Assistant Professor @UCBerkeley @Cal_Engineer @BerkeleyME/ Director of Morphing Matter Lab / alum @mit @medialab @cmuhcii/ design sustainable morphing materials
Joined August 2010
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Lining Yao retweeted
18 Nov 2025
This just in: The Winter 2025 issue of Berkeley Engineer can be found at newsstands across UC Berkeley! 🗞️
Can't make it to campus? We also put the whole magazine online: engineering.berkeley.edu/mag…
ALT A stock image featuring four opened magazine spreads as well as the cover of Berkeley Engineer magazine. (Photo by Adam Lau / Berkeley Engineering)
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1 Nov 2025
Had an inspiring day at Stanford. Thanks for hosting @HariSubramonyam! I got to catch up with some of my favorite people on campus @dSeanMustard @landay, and talked to some very energetic students. hci.stanford.edu/seminar/spe…
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6 Oct 2025
Salon Talk on "Cellulosic Self-Shaping: From Body to Building" by Tiffany Cheng, Assistant Professor at Cornell University. This is also a guest lecture for MECENG 292C: Design with Morphing Materials and Mechanisms. Public live stream available!
morphingmatter.org/salon/gue…
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1 Oct 2025
AI and designers collaboratively design shape morphing bots that run, turn, morph, and manipulate, from a quadruped robot to morphing helmet. Check out our newly published work at @NatureComms. engineering.berkeley.edu/new… @UCBerkeley @Cal_Engineer @BerkeleyME
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29 Sep 2025
Overjoyed and beyond proud of Tianyu @TianyuSkai
-his very first year as a PhD student at UC Berkeley, and already he has won a Best Paper Award at one of the world’s most prestigious HCI conferences, for work born of his own vision and dedication. Presenting at #UIST2025
19 Sep 2025
Exited to share our work MorphingSkin at #uist2025 and so honored with the Best Paper Award🏆!
Using flexible electroosmotic pumps, we explores the applications of flexible, skin-like interactive devices featuring multimodal actuations.
Check our paper and demo at UIST2025!
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30 Aug 2025
Morphing Matter course, offered as an advanced design topic @UCBerkeley @Cal_Engineer
@BerkeleyME is among these: news.berkeley.edu/2025/08/29…
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5 Jul 2025
101 of Morphing Matter in 101 seconds. by @UCBerkeley @berkeley @Cal_Engineer @BerkeleyME
Morphing matter is an intellectual playground, one that sits at the intersection of science, design and nature.
news.berkeley.edu/2025/07/03…
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27 Jun 2025
After 3.5 years at @MorphingMatLab , Qiuyu (Luca) Lu @Dr_Qiuyu is moving on to an exciting next step in his career - professorship! What will be your lab name? See his instrumental work: morphingmatter.org/member/qi…
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Congrats team from @Cal_Engineer
21 Apr 2025
🚀My first work from Berkeley
Our paper BioTube will be presented at #CHI2025!
DIY methods to create alginate tubes for biodegradable sensors, soft actuators, and morphing food🧪🧑🍳
Huge thanks to @YuechengPeng for leading this project, Tyler Peng,@Dr_Qiuyu,@YueYang98,@lining_yao
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14 Mar 2025
Last October, #BerkeleyME had our 2nd Annual Alumni Event during @Cal Homecoming Weekend. We hope you'll join us again this year on October 3rd! #MEgaGive #CalBigGive give.berkeley.edu/me
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4 Dec 2024
Giving two invited talks at #F24MRS. Programmable Degradation (SB11.03.01) and Hygromorphic Wood Actuators (SB03.08.01), both as examples of Sustainable Morphing Matter. mrs.org/meetings-events/annu… @Dr_Qiuyu @BerkeleyME @Cal_Engineer
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21 Oct 2024
Hosted by @PrernaRavi1 and @formanfunction, our diversity chairs at #UIST2024, we talked about work, mentoring, life, identity, and my little five-month old girl, in the Women's Lunch panel. Sharing the stage with Wendy Mackay, Mira Dontcheva,@amypavel @alexiiion @parastooabtahi
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21 Oct 2024
In nature, one life ends when another begins. Material degradation becomes functional repurpose and upgrade, mediating natural ecology. A new project from @MorphingMatLabled by @Dr_Qiuyuand Semina Yi, @BerkeleyME @Cal_Engineer @UCBerkeley morphingmatter.org/projects/…
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21 Oct 2024
Degrade to Function: This concept challenges the conventional view of degradation as merely an end-of-life process, aiming to create eco-friendly and self-contained morphing devices that operate through a sequence of environmentally-triggered degradations.
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Lining Yao retweeted
16 Oct 2024
Enormous & fun banquet at #UIST2024 huge kudos to local super chair @hciprof and general chairs @mynkgoel @lining_yao and great keynote Yaser Sheikh (@subail )
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17 Oct 2024
Thanks Qiuyu (Luca) Lu @Dr_Qiuyu for all the contributions to #UIST2024, as a paper&demo&poster presenter, an Ask Me Anything co-chair, a session chair, and a PC for paper review!
@Dr_Qiuyu, from @MorphingMatLab, is on faculty job market!
17 Oct 2024
This has been my most engaging UIST ever! Served as the organizer & PC member, chaired 3 sessions, presented 1 paper, 1 demo, and 2 posters, and connected with many old and new friends. A big thanks to my collaborators, co-chair, our AMA guests, and everyone for making this an incredible experience! #UIST2024
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16 Oct 2024
We should do a collection of creative trophy designs for different tracks at #UIST2024 !
16 Oct 2024
We will announce three awards (two jury awards and one people’s choice award) at the #UIST2024 closing. Stay till the end for 🏆 🏆 🏆
ALT Three 3D-printed trophies for SIC awards.
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Lining Yao retweeted
14 Oct 2024
after having multiple work/life/"worrying about the future" type crises this year,,, hearing from these wonderful mentors at the women's panel was really healing for me. Thank you @PrernaRavi1, Wendy, Mira, @amypavel @alexiiion @lining_yao and @parastooabtahi! #UIST2024
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11 Oct 2024
Join us at #UIST2024!
11 Oct 2024
We challenge the conventional view of degradation as merely an end-of-life process. Instead, we leverage programmed sequential degradation for innovative morphing device design. Join my presentation at 11 AM on Wed and our demo on Mon to learn more. :) twtr.to/B66nQ
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