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Lining Yao

Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at UC Berkeley

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Lining Yao

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