Nikita Gennadevich Lukhanin

Hi there! I'm a third-year Ph.D. student at the University of California, Berkeley. I have the privilege of working with Prof. Liwei Lin in the Liwei Lin Lab as well as Prof. Grigory Tikhomirov in the TI Lab.

Prior to this, I obtained a Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering advised by Prof. Joaquín Rodríguez-López and Prof. Charles Schroeder from the University of Illinois. I also hold an Associate degree in Engineering Science from College of DuPage.

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nikitalukhanin [at] berkeley [dot] edu

Research

My current work spans robotics, chemical sensing, nanotechnology, computational imaging, and medical devices. If you are interested in a collaboration, feel free to reach out!

News
Apr, 2026 I was the recipient of the BSAC Outstanding Presentation Award!
Jan, 2026 I won the Piezo MEMS Design Competition organized by A*STAR IME and STMicroelectronics!
Oct, 2025 A paper was accepted for a poster presentation at MEMS26!
Oct, 2025 A paper was accepted for an oral presentation at MEMS26!
Sept, 2025 I was the MC at the BSAC Fall 2025 Conference!
Sept, 2025 Divij Muthu (undergrad) was accepted to give a talk at GCURS!
Sept, 2025 Sean Isomatsu (undergrad) was accepted to give a talk at GCURS!
Aug, 2025 Kang Wang (undergrad) was accepted to the 2025 BMES Annual Meeting!
Aug, 2025 I passed my qualifying exam!
Apr, 2025 Sean Isomatsu (undergrad) was accepted into Haas Scholars!
Mar, 2025 A paper got accepted into SPIE!
Oct, 2024 A paper got accepted to give a poster presentation at MEMS25!
Mar, 2024 I began working jointly with the TI Lab!
Jan, 2024 I started learning Chinese.
Jan, 2024 I passed the doctoral preliminary exam.
Aug, 2023 I started as a Ph.D. student in Lin Lab at UC Berkeley!
Mar, 2023 I won the NSF GRFP and the Berkeley Fellowship!

Student Mentoring

Memories

05/26 DNA origami robot MEng team end of the year showcase  (photo)
05/26 Ultrasound 3D imaging MEng team end of the year showcase  (photo)
05/26 Sweat sensing MEng team end of the year showcase (minus Abbie)  (photo)
04/26 Sweat sensing MEng team goodbye hotpot  (photo)

Undergraduate Mentoring

  • Hector Daniel Aguirre (04/26 - Current)
    University of California, Berkeley
  • Rabia Chadha (04/26 - Current)
    University of California, Berkeley
  • Weining Wang (04/26 - Current)
    University of California, Berkeley
  • Ninad Atale (04/26 - Current)
    University of California, Berkeley
  • August Drake (04/26 - Current)
    University of California, Berkeley
  • Lucas Leonard (04/26 - Current)
    University of California, Berkeley
  • Cynthia Chio (04/26 - Current)
    University of California, Berkeley
  • Alice Wu (04/26 - Current)
    University of California, Berkeley
  • Eric Gu (04/26 - Current)
    University of California, Berkeley
  • Fernando de Silva Hernández (04/26 - Current)
    University of California, Berkeley
  • Ziv Behar (02/26 - Current)
    University of California, Berkeley
  • Kirill Vasilev (10/25 - Current)
    University of California, Berkeley
  • Claire Lin (05/25 - Current)
    University of California, Berkeley
  • Akshay Shivkumar (05/25 - Current)
    University of California, Berkeley
  • Mia Wang (04/25 - 5/26)
    University of California, Berkeley
  • Divij Muthu (04/25 - Current)
    University of California, Berkeley
  • Carsten Zieger (03/25 - 5/26)
    University of California, Berkeley
  • Yucheng Yang (03/25 - Current)
    University of California, Berkeley
  • Erin Kwon (03/25 - 1/26)
    University of California, Berkeley
  • Kabeer Nayyar (03/25 - 1/26)
    University of California, Berkeley
  • Kang Wang (02/25 - 10/25)
    The Chinese University of Hong Kong
  • Sean Ryota Isomatsu (09/24 - Current)
    University of California, Berkeley
    Fall 24 Report
  • Keming Bai (07/24 - 7/25)
    Hebei University of Technology

Master of Engineering Mentoring

  • Abbie He (09/25 - 5/26)
    University of California, Davis
  • Di Tian (09/25 - 5/26)
    Northeastern University, China
  • Mindy Yao (09/25 - 5/26)
    Georgia Institute of Technology
  • Shiva Annamaneni (09/25 - 5/26)
    University of California, Riverside
  • Linda Liu (09/25 - 5/26)
    Northwestern University
  • Ryan Johnson (09/25 - 5/26)
    University of California, Davis
  • Suraj Reddy Chamakura (09/25 - 5/26)
    Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India
  • Tofic Esses (09/25 - 5/26)
    McGill University, Canada
  • Emory Adelman (09/25 - 5/26)
    San Francisco State University
  • Alex Haynes (09/25 - 5/26)
    Virginia Tech
  • Romain Paul Ting (09/25 - 5/26)
    University of Southern California
  • Alexander Crary (09/25 - 5/26)
    California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

Stolen from Jon Barron. Thanks!