Rebecca Lin, a graduate student in EECS, is developing Refashion—a system for modular and reconfigurable garments that directly integrates reuse into their design. The system offers a set of building blocks and a digital design tool that supports the mixing and matching of those blocks to create modular garments of various sizes and styles.
Rebecca Lin is a third-year EECS PhD student at MIT, co-advised by Erik Demaine in CSAIL and Zach Lieberman at the Media Lab. By connecting mathematical and computational insights with challenges in art, design, and fabrication, she creates tools, abstractions, and systems that enable new and more expressive ways of making.
Her ongoing research with Adobe Research investigates a modular approach to reconfigurable garments that fosters playful and practical reuse. Prior to garment-making, she worked with shape-morphing structures, from formulating theoretical foundations at MIT to devising new fabrication processes at the University of Tokyo.
Beyond her doctoral research, Rebecca explores mathematics and computation as medium for art, and art as a vehicle for science communication. Her artworks have been featured in various mathematical art exhibitions and in the New York Times.
At MIT, Rebecca has served as a teaching assistant for four semesters, mentored undergraduate students on projects that range from theoretical computer science to hands-on fabrication, and co-organized MIT EECS GAAP alongside other outreach initiatives.
May 15, 2025