Integrated DEsign Automation Laboratory

Professor Wei Chen and other IDEAL members (Dr. Youyi Bi, Akshay and Umar) attended the 2018 ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (IDETC/CIE2018) in Quebec City, Canada. We had three publications in this conference:

• Li, X., Yang, Z., Brinson, L.C., Choudhary, A.N., Agrawal, A., and Chen, W., “A Deep Adversarial learning Methodology for Designing Microstructural Materials Systems”, ASME 2018 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference, DETC2018/DAC-85633, August 26-29, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada.
• Bi, Y., Xie, J., Sha, Z., Wang, M., Fu, Y., and Chen, W., “Modeling Spatial Temporal Heterogeneity of Customer Preferences in Engineering Design”, ASME 2018 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference, DETC2018 -86245, August 26-29, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada.
• Ghumman, U.F., Iyer, A., Dulal, R., Wang, A., Munshi, J., Chien, T., Balasubramanian, G., and Chen, W., “A Spectral Density Function Approach for Design of Organic Photovoltaic Cells”, ASME 2018 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference, DETC2018-86154, August 26-29, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada.

Two Ph.D. candidates, Xiaolin Li and Yichi Zhang, graduated this June.

The two joined the alumni of IDEAL after successfully defended their Ph.D. dissertation, titled ‘Interphase Modeling and Data Analytical Approaches for Polymer Nanocomposites Design‘ and ‘A Data-driven Approach for Heterogeneous Materials Design‘, respectively.

IDEAL faculty and students threw a party to celebrate their graduation. Lab alumni Dr. Shuangcheng Yu, who came back to Evanston for his Ph.D. hooding ceremony, also joined the party.

Following their graduation, Xiaolin will work as an applied scientist at Microsoft, and Yichi will be a data scientist at Capgemini. Congratulations to the new doctors!