News
May 2024. Dr. Ma received the new investigator seed grant from USDA.
May 3 2024. Congratulations to our undergraduate Garrett Combes for winning the competitive Fulton Undergraduate Research Initiative!
April 2024. We successfully organized a workshop on "Pristine Water Observatories - Where Eco and Soft Robotics Meet" in 2024 Robosoft Conference.
April 2024. Master students Kaushik and Sri Ratna successfully defended their master thesis on the topic of shape memory alloy-based actuators and the origami robots.
March 2024. Dr. Ma gave a presentation in the Department of Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering at University of Michigan.
March 2024. We submitted the paper "The impact of fluid on the buckling of bistable structures" to Journal of Fluids and Structures.
March 2024. We attended APS March Meeting in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Dr. Ma presented "Numerical analysis on the buckling instability of a soft rod under fluid-structure interaction" in DFD session.
February 2024. We attended Aquaculture America 2024 held in San Antonio, TX.
January 2024. Happy to share that our work "Rapid Design of Fully Soft Deployable Structures Via Kirigami Cuts and Active Learning" in collaboration with Prof. Khalid Jawed and Prof. Vwani Roychowdhury at UCLA is published in Advanced Materials Technology.
January 2024. We welcome PhD student Alejandra Escobar and undergraduate student Garrett Combes to join our group!
December 10 2023. Congratulations to our undergraduate Tristan Rodriguez for winning the competitive Fulton Undergraduate Research Initiative!
November 2023. We attended the 2023 APS DFD held in Washington, DC.
November 7 2023. We are happy to share that our group is one of the 19 winners that won the Phase I award of the Innovating Distributed Embedded Energy Prize (InDEEP), sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Water Power Technologies Office (WPTO).
https://www.energy.gov/eere/water/articles/doe-announces-winners-first-round-prize-focused-novel-wave-energy-technologies
October 2023. We submitted a workshop proposal to RoboSoft Conference.
October 2023. We attended the 2nd Ocean Symposium held in Arizona State University.
August 2023. We welcome the masters students with Thesis Kaushik Shankar and Sri Ratna Kumar to join our group! We also welcome undergraduate students Tristan Rodriguez and Devansh Nathiley to participate in our research projects!
April 2023. The OASIS Group at ASU will be established in August 2023. We welcome interested students and scholars to join our group!
March 2023. Dr. Leixin Ma was invited by Prof. R. Cengiz Ertekin to join the editorial board of Journal of Ocean Engineering and Marine Energy as a new associate editor!
