YONAS TADESSE

yonas.tadesse@utdallas.edu
Phone: 972-883-4556
Mailstop: ECW 31
Office: ECSW 3.150E
800 West Campbell Rd.
Richardson, TX 75080-3021

Google Scholar Page
Webpage: HBS lab

PROFESSOR

Education

PhD, Mechanical Engineering, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (VT), 2009.

M Tech, Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of technology Bombay (IITB), 2005.

BS, Mechanical Engineering, Addis Ababa University (AAU), 2000.

Research Interests

My research thrust areas: 1) Artificial Muscles and Smart Materials, 2) Robotic systems (Soft robotics, humanoids, social robots, hand orthosis, and Robotic hands). 3) Additive manufacturing (3D/4D printing) , and 4) Energy technologies ( Energy harvesting , Wave Energy)

Research Thrust Alignment Design, Manufacturing , Energy, Health

Five Most Recent Journal Publications, Book Chapters, and Books

• Imranuddin, Syed, Abhishek Singh, Gianni Stano, SM Al Islam Ovy, Gianluca Percoco, and Yonas Tadesse. “Enhancing 3D-Printed Piezoresistive Sensors: An Investigation into Process Parameters, Sensor Geometries and Materials Selection.” IEEE Sensors Journal (2025)(link).
• Gianni Stano, Matteo Cianchetti, Antonio Pavon, Mattia D’Orazi, Yonas Tadesse, and Gianluca Percoco “SCAN AND 3D PRINT: MRI-guided, monolithic desktop fabrication of highly biomimetic skeletal system of the human hand”. Advanced Intelligent Systems,.202500470, (2025) (link).
• Ovy, SM Al Islam, Gianni Stano, Matharu, S. Pawandeep, Abhishek P Singh, Yuyang Song,  Umesh Gandhi , Ronald  Poropatich, Balakrishnan Prabhakaran and Yonas Tadesse, 2024 “Highly compliant silicone 3D-printed dual mode soft robotic gripper”, Smart Materials & Methods, 1 (4), 407-443 (link).
• Mahdi Bodaghi, Linlin Wang, Fenghua Zhang, Yanju Liu, Jinsong Leng, Ruizhe Xing, Michael D. Dickey, Saeedeh Vanaei, Mohammad Elahinia, Suong Van Hoa, Danchen Zhang, Katarina Winands, Thomas Gries, Saqlain Zaman, Hesam Soleimanzadeh, Tibor Barši Palmić, Janko Slavič, Yonas Tadesse, Qinglei Ji, Chun Zhao, Lei Feng, Kumkum Ahmed, MD Nahin Islam Shiblee, Lubna Zeenat, Falguni Pati, Leonid Ionov, Atchara Chinnakorn, Wiwat Nuansing, A.M. Sousa, J. Henriques, A.P. Piedade, Eva Blasco, Honggeng Li, Bingcong Jian, Qi Ge, Frédéric Demoly, H. Jerry Qi and Jean-Claude André, Marwan Nafea, Yun-Fei Fu, Bernard Rolfe, Ye Tao, Guanyun Wang and Ali Zolfagharian, “Roadmap on 4D Printing Technology” Smart Materials and Structure (2024), 33(11), p.113501. (link)
• Matharu, S. Pawandeep, Abhishek P Singh, Yuyang Song, Umesh Gandhi, Yonas Tadesse “Single Layered Soft Skin Actuated with Twisted and Mandrel Coiled Actuators for Soft Robotics, Journal of Polymer Science,  2024, 62 (10), 2071-2093,  DOI: 10.1002/pol.20230691 (link).

Major Honors and Awards

• 2023/24 American-Made Challenges on Innovating Distributed Embedded Energy Prize, Department of Energy DOE.(link)
• 2023, ECS³ Program (Excellence in Career Success), University of Texas at Dallas.
• Toyota Programmable System Innovation Fellowship Award 2021
• Featured Articles set #2 : Feature article on the back cover of 4D printing book “Chapter title: Manufacturing Highly Elastic Skin Integrated with Twisted Coiled Polymer Muscles- Towards 4D Printing”, ELSEVIER. Mahdi Bodaghi and Ali Zolfagharian (Eds), 2022.(link) ; ] Highly Accessed Articles “A Soft 3D-Printed Robotic Hand Actuated by Coiled SMA” by Eric Deng and Yonas Tadesse, Actuators MDPI in 2021(link);  Featured article “FludoJelly: Experimental Study on Jellyfish-Like Soft Robot Enabled by Soft Pneumatic Composite (SPC)” in 2019, Special Issue and featured paper Adv. in Underwater Robotics, Robotics MDPI (link).  Featured in the 2016 ASME magazine, Dynamic Systems and Control on the topic of “Bio-Inspired Robotic Systems” http://www.msaidi.ir/asme/201603.pdf , March 2016, vol. 4 No. 1(link)
• Recipient of the 2015 Office of Naval Research (ONR) Young Investigator award.
• Solution inspiring action 2012 Award, the hydrogen-fuel powered jellyfish for ocean health monitoring system, selected top 16 solution that promotes economic growth and positive impact ocean technologies,2012, Savannah Ocean Exchange Organization, Savannah, Georgia.
• Featured Articles Set #1 : Article in the cover page of Smart Materials and Structure: Hydrogen fuel powered biomimetic jellyfish in several Media outlets including BBC, Discovery News, Mail Online Popular Mechanics, PC Magazine, New scientist, LA times, Washington times, Wall Street Journals, Time Magazine, Dallas Morning News, Science Daily, WIRED magazine etc. The story has been viewed by millions of unique visitors in 2012.(link)  ;  Featured article: Multimodal energy harvesting system, featured # 6 in “the 50 Most-Frequently Read Articles in 2008”), Journal of Intelligent Systems and Structure (link).