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Khalid Jawed moves to UCLA

Dr. Khalid Jawed moves to UCLA to begin his appointment as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical &

Lauren Finkenauer completed her PhD in May and is now a postdoctoral fellow at Lawrence Livermore National Labs. Her dissertation

James Wissman defended his PhD in May and is now a postdoctoral fellow at the Naval Research Lab. His dissertation

Tong Lu defended his PhD in August and has joined the start-up Pastoral, Inc. His dissertation was on the “Laser-based

Andy Fassler defended his PhD this past January and will begin a postdoc at Microsoft in May. His dissertation was

Click here to check out a profile of SML member Vivek Ramachandran on the CMU MechE webpage. Vivek joined the

Happy birthday, Tong! It’s been a busy year for you … and next year it’ll get even busier 😉 SML

Thanks to Bridget Decker and the CMU College of Engineering for preparing this fantastic video highlighting our work on Soft

SML joins the Experimental Biomechatronics Lab (PI: Steve Collins) on an evening visit to Kennywood! Opened in 1898 as a

Congratulations to Wanliang Shan and Arda Gozen for accepting tenure-track faculty positions starting in Fall 2014! Wanliang will be in

SML was recognized by CMU’s Environmental Health & Safety for “Outstanding Achievement in Lab Safety”. We’re grateful to EH&S for

Carmel discusses how the robots of the future will be elastically soft in order to accommodate physical interaction with people.