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2025 Lab Holiday Celebration!

The team celebrated the end of 2025 and the winter holidays in style with a delicious potluck dinner, lots of fun conversations, a proud reflection on all of the team’s accomplishments of the year and our matching lab beanies for the “cold” San Diego winters 🙂
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Dr. Zaid Haddadin successfully defends his PhD thesis!

Huge congratulations to Dr. Zaid Haddadin for successfully defending his PhD thesis! Zaid is the first PhD student in the group to graduate and he was part of the lab since the very first day (even a bit before!). His contributions to the group were wonderful, inspiring and invaluable and we will carry on his…
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SPIE 2026

The lab presented 6 talks at our local SPIE Optics and Photonics in San Diego, including our annual lab lunch!
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2025 Beckman Symposium

Lisa presented the lab’s Beckman Young Investigator work at the 2025 Beckman Symposium. She met with several wonderful colleagues including fellow Mechanical Engineers shown here: Prof. Tania Morimoto from our own UCSD’s MAE Department and Prof. Margaret Byron from Penn State!
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2025 Graduation Celebration

The team met at An’s Hatmakers Ice Cream in Del Mar to celebrate the graduation of many of our amazing lab members! We are so proud of you and are so excited to see you go out into the world and make a meaningful impact. We will miss you!!! Hy Cao graduated with an MS…