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2026

TALK

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

MEDevice Boston

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


2025

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

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

TALK

Soldier Load Analysis through Digital Modeling

Advanced Functional Fabrics Summit, Boston

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


2024

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


2022

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

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

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

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

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

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


2021

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

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

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

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


2020

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

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

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