Sep 12, 2026 (Team): Dageon Oh passed the PhD Qualifying Exam, becoming the third PhD candidate in the Kuang Lab. Congratulations! We wish you success in the remainder of your PhD studies.
Sep 9, 2026 (Team): Bryce Hanson and Alex Verich joined the Kuang Lab as Undergraduate Research Assistants. Welcome!
Aug 24, 2026 (Conference): Dr. Kuang gave two talks, titled “Diffusion-Reaction Coupling Enabled Mild and Efficient Chemical Recycling of Carbon Fiber–Reinforced Thermosets Toward Sustainable Manufacturing” and “Digital Light Processing 3D Printing of Tough Functional Materials” at the 2026 ACS Fall Meeting, Chicago, IL, US.
Aug 26, 2026 (Conference): Oliyad presented our Mix2Print technology in a pitch showcase at the 2026 ACS Fall Meeting, Chicago, IL, US.
Aug 21, 2026 (Team): Ye Liu and Subhasish Das joined the Kuang lab as MS Research students. Welcome!
Aug 16, 2026 (Conference): Dr. Kuang attended the 2026 In Vivo Ultrasound Imaging Conference (Gordon Research Conference), Waterville Valley, NH, US.
Jul 19, 2026 (Paper): Our paper (PI: Prof. Xiao Kuang) titled “Agitation-Enhanced Hybrid-Solvent Recycling of Carbon-Fiber-Reinforced Epoxy Composites via Diffusion-Reaction-Erosion Coupling” was accepted at the American Society for Composites 41st Annual Technical Conference. Congratulations to Kuang and collaborators at Ningxia Univeristy!
Jul 3, 2026 (Paper): Our paper (PI: Prof. Xiao Kuang) titled “Toughening Thermoset Composites via Acoustic-Field Activated Network Topology Programming” was accepted at the American Society for Composites 41st Annual Technical Conference. Congratulations to the lead author, Zebang!
July 20, 2026 (Conference): Dr. Kuang presented a poster titled “Acoustic Volumetric Additive Manufacturing of (Bio)polymer Composites” at the2026 Additive Manufacturing of Soft Materials (Gordon Research Conference), Southern New Hampshire University, NH, US.
May 28, 2026 (Paper): Our paper (PIs: Prof. Yu Shrike Zhang, Yanliang, Prof. Yanliang Zhang) titled “Hybrid bioprinting of hierarchical vascular networks at capillary-scale resolution ” was published in Nature Chemical Engineering. Congratulations to Dr. Kuang and collaborators at Harvard Medical School and the Univeristy of Notre Dame.
May 7, 2026 (Award): Oliyad got 3rd place in the Spring 2026 Mechanical Engineering Three Minute Thesis. Congratulations!
May 6, 2026 (Teaching) Dr. Kuang concluded the ME514: Polymer Additive Manufacturing (SP26) course. Thanks to the Makerspace, guest lecturers, and TA. Congrats to the course challenge winners!
Apr 17, 2026 (Outreach): Kuang Lab attended the Engineering Expo 2026 and presented a live demo on 4D printing, using light to shape smart materials that can be trained to exhibit shape memory, aiming to inspire K-12 students in advanced manufacturing and polymer engineering.
Apr 16, 2026 (Seminar) Dr. Kuang attended the 23rd Annual Neurotech Conference-SBMT 2026 and presented an invited talk titled “Acoustic Volumetric Printing for Deep-Tissue in situ (bio)manufacturing and Minimally Invasive Surgery.” Los Angeles, CA.
Apr 15, 2026 (Conference), the Kuang lab attended the 2026Milwaukee SPE Education Night, presenting a poster about the lab research titled “Adaptive Materials and Advanced Manufacturing—Engineering Shapes and Functions for Sustainability and Health.”
Mar 3, 2026 (Team) Kaustav Bhattacharya joined the Kuang lab as an Undergraduate Research Assistant. Welcome!
Feb 25, 2026 (Team) Kristof Lock Zanzotto joined the Kuang lab as an Undergraduate Research Assistant. Welcome!
Jan 26, 2026 (Team) Vince Wang passed the PhD Qualifying Exam, becoming a PhD candidate in the Kuang Lab. Congratulations! We wish you success in the remainder of your PhD studies.
Jan 19, 2026 (Team) Jeremiah Lai joined the Kuang Lab as an Undergraduate Research Assistant. Welcome!
Nov 12, 2025 (Seminar) Dr. Kuang attended the UW-Madison ASME Chapter and presented a talk titled “Adaptive Materials and Advanced Manufacturing—Engineering Shapes and Functions for Sustainability and Health.” UW-Madison.
