Mingrui Jiang, a Ph.D. student at LMMM, participated in the poster competition in 2025 SU ECS Research Day and won the Second Place with the poster titled The Quaternary Structure Origin of the Fibrillation of Sickle Hemoglobin: A Molecular Dynamics Study​ on March 21. Gargi De, Another Ph.D. student, presented a poster titled Mycelium-Coir-Based Bio-Composite Materials for Sustainable Building Envelope at 2025 NYS Green Building Conference in March 27, and won the First Place in the competition. The work is also published in Journal of Materials Chemistry A [link]. 
Milad Masrouri and Mingrui Jiang, 2 current Ph.D. students at LMMM, participated in MRS 2024 Fall. Milad gave a poster presentation titled From AI to Application - Generative AI for Rapid and Efficient Mechanical Design of Composites on December 3, and Mingrui gave a poster presentation titled Mechanics of Carbon Monoxide Binding to Hemoglobin in Oxygen-Rich Environment Revealed by Molecular Dynamics Simulation with Advanced Force Field on December 4.
Our team recently had the pleasure of engaging with a group of K-12 students during an interactive session at the Rosamond Gifford Zoo in Syracuse. The event was an exciting opportunity to explore the intersection of nature and technology, focusing on how animal patterns can inspire the development of advanced bioinspired materials. The students were introduced to the latest advancements in AI-driven design tools developed by our research group, which analyze and replicate structural patterns from animal skins—such as those from zebras, tigers, and giraffes. These patterns, when applied to material science, have the potential to enhance the performance of synthetic composites in industries like aerospace, medicine, and construction.
Through a series of hands-on activities and demonstrations, the students learned how AI models can study and simulate the structural efficiency of these patterns. They were encouraged to think about how nature's designs might be harnessed to create stronger, more flexible, and sustainable materials.
This event was made possible through the dedicated efforts of our graduate students Milad Masrouri, Akshay Vilas Jadhav, and Kamalendu Paul, who meticulously prepared educational materials and developed an interactive website. The website allowed students to experiment with AI-generated animal patterns, showing real-time simulations and visualizations of their impact on composite material designs. This interactive tool has proven to be an invaluable resource in illustrating the connection between natural patterns and material science. Our team looks forward to continuing this outreach effort, inspiring young minds to consider how biological principles can drive future innovations in material engineering.
Our group enjoyed a retreat at Green Lakes by the end of the 2022 summer (8/15/2022) including a student scavenger hunt! Pictured (L-R) are Gargi, Michael, Milad, Mingrui, Libin, Anushka, Ruohan, and Dr. Qin. Anushka (Jamesville DeWitt) and Michael (Liverpool) are high school students who have been working with Dr. Qin on his NSF summer program. 
​​4/11/2023: Congratulations to Ruohan Xu for getting the first place of the 2023 Norma Slepecky Undergraduate Research Prize of Syracuse University!
4/10/2023: Congratulations to Gargi De who got the Diversity Travel Award in attending 2023 SB3C Conference at Colorado! ​​
4/7/2023: Congratulations to both Kamalendu Paul and Milad Masouri who got the SU Pre-Dissertation Fellowship! 
4/6/2023: Milad Masouri and Mingrui Jiang successfully passed their qualify exam, Congratulations! 
4/5/2023: Congratulations to Jose Arturo Venegas for getting this prestigious Goldwater Scholarship award (2023) 
3/2/2023: Congratulations to Ruohan Xu for being the 1st place in the undergraduate non-design category at 2023 NYS Green Building Conference Student Poster Competition!
10/7/2022: Congratulations to Gargi De for getting the second place for the Stevenson Biomaterial Research Poster Award!
9/21/2022: Congratulations to Ruohan Xu for getting 2022 ASME IMECE NSF Student Travel Grant! ​Mr. Xu will represent our group by going to Ohio in November for the ASME conference and presenting at the student poster competition!
3/25/2022: Congratulations to Saifeldeen Khalil Elsayed for getting the honorable mention award for the poster competition of ECS research day!
Anushka (Jamesville DeWitt) and Michael (Liverpool) presented results of their summer research at a poster session at the Center of Excellence on 8/17/2022. Way to go Qin Lab!
Happy to work with all the kids in person during the 2022 summer! Some are apparently too early to be counted.
Libin Yang and Zhao Qin in SB3C conference at Cambride, Maryland on 7/24/2022, First IN-PERSON conference after two-years of remote events! 
8/14/2018
Time for MIT CEE Kid camp, design and made pop-up cards for the kids this year.
8/10/2018
Congratulations to Jemaris Martes Villalobos for successfully finishing the MIT Summer Research Program on the project "3D printed graphene-like structures"