We are pleased to announce that Dr. Zhenghui Sha, IDEAL Alumni, has recently earned the 2022 ASME CIE Young Engineer Award. Dr. Sha was a member of IDEAL in 2016 as a Postdoc (advised by Dr. Wei Chen) and is now an Assistant Professor at University of Texas at Austin. The award recognizes his outstanding
We are pleased to announce that Dr. Hongyi Xu, IDEAL Alumni, has recently earned the NSF Early Faculty award. Dr. Xu received his Ph.D. from Northwestern University in 2014 (advised by Dr. Wei Chen) and is now an assistant professor at University of Connecticut. The award was given for his work on Bridging the Gap
Our lab member Yu-Chin Chan successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis on June 6th under the title Data-Driven and Diversity Enhanced Design of Heterogenous Multiscale Structures. Congratulations, Yu-Chin! Yu-Chin will continue her career at Siemens. We wish her the best and good luck in her future endeavors!
Congratulations to Liwei Wang, whose paper “Mechanical cloak via data-driven aperiodic metamaterial design” has been published in the latest issue (Vol 112., No.13) of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). The significance of his work is as follows: While cloaks have been manufactured for optical, thermal, and electric fields, limited progress has been
Congratulations to Professor Chen for receiving the 2022 Engineering Science Medal. This award is given by the Society of Engineering Sciences each year for important contributions to engineering science. Professor Chen received the Medal for her groundbreaking contributions to design under uncertainty, in particular for establishing formalism and developing robust design methods to accelerate the
Liwei and Akshay’s paper on “Data-Driven Design via Scalable Gaussian Processes for Multi-Response Big Data with Qualitative Factors” received the Paper of Distinction recognition at the International Design Engineering Technical Conferences (IDETC) 2021 . The conference was held virtually between August 17 – 19, 2021. Also, this paper is now published in the Special Issue
Prof. Chen attended the 16th annual National Congress on Computational Mechanics (USCCM) as a Conference Plenary speaker on July 26, 2021 under the title “Data-Driven Design of Engineered Materials Systems: Challenges and Opportunities”. The talk can be viewed on youtube.
IDEAL was honored to invite alumni for the Summer 2021 Virtual Group Meetings. Each alumni discussed and gave valuable information on their respective research areas. The alumni who attended the meetings can be found below. Prof. Shikui Chen (Ph.D., 2010): Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering at Stony Brook University. Prof. Chen kicked off the
We are pleased to announce that Dr. Ramin Bostanabad, IDEAL Alumni, has recently earned the NASA Early Faculty award. Dr. Bostanabad received his Ph.D from Northwestern University in 2019 (advised by Dr. Wei Chen) and is now an assistant professor at University of California, Irvine (UCI). The award was given for his work on Multiscale
Congratulations to Prof. Chen for receiving the Charles Russ Richards Memorial Award. The joint award given by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and Pi Tau Sigma National Mechanical Engineering Honor Society recognizes one individual each year for their significant contributions and achievements in mechanical engineering for more than 20 years or more following