Oct 23, 2025 (Forum) The Kuang Lab attended the UW-Japan Engineering & Technology Forum and presented a poster titled “Adaptive Materials and Advanced Manufacturing—Engineering Shapes and Functions for Sustainability and Health” to introduce the lab research at the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, Madison.
Oct 15, 2025 (Conference) Dr. Kuang gave a talk, titled “Self-Enhancing Sono-Inks Enable Acoustic Volumetric Printing: From Multiphysics Understanding to Medical Applications”, in the Society of Engineering Science (SES) 2025 Annual Technical Meeting, Atlanta, GA.
Oct 11, 2025 (Conference) Dr. Kuang gave a talk, titled “Sonicated Inks and Focused Ultrasound Writing Enable Acoustic Volumetric Printing for Minimally Invasive Surgery”, in the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) 2025 Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA.
Sep 29, 2025 (Publication) Our paper (Prof. Yu Shrike Zhang) titled “Hyaluronic acid-based bioink for anisotropic neural tissue cryobioprinting” was published in the International Journal of Extreme Manufacturing. Congratulations, Dr. Kuang and collaborators at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
Sep 2025 (Team) Benjamin Parker Hudson joined the Kuang lab as an Undergraduate Research Assistant. Welcome!
Sept 20, 2025 (Award) Dr. Kuang was recognized as a World’s Top 2% Scientists for the year 2025 (Stanford/Elsevier – Top 2% Scientists).
Sept 19, 2025 (Team) Mason Phoulavan joined the Kuang Lab as an Undergraduate Research Assistant. Welcome!
Sept 18, 2025 (Team) Zebang Zhang passed the PhD Qualifying Exam, becoming a PhD candidate in the Kuang Lab. Congratulations! We wish you success in the remainder of your PhD studies.
Sept 13, 2025 (Team): Chenglong Wang joined the team as an Undergraduate Research Intern. Welcome!
Aug 29, 2025 (Team): Senjuti Barua joined the team as an Undergraduate Research Assistant. Welcome!
Aug 17, 2025 (Team): Dageon Oh joined the team as a PhD student. Welcome!
Jul 30, 2025 (Funding): Kuang lab received research funding from SACO AEI Polymers to advance the characterization of thermosetting polymers. Thanks SACO AEI Polymers, and congratulations to the team!
Jun 26, 2025 (Talk): Dr. Kuang gave an invited virtual talk titled “Fusing Biomaterial Design and 3D (Bio)printing for Regenerative and Precision Medicine” at the International Symposia in Biomedical Material and Information Science (ISBMIS 2025): Converging Biomedicine, Materials & AI to Shape the Future, Boston, MA.
Jun 21, 2025 (Team) Sanjay Baskar joined the team as a Summer Research Assistant. Welcome!
Jun 12, 2025 (Funding): Dr. Kuang’s collaborative project with Prof. Wan-Ju Li (Department of Orthopedics and Rehabilitation) and Prof. Chu Ma (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering) titled “Real-time monitoring and adaptive control of in situ focused ultrasound bioprinting augmented by artificial intelligence for joint repair” has been chosen for funding in Round 5 of Research Forward (2025). The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) will support our 2-year project to pioneer 3D ultrasound bioprinting for minimally invasive surgery. Thanks to WARF and congratulations to the team! (see more…)
May 29, 2025 (Talk): Dr. Kuang gave a featured talk titled “Self-Enhancing Sono-Inks Enable Acoustic Volumetric Printing: From Multiphysics Understanding to Medical Applications” at the 31st International Conference on Computational & Experimental Engineering and Sciences, Changsha, Hunan, China.
May 6, 2025 (Teaching) Dr. Kuang concluded the ME514: Polymer Additive Manufacturing (SP25) course. Thanks to the Makerspace, guest lecturers, and TA. Congrats to the course challenge winners! Please check out the students’ final project report on the Additive Manufacturing blog!
May 1, 2025 (Seminar) Dr. Kuang hosted Professor Timothy Long, from the School of Molecular Sciences, Arizona State University, for the ME 903 Graduate Seminar. He delivered an inspiring lecture titled “Focusing a sustainability lens on additive manufacturing: Asking more from science and engineering“. Thank you!
Apr 17, 2025 (Conference), the Kuang lab attended the Milwaukee SPE Education Night (2025), presenting a poster about the lab research titled “Adaptive Materials and Advanced Manufacturing—Engineering Shapes and Functions for Sustainability and Health.”
Apr 11, 2025 (Outreach): Kuang lab attended the Engineering Expo 2025, presenting a poster titled “Self-Enhancing Sono-inks Enable Ultrasound 3D Printing for Volumetric Manufacturing and Minimally Invasive Surgery” and providing a live demo on ultrasound 3D printing to the public (see more..).
