Dr. Bolei Deng

Biography

Bolei Deng is an Assistant Professor at the Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He graduated with a B.S. in Engineering Mechanics from Zhejiang University in 2016 and earned his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering with a focus on Material Science from Harvard University in 2021, under the guidance of Professor Katia Bertoldi. Following his doctoral education, he undertook a joint postdoctoral position at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and the Department of Mechanical Engineering. His research primarily focuses on employing artificial intelligence for design optimization of mechanical metamaterials at various scales. He has a keen interest in understanding and leveraging nonlinear behaviors, nonlinear dynamics, multistabilities, and fracture. His work spans the development of ultra-strong and tough metamaterials, with innovations across robotics, mechanical computing, and physical intelligence.

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