Leidong Xu’s poster “Generative Design of Stochasticity Graded Structures” wins the Best Presentation Award – 2nd place in the 16th International Symposium on Functionally Graded Materials (FGM2022)
Participation in Frontiers in Design Representation Summer School
Zihan Wang and Leidong Xu are selected to attend the Frontiers in Design Representation Summer School 2022 at the University of Maryland, College Park, July 25-29th, with financial support.
Invited webinar by GE Research
Dr. Xu presented a talk on “Deep Generative Design of Complex Deterministic and Stochastic Structures for Additive Manufacturing” to GE Research.
Zihan Wang receives the ASME BPart Fellowship
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.
Nathan graduated with a Master’s degree
Congratulations!
Kick off several new projects
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.
ASME 2021 Reviewers of the Year Award
Dr. Xu received the ASME 2021 Reviewers of the Year Award. https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4053756
NSF CAREER Award
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.
The Tire Society 2020 Best Paper Award
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.
2021 ME Graduate Research Competition – Runner-up
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.