Associate Professor

Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics

Computer and Information Science

Electrical and Systems Engineering

Office: Towne 273

Research Areas

  • Robot and Mechanism Design
  • Multi-robot and Multi-agent Systems

Awards

2023: ONR Young Investigator Award

2020: Johnson & Johnson Women in STEM2D Scholars Award

2019: NSF CAREER Award

2017: Popular Mechanics Breakthrough Award

Projects/Papers

Supplementary Materials: Algorithmic Design of Kinematic Trees Based on CSC Dubins Planning for Link Shapes
Knowledge-based Neural Ordinary Differential Equations for Cosserat Rod-based Soft Robots
Re-programmable Matter by Folding: Magnetically Controlled Origami that Self-Folds, Self-Unfolds, and Self-Reconfigures On-Demand

Students

PhDs:

Christopher Kim

Dongsheng Chen

Daniel Feshbach

Shivangi Misra

Gabriel Unger

Zhiyuan Yang

Mason Mitchell