Scholars@Duke
Xiaoyue Ni

Xiaoyue Ni

Assistant Professor of the Thomas Lord Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Thomas Lord Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

Research Interests

Flexible electronics, precision measurement, non-destructive testing, deformation physics of random media, mechanical metamaterials, robotic materials and smart structures, machine learning

Selected Grants

Real-Time, Longitudinal, Functional Brain Imaging via 4D Smart Epidermal Photoacoustic Tomography

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2026 - 2030

Digitally reprogrammable soft composites for adaptive fluid-structure interactions

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Office of Naval Research · 2026 - 2029

Developing a 2-in-1 Wearable On-Demand Ultrasound Imaging & Stimulation System for Treating Post-Stroke Motor Impairment

ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by American Heart Association · 2025 - 2028

Enabling Sentient Materials

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory · 2025 - 2027

Wearable elastography for ambulant monitoring of tissue mechanics

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering · 2023 - 2027

External Relationships

  • Editorial and Advisory Boards for journals
  • NIH Center for Scientific Review (CSR)
  • Southwest Jiaotong University
  • Tsinghua University
  • US Patent
  • provisional patent

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