Nelson Lab - People

 

PI contact information:

Welcome to the Nelson Lab Prof. Mark E. Nelson
Beckman Institute
Univ. of Illinois
405 N. Mathews
Urbana, IL 61801
USA 		Email: m-nelson at uiuc.edu
Phone (office): (217) 244-1371
Phone (lab): (217) 244-4478
Fax: (217) 244-5180

Office: 3351 Beckman
Lab: 3610 and 3612 Beckman

 

Current lab members:

Name Position  Contact info Projects
Ling Chen Grad (Biophysics) lingchen at uiuc.edu

(217) 244-4478
(fish lab)

 electrosensory image modeling, swarm modeling
Charlotte Barkan Undergrad (MCB) cbarkan2 at uiuc.edu

(217) 244-3450
(robot lab)

 active sensing; robot foraging
Vikram Chaudhrey Undergrad (ECE) vchaudh3 at uiuc.edu

(217) 244-3450
(robot lab)

 robot control software; sensor development
Abhi Sarup Undergrad (MCB) asarup2 at uiuc.edu

(217) 244-3450
(robot lab)

 multi-robot communication; group foraging

 

Former lab members:

Postdocs: Rüdiger Krahe (currently Asst Prof at McGill); Niklas Ludtke (went on to postdoc at Univ. of Manchester); Rama Ratnam (currently Asst Prof at UTSA)

Grad students: Relly Brandman (MS Computer Science, 2001; went on to grad studies in Molecular Pharmacology at Stanford); Kevin Christie (currently Neuroscience grad student at UIUC); Zhimin Ding (PhD Neuroscience, 1996; went on to Philips Semiconductors; founder and CEO of Learning Machines Corporation); Valerie Ego (summer internship, 1995; went on to postdoc in Matt Wilson's lab at MIT); Jozien Goense (went on to postdoc at Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics); Jonathan House; Eugene Kang (went on to American University of Antigua College of Medicine); Malcolm MacIver (PhD Neuroscience, 2001; went on to postdoc at Caltech; currently Asst Prof of Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering at Northwestern); Jeremy Payne (MD/PhD. Neuroscience, 2000; currently Asst Prof of Neurology at Univ. Arizona); Zhian Xu (PhD Biophysics, 1996; went on to work in financial services sector in NYC);

Undergrads: Yoji Asamizu, Genny Bookwalter, Bryant Chhun, Josh Conway, Carrie Davis, Samantha Fernades, Michelle Goodman, Chris Kramer, Shaun Law, Johnny Lin, Jeremy Mlekush, Jonathon Nelson, Rowena Ong, Olga Pasternak, Noura Sharabash, Timothy Vece, Eric Welton