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Algorithm-Designed Photonic Circuits Beyond Human Intuition
1+ day, 17+ hour ago (260+ words) The team applied inverse design to silicon nitride – a material with low optical loss that can also help produce clean, laser-like light of many different colors. Previous approaches have mainly focused on silicon and, more recently, on diamond, silicon carbide…...
Can AI Make Wearable Technologies and Assistive Devices More Helpful?
2+ day, 17+ hour ago (753+ words) A: One thing we have learned in wearable robotics is that putting a motor on someone does not necessarily make it easier for them to move. In some cases, it can actually make movement harder because the device is not working…...
Oh, Snap: Fabrics With Multiple Stable Shapes
1+ week, 3+ day ago (394+ words) Knitting has come a long way from sweaters and blankets. Researchers at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have turned everyday knitting into a powerful platform for making shape-shifting devices that can act as switches,…...
Electrical Engineering becomes Electrical and Computer Engineering at SEAS
2+ week, 3+ day ago (403+ words) Na Li, Winokur Family Professor of Electrical Engineering and former Area Chair for Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), explains what the name change means for the SEAS community. Professor Li: The short answer is: to reflect what we already are. Electrical…...
David C. Parkes receives John McCarthy Award
2+ week, 3+ day ago (229+ words) David C. Parkes, the John A. Paulson Dean and George F. Colony Professor of Computer Science at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), has been awarded the 2026 John McCarthy Award from the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence…...
An AI-Powered Control System For Robots With Legs
2+ week, 5+ day ago (244+ words) Walking robots, such as quadruped robotic dogs, must be able to safely move through rough, often changing environments. Du and colleagues created a system they call Diffusion-MPC (Model Predictive Control), which aims to combine the best aspects of existing methods....
The Limitless Instruments of GE1080
3+ week, 4+ day ago (472+ words) A Harvard student plays "Accordion to Plan," by Mike Thomas and Leyna Blume (Eliza Grinnell/SEAS) A distance tracker, an algorithm, pressure sensors — as students in “GENED1080” learned, anything can become a musical instrument with a bit of engineering know-how. “Coming…...
Kezi Cheng, Ph.D. '21: Easing plastic recycling with new polymers
3+ week, 5+ day ago (440+ words) Kezi Cheng, Ph.D. '21 When it comes to recycling plastics, cost rules. One of the biggest hardships plastic recycling faces is that it’s considerably cheaper to produce new plastic products than it is to acquire, treat and re-use plastic waste. As…...
Saad Atif’s senior thesis: Exploring how legal disputes impact foreign investment
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (242+ words) For his senior thesis, Saad Atif explored how legal disputes impact foreign investment Fourth-year applied mathematics concentrators at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have the option to write senior theses. These theses use mathematical,…...
Finn Seyffer’s senior project: Optimizing flight for fixed-wing aircraft
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (251+ words) Engineering Design Projects (ES 100), the capstone course at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), challenges seniors to engineer a creative solution to a real-world problem. Morphing Aerospace Composites: A Mechanical Approach to Flow Control for…...