Area of research
Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials · Mechanical Engineering
Research interest
Research interests include Liquid Crystal Research Advancements, Micro and Nano Robotics, Advanced Materials and Mechanics, and Modular Robots and Swarm Intelligence.
Flow-induced periodic chiral structures in an achiral nematic liquid crystal
Nematic superconductivity from selective orbital pairing in iron pnictide single crystals
Control of liquid crystals combining surface acoustic waves, nematic flows, and microfluidic confinement
Logic operations with active topological defects
Spatiotemporal control of liquid crystal structure and dynamics through activity patterning
Autonomous materials systems from active liquid crystals
Active motion of multiphase oil droplets: emergent dynamics of squirmers with evolving internal structure
Defect Spirograph: Dynamical Behavior of Defects in Spatially Patterned Active Nematics
Prolate and oblate chiral liquid crystal spheroids
Direct Observation of Liquid Crystal Droplet Configurational Transitions using Optical Tweezers
Structured silicon for revealing transient and integrated signal transductions in microbial systems
Emergence of Radial Tree of Bend Stripes in Active Nematics
Sculpting stable structures in pure liquids
Directed self-assembly of liquid crystalline blue-phases into ideal single-crystals
Interplay of structure, elasticity, and dynamics in actin-based nematic materials
Mesoscale martensitic transformation in single crystals of topological defects
Segregation of liquid crystal mixtures in topological defects
Patterned surface anchoring of nematic droplets at miscible liquid–liquid interfaces
Spherical nematic shells with a prolate ellipsoidal core
Structural Transitions in Cholesteric Liquid Crystal Droplets
Dynamic structure of active nematic shells
Lattice Boltzmann simulation of asymmetric flow in nematic liquid crystals with finite anchoring
Directed self-assembly of nematic liquid crystals on chemically patterned surfaces: morphological states and transitions
CISE-ANR: IIS: Small: Federated Learning for AI-driven Rare Disease Recognition for Ciliopathies
CAREER: Trustworthy Human-Centered Summarization
Travel: NSF Student Travel Grant for 2024 ACM International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (ACM MobiCom)
Collaborative Research: SaTC: CORE: Small: Secure and Privacy-Preserving Dynamic Spectrum Access
RUI: CAS: Production of Highly Reactive Metal-Oxo Species with Molecular Oxygen and Visible Light for the Selective Oxidative Catalysis
NSF Student Travel Grant for 2020 IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (CNS)
NSF Student Travel Grant for 2020 ACM SIGCOMM Symposium on Software Defined Networking (SDN) Research (SOSR)
SaTC: CORE: Small: Collaborative: Trustworthy Hierarchical Edge Computing
Student Travel Grant for the Seventh IEEE International Conference on Healthcare Informatics (ICHI 2019)
RUI: Production of Highly Reactive Metal-Oxo Species with Molecular Oxygen and Visible Light for the Selective Oxidative Catalysis
SaTC: CORE: Small: Secure Mobile Cloud Sensing
CAREER: Secure Database-Driven Dynamic Spectrum Sharing
NeTS: Medium: Collaborative Research: Secure and Usable Indoor Navigation for Individuals with Visual Impairment
SBIR Phase I: Software Analysis Tools for Field Specialization of Database Management Systems
TWC: Small: Collaborative: Secure and Usable Mobile Authentication for People with Visual Impairment
RUI: Production of Highly Reactive Metal-Oxo Species with Molecular Oxygen and Visible Light for the Selective Oxidative Catalysis
NeTS: Medium: Collaborative Research: Secure and Usable Indoor Navigation for Individuals with Visual Impairment
TWC: Small: Collaborative: Secure and Usable Mobile Authentication for People with Visual Impairment
RUI: Production of Highly Reactive Metal-Oxo Species with Molecular Oxygen and Visible Light for the Selective Oxidative Catalysis