Andrew Sabelhaus
2026 REU Project: Soft Robotic Gripper for Safe Manipulation RET Project: 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 […]
Michelle Sander
2026 REU Project: Label-free Imaging of Cells and Tissues The Sander group explores optical material interactions to develop novel laser sources in the infrared and mid-infrared wavelength regime. Our research focuses on novel ultrafast devices and how ultrafast and photothermal light interactions can fuel new applications in biomedical imaging and material characterization. We study femtosecond […]
Michelle Teplensky
2026 REU Project: Modifying Nanocarriers to Modulate Release From Hydrogel Research in the Teplensky Lab focuses on engineering nanotechnology to control immunological cell connectivity, processing, and communication by design. In doing so, we elucidate fundamentals about cellular events and leverage this knowledge to develop improved therapeutics and vaccines that can impact the treatment of cancer […]
Tianyu Wang
Previous REU/RET Projects Include: How to Use Machine Learning to Automate Aligning Optical Components in Experiments? (REU, 2025)
Rabia Tugce Yazicigil
Dr. Rabia Tugce Yazicigil is currently an Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Boston University. She is leading the Wireless Integrated Systems and Extreme Circuits (WISE-Circuits) Laboratory since August 2018. Rabia was a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the EECS Department of MIT working with Professor Anantha P. Chandrakasan from March 2016 to August 2018. Previous REU/RET […]