Biography

My Electrical Engineering PhD will focus on tactile feedback devices for ‘smart surface’ applications. Utilizing the piezoelectric nature of Zinc Oxide nanowires, a surface can both sense and give feedback to touch. My research will focus on the fabrication of the devices and the human factors between different types of interactions and the surfaces. The applications for such devices range widely from electronic Braille to heart monitors to dynamic mobile phone interfaces. My 2nd year PhD will be spent under Prof. Akinwande at MIT (US) as a visiting student. My research will be on the same topic but the focus will be on building the devices on flexible substrates.