Grace Gu

Grace X. Gu is an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. She received her PhD and MS degrees in mechanical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and her BS degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Gu is the recipient of several awards, including the 3M Non-Tenured Faculty Award, ONR Young Investigator Program Award, DARPA Young Faculty Award, MIT Technology Review 35 Innovators Under 35, ASME Haythornthwaite Research Award, Prytanean Faculty Award, Amazon Research Award, MRS Communications Lecture Award, Johnson & Johnson Women in STEM2D Scholars Award, and SME Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award. Her current research focuses on creating new materials with superior properties for mechanical, biological, and energy applications using multi-physics modeling, artificial intelligence, and high-throughput computing, as well as developing intelligent additive manufacturing technologies to realize complex material designs.