Ke Zhong

Material Science and Engineering
Ph.D. Student
kezhong@andrew.cmu.edu

About

Ke Zhong is a Ph.D. student studying Materials Science and Engineering at CMU. She is being advised by Lining Yao in HCI and Mohammad Islam in the Materials Science and Engineering department. Her research interests include active soft materials, morphing materials, additive manufacturing, self-healing polymers, and soft robotics. She has been focusing on the development of self-fusing and active building blocks and the investigation of their dynamic behaviors. She is also supported by the CMU Manufacturing Futures Institute to work on the additive manufacturing of self-healing polymer composites.

Ke received her B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering at Southern University of Science and Technology in China. She was an exchange student in Mechanical Engineering at MIT during her undergraduate.

Ke is a tennis lover, a member of the CMU club tennis team.

Publication

1. Dinesh K. Patel†, Ke Zhong†, Haiqing Xu, Mohammad F. Islam, Lining Yao, “Sustainable Morphing Matter: Design and Engineering Practices”, Adv. Mater. Technol, 2023, 2300678. DOI: 10.1002/admt.202300678

2. Ke Zhong, Adriane Fernandes Minori, Di Wu, Humphrey Yang, Mohammad F. Islam, and Lining Yao, “EpoMemory: Multi-state Shape Memory for Programmable Morphing Interfaces”, In CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’23), 2023, Hamburg, Germany. ACM, 15 pages. DOI: 10.1145/3544548.3580638.

3. Humphrey Yang, Tate Johnson, Ke Zhong, Dinesh Patel, Gina Olson, Carmel Majidi, Mohammad Islam, Lining Yao, “ReCompFig: Designing Dynamically Reconfigurable Kinematic Devices Using Compliant Mechanisms and Tensioning Cables”, In CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’22), 2022, ACM, New York, NY, USA, 14 pages. DOI: 10.1145/3491102.3502065.