Members

Principle Investigator

Nanshu Lu (鲁南姝)
Principal Investigator
08/2024~present
Carol Cockrell Curran Chair in Engineering
 
09/2023~present
Professor, Cullen Trust for Higher Education Endowed Professorship in Engineering # 4
 
09/2022~08/2023
Frank and Kay Reese Professor
 
09/2017~08/2022
Associate Professor with tenure
 
08/2011~08/2017
Assistant Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Texas Materials Institute, University of Texas at Austin
 
09/2009~08/2011
Beckman Postdoctoral Fellow, Beckman Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
 
08/2005~08/2009
Ph.D., School of Engineering and Applied Science, Harvard University
 

Postdoctoral Researchers

Zheliang Wang
Postdoctoral Researcher

“I work on the multi-physics simulation of architected stretchable hybrid response pressure sensor “

01/2022~present
Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics

Min Jin Yang
Postdoctoral Researcher

“I work on robotic skin, physical human-robot interaction, and human-machine interfaces.”

04/2025~present
Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics


Graduate Students

Sangjun Kim
Ph.D. Student
“I am working on wearable power transfer devices with theoretical and computational analysis.”
 
08/2019~present
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Heeyong Huh
Ph.D. Student
“I research human workload and fatigue assessment, and physical human-robot interaction.”
 
08/2020~present
Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
 
Philip Tan
Ph.D. Student

“I work on instrumentation and embedded systems, and am passionate about cardiovascular and neurological pathology. In my free time, I love rowing and biking!”

08/2020~present
Department of Electrical Engineering

Zhengjie Li
Ph.D. Student

“My research on the mechanics of noninvasive blood pressure measuring.”

08/2020~present
Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics

Sungmin Sun
Ph.D. Student

“I am working on fabricating 3D architected materials for stretchable pressure sensors, as well as analyzing the mechanics.”

09/2022~present
Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics

Hyonyoung Shin
Ph.D. Student

“I work on wearable biosignal sensors and decoders for human-robot interaction and virtual reality applications.”

09/2022 ~ present
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Xianke Feng
Ph.D. Student

“My research interests lie in designing and simulating architected materials, with a particular emphasis on analyzing their mechanical properties.”

08/2023~present
Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics

Pablo Vidal
Ph.D. Student

“I am working on the development of hair-compatible EEG electrodes”

08/2023~present
Materials Science and Engineering Program

Eric Wang
Ph. D. Student

“My research is developing wearable medical devices for venous blood oxygenation isolation and I have a strong interest in utilizing human data analysis to uncover novel insights and conclusions in the field of healthcare.”

08/2023~present
Department of Biomedical Engineering, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Juncheng Chen
Ph. D. Student
“I work on developing novel sensors for E-skin applications.”
 
08/2024~present
Materials Science and Engineering Program
Qingao Qu
Ph. D. Student

“I work on the development of wearable imaging devices for medical applications. “

08/2024~present
Department of Biomedical Engineering
 
Lezhi Gu
Ph. D. Student

“I work on the structural design and electromechanical simulation of 3D printed architected material.”

8/2024 ~ present
Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
 
Chris Huang
Ph. D. Student

“I work on soft tactile sensors designed for contact-rich tasks that can enable robots to interact with humans safely and efficiently”

8/2024~ present
Department of Mechanical Engineering
 

 


Visiting Scholar

Maximilian Pfeffer
Visiting Scholar

“I work on developing and optimizing transformer-based deep learning models for real-time brain-computer interface (BCI) applications, enhancing responsiveness and accuracy in neural decoding.”

10/2024 ~ present


 

Undergraduate Research Assistants

Pawan Kashyap
Undergraduate Researcher

Jan 2023 ~ present
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Jessie Peng
Undergraduate Researcher

August 2022 ~ present
Department of Biomedical Engineering

Samarth Kabbur
Undergraduate Researcher

July 2023 ~ present
Department of Mechanical Engineering

Jishnu Basu
Undergraduate Researcher

August 2022 ~ present
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Aditi Sarlashkar
Undergraduate Researcher

August 2022 ~ present
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Nicholas Gab
Undergraduate Researcher

August 2023 ~ present
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Meghana Vinay
Undergraduate Researcher

August 2023~present
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Corina Vinarov

Jan 2024 ~ present
Department of Biomedical Engineering


 

Alumni