Responsive Environments Group, MIT Media Lab, United States

• Developing a multi-modal, large-scale and distributed electronic textiles with a collection of a local processor, sensors (touch, IMU, temperature, proximity, light, pressure, humidity, audio, position trackers) and actuators (vibration and LED) integrated as an electronic skin mesh system that bridges the digital and physical world.

• Working on spacesuit technologies that involve closed-loop soft-robotic pneumatics, haptics, as well as tactile (capacitive, piezoresistive, piezoelectric) and health sensing (blood flow and pressure) for microgravity deconditioning and physical interaction in extreme environments

• Developed a wearable device for preventing hand-to-face contact during the pandemic.

• Operated and programmed digital knitting machine to develop various fabric patterns with functional materials and fibers for electronic textiles, including novel fabric-based musical controllers and architectural skins based on thermo and photochromics, capacitive, and electromagnetic sensing.

• Conducted machine learning analysis of knitted piezo-resistive textiles as pressure-imaging mat, carpet, shoe, and sock for sports and gaming interface, physical activity recognition, and biomechanics.

• Fabricated novel on-skin stretchable devices that illuminate for programmable, responsive user-interface or release scent and drug for sleep and therapeutics.

• Participated in ‘Research at Scale’ program in Shenzen, China. Working annually with Shenzen’s manufacturing ecosystem to mass-produce flexible printed circuit boards and digitally-knitted textiles for research deployment in smart textiles for health and rehabilitation.

• Performed photogrammetry and ethnographic studies on museum artifacts and developed an augmented/virtual reality mobile application for an immersive digital experience of museum exhibits (Museum 4.0 project in collaboration with Museum of Fine Arts, Boston).

Conformable Decoders Group, MIT Media Lab, United States

• Developed a washable and tailored electronic textile compression suit (E-TeCS) by embedding electronics in knitted customized fabrics for large-scale physiological (temperature, heart-rate, and respiration) and physical activity monitoring.

• Explored microfabrication, electronic packaging approach, and novel materials for the development of soft 2-D ultrasound array patches in wearable tumor imaging for breast cancer detection.

Integrated Disruptive Electronic Applications Lab, KAUST, Saudi Arabia

• Built a wireless charging battery system on a flexible substrate and expandable robotic display.

• Explored various polymeric substrates and developed flexible inorganic devices such as bendable mono-crystalline silicon solar cells, wearable microfluidic drug delivery, and self-destructible flexible silicon that actuate through thermally-expandable materials.

• Designed and implemented a smart parking management system that uses decal electronics and RFID principles. Supervised an undergraduate team from Effat University for their final Capstone project in developing a smart drinking bottle.

Wearable Computing Laboratory, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

• Designed and implemented a multimodal smart textile patch for interaction, physiological monitoring, and activity recognition.

• Developed an ultra-low-power camera system for infiniTime, a multimodal wearable sensing smart bracelet that runs perpetually by continuously harvesting energy (solar cells and thermo-electrics) from the environments and the human body.

• Invited Reviewer: foresight 2024, npj Advanced Manufacturing 2023, Nature Scientific Reports 2023, ACM CHI 2023, ACM DIS 2023, NIME 2023, Sensors and Actuators: Physical 2023, Creativity and Cognition 2022, NIME 2022, Health and Technology 2021, ACM CHI 2021, ACM UIST 2021, NIME 2021, ACM CHI 2020, IEEE Sensors 2020, ACM UIST 2020, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics 2018.

• Reviewer on behalf of PI: Nature Flexible Electronics 2020, Advanced Materials Technology 2019, Science 2019, Science Advances 2019 and 2018.

• Poster-track Organizer, Virtual CHI Boston 2020.

• Burning Man Arts, Black Rock City Honoraria: Living Knitwork Pavilion, 2023.

• Amazon-MIT Science Hub Gift Fund - MIT Schwarzman College of Computing: Stretchable Tactile Sensing Textile Skin, 2022.

• Lexus Design Award Commission: KnitX, 2021.

• NSF RAPID Grant: Wireless Positioning for Mitigating COVID Surface Transmissions, 2020.

• NASA-SEI TRISH Grant: Active Bioelectronic Textile for Microgravity Deconditioning, 2020.

• NASA-SEI TRISH Grant: Electronic Textile Conformable Suit, 2019.

• Zeno Karl Schindler Foundation Grant: MIT-ETH Zurich Thesis Exchange, 2017.

• Invited Talk/Keynote: ”Textile Macroelectronics in the Age of Artificial Intelligence”, Festival of Electronics and Instrumentation, Gadjah Mada University, February 2024.

• Invited Panelist: “The Art of Play”, Boston Children’s Museum, Boston, June 2023.

• Featured Artist: “BRC 2023 Deserts Arts Preview”, Online/Black Rock City, June 2023.

• Invited Talk/Keynote: “Textile Macroelectronics: Sensate Fabrics Across Scales”, Keynote IDE2, Innovation Design Engineering, Royal College of Art and Imperial College London, March 2023. 

• Invited Talk: “Arts and Culture: Fireside Chat”, MIT Asia Business Conference: MIT Sloan, Cambridge, March 2023. 

• Invited Talk/Podcast: “Future of Knitting and Crafting”, Create the Future: Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering, 2023.

• Invited Expert: “The Road to 2050: Future of Lifestyle and Health”, Franklin Institute Documentary, 2023.

• Science Talk: “Soft artificial intelligent tactile sensing arrays for interactive surfaces and human-robot interaction”, Amazon Science Hub Symposium, Cambridge, 2022.

• Invited Talk and Panel: “Material Alchemist: Bits, Atoms, Magic”, MIT Media Lab Southeast Asia Forum, Bangkok, Dec 2022

• Invited Talk and Panel: “Defying Gravity: From Space Exploration to Democratization”, MIT Media Lab Southeast Asia Forum, Bangkok, Dec 2022.

• Science Talk: “New Fabrics: Functional Textiles”, Phage/Institute Dome, Burning Man, Black Rock City, 2022.

• Invited Talk and Panel: “The Transformative Power of Fiber”, Catalyst Conversation, Cambridge Foundry, 2022.

• Invited Talk: “Electronic Textiles across Scales: From Manufacturing to Applications”, MetaWare Seminar Series: Design, Technology, and Fashion at the age of Metaverse, Arizona State University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Nanyang Technological University, 2022.

• Invited Jury and Panelist: “Innovation Leadership Camp for Teens”, Memory Sports Indonesia, Jakarta, 2021.

• Invited Talk: “Electronic Textiles for Interactive Objects and Environments”, Department of Visualization, TAMU College of Architecture, 2021.

• Invited Talk: “Research at Scale: Hacking Manufacturing”, Towards Industrial Revolution 4.0, APIC, Jakarta, 2021.

• Invited Talk: “Electronic Textiles: From Micro to Macro”, MITxFIT Advanced Fabric Workshop, Cambridge, 2021.

• Invited Talk: “Future Scenarios of Fashion”, Design and Technology for Future Fashion Creatives, Milan (Online), 2020.

• Invited Talk: “Electronic Textiles and Future of Fabrics”, ELLE Magazine and MIT Sloan, Fashion and Luxury Management Program, Cambridge, 2018.

• Invited Talk: “FabricKeyboard as a Multi-modal and Expressive Sensate Media”, MIT Museum Science Café: Sound and Music, Cambridge, 2017.

• Member: MIT Space Exploration Initiative, ZERO-G Flight, 2021.

• Member: MIT Future of Fabric Conference, 2020.

• Member: Google Arts and Culture Design Sprint, 2020.