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
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
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
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!
Congratulations to Akshay Iyer, whose paper “Data Centric Nanocomposites Design via Mixed-Variable Bayesian Optimization”, has been published in and featured on the cover of Molecular Systems Design & Engineering (Issue 8)! The artwork was prepared by Askhay himself. Please be sure to read the paper, referenced below. Iyer, A., Zhang, Y., Prasad, A., Gupta, P.,
From August 17 through 19, IDEAL attended the ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences (IDETC) 2020, which was held virtually. Two of our papers (led by Liwei Wang and Yu-Chin Chan) received the Papers of Distinction Award in the Design Automation Conference section (DAC)! In total, our group was represented by 5 papers out of
Dr. Faez Ahmed will join the Mechanical Engineering department at MIT as an assistant professor this August. Congratulations to Faez!
Congratulations to Anton for winning the Royal E. Cabell Terminal Year Fellowship!
