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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.
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.
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.”
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.
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.
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.”
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
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.”