Lining Yao
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at UC Berkeley
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Research Areas
The Morphing Matter Lab develops materials, tools, and applications of adaptive, dynamic and intelligent morphing matter from nano to macro scales. Research often combines material science, computational fabrication and creative design practices. Lining and her lab work anti-disciplinarily, publishing and exhibiting across science, engineering, design and art.
Lining gained her PhD at MIT Media Lab, where she combined biological and engineering approaches to develop physical materials with dynamic and tunable properties including shape, color, stiffness, texture and density.
Research Interests
Programmable and Morphing Materials, Computational and Digital Fabrication, Design Practices
In the News
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HCII Researchers Develop Technologies for Harvesting Ambient Energy
Systems Store Energy as Compressed Air, Use No Electronic ControlsSolar and wind power are now widely recognized as energy sources, but re...
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Yao’s Seed Carrier Shortlisted for Science Breakthrough of the Year Award
Lining Yao, the Cooper-Siegel associate professor in the School of Computer Science's Human-Computer Interaction Institute, and her E-seed...
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Researchers Develop Soft Robot That Shifts From Land to Sea With Ease
Most animals can quickly transition from walking to jumping to crawling to swimming if needed without reconfiguring or making major adjust...
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Engineered Magic: Wooden Seed Carriers Mimic the Behavior of Self-Burying Seeds
How seeds implant themselves in soil can seem magical. Take some varieties of Erodium, whose five-petalled flowers of purple, pink or whit...
Related Projects
ProjectReCompFig
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ProjectThermorph: Flat, 3D Printed Materials that Self-Fold When Heated
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have used an inexpensive 3-D printer to produce flat plastic items that, when heated, fold themselves into prede...