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2025 |
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Aug |
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Aug |
Ran Zhuang has received the 2025 IDETC/CIE Compliant Mechanisms best paper award.
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May |
Prof. Chen has been selected as an ASME 2024 Outstanding Associate Editor of the year.
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March |
Xiaoqiang Xu received a full-time job offer from Caterpillar Inc as a Lead engineer.
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Feb |
Prof. Chen has been invited to join the Editorial Board of Materials Science in Additive Manufacturing as an Associate Editor. This peer-reviewed, open-access journal focuses on bridging cutting-edge research between additive manufacturing and the entire spectrum of materials science.
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Jan |
Prof. Chen has received the 2024 Excellence in Mentorship Award.
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2024 |
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November |
Congratulations to Xiaoqiang Xu on successfully defending his Ph.D. dissertation. |
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October |
Our lab received $525K grant as part of a $2.2M DOE project led by NREL, with partners GE and ORNL, to develop recyclable, 3D-printed magnets for 15-MW wind turbines. Prof. Shikui Chen leads the SBU team with Prof. Longtin and Prof. Luo. |
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April |
Lingfeng Gao was selected to participate in the NSF-ICorps training with the project "Magnet Topology Optimization for Electric Machine Design" and has since been invited to compete in the New York Business Plan Competition (NYBPC). After winning the school, regional, and New York State first round, Lingfeng earned an invitation to the New York State final round in Albany, New York.
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April |
Xiaoqiang Xu will join Apple as a DFM Manufacturing R&D Intern: SiP Thermal Modeling in summer 2024 at Apple Park, Cupertino, CA.
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2023 |
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November |
The ASME Journal of Mechanical Design (JMD) announces its 10th thematic webinar on "Topology Optimization" on November 14, 2023. Organized by Professor Shikui Chen, the event features a presentation by Qian Ye titled "Variational Level Set Method for Topology Optimization of Origami Fold Patterns."
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September |
Congratulations to Jiawei Tian on successfully defending his Ph.D. dissertation.
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May |
Jiawei Tian received a full-time job offer from GE Global Research as a Research engineer.
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May |
Jiawei Tian joined META Reality Lab for summer internship. Xiaoqiang Xu joined Toyota Research Institute of North America for summer internship.
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April |
Proof. Shikui Chen, Prof. Fang Luo (EECS), and prof. Jon Longtin were awarded a $74,500 grant from GE Research to support a research project on innovative structural design optimization for offshore wind turbines.
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March |
Xiaoqiang Xu won the Graduate Research Symposium Award 2023 in SBU Mechanical Engineering department.
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January |
Prof. Chen was awarded an ASME Journal of Mechanical Design (JMD) 2022 “Associate Editor Award”.
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2022 |
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September |
Prof. Xianfeng David Gu and Prof. Shikui Chen received a $45,000 research grant from the Toyota Research Institute of North America (TRINA) to further promote research collaborations on innovative structural design optimization.
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September |
Prof. Chen was invited to serve on the editorial board as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Engineering Design (JED).
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August |
NSF has funded our Partnership For Innovation-Research Partnership (PFI-RP) proposal "Magnet Topology Optimization for Electric Machine Design." The total amount for this award is $550,000 for three years.
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August |
Our paper "Topology Optimization of Permanent Magnets for Generators Using Level Set Methods" submitted to ASME IDETC 2022 was identified as one of the nine "Papers of Distinction'' at the 48th ASME Design Automation Conference (DAC).
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June |
According to Exaly (https://exaly.com/author/8062718/shikui-chen/rankings), our paper “Topology Optimization of Multi-Material Negative Poisson’s Ratio Metamaterials Using a Reconciled Level Set Method.” was listed as the 1st most cited paper of "Computer Aided Design" in 2017.
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February |
Prof. Chen and Prof. Gu received a $50,000 research grant from Toyota Research Institute of North America (TRINA) to facilitate the research collaborations on innovative structural design optimization.
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January |
Prof. Chen was awarded an ASME Journal of Mechanical Design (JMD) 2021 “Associate Editor Award”.
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2021 |
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August |
Congratulations to Qian Ye on joining Xerox PARC (Palo Alto Research Center) as a Research Scientist.
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July |
Congratulations to Qian Ye on successfully defending her Ph.D. dissertation.
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July |
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July |
Prof. Chen's group received a research seed grant of $50,000 to facilitate the research collaborations with General Electric (GE).
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January |
Prof. Chen was awarded an ASME Journal of Mechanical Design (JMD) 2020 “Associate Editor Award”.
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2020 |
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September |
Prof. Chen was invited to present our work at Top Webinar 5 (www.top-webinar.org) on September 22, 2020. Organized by ISSMO, Top Webinar provides a broad community with a new platform to exchange the latest progress during this special period of travel restriction.
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February |
Invited by Prof. Yi Ren, Prof. Chen visited the Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering Department of the Arizona State University on February 21,2020. Prof. Chen gave a seminar in the MAE department regarding topology optimization of Origami and metamaterials.
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Jan |
Senior software architect David Weinberg from Autodesk, Inc visited our lab.
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2019 |
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November |
Doctor Jeroen Groen from Technical University of Denmark visited our lab.
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September |
Professor Yong Chen from University of Southern California visited our lab.
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August |
Congratulations to Long Jiang on joining Ford Research and Advanced Engineering as a Research Engineer.
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August |
Congratulations to Long Jiang on successfully defending his Ph.D. dissertation.
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June |
Congratulations to Qian Ye on receiving the International Association on Computational Mechanics-Female Research Chapter (IACM-FRC) Fellowship.
