Xiaoyu (Rayne) Zheng is an Associate Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, and serves as Co-Director of the Berkeley Sensor & Actuator Center (BSAC). His research focuses on developing advanced additive manufacturing and artificial intelligence–enabled design methods to create materials and structures with controlled 3D microarchitectures and encoded functionalities.
Professor Zheng’s group is a global pioneer in developing 3D printing technologies and materials for electronic and multifunctional systems, including dielectric, conductive, piezoelectric, and structural materials. These capabilities are enabling next-generation sensors, MEMS, transducers, electronics, and robotic systems. Dr. Zheng is also Co-Founder and Scientific Advisor of Sensetics, Inc., a company focused on developing tactile sensing and haptics technologies for humanoid robotics.
Professor Zheng has received multiple prestigious awards, including the DARPA Young Faculty Award, DARPA Director’s Fellowship for Outstanding Project, Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award, Air Force Young Investigator Award, NSF CAREER Award, and 3M Faculty Award, among others.
Additive manufacturing; Metamaterials
