MAE Assistant Professor Jonathan Hopkins, and UCLA Flexible Research Group Ph.D. candidates Ali Hatamizadeh and Yuanping (Adam) Song were award the Theoretical Contributions in Compliant Mechanisms Award, received at the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Mechanisms and Robotics Conference in the International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (IDETC/CIE) for a paper titled, “Geometry Optimization of Flexure System Topologies Using the Boundary Learning Optimization Tool,” Cleveland, OH—08/17.