Saien

Xie

Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Princeton Materials Institute

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Research interests: Syntheses of thin film materials; electrical and optical characterizations of nanoscale devices.

Saien Xie wins 2024 Packard Fellowship

Foam board with a pinned grasshopper specimen, with wings extended, and four rows with different colors and shapes of synthetic wings under investigation for flying robots. — A team led by Pierre-Thomas Brun and Aimy Wissa is studying the structures and capabilities of grasshopper wings and flying fish fins. An innovation grant will allow the researchers to test different types of foldable wings and model their performance. Photos by Tori Repp/Fotobuddy

Innovation funds support research in robotics, machine learning, climate resilience and more

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Electrical and Computer Engineering

Improving human health, energy systems, computing and communications, and security

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Princeton Materials Institute

Multidisciplinary research driving advances in materials science and photonics