BIO

Personal Profile

I am a recent Ph.D. graduate from the University of Pittsburgh. During my Ph.D., I studied smart materials (soft materials and liquid crystal elastomers in particular), additive manufacturing, and soft robotics. The overarching goal of my research is to solve critical scientific and engineering challenges and accelerate a growing trend in manufacturing techniques that are designed to introduce smart materials into engineering structures. My work has practical applications in a variety of fields and many emerging technologies from soft robotics, micromechanical/fluidic systems, optomechanical systems to implantable medical devices.

I'm currently working as a research associate at Carnegie Mellon University, focusing on microfabrication and characterization of flexible biomedical sensors.

I have extensive experience in design, fabrication, and assembling new electromechanical, optomechanical, and high precision systems from scratch (including a currently pending patent for developing a new process and method for manufacturing objects using additive manufacturing techniques).