Scholar
Cynthia Sung
Google Scholar ID: FqKcLDQAAAAJ
University of Pennsylvania
Citations & Impact
Citations
1,236
H-index
15
i10-index
22
Publications
20
Co-authors
8
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Contact
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Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Paper accepted to Bioinspiration & Biomimetics (October 2025)
- TRUSSES project highlighted by Penn Today for lunar exploration robot teams
- Multiple presentations at ICRA workshop and '2nd Unconventional Robots' workshop
- Lab members received awards including GEM Graduate Fellowship, MS Outstanding Teaching Award, and Provost’s Graduate Academic Engagement Fellowship
- Students presented at PURM poster session
- Zhiyuan (Annie) Yang and Neel Mulay received Best Poster Award at '2nd Unconventional Robots' workshop
Background
- Investigates co-design of robot bodies and control
- Advances understanding of how intelligence can be embedded and distributed throughout a robot’s physical body
- Combines computational methods with practical engineering design to develop algorithms and systems for more maneuverable, robust, and efficient robots
- Has a particular interest in soft and reconfigurable robots
- Leverages compliance to achieve better performance with simpler control, applied to legged and underwater locomotion, manipulation, and health
- Work spans four major areas: computational methods for robot co-design, planning and control for distributed systems, design for soft and origami robotics, and fabrication for reconfigurable and deployable systems
- Affiliated with the GRASP Lab and the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics at the University of Pennsylvania
