Computational Mechanics and Bioelectromagnetic Laboratory

Engineering for Health and Biomedical Technologies

We are actively recruiting Postdoctoral fellows, PhD students, Masters students and Undergraduate students to join the group and work on cutting edge interdisciplinary modeling projects together!

Wearable Removes the Guesswork from Breastfeeding

Rice engineers collaborate on research to develop wearables that measure babies' milk intake

Kim, J., Oh, S., Avila, R. et al. A compact, wireless system for continuous monitoring of breast milk expressed during breastfeeding. Nature Biomedical Engineering (2025).

Wearable Devices Get Signal Boost from Innovative Material

Rice engineer and collaborators overcome radio frequency performance challenges in skin -interfaced electronics

Kim, S.H., Basir, A., Avila, R. et al. Strain-invariant stretchable radio-frequency electronics. Nature (2024).

Learn About Transient Electronics

Rice engineers provide a perspective on transient mechanics

Liu, P., Lee, C., Carusetta, N, and Avila, R. Transient Mechanics: A Perspective on Bioresorbable Electronics. Journal of Applied Mechanics (2025).

About Us

We are interested in developing bioelectronic design concepts to yield ingenious mechanical capabilities with sufficient electromagnetic efficiency at the material-level and device-level for wireless signal sensing, mechanics manipulation, clinical imaging, and energy harvesting applications.

We develop theoretical and computational frameworks to study the scalability, packaging, power limitations, tissue interactions, and energy absorption in bioelectronic devices.