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!
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
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!
Our lab member Henry Zhang was awarded the Ryan Fellowship, which supports outstanding graduate students exploring fundamental nanoscale science and advancing this knowledge into practical applications of benefit to society.
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!
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”
Doksoo, Wayne, Yu-Chin and Liwei’s paper on “T-Metaset: Task-Aware Generation of Metamaterial Datasets by Diversity-Based Active Learning” received the DAC Best Paper Award and Paper of Distinction recognition at the International Design Engineering Technical Conferences (IDETC) 2022 . Congratulations to our members!
Our lab member Umar Farooq Ghumman successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis on June 6th under the title Microstructure Characterization For Analysis and Design of Microstructural Material System. Congratulations, Umar! We wish him the best and good luck in his future endeavors!
Dr. Wei (Wayne) Chen’s, currently a Postdoc at IDEAL, and Dr. Faez Ahmed’s, IDEAL Alumni 2019, work under the name “PaDGAN: Learning to Generate High-Quality Novel Designs”, has been chosen to receive an Honorable Mention for the 2021 Journal of Mechanical Design Editors’ Choice Award in the category of Design Methods. Congratulations to both!
