Andrew Sabelhaus
2026 REU and RET Projects: Coming Soon Led by Prof. Andrew Sabelhaus, the Soft Robotics Control Lab builds artificial intelligence into soft and flexible robots. The team seeks to combine the benefits of softer robots, such as safer contact with the environment and humans, with algorithms and control systems that allow them to perform practical tasks. They focus […]
Juan Pacheco Garcia
Previous REU/RET Projects include: Motion Tracking for Soft Robotic Arms (REU 2025)
Leonardo Zamora
Anna Maria Moran
Previous REU/RET Projects Include: Designing a Soft Bioinspired Grasper for Underwater Manipulation (REU, 2025)
Designing a Soft Bioinspired Grasper for Underwater Manipulation
Mentors Project Description The Morphable Biorobotics Lab at Boston University is developing a bioinspired soft underwater gripper for grasping delicate marine samples. This technology is key to ensuring adaptability in unpredictable environments without inflicting damage to the sample, the environment or the robot itself. This REU project aims to design a soft gripper that encloses […]
Advancing Early Alzheimer’s Detection with Biosensing
Mentors Project Description Our research lab, in Boston University Photonics Center’s Business Innovation Center, is focused on the development of new diagnostic tests to support personalized therapeutic strategies for patients suffering from neurological conditions. Given the increasingly decentralized nature of healthcare and clinical trials, there is a need for easy-to-use, cost-effective remote monitoring tools in […]
Jacob Garrett
Previous REU/RET Projects include: Thermocapillary Manipulation of Liquid Optical Wavelengths (REU, 2025)
Valeri Frumkin
2026 REU and RET Projects: Coming Soon Professor Frumkin’s work lies in the theoretical and experimental study of interfacial phenomena in fluid mechanics and their application to the development of innovative technological solutions in fields such as additive manufacturing, optics, microscale transport and in-space manufacturing. He also works in the field of Hydrodynamic Quantum Analogs, […]
Thermocapillary Manipulation of Liquid Optical Waveguides
Mentors Project Description The overall goal of this project is to explore how light can be guided and manipulated inside a thin liquid film, turning it into an optical waveguide with real-time dynamic control over its functionality. If a liquid film is suspended within an immiscible liquid environment, it will maintain uniform and smooth surfaces, […]
Hardware Programming for Nano-Electro-Mechanical Systems
Mentors Project Description The student will conduct background research on hardware programming and will build an all-electrical setup for precision measurement of an electro-mechanical resonator. The student will be provided with relevant hardware and software, including FPGA (field programmable gate arrays) boards, their corresponding IDEs (integrated development environment), and other pieces of electronics. The student […]