Self-folding thermoplastic composites. Bio-hybrid wearable devices. Edible 2D films that become 3D while cooking. Sounds like a season of Black Mirror, right? Lining Yao is actually working on all of these things. Excuse us while we contact Netflix.

While we’re doing that, get amped for Fluxible, because earlybird tickets go on sale on April 17th!

Lining Yao is an Assistant Professor at the Human-Computer Interaction Institute (HCII) of Carnegie Mellon University, where she directs the Morphing Matter Lab. Her lab develops materials, tools, and applications of adaptive, dynamic and intelligent morphing matter from nano to macro scales. Research often combines material science, computational fabrication and creative design practices. Lining and her lab work anti-disciplinarily, publishing and exhibiting across science, engineering, design and art.

Lining gained her PhD at MIT Media Lab, where she combined biological and engineering approaches to develop physical materials with dynamic and tunable properties including shape, color, stiffness, texture and density.

Beyond her teaching and research at HCII in the School of Computer Science, Lining is also an adjunct professor of Mechanical Engineering, supervising undergraduate and graduate students across the College of Engineering.

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