Shuai Wu
Rogers Hall
Corvallis, OR 97331
United States
Dr. Shuai Wu joined the School of Mechanical, Industrial, and Manufacturing Engineering at Oregon State University as a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Fall 2025. He received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University in 2024, where his research focused on smart materials, active metamaterials, and soft robotics.
Dr. Wu’s work has resulted in over 28 publications, including eight as first author and eight as co–first author, in top-tier journals such as PNAS, Science Advances, Nature Communications, Advanced Materials, Advanced Intelligent Systems, and ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. He has served as a reviewer for a range of journals, including Additive Manufacturing, Matter, Science Advances, Nature Communications, Soft Robotics, Journal of Applied Mechanics, Scientific Reports, Advanced Engineering Materials, Communications Engineering, and Materials Today Communications.
Before earning his Ph.D., Dr. Wu obtained an M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California, San Diego (2018) and a B.S. in Engineering Mechanics from Southwest Jiaotong University (2017).
Dr. Wu’s research lies at the intersection of mechanics, materials science, and advanced manufacturing. His group develops next-generation reconfigurable and adaptive systems by integrating multi-material and multi-physics control, optimization-driven design, and additive manufacturing. Applications of his work span soft robotics, precision healthcare technologies, and sustainable engineering systems.
- Wu, S., Chang, Y., Leanza, S., Sim, J., Lu, L., Li, Q., ... & Zhao, R. R. (2025). Magnetic Milli‐Spinner for Robotic Endovascular Surgery. Advanced Materials, e08180. https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.202508180
- Chang, Y., Wu, S., Li, Q., Pulli, B., Salmi, D., Yock, P., … & Zhao, R. R. (2025). Milli-spinner thrombectomy. Nature, 642(8067), 336–342. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09049-0
- Wu, S., Eichenberger, J., Dai, J., Chang, Y., Ghalichechian, N., & Zhao, R. R. (2022). Magnetically actuated reconfigurable metamaterials as conformal electromagnetic filters. Advanced Intelligent Systems, 4(9), 2200106. https://doi.org/10.1002/aisy.202200106
- Wu, S., Ze, Q., Dai, J., Udipi, N., Paulino, G. H., & Zhao, R. (2021). Stretchable origami robotic arm with omnidirectional bending and twisting. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118(36), e2110023118. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2110023118