Professional Activities

Invited Talks

  • Department of Civil and Architectural Engineering, University of Miami, FL, Sept. 27, 2024
  • Department of Mathematics, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, Apr. 11, 2024
  • Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, NC State University, Raleigh, NC, Mar. 2024
  • Kentucky Academy of Science (KAS), Northern Kentucky University, Highland Heights, KY, Nov. 3, 2023
  • Tensegrity Robotics Workshop, The 2023 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Detroit, MI, Oct. 5, 2023
  • Department of Aeronautics & Astronautics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, Mar. 2023
  • Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, Feb. 2023
  • Department of Mechanical Engineering, New York Institute of Technology, New York, NY, Apr. 6, 2022
  • College of Engineering, Peking University, Mar. 8, 2022
  • College of Civil Engineering, Shaoxing University, Feb. 26, 2022
  • Halliburton Company, Houston, TX, Sept. 30, 2021
  • Patterson-UTI Energy, Inc., Houston, TX, Sept. 9, 2021
  • Soft Robotics Research Center, Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology (SIAT), Jul. 2021
  • Department of Engineering Mechanics, Dalian University of Technology, Jul. 2021

Services

Outreach

  • News and Media
  • Judge, Texas A&M University Student Research Week (SRW), 2021 - 2022
  • Faculty Advisor, SpaceLex (the University of Kentucky’s Rocketry and Propulsion Team)
  • Advisor, Wuhan Foreign Languages School (Public High School), 2014 - 2015
    • Led the FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) team to the National Championship
  • Advisor, Lafayette High School (Pre-Engineering Program), Lexington, KY
    • Alex Arber, May 2024 - Present
    • Siddharth Sundar, Sept. - Dec. 2023