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Upcoming, current, and past events with participation of MMLab researchers (including lectures, award announcements, and exhibitions featuring MMLab work).

  • Chicago Innovate logo
    September 25, 2026   /   T. Cheng
     
    Chicago Innovate 2026: Advanced Materials + Construction

    Lecture
    Chicago, Illinois, USA
  • Cornell CALS logo
    September 21, 2026   /   T. Cheng
     
    Seminar at Biological and Environmental Engineering

    Lecture
    Cornell CALS, Ithaca, USA
  • Charlottesville High School logo
    September 16, 2026   /   T. Cheng
     
    Presentation at Charlottesville High School

    Lecture
    Charlottesville, Virginia, USA [Virtual]
  • Autodesk logo
    June 24, 2026   /   T. Cheng, K. Phillips, A. Tsao
     
    Programmable Ecologies at Autodesk Technology Center

    Lecture
    Boston, Massachusetts, USA
  • GRC logo
    June 15, 2026   /   T. Cheng
     
    Bioinspired Materials GRC: Translating Nature’s Designs into Materials for the Future

    Lecture
    Les Diablerets, Switzerland
  • Cornell Bowers logo
    April 29, 2026   /   T. Cheng
     
    Field Talk at Information Science Colloquium

    Lecture
    Cornell Bowers, Ithaca, USA
  • Cornell Engineering logo
    April 16, 2026   /   T. Cheng
     
    Guest Lecture in MAE 2250 Intro to Mechanical Design

    Lecture
    Cornell Duffield Engineering, Ithaca, USA
  • adidas logo
    January 6, 2026   /   T. Cheng
     
    Presentation at adidas

    Lecture
    Portland, Oregon, USA
  • Materials Research Society logo
    December 4, 2025   /   T. Cheng
     
    Presentation at MRS Fall Meeting & Exhibit

    Lecture
    Boston, Massachusetts, USA
  • Cornell Engineering logo
    October 24, 2025   /   T. Cheng
     
    Guest Lecture in Civil Infrastructure (CI) Seminar Series

    Lecture
    Cornell Engineering, Ithaca, USA
  • Florence Biennale logo
    October 18, 2025   /   T. Cheng
     
    Florence Biennale 2025

    Exhibition
    Fortezza da Basso, Florence, Italy
  • Morphing Matter Lab logo
    October 14, 2025   /   T. Cheng
     
    Guest Lecture at Morphing Matter Lab

    Lecture
    UC Berkeley, California, USA [Virtual]
  • NIST logo
    August 18, 2025   /   T. Cheng
     
    Presentation at National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

    Lecture
    Rockville, Maryland, USA
  • CDFAM logo
    July 9, 2025   /   T. Cheng
     
    Keynote at CDFAM Computational Design Symposium

    Lecture
    3D Makers Zone (3DMZ), Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • NYCxDESIGN Festival logo
    May 16, 2025   /   T. Cheng
     
    Design Tech Open Studio

    Exhibition
    NYCxDESIGN Festival, New York City, USA
  • 3DPC logo
    May 14, 2025   /   T. Cheng, Y. Tahouni, E.S. Sahin, K. Ulrich, S. Lajewski, C. Bonten, D. Wood, J. Rühe, T. Speck, A. Menges
     
    3D Pioneers Challenge 2025

    Exhibition
    rapid.tech 3D, Erfurt, Germany
  • Virginia Tech logo
    March 28, 2025   /   T. Cheng
     
    4D Printing for Bioinspired and Biobased Design

    Lecture
    Virginia Tech AAD, Blacksburg, USA
  • Design Tech Open Studio Exhibition photo
    March 24, 2025   /   T. Cheng
     
    Design Tech Open Studio

    Exhibition
    Bibliowicz Family Gallery, Ithaca, USA
  • Cornell University logo
    February 4, 2025   /   T. Cheng
     
    4D Printing for Bioinspired and Biobased Design

    Lecture
    Cornell AAP, Ithaca, USA
  • Autodesk logo
    January 30, 2025   /   T. Cheng
     
    4D-Printing for Bioinspired and Biobased Design

    Lecture
    Autodesk Technology Center, Boston, USA
  • University of Tokyo logo
    December 17, 2024   /   T. Cheng
     
    4D-printing for bio-inspired and bio-based design

    Lecture
    GVLab, University of Tokyo, Japan
  • Tohoku University logo
    December 13, 2024   /   T. Cheng
     
    Bio-based and bio-inspired robotic fabrication for architecture

    Lecture
    Space Robotics Lab, Tohoku University, Japan
  • ROSO Coop logo
    December 9, 2024   /   M. Göbel, L. Siriwardena, M. Papadimitraki, L. Kiesewetter, M. Alvarez, T. Cheng
     
    Public Lecture Series at ROSO Coop

    Lecture
    ROSO Coop Laboratory, Taichung, Taiwan
  • ETH Zurich logo
    October 31, 2024   /   T. Cheng
     
    4D-Printing for Bio-Inspired and Bio-Based Design

    Lecture
    ITA Institute of Technology in Architecture, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
  • Architekturforum Freiburg logo
    September 26, 2024   /   M. Göbel, S. Treml, T. Cheng
     
    livMatS Biomimetic Shell – Integrativ Planen und Bauen

    Lecture
    Architekturforum Freiburg, Germany
  • University of Stuttgart logo
    July 25, 2024   /   T. Cheng
     
    Keynote at Strategiedialog 2024

    Lecture
    University of Stuttgart, Germany
  • Technion logo
    July 15, 2024   /   T. Cheng
     
    Programming Self-Shaping Behaviors in Biobased Materials

    Lecture
    D.DLab, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology / Virtual
  • Falling Walls Lab logo
    July 10, 2024   /   T. Cheng
     
    Falling Walls Lab Baden-Württemberg 2024

    Award
    ARENA2036, Stuttgart, Germany
  • IIT logo
    June 18, 2024   /   T. Cheng
     
    Bioinspired and Biobased 4D-Printing for an Adaptive Built Environment

    Lecture
    IIT Bioinspired Soft Robotics, Genova, Italy
  • Materialpreis logo
    December 1, 2023   /   A. Menges, D. Wood, T. Cheng, E.S. Sahin, Y. Tahouni
     
    Materialpreis 2023

    Award
    raumPROBE, Stuttgart, Germany
  • London Design Biennale logo
    June 1, 2023   /   T. Cheng, Y. Tahouni, E.S. Sahin, A. Menges
     
    London Design Biennale 2023

    Exhibition
    Somerset House, London, UK