Biography

Education

Ph.D., University of Michigan Sept. 2019 - May 2024

Aerospace Engineering – Track: Smart Materials and Structures

Advisor: Henry A. Sodano

Thesis: Additive manufacturing of high-performance engineering

and piezoelectric polymers through precipitation printing

M.S., University of Michigan Sept. 2019 - Aug. 2021

Aerospace Engineering

B.S., University of Michigan Sept. 2017 - Apr. 2019

Aerospace Engineering (awarded Summa Cum Laude)

B.S., Shanghai Jiao Tong University Sept. 2015 - Aug. 2019

Mechanical Engineering

Postdoctoral Researcher, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (Italy) Nov. 2024 - Now

Bioinspired Soft Robotics, PI: Barbara Mazzolai

Graduate Student Research Assistant, University of Michigan (USA) Sept. 2019 - June. 2024

Aerospace Materials Laboratory, PI: Henry A. Sodano

Undergraduate Student Research Assistant, University of Michigan (USA) Jan. 2018 - Apr. 2019

Aerospace Materials Laboratory, PI: Henry A. Sodano

Laboratory Instructor, University of Michigan (USA) Fall 2022 and Fall 2023

AE516 Mechanics of Composites

Teaching Assistant, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (China) Summer 2019

VM350 Design and Manufacturing II

Ephrahim Garcia Best Paper Award, ASME Smart Materials Adaptive Structures and Intelligent Systems (SMASIS), 2025 - Paper: 3D printed feathers with embedded aerodynamic sensing.
Best Paper Award, ASME Smart Materials Adaptive Structures and Intelligent Systems (SMASIS), Bioinspired Smart Materials and Systems Technical Committee, 2025 - Paper: 3D printed feathers with embedded aerodynamic sensing.
Outstanding Contribution Award, ASME Smart Materials Adaptive Structures and Intelligent Systems (SMASIS), Active Materials and Multifunctional Materials Technical Committee, 2024 - Paper: Highly stretchable printed poly(vinylidene fluoride) sensors through the formation of a continuous elastomer phase.
Richard F. and Eleanor A. Towner Prize for Distinguished Academic Achievement, University of Michigan, 2023.
Summer Design Expo Gold Award, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Joint Institute, 2019.
James B. Angell Scholar, University of Michigan, 2019.
Roger King Scholarship, University of Michigan, 2018.
Undergraduate Excellent Scholarship, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 2016 and 2017

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