Opportunities
​We are hiring 2-3 Ph.D. students for this upcoming admission cycle (Fall 2026) in areas of smart textiles, soft robotics and HCI in general. We are also looking for 1 postdoctoral researcher through the provost postdoc program.
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The IoM lab is currently looking for self-motivated students (PhD, Postdoc, research assistant) from ECE, CS, ME, and Design. If you are interested in printed electronics, soft robots, fabrication, energy harvesting, embedded systems, and machine learning. Please fill out this form and shoot me an email: tcheng2 [at] nd (dot) edu.
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