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Aug 28, 2025

New AI-Aided Design Framework Creates Auxetic Meta-Laminae

MIE Associate Professor Yaning Li, her former postdoc Shujing Dong (now a professor at Shanghai Polytechnic University), and recent graduate Ammar Batwa, PhD’25, (now a professor at King Abdulaziz University), published their research on “Tuning Local Anisotropy for Macroscopic Auxeticity: Design Auxetic Meta-Lamina via Systematic Finite Element Simulations and Machine Learning Approach” in Materials & Design.

Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Matherne accepting award

Aug 27, 2025

Award-Winning Paper Shows How to Help Students Achieve Learning Goals

MIE Associate Teaching Professor Marguerite Matherne received the Best Presentation Award for her paper “Effectiveness of Just-In-Time Teaching on Helping Students Achieve Lower Order Learning Goals in a Mechanics of Materials Class,” which was presented at the 2024 American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference.

Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Aug 26, 2025

Patent for a Method to Improve Wireless Communication with AI

ECE Assistant Professor Francesco Restuccia and ECE William Lincoln Smith Professor Tommaso Melodia received a patent for “System for frequency sharing in open radio access networks using artificial intelligence.”

Electrical & Computer Engineering

Ravinder Dahiya

Aug 26, 2025

Paving the Way for Printed Flexible Electronics

ECE Professor Ravinder Dahiya’s research on “Site-Specific Growth and Printing of Nanowires for Resource Efficient Fabrication of Flexible Electronics” was published in Small.

Electrical & Computer Engineering

Ravinder Dahiya

Aug 26, 2025

New Roadmap Article Lays Out a Path for Future AI-Powered Robots

ECE Professor Ravinder Dahiya published “A roadmap for AI in robotics” in Nature Machine Intelligence.

Electrical & Computer Engineering

Xiaolin Xu

Aug 25, 2025

Advancing Ultra-Efficient AI for Wearables and IoT

ECE Assistant Professor Xiaolin Xu, in collaboration with the University of California-Riverside, was awarded a $560K NSF grant for “Designing and Optimizing Tiny Vector Symbolic Architectures for Ultra-Efficient Inference on Tiny Devices.”

Electrical & Computer Engineering

Aug 22, 2025

Advancing Safer, Low-Cost Batteries for Grid Energy Storage

Chemical engineering student Eric Zimmerer, PhD’26, co-authored a paper with Rachana Somaskandan, E’25, Connor Fawcett, PhD’29, Assistant Professor Qing Zhao, and Associate Professor Joshua Gallaway on the “Dynamics of disordered intermediates during the two-electron alkaline MnO₂ conversion reaction for grid-scale batteries,” which was published in Joule

Chemical Engineering

Aug 22, 2025

Developing Intelligent Garments for Real-Time Healthcare

ECE Associate Professor Kris Dorsey and Khoury/MIE Assistant Professor Megan Hofmann, in collaboration with Emory University, were awarded a $699,789 NSF grant for “Adaptive Intelligent Healthcare Garment: Advancing Real-Time Monitoring and Behavioral Interventions.”

Electrical & Computer Engineering, Mechanical & Industrial Engineering