Lab Members

Principal Investigator

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Bo Wang

Assistant Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering
The City College of New York,

Email: bwang1@ccny.cuny.edu
Office: Steinman Hall 247 (Campus Map)

Address: 160 Convent Avenue, Steinman Hall 247, New York, NY 10031

Links: ORCID, Google Scholar, ResearchGate, LinkedIn

Graduate Students

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Tianyu Han

Ph.D. Student

Tianyu Han received the B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Michigan State University in 2020 and the M.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Washington University in St. Louis in 2021. He is currently a Ph.D. student in Mechanical Engineering at CCNY, working on nonlinear and safety-critical control of underactuated systems.

Email: tianyu.han37@stu-mail.ccny.cuny.edu

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Ishvar Sitaldin

Ph.D. Student

Ishvar Sitaldin received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from The City College of New York through the 4+1 Accelerated Master’s Program. He is a Ph.D. student in Mechanical Engineering at CCNY, focusing on source seeking and autonomous control of mobile robots.

Email: ishvar.sitaldin37@stu-mail.ccny.cuny.edu, LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ishvarsitaldin/

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Salsabil Salah

Ph.D. Student, Co-Advisor: Yiqiao Li

Salsabil Salah received the B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University and the M.S. degree in Business Analytics from Duke University. She is a Ph.D. student in Civil Engineering at CCNY, with prior experience in clean transportation research and current interests in intelligent and sustainable mobility systems.

Email: salsabil.salah54@stu-mail.ccny.cuny.edu

Theses and Dissertations Supervised

Master's Theses

  • Junquan Wu, “Reinforcement Learning Control for Mobile Robot Parking with Safety Constraints,” Master's Thesis, The City College of New York, December 2025. [pdf]

  • Ishvar Sitaldin, “Deep Reinforcement Learning for Leader-Follower Mobile Robot Navigation with LSTM-Based Obstacle Encoding,” Master's Thesis, The City College of New York, May 2026. [pdf]

  • Yubai Liang, “Baseline-Assisted Adaptive Dynamic Programming Control for Mobile Robots and Surface Vessels,” Master's Thesis, The City College of New York, May 2026. [pdf]

Former Lab Members

Semester Name Academic Level
2026 Spring Yubai Liang Master's Student
2025 Fall Junquan Wu Master's Student
2025 Spring Michael Wang Undergraduate Student
Adrian Garcia Undergraduate Student
Fraylin Sanchez Undergraduate Student
Daniel Santiago Undergraduate Student
Matthew King Undergraduate Student
2024 Fall Mohammed Bah Undergraduate Student
Renato Fernandez Undergraduate Student
Varin Sawh Undergraduate Student
Hannah Lilly Undergraduate Student
Carlos Stalin Calle Undergraduate Student
Christopher Colón Espinal Undergraduate Student
Ryan Fong Undergraduate Student
Leonidas Kalpaxis Undergraduate Student
2024 Summer Amit Sarker Visiting Student