2025 Mentors & Projects

*NSF Engineering Research Center in Cellular Metamaterials*
Thomas Bifano Bifano Lab Enhancing Cardiac Microbundle Stability for Improved In-Vitro Force Measurement	Chris Chen Tissue Microfabrication Lab Developing anchoring methods to generate and mature 3D-engineered tissues

*NSF REU Site in Integrated Nanomanufacturing*
William Boley Additive Assembly Lab Multimaterial 3D Printing of Multifunctional Materials	Kamil Ekinci Ekinci Research Group Hardware Programming for nano-electro-mechanical systems	Valeri Frumkin Frumkin Lab Thermocapillary manipulation of liquid optical waveguides
Liang Hao Hao Lab Engineering microenvironment-triggered self-reporting immunotherapy	Daniel Lookadoo StataDX Advancing Early Alzheimer’s Detection with Biosensing	Tommaso Ranzani The Morphable Biorobotics Lab Designing a Soft Bioinspired Grasper for Underwater Manipulation Integrated Sensing for a Soft Robot used in Minimally Invasive Procedures
Andrew Sabelhaus Soft Robotics Control Lab (SRC) Motion Tracking for Soft Robotic Arms	Tianyu Wang AI Photonics Lab How to Use Machine Learning to Automate Aligning Optical Components in Experiments	Rabia Tugce Yazicigil WISE Circuits Lab Real-Time Integrated ORBGRAND-Based Transceiver (RIOT)