The Lab is led by Dr Rebecca Stewart hosted within the Dyson School of Design Engineering. The lab consists of 3-4 PhD students from Imperial, hosts around one visiting PhD student each year, and welcomes a further 2-3 students from the taught MEng and MSc programmes within Design Engineering.
The Lab was previously located at the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science at Queen Mary University of London until 2019.
We are an inclusive space and welcome all identities and backgrounds.
Joining the Lab
We currently have no PhD positions directly funded by the Lab available, but are always happy to discuss potential funding applications with prospective students. In general, funding opportunities are advertised from late summer/early autumn with submission deadlines in early January and funding decisions made across February to April.
For funding applications for internal competitions at Imperial, it is important to use the combined Personal Statement and Research Proposal document (usually limited to 2 pages in total, but carefully read the requirements for the funding call) to set up what you hope to achieve within your PhD research, how you intend to do it, and why you are the best person to undertake that research.
Academic Staff
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Dr Rebecca Stewart
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Dr Rebecca Stewart Senior Lecturer and Head of Lab
Current Postgraduate Lab Members
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Maya Thabal Herron
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Maya Thabal Herron PhD Student -
Mingke Wang
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Mingke Wang PhD Student -
Remi Zhao
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Remi Zhao PhD StudentResearch interests
Tracking Embodied Human-Computer Interactions with E-Textiles Integrated into Loose-Fitting Garments
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Zhiyuan Lou
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Zhiyuan Lou PhD StudentResearch interests
A Skin Integrated Textile Platform for Continuous Gesture Recognition
Current Undergraduate Lab Members
Imogen Young
MEng Masters Project 25-26
Zile Feng
MEng Masters Project 25-26
Zoe Hall
MEng Masters Project 25-26
Lab Alumni
Previous PhD Students
Imperial Graduates:
- Joy Zhou 2020-2024
Visiting PhD Students:
- Xue Min 2023-24
QMUL Graduates:
- An Liang 2017-2022
- Mei Zhang 2017-2021
- Nida Aziz 2017-2021
- Rishi Shukla 2016-2021
- Angela McArthur 2015-2023
- Sophie Skach 2015-2020
- Vanessa Pope 2015-2020
Previous Undergraduate Students
MEng Final Projects:
- 2024-2025 - Sonya Afanasyeva, Isaac Siy, Lena Westerburg-Burr, Qiongyu (Amelia) Zhang
- 2023-2024 - Rohil Dave
- 2022-2023 - YangFangZheng (Kyle) Li
Undergraduate Research Opportunity Placements:
- Xiaoun Li (2025), Imogen Young (2024), Mary Prabah Anderson (2023), Chinene Chukwuma (2022)
DE3 Industrial Placements
- Imogen Young (2025), Rohil Dave (2024)