Hi! This is my personal website to showcase my research and personal projects. I wanted an easy to access repository to be able to showcase and summarize ongoing and completed projects for those interested. I believe strong visualization and simplification of one's work is crucial for creating engagement with future collaborators. If you have any questions or comments feel free to reach out!
I attended the University of California, Irvine for my B.S. in
Mechanical Engineering and my minor
in
Biomedical Engineering. I became interested in participating in research during my sophomore year. I
reached out to my first advisor, Dr. Kulinsky, and became a part of my first research lab the
BiNoM
lab. From here I learned the basic of conducting academic research and working in
collaboration with industry. Most of my work was in CD microfluidics and towards the end of my
junior
year I became interested in medical robotics. I began work in the Robotics Automation lab under Dr.
McCarthy, and worked alongside medical professionals to design rehabilitation devices for the
shoulder
and finger.
After graduating, I decided to pursue a master's degree in order
to
become more proficient in
robotics
research prior to entering the industry. I was awarded the Graduate College Master's Fellowship
at
the
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and currently apart of Monolithic Systems
Lab under Dr. Krishnan. Currently, I am working on soft and continuum robotic
manipulators, for agricultural, medical and space applications.
With my background in mechanical and biomedical engineering, I enjoy creating innovating solutions to a variety of medical or industrial applications:
1: Prosthetic, orthotic or humanoid robotic devices
2: Soft or continuum based robotic manipulators
3: Linkage-based mechanisms for rehabilitation or surgical technologies
4: Microfludic, lab-on-a-chip, and lab-on-a-disc devices
I thoroughly enjoy exercise and sports, and try to pick up a new
physical activity every couple of years
or so, some of my favorites include: playing pick-up basketball, boxing, and pickleball.
I take
pleasure
in playing a wide range of video games from early 2000s RPGs to modern-day indie classics, this is
synonymous with watching movies which my two favorite movies being Lawrence of Arabia and Blade Runner
2049.
Other than that I have recently picked up Blender
to try and improve my visual graphics
for
future
research publications.
[1] Snehan Peshin, John Golden, Boyang Gan, Christian Mast, Lawrence
Kulinsky,
Controlling the advancement of the liquid front of the nitrocellulose membrane assay under the influence
of the centrifugal force on the Lab-on-a-Disc platform,
Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical,
Volume 386,
2023,
133735,
ISSN 0925-4005,
[2] Robson, N, Audrey, V, Hernandez, S, Golden, J, & Ton, V. "Natural Motion
Grasping Design Using Control-Oriented Kinematic Models." Proceedings of the ASME 2023 International
Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference. Volume
8: 47th Mechanisms and Robotics Conference (MR). Boston, Massachusetts, USA. August 20–23, 2023.
V008T08A073. ASME.
[3] J. Li, J. Golden, B. Johnson, E. Quilligan, V. Gardner, C. Prietto, and
J. McCarthy, “Spherical exoskeleton for the
measurement of shoulder movement”, Accepted to CCToMM (2023)