Integrated DEsign Automation Laboratory

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
• Anton Von Beek (UCD, Ireland), DAC Best Paper Award
• Christopher Luey, Undergraduate Student Design Essay Competition Award
• Vispi Karkaria, Graduate Student Research Design Essay Competition Award

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 Spatial Behavior in Photonic Metamaterials“.
• Akash Pandey, Wei Chen, Sinan Keten. “Primary sequence-based interpretable machine learning model for the mechanical property prediction in spider silk”.
• Tuba Dolar, Jie Chen, Wei Chen. “Uncertainty Quantification Driven Dataset Balancing for Improving Machine Learning Accuracy”.
• Yi-Ping Chen, Liwei Wang, Yigitcan Comlek, Wei Chen. “A Unified Adaptive Sampling Framework for Multi-Fidelity Modeling and Bayesian Optimization via Latent Variable Gaussian Process”.
• Liwei Wang, Yilong Chang (Stanford), Shuai Wu (Stanford), Ruike Zhao (Stanford), Wei Chen. “Physics-aware differentiable inverse design of magnetically actuated kirigami for shape morphing”.
• Wei (Wayne) Chen (Texas A&M), Yu-Chin Chan (Siemens), Daicong Da (Boise State), Wei Chen . “Generative Design of Multiscale Heterostructures with Blended Multiclass Metamaterials”.
• Prajakta Prabhune (Duke), Yigitcan Comlek, Cate Brinson (Duke), Linda Schadler (Vermont), Ravishankar Sundararaman (RPI), Wei Chen . “Tailoring Microstructures and interfaces to design polymer nanodielectrics for capacitive energy storage”.

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 the 3rd place in the ASME-CIE Data Hackathon on “Automating Material Selection for Product Design”,  and Tuba received the Broadening Participation (BPart) Fellowship and Mentorship award.

Prof. Chen participated in a panel under the topic “Digital Twin for Smart Manufacturing”, which aimed to  discuss challenges and technical approaches in the digital twin area.

IDETC 2023 Papers

• Yigitcan Comlek Liwei Wang, Wei Chen. “Mixed-Variable Global Sensitivity Analysis With Applications to Data Driven Combinatorial Materials Design” (DETC2023-110756).
• Jie Chen, Yongming Liu, Wei Chen. “Neural Optimization Machine for Design With Neural Network Based Objectives” (DETC2023-114605).
• Tuba Dolar, Doksoo Lee, Wei Chen. “Interpretable Neural Network Analyses for Understanding Complex Physical Interactions in Engineering Design” (DETC2023-115103).