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Mar 31, 2026 πŸ† [New Award!] I am honored to have received the Flowers Family Topping Fellowship from the Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Tech, awarded for the highest number of first-author publications.
Feb 25, 2026 πŸ“„ [New Preprint!] Our paper titled Unified Complementarity-Based Contact Modeling and Planning for Soft Robots is now available on arXiv Β· Project page
Jan 09, 2026 πŸŽ“ [Milestone!] I successfully defended my Ph.D. proposal titled Modeling, Planning, and Control of Multi-Section Soft Robots for Contact-Rich Manipulation and Field Deployment.
Dec 18, 2025 πŸ† [New Award!] I am pleased to have been selected to receive the prestigious Herbert P. Haley Fellowship for the 2025–2026 academic year from the College of Engineering at Georgia Tech.
May 08, 2025 πŸ“„ [New Paper!] Our paper titled Dynamic Task Space Control of Redundant Pneumatically Actuated Soft Robot has been accepted to the IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L)!
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Mar 31, 2025 πŸ† [New Award!] Honored to receive the Ph.D. Research Excellence Award from Georgia Tech’s Mechanical Engineering Department for outstanding doctoral research.
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Feb 28, 2025 πŸ“„ [New Paper!] Our paper titled Soft Robot Kinematic Control via Manipulability-Aware Redundancy Resolution has been accepted to the ASME Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics (JMR)!
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Nov 19, 2024 πŸ† [New Award!] I am honored to have received the prestigious Flowers Family Fellowship in Fall 2024 from the Mechanical Engineering Department at Georgia Tech for the most cited first author publication.
Apr 04, 2024 πŸŽ“ [Milestone!] I successfully passed my PhD Qualifying Exam.