Last Updated: January 2023
Mantas is a PhD student in the at CU Boulder, advised by Prof. Sean Humbert. He got his bachelor's degree in Biomedical Engineering at Case Western Reserve University, where he did research in tissue engineering and the analysis of neuromechanical systems.
At CU he has led the design of a synthetic tissue with integrated sensing, actuation, and controls. His work currently focuses on the development of novel high-voltage driver circuitry for HASEL synthetic muscles, and controls-informed automated design tools for soft robotics. In continuation of an unexpectedly useful class project, he has been collaborating with Jieqiu Shao and Prof. John Hauser to develop the Julia package for soving continuous time optimal control problems.
In his free time, Mantas wonders how he will tie all of these things into a dissertation... often while skiing, hiking, or coaching CU's robotics team.