Tim Cheng’s Transducers Paper Published

PhD student Tim Cheng’s paper on high deflection MEMS springs has published. The poster was presented at Transducers ’25 in Orlando (one of the top international conferences on MEMS) and the conference paper is now out on the IEEE portal. Good job, Tim!

T. J. Cheng, R. D. White and K. Oleske, “Deflection Characteristics of a Circular Slit Diaphragm MEMS Device,” 2025 23rd International Conference on Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems (Transducers), Orlando, FL, USA, 2025, pp. 1445-1448, http://doi.org/10.1109/Transducers61432.2025.11109375

IEEE Transactions on Haptics Paper Published

Our paper on a Vibrotactile Display for the Visually Impaired published in the IEEE Transactions on Haptics! Good job to all the authors who all contributed substantially.

Maijie Xiang, Jonathan J. Bernstein, David B. Miller, and Robert D. White, “PCB-based Miniature Vibro-Tactile Display for the Visually Impaired” IEEE Transactions on Haptics, August 8, 2025.  http://doi.org/10.1109/TOH.2025.3597265

Tim Cheng presented a poster at Transducers 2025!

PHD Student Tim Cheng presented his work at Transducers 2025 in Orlando! Great job Tim!

Tim J. Cheng, Kasia Oleske, and Robert D. White, “Deflection Characteristics of a Circular Slit Diaphragm MEMS Device” in the 23rd International Conference on Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems, TRANDUCERS 2025, Orlando, 29 June -3 July, 2025.

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PhD Student Souley Cissokho joins the group!

Very pleased to announce that Souleymane Cissokho is joining our research group for the Spring semester 2025! Souley joins after completing his undergraduate degree at Rose Hulman and with experience in acoustic signal processing from Idaho National Labs. Very glad to have him on board! He will be working on acoustic sensing technologies.

Antarctica Balloon Launch Successful

Tufts University School of Engineering is headed to the stratosphere once again on a high altitude balloon! A successful launch of the 2024 Salter Test Flight – Universities from McMurdoStation, Antarctica, occurred on Dec 21 2024. Many thanks to NASA – National Aeronautics and Space Administration Balloon Programs Office and the Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility, particular Christopher D. Yoder and Don Banfield, for the opportunity. The balloon carries, among other payloads, the SPARROW-6 experiment part of which is the Tufts Sonic Anemometer from my research group at Tufts University (Tufts University Department of Mechanical Engineering). The flight is expected to float in the stratosphere near 125,000 feet for 5 to 10 days. After recovery we will have a wealth of data on stratospheric winds! Sure hope my code is running correctly!!! Safe travels!

Video of the launch: https://lnkd.in/e_a664Z3
Live tracking site: https://lnkd.in/eGQWAu4B