Research Quick Takes

Aug 21, 2025

3-Minute Research Pitch

PhD student Aleyna La Croix received an honorable mention at this year's Orthopaedic Research Society (ORS) International Section Fracture Repair (ISFR) 3-Minute Research Pitch Competition. Her pitch was titled, "Shocking Revelations in Cryogelation: Sparking musculoskeletal regeneration." Watch video

Graphic of acceleration and dynamic force sensing

Aug 21, 2025

Compressible Multifunctional Piezocomposite Sensor

PhD students Huan Zhao, Xiangbei Liu, and Ya Tang, Andrew Kim '27, and Professor Yan Li co-authored "A novel compressible piezocomposite design for acceleration and dynamic force sensing" published in Materials & Design. The paper presents a design that integrates triaxial acceleration sensing and dynamic force sensing into a single, compact device—addressing the need for combined motion and force feedback in applications such as robotic surgery to enable smoother, more precise operations.

Aug 21, 2025

Advances in Cybersecurity

PhD students Sie Hendrata Dharmawan, Emma Graham, Mateusz Nowak, and Qintong Xie, as well as Roy Leibovitz '27, programmer Edward Koh, and postdoc Xavier Cadet—most in Professor Peter Chin's Learning, Intelligence + Singal Processing (LISP) lab—had four papers accepted into the Conference on Game Theory and AI for Security. "These papers are part of the four-year DARPA research project called CASTLE: Cyber Agents for Security Testing and Learning Environments which LISP lab has been working on to develop game-theoretic reinforcement learning agents that can outsmart potential cyber adversaries in an enterprise-level network," said Chin.

Aug 07, 2025

IEEE Power & Energy Society Award

Professor Junbo Zhao received a 2025 IEEE PES Technical Committee Prize Paper Award for "State Estimation for Integrated Energy Systems: Motivations, Advances, and Future Work" published in IEEE Transactions on Power Systems.

Aug 07, 2025

High-Performance Flexible Oxide Electronics

Research Associate Le Minh Nhut, Saifur Rahman Th'25, PhD students Simon Agnew '22 and Sam Ong, and Professor Will Scheideler coauthored a paper published in Advanced Functional Materials on flexible amorphous metal oxide transistors incorporating graded 2D homojunctions. These ultrathin materials could be used for high-performance wearable displays for virtual and augmented reality.

Electrode array and data collection figure

Jul 24, 2025

Novel Complex Impedance Imaging Methods

PhD students Allaire Doussan and Sophie Lloyd, and Professors Ethan Murphy and Ryan Halter are coauthors of "Comparison of Complex Open Domain Electrical Impedance Tomography (EIT) Methods" published in IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering. The paper focuses on complex EIT methods and introduces a novel method for handling inversions in permittivity reconstructions.

Jul 10, 2025

Foundational Science Award

Professor Katie Hixon received Geisel's Special Recognition in Foundational Science Award. Honorees were selected by the Research Excellence Awards Committee for their outstanding scholarly contributions.

Jul 10, 2025

Vulnerability of Complex Systems

Professor Peter Chin received a three-year, $1M award from DoD to work on the DARPA INGOTS program. He plans to use AI to better understand the vulnerability of a complex modern digital system (e.g. mobile phones) and develop new theories and tools for vulnerability research on these systems.

Jun 19, 2025

More Accurate Ice Sheet Models

Professor Hélène Seroussi is senior author of "Increased sea-level contribution from northwestern Greenland for models that reproduce observations" published in PNAS. The study uses observational data and time-dependent physics to inform an ice flow model of northwestern Greenland glaciers. The model better matches historical observations and shows that future sea-level rise contribution from this region may be significantly larger than projected over the coming century. The paper also suggests a path forward for making the method scalable to the entire Greenland Ice Sheet.

Jun 12, 2025

Research Prize: Metamaterials

PhD student Xiangbei Liu received third prize in the 2025 Neukom Outstanding Graduate Research Awards. Her research with Yan Li’s Group uses machine learning to efficiently design metamaterials with zero Poisson's ratio that maintain their shape in the transverse direction when stretched or compressed, making them ideal for soft robotics and biomedical devices.

Jun 05, 2025

Improving Healthcare Access

Professor Vikrant Vaze is a co-author of "A novel outreach approach for identification of familial hypercholesterolemia: Interview-based formative evaluation to improve healthcare access and quality" published in PEC Innovation. "This was a collaborative effort with folks from DH and Geisel, as well as Family Heart Foundation. The study is aimed at designing and evaluating direct outreach and referral to specialty care for patients with an elevated risk of FH identified through a machine learning model and expert review of the electronic record in a rural US health system. It's an excellent human-centered design thinking exercise and it yielded a great deal of success," said Vaze.

May 22, 2025

Cyber Defense x2

Professor Peter Chin's Learning, Intelligence + Singal Processing (LISP) lab had two papers accepted at the Reinforcement Learning Conference (RLC): "Hierarchical Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning for Cyber Network Defense" and "Quantitative Resilience Modeling for Autonomous Cyber Defense." Said Chin, "Both papers are part of the outcome of the four-year DARPA research project called CASTLE: Cyber Agents for Security Testing and Learning Environments that LISP lab has been working on to develop game-theoretic reinforcement learning agents that can outsmart potential cyber adversaries in an enterprise-level network."