Hayden Taylor
Hayden Taylor is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, where he has been on the faculty since 2014 and was promoted to Professor in July 2025. His research spans the invention, modeling and simulation of manufacturing processes, with the aim of reducing materials and energy usage to support industrial decarbonization. He is co-inventor of computed axial lithography (CAL), a volumetric 3D printing method that forms whole objects at once from computed light projections and is now used by research groups worldwide, particularly for bioprinting. Current research themes are: (A) the physics, computation and materials of volumetric additive manufacturing; (B) contact mechanics and simulation of nanoscale patterning, including nanoimprint lithography and the transfer of 2D materials; and (C) architected materials for sustainable construction and carbon management.
He teaches manufacturing, design, materials, and instrumentation at Berkeley.
He was previously an Assistant Professor at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Biosystems and Micromechanics group at the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology, and a Research Associate in the Microsystems Technology Laboratories at MIT.
Hayden was born in Bristol, United Kingdom. He attended Bristol Grammar School and Trinity College, Cambridge, receiving the B.A. and M.Eng. degrees in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. He was sponsored as an undergraduate by ST Microelectronics. He is a Senior Scholar of Trinity College, Cambridge, and received the Cambridge University Engineering Department’s Baker Prize. Hayden received the Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT (with a minor in Sustainable Energy), working with Professor Duane Boning.
Hayden is a member of the IEEE. He was an Institution of Electrical Engineers Jubilee Scholar, and a Kennedy Scholar.