Dr. Muhao Chen Assistant Professor Office Location W204 Engineering Building 2 Email muhaochen [at] uh.edu Main Courses Research Awards & Honors Publications / Patents Education PhD, Aerospace Engineering, TAMU, 2021 MS & BS, Design and Manufacture of Ships and Marine Structures, HUST, 2016 Professional Experience Assistant Professor, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, UH Assistant Professor, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, UK, 2025 Postdoctoral Fellow, Aerospace Engineering, TAMU, 2023 Courses Taught MECE 5397/6397 Tensegrity Engineering for Space Systems Research Interests Lightweight & Deployable Structures, Soft Robotics, Dynamics and Control Awards & Honors Outstanding Guest Editor, Biomimetic Intelligence and Robotics, 2025 Reviewers of the Year Award, ASME J. Mechanisms Robotics, 2024 Graduate Excellence Fellowship, TAMU, 2020 Selected Publications Zhao, L., Jiang, Y., Chen, M., Bekris, K., & Balkcom, D. (2025). Modular shape-changing tensegrity-blocks enable self-assembling robotic structures. Nat. Commun., 16(1), 5888. Xu, Y., & Chen, M. (2025). The minimal mass tensegrity solutions to compressive and tensile loads. Int. J. Mech. Sci., 286, 109894. Bai, X., & Chen, M. (2025). Lightweight design of tensegrity Michell truss under cantilever loads. Compos. Struct., 357, 118925.
