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Structures Computer Interaction Laboratory, UCLA

Structures Computer Interaction Laboratory
PI: M. Khalid Jawed
UCLA

09/23/2026

Our recent Science Advances paper shows that when a straight elastic rod is bent and twisted into a helix, its geometry decides whether it buckles smoothly or snaps. We mapped this using rod theory, simulations, and automated robot-arm experiments.
https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aeh2779

04/04/2026

Our lab has an undergraduate research opportunity at the intersection of experimental mechanics, robotics and machine learning. More details are available here http://tinyurl.com/scilab-undergraduates

03/28/2026

Our lab has an undergraduate research opportunity at the intersection of robotics and structural mechanics. Details available here: http://tinyurl.com/scilab-undergraduates

11/07/2025

In addition to fish-like movement, Jin Qi is also helping design a soft robotic actuator for gripping objects. This project highlights the potential of soft robotics in safe, adaptive interactions - especially where traditional rigid robots fall short. (Jin Qi 3/3)

11/03/2025

Jin Qi is working with PhD student Zhuonan Wang on a cable-driven soft body robot inspired by fish movement. The goal is to better understand how soft materials can be actuated to create fluid, biomimetic motion in underwater environments. (Jin Qi 2/3)

10/31/2025

This week, we’re featuring Jin Qi Chong, a freshman in Electrical Engineering at UCLA. Originally from Singapore, Jin Qi is passionate about soft robotics and how they can be applied to real-world tasks in daily life. (Jin Qi 1/3)

10/28/2025

She’s developed an automatic differentiation pipeline connecting JAX, TensorFlow, and C++ to compute gradients and Hessians for energy modeling and contact detection. Next up: deploying these tools in the C++ simulator for benchmarking across robotics and graphics applications. (Jinying 3/3)

10/25/2025

Jinying is working with PhD student Esther Gérard on the DisMech project, which develops high-accuracy simulation tools for modeling elastic rods and deformable bodies. Her current focus: building fast, differentiable pipelines to make physics-based simulations more computationally efficient. (Jinying 2/3)

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