Additional Campus Affiliations
W. W. Grainger Chair, Mechanical Science and Engineering
Professor, Mechanical Science and Engineering
Professor, Bioengineering
Professor, Biomedical and Translational Sciences
Professor, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
Professor, Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
Professor, Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
Recent Publications
Aly, A., & Saif, M. T. (2026). High-speed in situ tomographic imaging at lab scale. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 123(7), Article e2535455123. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2535455123
Aly, A., & Saif, M. T. A. (2026). Self-modifying percolation governs detachment in soft suction wet adhesion. Science Advances, 12(6), Article eaeb4013. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aeb4013
Athanasiou, C. E., Narayanan, K., LLorca, J., Padture, N. P., Raabe, D., Guduru, P. R., Saliba, M., Chollacoop, N., Bandyopadhyay, A., Ananthaswamy, A., Carter, D., Croft, N., Ortiz, C., Schuh, C. A., Sampath, S., Rosakis, A. J., Ravichandran, G., Giannakopoulos, A. E., Ramamurty, U., ... Zierler, D. (2026). The Seville synthesis: Unifying disciplines to tackle global challenges. Matter, 9(6), Article 102856. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matt.2026.102856
Lee, K. Y., & Saif, M. T. A. (2026). Tension shapes memory: computational insights into neural plasticity. Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience, 20, Article 1737434. https://doi.org/10.3389/fncom.2026.1737434
Drennan, W. C., Aydin, O., Emon, B., Li, Z., Joy, M. S. H., Barishman, A., Kim, Y., Wei, M., Denham, D., Carrillo, A., & Saif, M. A. T. (2025). A forward-engineered, muscle-driven soft robotic swimmer. Science Advances, 11(29), Article eadu8634. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adu8634