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IDEAL Attends IDETC 2024

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

Prof. Chen Elected to The Academy

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

Yigitcan Defends his Ph.D. Dissertation

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!

IDEAL Attends REMADE Conference 2024

Our lab member Vispi Karkaria presented a pioneering digital twin technology at the 2024 REMADE Circular Economy Technology Summit & Conference, hosted in Washington, D.C., from April 10-11. The technology, designed for predictive maintenance, specifically targets tire health monitoring to improve automotive safety and efficiency. Our team’s predictive digital twin concept functions through three crucial

Doksoo Defends his Ph.D. Dissertation

Our lab member Doksoo Lee successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis on November 9th under the title Data-Driven Inverse Design of Metamaterials: Exploring Complex Physical Fields Beyond Homogenization Assumptions. Congratulations, Doksoo! He will be continuing in our lab as a Postdoc!

IDEAL Attends SES Conference 2023

We attended the Society of Engineering Science (SES) Conference at University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. The conference was held between October 8-11, 2023. In total, IDEAL members participated with 7 presentation which are named below. SES 2023 Presentations Doksoo Lee, Lu Zhang (Lehigh), Wei Chen,  Yue Yu (Lehigh). “A Neural Operator Approach to Learning Drastically Varying

IDEAL Attends IDETC 2023

We attended the International Design Engineering Technical Conferences (IDETC) 2023 in Boston Park Plaza, Boston, Massachusetts. The conference was held between August 20-23, 2023. In total, IDEAL members presented 3 papers which are shown below. Our members also collected few awards during the conference. Yigitcan received the “Paper of Distinction” recognition,  Jie and Joy received

Yaxin Defends her Ph.D. Dissertation

Our lab member Yaxin Cui successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis on June 20th under the title Multi-Stage Customer Preferences Modeling Using Data-driven Network Analysis. Congratulations, Yaxin! We wish her the best and good luck in her future endeavors!

Prof. Chen receives NSF BRITE Fellow Award

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

IDEAL Attends IDETC 2022 & IDEAL Dinner

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”