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
Congratulations to Prof. Chen for receiving the NSF Boosting Research Ideas for Transformative and Equitable Advances in Engineering (BRITE) fellow award. This award was given for the project under the title AI-Enabled Discovery and Design of Programmable Material Systems. The overall vision of the project is to develop methods to design the materials, architectures, and
We attended the International Design Engineering Technical Conferences (IDETC) 2022 in St. Louis Union Station Hotel, St. Louis, Missouri. The conference was held between August 14-17, 2022. In total, IDEAL members presented 4 papers which are shown below. In addition to reciving the “Paper of Distinction” recognition, Doksoo’s paper also recieved the “DAC Best Paper”
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.
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
Congratulations to Prof. Chen for being named chair of the Department of Mechanical Engineering! She will begin her term on September 1, 2020. Read the full news on McCormick’s website: Click here
We attended the 2019 ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (IDETC/CIE2019) in Anaheim, CA. Several of the IDEAL members received awards during the conference. Anton van Beek and Siyu Tao, our Ph. D. students, won the Best Paper Award from the Design Automation Conference (DAC). This is the
Prof. Wei Chen and IDEAL alumni attended the 13th World Congress of Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization (WCSMO 13). During the congress, Prof. Chen was elected President of the International Society of Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization (ISSMO). She was invited to give a state-of-the-art (SOTA) panel talk on “Machine Learning and Data-Driven Techniques: Status and Opportunities”.
Congratulations to Prof. Chen for her election to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE)! The NAE cited Prof. Chen for her “contributions to design under uncertainty in products and systems, and leadership in the engineering design community.” Read the full news on McCormick’s website: CLICK HERE
Prof. Wei Chen and two IDEAL students, Anton van Beek and Tianyu Huang, attended the USACM Thematic Conference on Uncertainty Quantification (UQ) in Computational Solid and Structural Materials Modeling, held on January 17-18, 2019 on the campus of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. The conference was sponsored by the USACM UQ Thrust Area. Prof.
