Programmable Structures Lab

Purdue University School of Mechanical Engineering

Sheng Huang

Sheng is a Mechanical Engineering researcher who earned his BSc from National Taiwan University and MSc from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. He is now pursuing a PhD in Mechanical Engineering. His work explores multistable metamaterials and their applications. Outside research, he enjoys hearing people’s stories and spending time with loved ones.

Research

  • Multistable materials
  • Multistable structures for energy harvesting

Publications

  1. Cherkasov, O., Smirnova, N., & Huang, S. (2019). Thrust programming for the range maximization and modified brachistochrone problem. Proceedings of the 15th Conference “Dynamical Systems – Theory and Applications” (pp. 85–96). Łódź, Poland. doi: 10.34658/9788366287297
  2. Huang, S., & Hexner, D. (2025). Banding and polarization in driven multistable materials. arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.12895.