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The Exploratory SAIL Grant
Exploratory SAIL Grant Awarded for Pedagogical Outreach in Tokyo 2024-2025

October 19th, 2023

Liang received an exploratory SAIL grant award to support the collaboration with researchers, students, and faculty at the University of Tokyo for a pedagogical program entitled "Hacking, Designing, and Making".

Group photo of the DE4M Lab
DE4M Lab Featured in the monthly CGT Newsletter

October 18th, 2023

In the montly CGT Newsletter, Liang shared the recently published work, on-going research in the DE4M Lab, and the growth of his research group at Purdue. The full story can be found here.

Group photo of the first DE4M Lab retreat
First DE4M Lab Retreat and Making Day

October 1st, 2023

De4mers had the first lab retreat and making day with mooncakes, rice paper painting, 3D printer assembly, digital modeling, and tinkering.

Multiple works will be presented at UIST 2023.
dFab and A11y Works Published at UIST 2023

August 16th, 2023

At UIST 2023, DE4Mers will present two full papers on digital fabrication (3D printing and knitting), one demo, and one poster. See y'all in the cyber-Nov!

Poster paper accepted to ASSETS 2023.
Poster Accepted to ASSETS 2023

August 6th, 2023

At ASSETS 2023, DE4Mers will present their qualitative study on the need and challenges dementia caregivers in India have. Liang and Yuhang will organize the exciting demo and poster sessions on the beautiful Roosevelt Island in Manhattan, New York City. See y'all in the last week of October.

Liang's answering questions during his talk at Zhejiang University
Invited Talk at Zhejiang University

May 25th, 2023

Liang was invited to share his approaches in doing PhD and his PhD works at Zhejiang University. Thanks for the invite and the lab tour, Guanyuan Wang.

The flyer of Liang's talk at Duke Kunshan University
Invited Talk at Duke Kunshan University

May 16th, 2023

Liang was invited to talk about his PhD work and vision on digital fabrication at Duke Kunshan University. He also enjoyed all the student presentations on tangible games. Thanks for inviting and hosting Liang, Xin Tong.

The HSS RIA grant.
Holistic Safety and Security (HSS) Research Impact Area (RIA) 2023-2024 Grant Awarded

April 26th, 2023

Our group received ~$10K grant fund from HSS RIA to support research on robotics for accessibility.

The flyer of Liang's talk in MIT CSAIL building.
Invited Talk at MIT HCI Seminar

April 18th, 2023

Liang was invited to talk about his PhD work and vision on the upcoming developments in digital fabrication at MIT CSAIL HCI Seminar series. Thanks for the hosting, Arvind and Cindy. Thanks for the invite, Stefanie.

Our lab submit two papers to UIST 2023.
UIST 2023 Submissions

April 5th, 2023

We are proud to submit two full papers to UIST 2023 in collaboration with external collaborators. Way to go, DE4Mers!

Maverick and Emily present recent work at the Fall Undergraduate Research Expo
Presentation at the Fall Undergraduate Research Expo

November 14th, 2022

Maverick and Emily present new work on ubiquitous planting printer at the 2022 Fall Undergraduate Research Expo. Congratulations, Maverick and Emily!

UIST 2022 logo
Kinergy Presented at UIST 2022

October 25th, 2022

Liang will be presenting Kinergy in "Material Interfaces and Displays" session, November 2nd (Wednesday) at UIST 2022, which is held in Bend, OR. Liang will also be chairing "Accessibility" session on November 1st (Tuesday).

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sPrinter Demo Presented at SCF 2022

October 25th, 2022

Liang will be attending SCF 2022 in Seattle and presenting sPrintr in the demo sessoin, October 27th (Thursday), 3:45-5:30 PM.

Picture about DUIRI program at Purdue
Emily and Maverick are funded by Purdue DUIRI

August 22th, 2022

Emily Testin (Senior, Mechanical Engineering) and Maverick Broviak (Senior, Biomedical Engineering) are sponsored by Discovery Undergraduate Interdisciplinary Research Internship at Purdue to work on a research project on fabrication for urban sustainability. Thank you, DUIRI!