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Members

Principal Investigator (PI)
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Assistant Professor

Director, Laboratory for Soft Machines & Electronics (SME)

Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Case Western Reserve University

 

Investigator, Advanced Platform Technology (APT) Center

Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center

​Associate Editor, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (IF 3.74)

Associate Editor, Frontiers in Mechanical Engineering

Guest Editor & Editorial Board Member, Forces in Mechanics (Elsevier)

Guest Editor, Sensors (IF 3.576), 2022

Office: 441 Glennan, 10900 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44106

Email: ccao@case.edu

Phone: +1-216-368-2984

Postdoc Associates & Visiting Scholars
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L. Zhang

Visiting Scholar

Research Interest: Solid mechanics, Biomechanics, Metamaterials

PhD School: Tsinghua University

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Openings

for Postdoc & Visiting Scholar

Research topics: Soft robotics, Soft electronics, Metamaterials, Solid mechanics, 3D/4D printing

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Z. Chen

Visiting PhD Student

Research Interest: Smart materials,  Soft actuators, Soft robots 

PhD School: Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Graduate Students
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Zhida Huang

PhD Student (2019)

Research Interests: Computational mechanics, Additive manufacturing, Printed electronics 

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Shoue Chen

PhD Student (2018)

Research Interests: Soft robots, Soft materials

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Jiaji Su

PhD Student (2021)

Research topics: Soft robotics, Soft electronics

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Openings

for PhD & MS Students

Research topics: Soft robotics, Soft electronics, Metamaterials, Solid mechanics, 3D/4D printing

Undergradutes
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Samuel Rabick

Undergraduate Student

Research Interests: Soft electronics, Soft robots

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S. Shin

Undergraduate Student

Research Interest: 3D/4D Printing

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Catherine Cook

Undergraduate Student

Research Interest: Nanocomposites

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Openings

for Undergraduate (SOURCE)

Research Topics: Soft robotics, Soft electronics, IoTs, Energy harvesting, 3D/4D printing, Metamaterials, etc.

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