Gedaliah is a Ph.D student in Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics at the University of Pennsylvania, working in the ModLab under Professor Mark Yim. He is interested in locomotion for modular robots and is exploring research in modular swimming robots. Gedaliah graduated with a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering in 2017 from the University of Maryland, College Park where he did undergraduate research on underactuated robotic climbing for bridge inspection.