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Hayden Taylor is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. He previously served as an Assistant Professor at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore and held a position as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Biosystems Micromechanics group at the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology. He received his B.A. and M.Eng. degrees in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Trinity College, Cambridge in 2004, where he was a Senior Scholar and won the Baker Prize from the Cambridge University Engineering Department. In 2009, he earned his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT, working under Professor Duane Boning. Taylor is an active member of IEEE, the Institution of Engineering and Technology, and the Institute of Physics. He has also been recognized as a Jubilee Scholar by the Institution of Electrical Engineers. His research focuses on the invention, modeling, and simulation of micro- and nano-manufacturing processes, with applications in polymeric materials and tissue scaffold engineering.
University of California, Berkeley • Berkeley, CA
Teaching and research in mechanical engineering.
Nanyang Technological University • Singapore
Teaching and research in engineering.
Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology • Singapore
Research in biosystems and micromechanics.
The Mathematics Subject GRE is required for the Fall 2026 admissions cycle. General GRE is optional.