Team-ECE/CS
ECE/CS Subteam
Member Bios
Jeff Lebovici
Jeff Lebovici is the team leader of Snakearm. He is a junior in the Electrical and Computer Engineering program at Cornell University. Before becoming team leader, he designed and implemented the newest user interface for the robot. His academic interests include analog and digital circuit design, as well as microcontroller interactions with circuits. When not an engineer, Jeff enjoys being a peer advisor and learning guitar.
Adam McCann
Adam is the CS/ECE subteam leader of Snakearm. Upon graduation, Adam intends to pursue a Master's degree in electrical engineering for CU. His passion for photography has pushed him to concentrate his studies beyond physics into electronics and especially signal processing. This is his first year with Snakearm.
Madhu Jayakumar
Madhu is a sophomore Electrical and Computer Engineering major. She is currently working on the Hydra code.
Edgar Munoz
Edgar is a freshman Electrical and Computer Engineering major who has an interest in control systems, circuit design, and robotics. His goal for this year is to primarily become acquainted with the entire electrical system and generate ideas to continue to improve and optimize its current design. Snakearm is helping build invaluable experience in the field and introducing him to various technology that is useful throughout the industry. His home state is Arizona and in his free time he enjoy drawing, painting, and enjoying the green of Ithaca while it lasts.
Michael Nazario
Michael Nazario is from Hershey, Pennsylvania and a freshman at Cornell. He plans to major in Computer Science and currently works on the graphical user interface. He loves to travel and would like to visit China. Prior to SnakeArm he has won second place in a national programming competition with Future Business Leaders of America.
Jirui Qin
Jirui is a sophomore CS major and business minor. She is from Superior, Colorado and is part of the CS and business team. She is currently working on the code to build the arm and designing the website. She is interested in robotics, and enjoys painting and graphic design in her spare time.
Le Zhang
Le is experienced in robotics mechanics and robotic vision. He is interested in AI and programming of autonomous robotics as well as fluid human control of robots.
Sponsor
Francis C. Moon is a Chaired Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. He is an elected member of the US National Academy of Engineers. He is also a Fellow of ASME. Moon is Curator of the Reuleaux Collection of Kinematic Models at Cornell University. His research specialty includes chaotic dynamics, dynamics of machines and structures as well as magneto-mechanical devices. He has lectured recently in "Introduction to Robotics' for seniors and "Applied Dynamics' for graduate students. He was the recipient of a Humboldt Prize award in 1988 and 2001. In 2001 he was a visiting scholar at the Archiv of the Deutsches Museum where he studied the papers of Franz Reuleaux. Moon is a member of the commission on the History of Machines and Mechanisms (HMM) of the International Federation for the Theory af Machines and Mechanisms (IFToMM). He has published over 140 research papers and holds five patents. He was the Director of the School of Mechanical and Aerospace engineering at Cornell University from 1987-1992.
Latest News
CU Snakearm at BOOM 2009
We were well received at the BOOM with people appreciating our Robotic arm as well as our progress towards the ultimate goal of designing an arm capable of performing remote surgery.
Check out the pics of the event here.
CU Snakearm at BioExpo 2009
Our mission of producing an accurate, flexible and low-cost robotic arm able to perform remote surgery works towards solving a big humanitarian crisis by enabling the best medical support to reach the less developed parts of world. Our motto and progress were well appreciated by people from academia and the medical community.