Dr. Xu presented a talk on “Deep Generative Design of Complex Deterministic and Stochastic Structures for Additive Manufacturing” to GE Research.

Zihan Wang received the Broadening Participation (BPart) Fellowship from the ASME Design Engineering Division (DED). This fellowship includes a travel scholarship, the opportunity of presenting a research proposal with the Design Theory and Methodology Technical Committee, being guest of honors at an exclusive reception for BPart fellows, and receiving on-going mentorship from the DED community.

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In this year we have kicked off and will kick off several new projects, including

• 3D metamaterial design for additive manufacturing (SHAP3D)
• Battery electrode manufacturing (NIUVT)
• Virtual investigation of structures (UConn CARIC)
• Digital Twin Technologies (DoED GAANN)

Dr. Xu’s group is also recruiting a domestic PhD student as the GAANN fellow. If you are interested, please send your resume to hongyi.3.xu@uconn.edu.

Dr. Xu received the ASME 2021 Reviewers of the Year Award. https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4053756

Dr. Xu receives the prestigious National Science Foundation’s CAREER award.

This grant will support Dr. Xu’s research on design of mixed stochasticity structural systems, as well as education and research outreach activities.

Dr. Xu received the 2020 Superior Paper Award from the Tire Society for the paper entitled “Data-Driven Multiscale Science for Tire Compounding”. This paper is based on Dr. Xu’s previous collaboration with Goodyear Research.

Zihan Wang was placed 2nd out of 9 students in the 2021 ME Graduate Research Competition (May 27, 2021). Title of the presentation: A Gaussian Mixture Variational Autoencoder-Based Approach for Designing Phononic Bandgap Metamaterials.

This year we have presented our research in three international conferences:

• ASME International Symposium on Flexible Automation (ISFA 2020): “Material Model Calibration by Deep Learning for Additively Manufactured Alloys”
• ASME 2020 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (IDETC/CIE 2020): “Quantification of Uncertainties Distributed in Network-like Systems”
• Society of Engineering Science 2020 (SES 2020): “Predicting Mechanical Behaviors of a Highly Orthotropic Polypropylene Battery Separator Film by Microstructure Modeling”