
Congratulations to Somu on winning the Wunsch Silent Hoist and Crane Award for Excellence in Research at MIT Mechanical Engineering

Our postdoctoral associate James Surjadi has been named to the Forbes 30 and Under 30 Asia: Healthcare & Science list of 2025

Somu has been awarded the MRS Student Award (Silver Medal) at the MRS Spring Meeting 2025

Prof. Carlos Portela has been awarded the Army Early Career Program Award (ARO ECP), one of the Army’s most prestigious honors recognizing outstanding early-career scientists.

Congratulations to our graduate student, Michael Espinal, for being selected as a MathWorks fellow for 2025.

Our recent paper in PNAS was featured on the homepage of MIT News Read the full story here.

Our recent paper out in Nature was featured on the homepage of MIT News You can read the full story here.
Kudos to Rachel, James, Bastien, Molly, and Somu for presenting teaser talks at NEW.Mech 2023. Also, congrats to Molly and Somu for winning the best presentation award.

Carlos Portela is one among 15 PIs across MIT to be awarded the J-WAFS seed grant to conduct early work to solve issues ranging from water contamination to aquaculture monitoring and management.

We celebrate Humanity United with MIT Arts and Nanotechnology in Space (HUMANS), a project for which Somu is the lead of manufacturing and testing, that will be sent to the ISS in May 2023 and the moon end of 2023.