2024/10: Our group officially begins work on flexible structures for marine energy devices (with George Moutsanidis, Rigoberto Burgueno). Special thanks to Ali Khosronejad and to the other Atlantic Marine Energy Center people for making this happen! Link to program page.

2024/09: Excited to start our ARPA-E GOPHURRS project on burrowing robots. Our team is led by Kati Daltorio @Case Western Reserve University. Link to program page.

2024/09: Welcome to Nimu and Abdalla, new PhD students in our group, and to David Xiedeng, who will do his MS project with us.

2024/05: Congratulations to Asifur and Imtiar for passing their qualifying exam and becoming PhD candidates!

2024/05: Congratulations to Jinhua and Wei Men for graduating with their MS degree!

2023/08: Our group was awarded an NSF grant from the Engineering for Civil Infrastructure Program, in collaboration with Ali Khosravi @Auburn University! Project title: “Elasto-Granular Interactions Between Morphing Skins and Soils“

2023/07: Our group was awarded an NSF grant from the Dynamics, Control and System Diagnostics Program, in collaboration with Maurizio Porfiri @NYU! Project title: “Switching Structures at the Intersection of Mechanics and Networks“

2023/05: Congratulations to Megan and Nikita for graduating with their MS degrees and to Abdelaziz, Matthew, Jinhua, Weimen, Myles and Heather for their BE degrees!

2023/03: Welcome to Ghulam, a new undergraduate researcher in our lab.

2023/03: Our outreach on morphing structures was mentioned in SBU News. Link

2022/12: Welcome to Alexis, a new undergraduate researcher in our lab.

2022/12: Congratulations to Kumil for graduating with his MS degree!

2022/05: Congratulations to Lucas and Awaiss for graduating with their MS degrees! Welcome to Kumil and Matthew.

2022/05: Our collaborative work with Paul Plucinsky @USC and Ian Tobasco @UIC has been published in Physical Review Letters. Link

2022/05: Congratulations to Sabrina and Megan for graduating with their BE degrees! Welcome to Awaiss, a new MS project student in our lab.

2022/04: Big congratulations to Jinhua, Weimen, Sujata, Heather, for receiving scholarships to conduct summer research with us!

2022/03: Our collaborative work with Maurizio Porfiri @NYU, at the intersection of structures and networks, has been published in Chaos. Link

2022/01: Welcome to Jinhua, Weimen, Myles and Heather, part of our new cohort of undergraduate researchers

2021/11: Our group was awarded an NSF grant from the Mechanics of Materials and Structures Program! Project title: “Frustrated metamaterials as shape-morphing structures“

2021/09: Welcome back Sujata! We are super happy that you chose to come back to SBU after your previous experience as a high school intern in our group

2021/08: The preprint of our collaborative work with Paul Plucinsky @USC and Ian Tobasco @UIC is available on the arXiv. Link

2021/08: Asifur Rahman joins us as PhD student from UCF

2021/07: Good luck to Samuele for his next adventure as a PhD student at UPenn

2021/06: Welcome to Kamila Agudelo, a high school summer intern in our lab

2021/05: Congratulations to both Megan Kam and Sabrina Shih for receiving URECA summer scolarships to conduct research in our lab

2021/05: Congratulations to Lucas Annink for receiving the Gateway fellowship to continue his studies at SBU, and for receiving the Othmar Ammann scolarship!

2021/05: Congratulations to Joe Woltering for receiving the Award of Honor from our Department for his outstanding achievements!

2021/05: Congratulations to our graduates Lucas Annink (BE), Anthony Stanco (MS) and Joe Woltering (MS). Link

2021/03: Our work on bandgap tuning in tensegrity-inspired lattice structures has been published in Extreme Mechanics Letters. Link

2021/02: Welcome to Imtiar Jalal Niloy, the very first PhD student in our group, and to Samuele Ferracin, a visiting MS student from PoliTO

2020/10: Our work on surface wave non-reciprocity has also been published in the Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids! Link

2020/10: Megan Kam joins our group

2020/09: Our work on metallic morphing structures has been published in the Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids!!! Publishing in this journal is a dream come true for several of the authors involved. Link

2020/08: Anthony Stanco and Joe Woltering join us as MS project students

2020/06: Lucas Annink and Sujata Tank become the first members of our group