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 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. 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.
