Novack
PhD Student • MUSIC, HAPTICS, PHYSICS EDUCATION, SCIENCE COMMUNICATION
ATLAS Institute
sano4303@colorado.edu

Hailing from Brooklyn, New York, Sasha Novack attended LaGuardia Arts High School where he studied cello performance. He then moved to Baltimore where he received a Bachelor of Science in physics and a minor in music from Johns Hopkins University and the Peabody Conservatory. For the past few years, Sasha has been working closely with the Physics Education Research department trying to make physics a slightly less hated subject. He has also been working on incorporating haptics and physical elements into various ACME Lab projects. In his spare time he is a reporter for The Bold, writing science and news features.

 

Member of the ACME Lab  

Publications

Eldy S. Lazaro Vasquez, Lily M Gabriel, Mikhaila Friske, Shanel Wu, Sasha De Koninck, Laura Devendorf, and Mirela Alistar. 2023. "Designing Dissolving Wearables". In: Adjunct Proceedings of the 2023 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing & the 2023 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computing (UbiComp/ISWC '23 Adjunct). (October 08, 2023).

Dreycey Albin, Lukas Buecherl, Eitan Kochavi, Elise Niehaus, Sasha Novack, Shenali Uragoda, Chris J. Myers, and Mirela Alistar. 2023. "PhageBox: An Open Source Digital Microfluidic Extension with Applications for Phage Discovery". In: IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering. (July 14, 2023).

Purnendu, Sasha M Novack, Eric Acome, Christoph Keplinger, Mirela Alistar, Mark D Gross, Carson Bruns, and Daniel Leithinger. 2021. Electriflow: Soft Electrohydraulic Building Blocks for Prototyping Shape-changing Interfaces. Designing Interactive Systems Conference 2021. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 1280–1290. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3461778.3462093 (June 28-July 2, 2021–Virtual Event).

 

In the news

An origami butterfly
Augmenting Books With Tangible Animation

Jan. 31, 2022

SIGGRAPH sat down with Purnendu, a PhD student in the ATLAS Institute and a researcher at Meta Reality Labs, to talk about his team’s SIGGRAPH 2021 Labs project, “Electriflow: Augmenting Books With Tangible Animation Using Soft Electrohydraulic Actuators.” The team's actuator technology strives to augment animation within physical books.

a paper butterfly that is lifting off the page
Origami comes to life with new shape-changing materials

July 22, 2021

Imagine opening up a book of nature photos only to see a kaleidoscope of graceful butterflies flutter out from the page. Such fanciful storybooks might soon be possible thanks to the work of a team of designers and engineers at CU Boulder’s ATLAS Institute.

A collage of the eight PhD students who won Graduate School awards.
Eight ATLAS researchers receive Graduate School awards

May 18, 2021

ATLAS PhD students Katie Gach, Keke Wu, Fiona Bell, Kailey Shara and Sasha Novack, and Affiliated PhD students Gabrielle Johnson, Dreycey Albin and Varsha Koushik recently received graduate school awards.

Students working with biochips during the workshop organized by the Living Matter Lab at ATLAS Institute.
Engaging Underrepresented Students (funded by Google exploreCSR)
This project aims to engage under-represented undergraduate students in the Living Matter Lab's research through a series of online workshops and hands-on sessions, as well as guides participants through finding good graduate programs and the application process.