine (Gastroenterology and Hepatology) and, by courtesy, of Surgery (General Surgery)

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Mail Code: 5641
nyahagi@stanford.edu

Rieko Yajima

Director, Drug Discovery Innovation, SPARK at Stanford

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- 269 Campus Drive
- CCSR Room 4145
- Stanford, California 94305
Mail Code: 5174
rieko@stanford.edu

Vitaly Yakimenko

University Manager, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

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- 2575 Sand Hill Rd
- Mailstop 0075
- Menlo Park, California 94025
Mail Code: 0210
- (650) 926-3053 (office)
yakimenk@SLAC.Stanford.EDU

BioHello, whoever is reading this! My name is Connor, and I am a recent Mechanical Engineering PhD graduate advised by Ken Salisbury. My research focused on non-anthropomorphic means for robotic in-hand manipulation, specifically, how vibrations can be used to move grasped parts in desirable ways. The totality of my dissertation provides both a solid theoretical and practical foundation for the use of vibrations for robotic in-hand manipulation. Post graduation, I hope to apply the research and electromechanical skills I have learned to robotics in general, though I still view the "hand" as perhaps the most interesting and elusive part of robotics today.