Wan Shou Data-verified

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Assistant Professor

Last publication 2026 Last refreshed 2026-05-22

faculty

28 h-index 107 pubs 3,428 cited

Biography and Research Information

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Wan Shou is an assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Arkansas Fayetteville. His research group focuses on leveraging interdisciplinary knowledge to address societal challenges, with primary interests in advanced manufacturing and advanced materials. His work encompasses laser-based micro/nano manufacturing, novel 3D printing techniques, and smart, automated manufacturing processes assisted by emerging technologies.

Shou's research has broad applications, including wearable electronics, robotics, structural materials, and clean water and energy solutions. Current projects investigate the intersections of 3D printing, advanced manufacturing, design, sensors, and robotics. His previous work includes postdoctoral research at MIT CSAIL in the Computational Design & Fabrication Group.

He has received two NSF grants totaling $796,910: a CAREER award for enabling high-resolution selective laser printing with nanoparticles ($550,000) and an EAGER award for laser printing of single-crystal Si nanostructures ($246,910). Shou's scholarship metrics include an h-index of 28 and over 3,309 citations across more than 100 publications.

Metrics

  • h-index: 28
  • Publications: 107
  • Citations: 3,428

Selected Publications

  • ChicGrasp: Imitation‐Learning‐Based Customized Dual‐Jaw Gripper Control for Manipulation of Delicate, Irregular Bio‐Products (2026)
  • Synthetic Data Augmentation for Enhanced Chicken Carcass Instance Segmentation (2025)
    1 citation DOI OpenAlex
  • Compact multifunctional slit-type Helmholtz silencer for broadband sound attenuation with ventilation (2025)
  • Towards Neurorobotic Interface for Finger Joint Angle Estimation: A Multi-Stage CNN-LSTM Network with Transfer Learning (2025)
    1 citation DOI OpenAlex
  • Feedback regulated opto-mechanical soft robotic actuators (2025)
    4 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Influence of Ti3SiC2 Max Phase Addition on the Tribological Performance of Ni-Cr Coatings (2025)
  • Thermally stabilized polyacrylonitrile for flexible triboelectric devices operating from −29 °C to 400 °C (2025)
    4 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Wearable Photonic Device for Multiple Biomarker Sampling and Detection without Blood Draws (2025)
    4 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • UniT: Data Efficient Tactile Representation With Generalization to Unseen Objects (2025)
    3 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Cost-Effective Active Laser Scanning System for Depth-Aware Deep-Learning-Based Instance Segmentation in Poultry Processing (2025)
    2 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • A micro-ChromaDot array with AI integration for the detection of multiple biomarkers in a small portable device (2025)
  • Wearable Photonic Device for Multiple Biomarker Sampling and Detection Without Blood Draws (2025)
  • Modular Self-Reconfigurable Continuum Robot for General Purpose Loco-Manipulation (2025)
    4 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • A multifunctional flexible wearable hydrogel sensor with anti-swelling via supramolecular interactions for underwater motion detection and information transmission (2024)
    43 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Desktop-scale robot tape manipulation for additive manufacturing (2024)
    4 citations DOI OpenAlex

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Federal Grants 2 $796,910 total

NSF PI Aug 2025 - Jul 2027

EAGER: Laser Printing of Single-crystal Si Nanostructures

Special Initiatives $246,910
NSF PI Apr 2026 - Mar 2031

CAREER: Enabling High-resolution Selective Laser Printing with Nanoparticles

AM-Advanced Manufacturing $550,000

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