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