Xinchen Ni
xinchen.ni@utdallas.edu
Phone:
Mail Box: ECW 31
Mailstop: ECW 31
Office: ECSW3.150A
800 West Campbell Rd.
Richardson, TX 75080-3021
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
Education
PhD, Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020
SM, Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014
BS, Mechanical Engineering, Fudan University, 2012
Research Interests
Mechanics, programmable materials, soft robots, machine learning
Five Most Recent Journal Publications, Book Chapters, and Books
- Y. Zhang, F. Liu, Y. Zhang, J. Wang, D. D’Andrea, S. Li, H. J. Yoon, M. Wu, S Li, T. Wang, J. Walters, Y. Bouricha, I. Huang, Z. Hu, H. Guo, X. Ni, J. Choi, Y. Wu, G. Lee, A. Lantsova, F. Jiang, E. Dempsey, K. Bailey, Y. Huang, C. K. Franz, and J. A. Rogers, “Self-powered, light-controlled bioresorbable platforms for programmed drug delivery.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 120, e2217734120 (2023)
- H. Jeong, J. Yoo, W. Ouyang, A. L. J. X. Greane, I. Huang, A. J. Wiebe, Y. J. Lee, J. Y. Lee, J. Kim, X. Ni, S. Kim, H. L. Huynh, I. Zhong, Y. X. Chin, J. Gu, A. M. Johnson, T. Brancaccio, and J. A. Rogers, “Closed-loop network of skin-interfaced wireless devices for quantifying vocal fatigue providing haptic feedback.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 120, e2219394120 (2023)
- Y. Kim, Y. Yang, X. Zhang, Z. Li, A. Vázquez-Guardado†, I. Park, J. Wang, A. I. Efimov, Z. Dou, Y. Wang, J. Park, H. Luan, X. Ni, Y. S. Kim, J. Baek, J. J. Park, Z. Xie, H. Zhao, M. Gazzola, J. A. Rogers, and R. Bashir, “Remote control of muscle driven miniature robots with battery-free wireless optoelectronics.” Science Robotics 8, eadd1053 (2023)
- X. Ni, H. Luan, J. Kim, S. Rogge, Y. Bai, J. W. Kwak, S. Liu, D. S. Yang, S. Li, S. Li, Z. Li, Y. Zhang, C. Wu, X. Ni, Y. Huang, H. Wang, and J. A. Rogers, “Soft shape-programmable surfaces by fast electromagnetic actuation of liquid metal networks.” Nature Communications 13, 5576 (2022)
- Y. Bai, H. Wang, Y. Xue, Y. Pan, J. Kim, X. Ni, T. Liu, Y. Yang, M. Han, Y. Huang, J. A. Rogers, and X. Ni, “A dynamically reprogrammable metasurface with self-evolving shape morphing.” Nature 609, 701 – 708 (2022)