05/2024: Ruobing gave an invited talk at the symposium of "Fracture of Soft Materials", an AmeriMech Symposium sponsored by the U.S. National Committee for Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (USNC/TAM), National Science Foundation (NSF) and Springer.
04/2024: Congratulations to Umme Hani Bootwala for earning the Northeastern University PEAK Experience Ascent Award for funding her upcoming undergraduate research.
04/2024: Congratulations to Zhengxuan for passing his PhD thesis proposal!
04/2024: Ruobing gave invited talks at Tufts University and Brown University.
03/2024: Congratulations to Zumrat for passing her PhD qualifying exam!
01/2024: Ruobing is selected as the new editor of the newsletter for ASME technical committee of mechanics of soft materials. He will continue to serve the committee as the secretary, vice chair, and chair consecutively in the next 4 years.
01/2024: Ruobing will serve as the next Editor of the iMechanica Journal Club in 2024.
10/2023: Congratulations to Qianfeng and Yichen for passing their PhD qualifying exams! Two new PhD candidates in the group!
10/2023: Congratulations to Kate Crabtree for earning the Northeastern University PEAK Experience Base-Camp Award for funding her upcoming undergraduate research.
09/2023: We have received a new seed grant from Northeastern. We will collaborate with Dr. Zhaohui Aleck Wang on developing novel solid-state seawater chemical sensors.
09/2023: Ruobing gave an invited talk at the EML Webinar.
06/2023: We have received a grant from Accenture. We will work with Profs. Hongli Zhu, Canek Fuentes, and Gregory Abowd on the project "Towards power-autonomous interactive paper surfaces".
06/2023: Ruobing gave an invited talk at Dow.
05/2023: We hosted and organized NewMech 2023 Spring at Northeastern!
03/2023: Ruobing gave an invited talk at the University of Connecticut.
03/2023: Congratulations to Peixun Wang on passing the master thesis defense!
01/2023: Ruobing is elected as an EML (Extreme Mechanics Letters) Early Career Advisory Board member.
11/2022: Congratulations to our PhD student Zhengxuan Wei on receiving the 2022 John and Katharine Cipolla PhD Merit Award from the MIE Department!
11/2022: Ruobing received the 2022 Extreme Mechanics Letters (EML) Young Investigator Award.
10/2022: Ruobing received the 2022 Haythornthwaite Foundation Research Initiation Grant from the Applied Mechanics Division of ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers).
05/2022: Ruobing gave an invited talk in the New England Workshop on the Mechanics of Materials and Structures (NEW MECH).
04/2022: Ruobing gave an invited talk in the virtual CU Boulder Soft Matter Mechanics Workshop.
04/2022: We have received the FY23 TIER 1 Award from Northeastern University. This award will help us establish a collaborative project with Prof. Neel Joshi in Chemistry on tough and degradable bio-fabricated materials.
04/2022: Congratulations to Zhengxuan for passing his oral PhD qualifying exam! The first PhD candidate of our group!
01/2022: Congratulations to Diego for earning the Northeastern University PEAK Experience Base-Camp Award for funding his upcoming undergraduate research.
01/2022: Congratulations to Zhengxuan for passing his written PhD qualifying exam!
01/2022: Ruobing gave a webinar in the Engineering and Applied Science Forum (EASF). Check the recording here.
01/2022: Our proposal has been awarded by NSF-CMMI-MoMS (Mechanics of Materials and Structures).
07/2021: Our new lab is here at Mugar 103, Northeastern University! Check the album for the newly renovated facilities.
10/2020: Our recent research progress on Photoactive Materials is now highlighted on the Caltech MCE department website.
07/2020: We are launching a special issue, titled “Extreme Mechanics of Soft Active Materials for Soft Robotics”, in Frontiers in Robotics and AI, under the section of Soft Robotics.
05/2020: Ruobing gave an invited seminar on "Mechanics of Soft Active Materials" in the Department of Mechanical and Civil Engineering at Caltech.
10/2019: Congratulations to Tracy Yu for having done a great job on the SURF Program at Caltech. Tracy is an undergraduate intern from Louisiana State University. She has been working with Ruobing and Prof. Kaushik Bhattacharya on statistical mechanics modeling of photomechanical materials. Media exposure: https://www.lsu.edu/science/news_events/cos-news-events/tracy_yu_caltech.php
03/2019: Ruobing served as the discussion leader for the Journal Club for March 2019 on iMechanica.