Jamie Paik

Paik was born in Canada.^[1] Her father is a scientist and her mother is a painter.^[2][1] She completed her bachelor's degree at University of British Columbia.^[3] She majored in mechanical engineering.^[3] She earned her PhD at Seoul National University, sponsored by Samsung Electronics.^[4] Her PhD considered the limbs of anthropomorphic robots.^[2]

Paik worked as a postdoctoral researcher in Pierre and Marie Curie University, where she worked on laparoscopic tools. JAIMY, a 5 mm size motorised robot, can be used to assist suturing during surgery.^[2] It is available commercially through Endocontrol Medical.^[2][5] She joined Harvard University as a postdoctoral researcher, working with Erik Demaine, Daniela L. Rus and Robert Wood.^[2]

In 2012, Paik founded the Reconfigurable Robotics Lab at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne.^[1][6] She is a member of the Swiss National Center of Competence in Research.^[2][7] Her recent work focuses on robotic origami, robogami.^[8][4] She developed vacuum-powered Soft Pneumatic Actuators for compliant robotics.^[9][10][11] She was an invited speaker at the Obama Administration's Women Inspire Innovation workshop in 2013.^[12] She was a judge at the 2016 and 2018 Soft Robotics Toolkit competition.^[13] She was a participant at the 2018 Science Foo Camp. She was a 2019 TED Conferences speaker.^[14]