Tyler R. Ray is currently an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. He received his B.S. and M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of South Carolina (in 2008 and 2010, respectively) and his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2015. Ray received his postdoctoral training as a fellow at Northwestern University in the Rogers Research Group from 2016-2019.

Professor Ray’s research focus is at the intersection of materials science, additive manufacturing, and wearable sensors. He seeks to exploit novel nanoscale properties in multiscale materials for advanced sensors and diagnostic tools. To this end, the group's current research focus is two fold: (1) the colloidal assembly of multiscale composite materials via acoustic forces and (2) the development of soft, epidermal devices for clinical diagnostics.