Raudel Avila

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Florida to California via the Moon is a domestic flight until another country proves otherwise

Our latest paper appeared today as a cover (inside front) feature article in Advanced Functional Materials, titled “A Bioresorbable Neural Interface for On-Demand Thermal Pain Block.” The focus is on a bioresorbable, implantable form of neural electronics that supports precisely

@profmikeking @RiceFootball @ArmedForcesBowl Go Owls! 🦉

Let’s gooooooo RICE FIGHT NEVER DIES Excited to cheer on the @RiceFootball Owls in the @ArmedForcesBowl 🦉🦉🦉💪🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

Rice engineers joined forces with physicians at the @MDAndersonNews to give surgeons a powerful new patient-specific way to approach pelvic cancer surgeries using a digital model of the reconstructed pelvis. news.rice.edu/news/2025/rice…

A new @RiceMECH and @MDAndersonNews collaboration builds patient-specific models to guide complex pelvic cancer surgeries. news.rice.edu/news/2025/rice…

Prof. Raudel Avila @AvilaROAD @RiceMECH visited us and gave an excellent seminar on modelling of stretchable electronics. 米国ライス大学のAvila先生が松久研を訪れ、伸縮性エレクトロニクスのモデリング技術について講演してくださいました。 Supported by @JST_ASPIRE

Yoshinobu Yamamoto with the gutsiest pitching performance ever. World Series G2: 9 IP, 4 H, 1 ER, 8 K, W World Series G6: 6 IP, 5 H, 1 ER, 6 K, W World Series G7: 2.2 IP, 1 H, 0 ER, 1 K, W He is the undisputed World Series MVP. He is the best pitcher on the planet.

How can you not love baseball man

Extra innings in Game 7 of the World Series. As it should be for a series like this.

There were over 600 hundred pitches thrown in this 18 inning World Series thriller before the Freddie Freeman walk off HR

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🎉 Notable achievements this month for @RiceNeuro core member and @RiceMECH Department Chair, Marcie O'Malley. Dr. O'Malley traveled to Japan to accept the 11th #Nagamori Award top prize from the Nagamori Foundation, and followed this up by being elected as an IAMBE fellow! 🎉

🗣️ @RiceMECH Seminar Series: "Harnessing unconventional column and shell buckling for functional architected materials" by Dr. Lihua Jin from UCLA! 📅 Wed, Sept 10 | 3:30-4:30pm | Maxfield Hall 251 events.rice.edu/event/406511-m…

@profmikeking new office hours at pluckers 🍗

I teach, therefore I appetize. It’s a calling.

🚨RED ALERT 🚨 Just realized I’ve been missing out on my Free Appetizers at Pluckers all this time 😱 @creinhartking Fridays are going to look a little different around here from now on 🍗🍗🍗🍗🍗🍗🍗🍗🍗🍗 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 🧑‍🏫👩‍🏫

Published today in the journal Device, our collaborative paper titled, “Analysis and Management of Thermal Loads Generated In Vivo by Miniaturized Optoelectronic Implantable Devices,” consisting of equal parts experiment and theory, with additional content in animal model evaluations, all enabled by an interdisciplinary team of students and postdoctoral fellows in my group and the groups of Professors Yonggang Huang (@NorthwesternU), Yevgenia (Genia) Kozorovitskiy (@NorthwesternU), @AvilaROAD (former jointly advised PhD student with Prof. Huang, now on the faculty at @RiceUniversity), Abraham Vázquez-Guardado (former postdoc, now on the faculty at North Carolina State University) and @YiyuanYang15146 (former PhD student, now on the faculty at National University of Singapore). At 22 pages of dense content, this paper is – in our view – a good example of academic rigor in the engineering science of bioelectronic systems. The results define essential, quantitative thermal considerations relevant to broad classes of active, miniaturized implantable devices -- with a focus on microscale light emitting diodes in filamentary probes for optogenetic studies that rely on behavioral studies of small, freely moving animals. An interesting side note is that this manuscript received detailed comments and strong, positive evaluations from six (!) different referees – an indication, perhaps, of some combination of interest in the content and dedication of the editors at Device! Of the >1000 papers that I’ve co-authored, only a small number (<5%) has received comments from six or more referees; in our experience, receiving even five referee reports is relatively rare (maybe ~10%). Thanks to everyone involved – the editors, the referees, the senior co-authors and, most importantly, the students and postdocs who did the bulk of the work: all of them, but most prominently Dr. @MingzhengWu (postdoc in my group), Kaiqing Zhang (postdoc in Prof. Huang’s group, now on the faculty at @CengJ17469) Priscilla Fok (visiting PhD student in my group from @NTUsg), @haohuizhang1994 (postdoc in Prof. Huang’s group) and Andrew Efimov (PhD student in my group)!

RT @christos_edward: Inspired by nature — and for nature 🌍: our @PNAS paper shows how seashell-inspired designs can make recycled more reli…

@zhang_yirui @RiceEngineering @RiceCHBE Welcome to Rice! 🦉

Thrilled to be joining @RiceEngineering as an Assistant Professor in Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering @RiceCHBE and the Rice Advanced Materials Institute! Deeply grateful to my mentors, collaborators, and friends for their support on this journey!

First copies of my book are here!! As a new faculty member, I realized that in addition to my research job, I also had a leadership job…and I wasn’t prepared for that. This book is the guide I wish I’d had then, with the goal of helping others now.   jenheemstra.com/book

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