IDEAL members and alumni attended the International Design Engineering Technical Conferences (IDETC) 2025 in Anaheim, CA. Congratulations to all of the awardees! IDETC-CIE Awards Faez Ahmed, DAC Young Investigator Award Faez and students (MIT), DAC best paper award, “CAD-Coder: An Open-Source Vision-Language Model for Computer-Aided Design Code Generation,” Anna Doris, Md Ferdous Alam, Amin Heyrani
The paper titled “Real-time decision-making for digital twin in additive manufacturing with model predictive control using time-series deep neural networks” is selected for the Outstanding Paper Award in Manufacturing Systems out of 270 submissions. Check out our paper here.
Nominated by Professor Wei Chen, Yi-Ping is awarded the Mentorship Award by the Department. The M.E. Department recognizes his effort in mentoring prospective Ph.D. students for their doctoral study applications, mentorship on junior graduate students and undergraduate students, and dedication in helping incoming Ph.D. students for smooth transitions.
Our lab member Henry Zhang successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis on June 3rd under the title Data-Centric Design of Combinatorial Materials Systems. Congratulations Henry! We wish him the best and good luck in his future endeavors!
Yi-Ping Chen and Vispi Karkaria are selected as two of the four recipients of the Martin Outstanding Doctoral Fellowship. The Martin Fellowship recognizes mid-career Ph.D. candidates for their outstanding scholarly and research achievements in mechanical engineering and encourage these young researchers to establish themselves as future leaders in their respective fields. Fellowship selections were made
Henry Zhang was selected as a Silver Winner of the Graduate Student Award at the 2025 Materials Research Society (MRS) Spring Meeting. MRS Graduate Student Awards are intended to honor and encourage graduate students whose academic achievements and current materials research display a high level of excellence and distinction. MRS seeks to recognize students of
IDEAL members and alumni attended the International Design Engineering Technical Conferences (IDETC) 2024 in Washington, DC, and collected several awards. Congratulations to all of the awardees! Harrison Kim (UIUC), Design Automation Award Hongyi Xu (U of Conn), DAC Young Investigator Award Faez Ahmed (MIT), DTM Young Investigator Award Liwei Wang (CMU), the DAC Dissertation Award
Congratulations to Prof. Chen for being elected as a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the nation’s oldest and most prestigious honorary societies. The Academy celebrates the importance of knowledge and the belief that the arts and sciences are vital to a free, independent, and virtuous society. We are proud
Vispi Neville Karkaria receives the first prize Presentation Award at the annual North American Manufacturing Research Conference (NAMRC) 2024 for his paper titled, “Towards a Digital Twin Framework in Additive Manufacturing: Machine Learning and Bayesian Optimization for Time Series Process Optimization” (Karkaria, V., Goeckner, A., Zha, R., Chen, J., Zhang, J., Zhu, Q., Cao, J.,
Our lab member Yigitcan (Yido) Comlek successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis on April 26th under the title Interpretable Design of Microstructural Material Systems with Mixed-Variable Representations. Congratulations, Yigitcan! We wish him the best and good luck in his future endeavors!
