According to Elsevier’s Data Repository, Dr. Xu is listed as one of the Top 2% Scientist in calendar year 2024 (single year). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3000384

Our lab has the following awards and achievements at the 2025 ASME IDETC:

• Zihan (24′ PhD) won the ASME Design Automation Best Dissertation Award;
• Kiarash’s paper won the ASME Design for Manufacturing and the Life Cycle (DFMLC) Best Paper Award;
• Kiarash and Hoang Anh won the 1st place in the ASME Student Hackathon (Autodesk challenge);
• Zhengkun presented a paper on Explainable AI, and this work has also been accepted by Journal of Mechanical Design;
• Dr. Xu delivered a talk in the Computers and Information in Engineering (CIE) AI/ML panel.
• Hoang Anh also won the 2nd place in the Meme Challenge.

Our paper has been selected for the 2025 DFMLC Best Paper Award. This award will be formally presented to us at the upcoming ASME IDETC/CIE Conference.

Naghavi Khanghah, K., Chen, Z., Romeo, L., Yang, Q., Malhotra, R., Imani, F., Xu, H., “Multimodal RAG-Driven Anomaly Detection and Classification in Laser Powder Bed Fusion Using Large Language Models”, ASME 2025 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference, (DETC2025-168615), American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2025.

Dr. Xu received the prestigeous ASME Design Automation Young Investigator Award, which recognizes an outstanding young investigator who is making noteworthy contributions in the area of design automation.

Project 1: Collaborative Research: Understanding the Deformation-Morphology-Conductivity Relationship in Multistage Forming-based Manufacturing of Conformal Electronics.

Project 2: ENG-EAM: Collaborative Research: Embedding Stoppage-free Resilience to Stealthy Cyberphysical Attacks in Digital Manufacturing Systems.

Looking forward to new adventures in the field of digital/cyber manufacturing!

Austin defended his MS thesis in May, Filip defended his MS thesis in July, and Zihan defended her PhD dissertation in July. Congratulations!

Kiarash won the 3rd place in the 0~2.5 years group competition, and Majid won the 3rd place in the 2.5+ years group competition. Congratulations!

According to Elsevier’s Data Repository, Dr. Xu is listed as one of the Top 2% Scientist in calendar year 2022 (single year).

https://elsevier.digitalcommonsdata.com/datasets/btchxktzyw/6

DOI:10.17632/btchxktzyw.6

Leidong and Zihan won the ASME 2023 CIE Hackathon! The challenge posted by Sandia National Lab is to synthesize microstructure texture in complex geometries.

Dr. Xu has taken on the role of newsletter editor of the The International Society for Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization (ISSMO).