Apr 9, 2025 (Talk) Dr. Kuang gave an invited talk titled “Adaptive Materials and Advanced Manufacturing for Enhanced Sustainability and Precision Health” in Pi Tau Sigma Club, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Mar 31, 2025 (Seminar) Dr. Kuang hosted Professor Kai Yu, an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Colorado Denver, in the ME 514 Polymer Additive Manufacturing Seminar (virtual). Prof. Yu gave a presentation titled “3D Printing and Sustainable Recycling of Continuous Fiber Reinforced Polymer Composites”. Thank you!
Mar 17, 2025 (Seminar) Dr. Kuang hosted Professor Devin Roach, an Assistant Professor in the Mechanical, Industrial, and Manufacturing Department at Oregon State University (OSU), in the ME 514 Polymer Additive Manufacturing Seminar (virtual). Prof. Roach gave a presentation titled “Machine Learning Driven Design and 3D/4D Printing of Functional Composites”. Thank you!
Mar 10, 2025 (Seminar) Dr. Kuang hosted Carlos Ezio Garciamendez-Mijares from Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital in the ME 514 Polymer Additive Manufacturing Seminar (virtual). Carlos gave a presentation titled “Considerations for DIY Bioprinters”. Thank you!
Feb 26, 2025 (Seminar), Dr. Kuang hosted Henry Chan, co-founder and CEO of Metronics and SLS Technical Lead in Formlabs, in the ME 514 Polymer Additive Manufacturing Seminar (virtual). Henry shared his story about the Metronics startup company. Thank you!
Feb 26, 2025 (Panel) Dr. Kuang was invited to join the UW-Madison Office of Business Engagement Faculty Panel titled “Sustainability In Food Science, Agriculture & Food Packaging” and present the polymer and manufacturing innovation toward sustainable and smart packaging. 5P Packaging Expo (by GBIG), Appleton, Wisconsin (see more).
Feb 14, 2025 (Team) Andrea Relucio joined the team as an undergraduate research assistant. Welcome!
Feb 10, 2025 (Talk): Dr. Kuang gave an invited virtual guest lecture titled “Instructive Biomaterials Enable 3D (Bio)printing for Regenerative and Precision Medicine” in the class “3D Printing the Human Body” to the BME students at Tufts University.
Jan 7, 2025 (Team) Ziwen Wang joined the team as a PhD student. Welcome!
Dec 9, 2024 (Teaching) Dr. Kuang completed his first large-enrollment course teaching (ME310 Polymer Manufacturing, 161 ME undergraduate students). Thanks, co-instructor Prof. Turng and TAs. Congratulations!
Nov 1, 2024 (Team) Ziwen Wang, a prospective PhD student in Spring 2025, joined the team as a research internship trainee. Welcome!
Sep 11, 2024 (Seminar) Dr. Kuang hosted Professor Christopher Williams from Mechanical Engineering, Virginia Tech, for the ME 903 Graduate Seminar. He delivered an inspiring lecture titled “Printing Out of the Box: Making the Impossible with Multi-Material, Multi-Modal, Multi-Axis Additive Manufacturing.” Thank you!
Sep 11, 2024 (Talk) Dr. Kuang gave an invited virtual guest lecture titled ” Self-enhancing Sono-inks Enable Deep-penetration Acoustic Volumetric Printing” in the 3D (bio)printing class for BME students at the University of Akron.
Aug 23, 2024 (Team) Zebang Zhang joined the team as the first PhD student. Welcome!
Aug 19, 2024 (Team) Dr. Xiao Kuang officially started as an Assistant Professor in the Polymer Engineering Center, Mechanical Engineering Department, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Congratulations! (See more...)
Aug 13, 2024 (Talk) Dr. Kuang gave an invited talk titled ” Soft Adaptive Materials Enable Voxel 3D/4D printing ” in the iCANX YOUTH TALK series: 4D Printing and Its Applications. [Recording]
Aug 11, 2024 (Talk) Dr. Kuang gave a talk titled “Self-enhancing Sono-inks Enable Deep-Penetration Acoustic Volumetric Printing” at the 2024 Additive Manufacturing of Soft Materials Seminar (GRS) at Bryant University.
Aug 6, 2024 (Outreach) Dr. Kuang presented the technical demonstration “Through-tissue Ultrasound Printing for Noninvasive Surgery” to congressional staff on the NIH Campus (Bethesda, Maryland). (See more…)
Aug 5, 2024 (Talk) Dr. Kuang gave an invited talk titled “Self-enhancing Sono-inks Enable Deep-penetration Acoustic Volumetric Printing” at the 6th AIE Conference, Harvard Medical School (Boston, MA).
Mar 3, 2026 (Team) Kaustav Bhattacharya joined the Kuang lab as an Undergraduate Research Assistant. Welcome!
