Cheng Sun Research Group
Northwestern University · Mechanical Engineering
Graduate application deadlines
Mechanical Engineering
PhD in Mechanical Engineering
Fall 2027Application deadline
Dec 15, 2026
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Source: mccormick.northwestern.eduChecked Nov 2, 2026
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Prof. Cheng Sun at Northwestern University Mechanical Engineering lists Advanced Manufacturing, Micro/Nanoengineering, Biosystems and Health, AI and Design as their registered research area.
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Recent papers
- An Explicit Constitutive Reconstruction Framework for Mechanical Characterization of Miniaturized 3D‐Printed SpecimensAdvanced Engineering Materials · Sep 18
- Closed-loop optical optimization enables patterned retinal stimulation in vivo at cellular scalesPreprintbioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · Aug 10
- Balancing performance and complexity of dual-wedge prism-based spectroscopic single-molecule localization microscopyPreprintbioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · Aug 7
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