1. “Monolithic Printing of Soft Robots with Embodied Fluidic Control”, 2025 NSF FRR-NRI Annual Meeting, Alexandria, VA, November 2025 (poster and live demonstration).

2. “Monolithic Printing of Soft Robots with Embodied Fluidic Control”, 2024 NSF FRR-NRI PI Meeting, Baltimore, MD, April 2024 (poster and live demonstration).

3. “Monolithically 3D printed electronics-free autonomous walking robots”, IEEE RoboSoft 2024, Exploring the Interface of 3D Printing and Bio-Inspired Musculoskeletal Robotics Workshop, San Diego, CA, April 2024 (oral presentation and live demonstration).

4. “Optimizing Monolithically 3D Printed Autonomous Walking Robots”, BASF CARA Semi-annual Review Meeting, Berkeley, CA, April 2023 (poster and live demonstration).

5. TalosPU: Monolithically 3D printed TPU walking robots”, BASF CARA Semi-annual Review Meeting, Santa Barbara, CA, November 2022 (oral presentation and live demonstration).

6. “Monolithically 3D printed TPU pneumatically driven electronics-free autonomous robots”, Gordon Research Conference on Robotics: From Basic Science to Robot Systems, Ventura, CA, August 2022 (poster and live demonstration).

7. “TalosPU: Monolithic 3D printed TPU pneumatically driven electronics-free autonomous robots”, BASF CARA Semi-annual Review Meeting, Berkeley, CA, May 2022 (oral presentation and live demonstration).

8. “TalosPU: Monolithic 3D printed TPU actuators and valves for automated pneumatic systems”, BASF CARA Semi-annual Review Meeting, virtual, November 2021 (oral presentation).

9. “Printed wireless pressure sensor”, SPIE Organic and Hybrid Sensors and Bioelectronics XI, San Diego, CA, August 2018 (oral presentation).

1. Best Workshop Presentation, Exploring the Interface of 3D Printing and Bio-Inspired Musculoskeletal Robotics Workshop, IEEE RoboSoft 2024, April 2024.

2. Best Poster, First Place, BASF CARA Semi-annual Review Meeting, April 2023.

3. Best Presentation, Second Place, BASF CARA Semi-annual Review Meeting, November 2022.

4. Best Presentation, Third Place, BASF CARA Semi-annual Review Meeting, May 2022.

Professional Service

Journal Reviewing

ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Advanced Intelligent Systems

Advanced Robotics Research

Advanced Science

Frontiers in Robotics and AI

IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L)

IEEE Transactions on Robotics (T-RO)

International Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR)

Science Advances

Science Robotics

Scientific Reports

Conference Reviewing

IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)

IEEE International Conference on Soft Robotics (RoboSoft)

Living Machines: International Conference on Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems

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