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Attended the Hyundai Motor Group (HMG) Tech Talent Forum 2026 in San Jose, September 17–18. The two-day forum covered robotics, artificial intelligence, and autonomous-driving technology across the Group, including Boston Dynamics and Motional.

Participated in the Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA) Smarter Robot Bodies Annual Meeting in Derby, UK, April 14–16.

Organized the session Frontiers of Physically Intelligent Robots with Architected Soft Materials at IEEE RoboSoft 2026 on April 11.

First-author paper Direct-write Printing of Multifunctional Iontronic Composites that Sense, Rectify, and Actuate published in ACS Nano. Presented as a poster at the Multifunctional Materials and Structures Gordon Research Conference in Ventura, CA, January 25–30. DOI

Joined Elysium Robotics, a deep-tech startup in Austin, as senior materials scientist, developing dielectric elastomer actuator materials.