Grace X. Gu
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Don M. Cunningham Endowed Professorship
University of California, Berkeley
Research
composites, solid mechanics, bioinspired materials, artificial intelligence & machine learning, smart additive manufacturing, in-situ monitoring and process control, mechanical characterization
Education
PhD Mechanical Engineering, MIT, 2018
MS Mechanical Engineering, MIT, 2014
BS Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan, 2012
Selected Awards and Honors
ACS PMSE Journal of Polymer Science Innovation Award (2025)
Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (2025)
AFOSR Young Investigator Award (2025)
SAE International Educational Award Honoring Ralph R. Teetor (2025)
EML Young Investigator Award (2024)
TMS Young Leaders Professional Development Award (2024)
PPS Early Career Award (2024)
US FOE Symposium, National Academy of Engineering (2024)
ARO Early Career Program Award (2024)
SES Young Investigator Medal (2024)
LLNL Early Career UC Faculty Initiative Award (2023)
Materials Today Rising Star Award in Materials Data Science & AI (2023)
ASME Orr Early Career Award (2023)
DARPA Director’s Fellowship (2023)
TMS Early Career Faculty Fellow Award (2023)
Lam Research Unlock Ideas Award (2023)
Amazon Research Award (2022)
Sloan Research Fellowship in Physics (2022)
Bakar Fellows Spark Award (2022)
ACS PMSE Young Investigator Award (2022)
ONR Young Investigator Award (2021)
Prytanean Faculty Award (2021)
Lam Research Unlock Ideas Award (2021)
DARPA Young Faculty Award (2021)
MRS Communications Lecture Award (2020)
SME Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award (2020)
Hellman Fellowship (2020)
MIT Technology Review 35 Innovators Under 35 (2019)
3M Non-Tenured Faculty Award (2019)
Johnson and Johnson WiSTEM2D Scholars Award in Manufacturing (2019)
ASME Haythornthwaite Research Initiation Award (2019)
Amazon Research Award (2019)
Materials Horizons Outstanding Paper Prize (2019)
MIT Meredith Kamm Graduate Women of Excellence Institute Award (2018)
American Ceramic Society Graduate Excellence in Materials Science Award (2017)
MRS Graduate Student Award (2017)
National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship (2015)