In our interdisciplinarity lab at Carnegie Mellon University, Mechanical Engineering meets Biology, Medicine, Robotics, Computer Science, and Energy
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Excited to share our latest research in npj Digital Medicine (Nature Portfolio)! Our explainable AI model goes beyond disease detection to reveal biological insights, helping pathologists identify placental biomarkers associated with preeclampsia.
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Congratulations to Mangalam Sahai on his recent publication in Nature Portfolio: npj Digital Medicine, titled “Unsupervised machine learning for placental disease using cell spatial organization”!
The preprint is available at doi.org/10.1038/s41746-026-0…
Congratulations to Latifah Almaghrabi, a recent LeDuc Lab alumnus, for starting a new job as an Assistant Professor in the Bioengineering Department at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM)! Wishing you continuing success in this new chapter!
Alumni Spotlight! 🌟 LeDuc Lab alumnus Prof. Chao-Min Cheng and his students developed a dual-mode paper-based platform for rapid UTI screening. Congratulations to the team on this work and its selection as a Lab on a Chip cover feature! 🎉 read here: doi.org/10.1039/d6lc00265j
How do engineering and creativity come together to improve live entertainment? This spring, CMU faculty Dr. LeDuc, Dr. Bedillion, Dr. Hines, and Dr. Boevers launched Entertainment Engineering, bringing engineering and drama students together to solve real-world challenges.
The LeDuc Lab enjoyed our annual summer group trip with a bike ride in Ohiopyle!
#LabOuting #TeamBuilding #ResearchCommunity #AcademicLife
Phil had a great time at the recent Beckman Foundation Board of Directors meetings as part of the Scientific Advisory Council talking about all of the great work that the foundation supports. It was a pleasure to spend time with such thoughtful and inspiring leaders.
One of our recent PhD graduates, Mark DeAngelis, has started his postdoc with Prof. Jennifer Lewis at Harvard! In her lab, he will create automated experimentation technologies for 3D printing, which builds upon his thesis work developing autonomous laboratory systems. Congrats!
Last week Moaiad Alabbasi, a second-year PhD student in our lab, presented his work at the ECS - The Electrochemical Society meeting in Seattle, WA!
Excited to see Moaiad represent the group and share this progress with the ECS community!
#ECSMeeting #CMU #HydrogenEnergy
Congratulations to PhD student Feimo Yang on being awarded the William and Barbara Goldsmith Family Graduate Fellowship in Mechanical Engineering! This fellowship recognizes excellence among graduate students and supports Feimo’s continued academic and research contributions.
A huge congratulations to the LeDuc Lab graduating PhD students, Richard Desatnik, Latifah Almaghrabi, Mark DeAngelis, and Andres Garcia! We're so proud of all that you have accomplished and grateful for the contributions you have made to the lab. Wishing you continued success!
Grateful to join colleagues at the Beckman Institutes/Center Meeting to discuss cross-site collaboration, resource sharing, and new opportunities to advance research across the Beckman network. It is always so great being at the Beckman Center in California as an excellent venue.
Congratulations to Dr. Andres Garcia on successfully defending his PhD thesis, titled "Sensing, Control and Automation in Freeform Additive Manufacturing with Aqueous Materials."
Highlighting another impactful contribution from the lab on soft robotic manipulation, published in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters! This work developed a soft gripper that can gently grasp and twist a wide range of objects, even delicate ones.
DOI: doi.org/10.1109/LRA.2025.357…
Congratulations to Mark DeAngelis on defending his Ph.D. thesis, “Autonomous Discovery and Dynamic Control for Biological Systems,” at Carnegie Mellon University!
Thank you to North Carolina State University as I am honored to share that I have been inducted into the NC State Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Alumni Hall of Fame. I am grateful for the education and community at NC State that helped shape my path.
Congratulations to Christopher Bettinger on his new role as Vice President of Biotechnology at the Novo Nordisk Foundation! It has been a pleasure to have known you in academia over the past 20 years, and I wish you all the best in this exciting next chapter.
Congratulations to our lab members Mangalam Sahai and Moaiad Alabbasi for presenting at the CMU MechE PhD Symposium this year! It was great seeing them share their work, connect with other researchers, and represent our lab.
