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!
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
Our lab member Anton van Beek successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis on September 13th under the title Data Acquisition and Synthesis in Simulation-Based Design with Stochastic Models. Congratulations, Anton! Following his planned graduation this quarter, Anton will continue as a postdoctoral researcher here at IDEAL.
Our lab member Akshay Iyer successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis on August 10th 2021, under the title Data Centric Design for Microstructural Material Systems. Congratulations, Akshay! Following his planned graduation this summer, Akshay will continue his career at CNA Insurance here at Chicago! We wish him the best and good luck in his future endeavors!
