IDEAL members and alumni attended the International Design Engineering Technical Conferences (IDETC) 2025 in Anaheim, CA. Congratulations to all of the awardees!
IDETC-CIE Awards
- Faez Ahmed, DAC Young Investigator Award
- Faez and students (MIT), DAC best paper award, “CAD-Coder: An Open-Source Vision-Language Model for Computer-Aided Design Code Generation,” Anna Doris, Md Ferdous Alam, Amin Heyrani Nobari, Faez Ahmed
- Shikui Chen and student (Ran Zhuang, SUNY Stony Brook), MR compliant mechanism best paper award, “Level-Set Nonlinear Topology Optimization for Large-Deformation Compliant Mechanisms with Hyperelastic Materials”
- Zihan Wang (Northwestern, formerly Hongyi’s PhD student), DAC Outstanding Dissertation Award, Rising Stars in Mechanical Engineering Workshop at MIT, Oct. 2025
- Wei Chen, ASME Barnett-Uzgiris Product Safety Design Award
- Zhenghui and student (Xingang Li, AP at U of Melbourne), CIE AI/ML best paper award, “Image2CADSeq: Computer-Aided Design Sequence and Knowledge Inference from Product Images”
- Hongyi Xu and student (Kiarash Naghavi Khanghah, UConn), Design for Manufacturing and the Life Cycle conference (DFMLC) best paper award, “Multimodal Rag-Driven Anomaly Detection and Classification in Laser Powder Bed Fusion Using Large Language Models,” Kiarash Naghavi Khanghah, Zhiling Chen, Lela Romeo, Qian Yang, Rajiv Malhotra, Farhad Imani, Hongyi Xu
- Ferdous Alam (Faez’s Postdoc) co-authored a paper, which won the ASME SEIKM 2025 Best Paper Award
DAC Papers of Distinction
- DETC2025-168726 (DAC-01): “Multi-Generation Control Co-Design for Digital Twin-Enabled Systems With Deep Reinforcement Learning,” Ying-Kuan Tsai, Vispi Karkaria, Yi-Ping Chen, Wei Chen
- DETC2025-166767 (DAC-03): “Gencad-3d: Cad Program Generation Using Multimodal Latent Space Alignment and Synthetic Dataset Balancing,” Nomi Yu, Md Ferdous Alam, A. John Hart, Faez Ahmed
- DETC2025-168619 (DAC-03): “Heterogeneous Metamaterials Design via Multiscale Neural Implicit Representation,” Hongrui Chen, Liwei Wang, Levent Burak Kara
- DETC2025-169758 (DAC-04): “CAD-Coder: An Open-Source Vision-Language Model for Computer-Aided Design Code Generation,” Anna Doris, Md Ferdous Alam, Amin Heyrani Nobari, Faez Ahmed
- DETC2025-168615 (DAC-06): “Multimodal Rag-Driven Anomaly Detection and Classification in Laser Powder Bed Fusion Using Large Language Models,” Kiarash Naghavi Khanghah, Zhiling Chen, Lela Romeo, Qian Yang, Rajiv Malhotra, Farhad Imani, Hongyi Xu
- DETC2025-168723 (DAC-10): “Localized Physics-Informed Gaussian Processes With Curriculum Training for Topology Optimization,” Amin Yousefpour, Shirin Hosseinmardi, Xiangyu Sun, Ramin Bostanabad
- DETC2025-169141 (DAC-20): “Seek: Self-Adaptive Explainable Kernel for Nonstationary Gaussian Processes,” Nima Negarandeh, Carlos Mora, Ramin Bostanabad
Student Achievements
- Eric Seng graduated with the Highest Distinction for his Undergraduate Program in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Duke University, with his thesis work on Flow Battery Design in collaboration with Anton van Beek
- Ferdous Alam starting as a TT faculty member at Georgia Tech’s Mechanical Engineering department
- Yinshuang Xiao started her academic career at Colorado State University as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Systems Engineering
- Xingang Li started his academic career at the University of Melbourne as a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in the Department of Mechanical Engineering
- Yi-Ping Chen and Gourav Kumbhojkar won the 1st place in CIE Student Hackathon (nTop problem) and 1st place in the Hackathon Meme Award
- Kiarash Naghavi Khanghah and Hoang Anh Nguyen (Hongyi’s students) won the 1st place in the CIE student Hackathon (Autodesk Problem) and 2nd place in the Hackathon Meme Award