Group Photo - Fall 2025

Group Photo - Fall 2024

Olutofunmi, Michael, Caleb, and Gabe at LaSPACE - Fall 2024

Anish teaching middle school students - Spring 2025

Olutofunmi and Gabe at NASA Langley - Summer 2025

Christmas dinner - Fall 2025

Olutofunmi, Michael, Kyle, and Emiliana at LaSPACE - Fall 2025

Lab Field Day - Spring 2026

(thanks to whoever took this amazing, high quality photo and cut out half the group)

Julio, Olutofunmi, and Nnamdi pass their MS defense! - Spring 2026

Olutofunmi teaching middle school students - Spring 2026

Julio teaching middle school students - Spring 2026

Robert Herbert

Principal Investigator

  • Assistant Professor, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, LSU (2024)

  • Postdoc in Mech Eng, Carnegie Mellon University (2023)

  • PhD in Mech Eng, Georgia Institute of Technology (2022)

  • BS, MS in Mech Eng, The Ohio State University (2016, 2017)

Graduate students

Olutofunmi Olaoye

PhD Student, Industrial Engineering
BS Mechanical Engineering,
Louisiana State University

Julio Zuazola

PhD Student, Mechanical Engineering
BS Mechanical Engineering,
New York University Abu Dhabi

ANish maharjan

PhD Student, Mechanical Engineering
BS, MS Mechanical Engineering,
Kathmandu University

Nnamdi dike

MS Student, Mechanical Engineering
BS Mechanical Engineering,
Louisiana State University

underGraduate students

Zachary Legier

3rd year Mechanical Engineering

Michael Ruiz

4th year Mechanical Engineering

Gabe Freedman

3rd year Mechanical Engineering

rita ntipouna

3rd year Industrial Engineering

Caleb Reid

4th year Mechanical Engineering

matthew mcclung

4th year Mechanical Engineering

kyle stack

4th year Mechanical Engineering

emiliana grove

3rd year Mechanical Engineering

noah arseneaux

1st year Mechanical Engineering

adam cagnolatti

3rd year Mechanical Engineering

tatum dixon

1st year Biological Engineering

nathanael jackson

2nd year Mechanical Engineering

elizabeth otuyelu

2nd year Biological Engineering