Lining Yao is an Assistant Professor of Human-Computer Interaction Institute (HCII) at Carnegie Mellon University, School of Computer Science, directing the Morphing Matter Lab. Morphing Matter lab develops materials, tools, and applications of adaptive, dynamic and intelligent morphing matter from nano to macro scales. Research often combines material science, computational fabrication and creative design practices. Lining and her lab work anti-disciplinarily, publishing and exhibiting across science, engineering, design and art. Lining gained her PhD at MIT Media Lab, where she combined biological and engineering approaches to develop physical materials with dynamic and tunable properties including shape, color, stiffness, texture and density.Beyond her teaching and research at HCII in the School of Computer Science, Lining is also supervising undergraduate and graduate students across the College of Engineering and College of Art.

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ACADEMIC CONFERENCE AWARDS
Best Paper Talk Award | CHI 2015
Paper Honorable Mention Award | CHI 2015
Best Paper Award | UIST 2013
Nominated Best Demo Award | UIST 2013
1st Prize in Student Innovation Design Competition | UIST 2012

FELLOWSHIPS
Wired UK Innovation Fellow | 2015
New Balance Research Grant | 2014 - 2015
MIT Art Council Grant | 2014 - 2015
NEC Research Fellow | 2013 - 2014
Cisco Research Fellow | 2012 - 2013

SELECTED DESIGN AWARDS
Transformative Appetite, YouFab | 2017
Second Skin, 中国设计智造大奖优智奖 | 2016
bioLogic, A'Design Awards | 2016
bioLogic, Fast Company Design Award | 2016
IXDA Design award | 2015
Core 77 Interaction Student Notable award | 2015
iF Student Design Awards | 2015, 2010
Red Dot "Best of the Best" Design Award | 2010
Red Dot Student Design Award | 2009

PUBLIC SPEECH
The World Economic Forum | Davos | 2018
Meet the Media Guru | Milan, Italy | 2017
PopTech | Maine, US | 2016
Wired UK Annual Conference | London, UK | 2015
Aspen Ideas Festival | Aspen, Colorado, USA | 2013
Tokyo Designers' Week | Tokyo, Japan | 2014
MIT Museum | Cambridge, MA, USA | 2014

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
Center Pompidou | Paris, France | 2017
Ars Electronica | Linz, Austria | 2016
Museum of Fine Art, Fashion Tech Styles | bioLogic | Boston, MA, USA | In preparation, 2016
MIT Media Lab, 30's Anniversary | bioLogic, "Second Skin" | Cambridge, MA, USA | Oct 26- Dec 28, 2015
Museum of Fine Art, Fashion4ward | bioLogic | Cambridge, MA, USA | Oct 12, 2015
Red Dot Design museum | Essen, Germany | 2010 - 2012

Methods and apparatus for shape control. R Niiyama, L Yao, J Ou, S Follmer, H Ishii - US Patent 9,777,753, 2017.

Methods and apparatus for layer jamming. J Ou, L Yao, D Tauber, H Ishii - US Patent 9,664,210, 2017

Methods and apparatus for hygromorphic shape controlL Yao, W Wang, J Ou, CY Cheng, G Wang, H Ishii, D Wang, H Steiner, C Silvar - US Patent App. 14/927,375, 2015