Liwei Lin (Advisor)

Research Advised by Professor Liwei Lin

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Huicong Deng

Graduate Student Researcher
Mechanical Engineering
Professor Ming C. Wu (Advisor)
Professor Liwei Lin (Advisor)
Ph.D. 2029 (Anticipated)

Huicong Deng received his B.E. in Electrical Engineering from University of Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2024. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering, co-advised by Prof. Ming C. Wu and Prof. Liwei Lin. His research interest includes integrated photonics, MEMS and PMUTs.

Wei Yue

Postdoctoral Researcher
Mechanical Engineering
Professor Liwei Lin (Advisor)
Ph.D. 2026; PostDoc 2026 to present.

Wei Yue received his B.S. in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics from Peking University in 2021. He is currently pursuing Ph.D. in MEMS/Nano in Mechanical Engineering at UC Berkeley under the supervision of Professor Liwei Lin.

BSAC Fall 2024 Research Review Presenter

Alexander Alvara

Graduate Student Researcher
Mechanical Engineering
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
Professor Liwei Lin (Advisor)
Professor Kristofer S.J. Pister (Advisor)
Ph.D. 2026

Alexander Alvara is a final year Ph.D. Candidate in mechanical engineering who earned his 3 BS degrees from UC Irvine '17 concurrently in mechanical engineering, aerospace engineering, and materials science and engineering. Alexander is interested in extreme conditions applications and performance of MEMS devices as well as nanoscale materials engineering that investigates the interplay of materials with electromagnetism and light.

Megan Teng

Graduate Student Researcher
Mechanical Engineering
Professor Liwei Lin (Advisor)
Ph.D. 2026

Megan Teng is a Ph.D. student in Mechanical Engineering at UC Berkeley, specializing in MEMS, sensor design, and machine learning. Her research focuses on PMUT-based volumetric environment sensing. She holds dual bachelor’s degrees in Mechanical Engineering and International Business from National Taiwan University and is a recipient of the Katherine & James Lau Fellowship.

BSAC Spring 2025 Research Review Presenter

Jong Ha Park

Graduate Student Researcher
Mechanical Engineering
Professor Liwei Lin (Advisor)
Ph.D. 2026
BSAC Fall 2025 Research Review Presenter

Yuan Gao

Graduate Student Researcher
Mechanical Engineering
Professor Liwei Lin (Advisor)
Ph.D. 2028 (Anticipated)

Yuan Gao received his B.Eng. degree in Robotics Engineering from Peking University, Beijing, China, in 2023. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley.

Nikita Lukhanin

Graduate Student Researcher
Mechanical Engineering
Professor Liwei Lin (Advisor)
Ph.D. 2028 (Anticipated)

Nikita Lukhanin is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in MEMS at the University of California, Berkeley. Prior to this, he obtained a B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Illinois as well as an A.S. in Engineering Science from College of DuPage.

BSAC Spring 2026 Research Review Presenter

BPN743: Highly Responsive PMUTs for Volumetric Environmental Monitoring and Multimodal Tactile Sensing

Megan Teng
Peggy Tsao
Hanxiao Liu
Yande Peng
2026

This work presents a unified MEMS platform utilizing Piezoelectric Micromachined Ultrasonic Transducers (PMUTs) for dual-mode sensing: continuous volumetric indoor temperature monitoring and multimodal tactile force sensing. By leveraging ultrasonic Time-of-Flight (ToF) and profile scanning, we demonstrate two critical advancements for autonomous systems. First, at the macro-scale, a networked PMUT grid enables "volumetric" temperature monitoring across a 5m range, outperforming traditional pointwise sensors by detecting global and local thermal events for energy-efficient HVAC control....

Umut Can Yener

Graduate Student Researcher
Mechanical Engineering
Professor Liwei Lin (Advisor)
Ph.D. 2029 (Anticipated)

Umut Can Yener received his B.Sc. in mechanical engineering from Middle East Technical University in Turkey. For this M.Sc. degree, he joined Bio-integrated Microdevices Laboratory (BMDL) at Koc University, where he worked on a wearable bladder volume monitoring ultrasonic device and a passive ultrasonic backscatter communication method. Currently, Umut is a Ph.D. student at the University of California Berkeley as a Fulbright scholar. He is interested in wearable and implanatable medical devices and MEMS sensors.

BSAC Researchers Win Top Honors in Piezo MEMS Design Challenge

February 14, 2026
Megan Teng presents at IEEE MEMS 2026 Researchers from BSAC received top honors in the Piezo MEMS Design Challenge, with the results announced during the IEEE MEMS 2026 Conference in Salzburg, Austria

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