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2026

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TALK (UPCOMING)

From Prototype to Patient: How E-Textile Infrastructure is Accelerating Wearable Medical Devices

MEDevice Boston

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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Evaluating the Accuracy of Fabric Mechanical Digitization Methods
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics


2025

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TALK
Soldier Load Analysis through Digital Modeling
PEO Soldier Industry Day, Alexandria, Virginia

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PANEL
Digital Engineering: Industry Perspectives on Adoption, ROI, and Emerging Tech
Advanced Functional Fabrics Summit, Boston

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TALK

Soldier Load Analysis through Digital Modeling

Advanced Functional Fabrics Summit, Boston

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PODCAST
Beyond the Buzz: The Impacts of Digital Engineering and Automation on Our Current and Future Workforce
Talking Textiles - AFFOA Workforce Special Series


2024

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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Comparative Study of Physical and Virtual Fabric Parameters: Physical versus Virtual Drape Test Using Commercial 3D Garment Software
The Journal of The Textile Institute


2023

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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Simulation-Based Contact Pressure Prediction Model to Optimize Health Monitoring Using E-Textile Integrated Garment
IEEE Sensors Journal

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CONFERENCE PAPER
Simulation-Based Prediction Model to Optimize Contact Pressure of Knitted Fabrics for Wearable Garments
International Conference on Human Interaction and Emerging Technologies

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CONFERENCE PAPER
Simulation Techniques for Smart Textile Predictive Design
IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering

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BOOK CHAPTER
Design Strategies for E-Textile Manufacturing
Smart Clothes and Wearable Technology, Second Edition

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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Optimization of 13-Tetradecenyl Acetate Sex Pheromone for Trapping Melanotus communis
Journal of Economic Entomology

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PANEL
Developments in Digital Engineering for Textile Product Design
Advanced Textiles Association Expo, Orlando, Florida 

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PANEL
Science of Smart Textiles
Cambridge Science Festival, MIT Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts


2022

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DISSERTATION
Digital Strategies for E-Textile Design and Manufacturing
PhD in Fiber and Polymer Science, North Carolina State University

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CONFERENCE PAPER
Virtual Hands-on Learning: The Development of an Online Engineering Design Course with a Virtual Product Inspection Portal
ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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CONFERENCE PAPER
E-Textile Garment Simulation to Improve ECG Data Quality
IEEE International Symposium on Medical Information and Communication Technology

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TALK AND CONFERENCE PAPER
Simulation Techniques for Predictive Design of Smart Textiles
International Conference on Intelligent Textiles and Mass Customisation, Montréal

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POSTER
E-Textile Digital Integration Toolkit: A Digital Framework for E-Textile System Design
Defense Manufacturing Conference, Tampa, Florida


POSTER
Building a Digital E-Textile Infrastructure
E-Textiles 2022, Nottingham, United Kingdom


TALK
Electromechanical Simulation for Predictive Design of Textile Electronic Systems
Materials Research Society Fall Meeting, Boston

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TALK
Digital Simulation of E-Textile Systems for Fashion 4.0
Smart Wearables & Fashion 4.0 Congress


2021

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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Airbrushed PVDF–TrFE Fibrous Sensors for E-Textiles
ACS Applied Electronic Materials

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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Inkjet Printed Textile Force Sensitive Resistors for Wearable and Healthcare Devices
Advanced Healthcare Materials

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GRANT
Extended Reality for a Virtual Textile Experience
DELTA Exploratory Grant, 2021–2022

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AWARD
Adapting to the Virtual World
ASEE / EngineeringCAS Student Video Contest - Second place


2020

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GRANT
Development of an Online Distance Education Course on E-Textile Design Inspection
DELTA Online and Distance Education Grant, 2020–2021

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AWARD
Virtual Reality in Education
ASU+GSV Summit Creator Contest - Top five

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