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2018 |
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November |
Research Presentation, “Design for Discovery: Structural Shape & Topology Optimization in the Age of 3D Printing”, at Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth, on November 9, 2018.
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November |
Prof. Chen was invited to give a talk on “Design for Discovery: Structural Shape & Topology Optimization in the Age of 3D Printing” at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, on November 8, 2018.
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October |
Prof. Chen was selected by the International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (IUTAM) to give a keynote speech with the title "Generative Design of Conformal Structures using Extended Level Set Methods (X-LSM) and Conformal Geometry Theory" at the 2018 IUTAM Symposium on “When topology optimization meets additive manufacturing”.
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September |
Prof.Chen was invited to give a talk on “Design for Discovery: Structural Shape & Topology Optimization in the Age of 3D Printing’’ at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, City University of New York, on September 20, 2018.
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August
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Chen group receives a $415,301.00 award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for conducting research on “Computational Framework for Designing Conformal Stretchable Electronics ”.
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July |
Panagiotis Vogiatzis, Long Jiang, Qian Ye, Jiawei Tian and Xiaoqiang Xu presented their work at WCCM 2018.
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July |
Congratulations to Panagiotis(Panos) Vogiatzis on successfully defending his Ph.D. dissertation.
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April |
Professor Xuanhe Zhao from Massachusetts Institute of Technology visited our lab.
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April |
Congratulations to Long Jiang and Panagiotis Vogiatzis on receiving the WCCM Student Travel Award.
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March |
Prof. Chen was invited to give a talk on “Generative Design of Conformal Structures using Extended Level Set Methods and Conformal Geometry Theory” at Center of Mathematical Sciences and Applications, Harvard University, on March 23, 2018.
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2017 |
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November |
Doctor Ming Zhou from Altair Engineering, Inc visited our lab.
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Chen group receives a $150,000 gift grand from the 2017-2018 Ford University Research Program (Ford-URP) for the research on “Topology Optimization of Cellular Mesostructure’s Nonlinear Behaviors for Crash Safety”.
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Long Jiang presented his poster at IEEE-NIH 2017 Special Topics Conference on Healthcare Innovations and Point-of-Care Technologies.
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August |
Welcome to Jiawei Tian and Xiaoqiang Xu on joining our lab!
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June |
Qian Ye presented her paper at MSEC/NAMRC 2017.
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Chen group receives a $30,000 award from Ford Motor Company for research on “ Method and process development of cellular material structures for vehicle safety application”.
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April |
Congratulations to Long Jiang on being granted full travel scholarship from NSF ESD Research Methods Summer School.
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Congratulations to Panagiotis Vogiatzis on accepting an internship position at Ford Research Center.
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Professor Xiaoping Qian from University of Wisconsin, Madison visited our lab.
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Congratulations to Qian Ye on receiving the NSF Student Travel Award. |
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March |
Professor Ilias Bilionis from Purdue University visited our lab.
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2016 |
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October |
Professor Krishnan Suresh from University of Wisconsin, Madison visited our lab.
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Dr. Hang Si from Weierstrass Institute for Applied Analysis and Stochastics (WIAS), Germany, visited our lab and gave a lecture on the state of the art in automated mesh generation .
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September |
Professor Cheng Sun from Northwestern University visited our lab.
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Prof. Chen was invited to give a talk on “Structural Shape & Topology Optimization with a Level Set Approach” at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Connecticut, on September 30, 2016.
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Prof.Chen was invited to give a talk on “Design for Discovery: Structural Shape & Topology Optimization with a Level Set Approach” at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stevens Institute of Technology, on September 22, 2016.
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Prof.Chen was invited to give a talk on “Computational Shape & Topology Optimization in the Age of 3D Printing: A Level-Set Based Framework” at Ford Research & Advanced Engineering, Dearborn, Michigan, on August 8, 2016.
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Congratulations to Pu Fan on successfully defending his Master thesis.
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June |
Congratulations to Qian Ye on successfully defending her Master thesis.
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May |
CMADO lab is selected by Stratasys® Ltd as one of the 5 winners in USA (other two universities are MIT and Penn State) for “Stratasys Learning Center of Excellence”.
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Dr. Sung Hoon Kang from Johnns Hopkins University visited our lab.
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Chen group receives a $30,000 award from Ford Motor Company for research on “Integrated Topology Optimization and Additive Manufacturing of Vehicle Component”.
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April |
Professor Yuming Zhang from University of Kentucky visited our lab.
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March |
Professor Wei Chen from Northwestern University visited our lab.
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Prof. Chen was invited to give a talk on “Design for Discovery: Structural Shape & Topology Optimization with a Level Set Approach” at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, on March 30, 2016.
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January |
Dr. Julian A.Norato from University of Connecticut visited our lab.
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2015 |
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November |
Dr. Randall Erb from Northeastern University visited our lab.
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September |
Dr. Jianliang Xiao from University of Colorado Boulder visited our lab.
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August |
Chen group receives a three-year $392,934 award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for conducting research on “A New Level-Set-Based Robust Topology Optimization Approach with Applications to Design of Phononic Metamaterials”.
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July |
Professor Michael Yu Wang from The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology visited our lab.
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April |
Chen group receives a $15,000 award from University Transportation Research Center (UTRC) Region 2 for research on “Computational Synthesis of High-Performance Non-Pneumatic Tires”.
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February |
Chen group receives a $20,000 award from Ford Motor Company for research on “Topology Optimization for Crashworthiness”.
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2014 |
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November |
Congratulations to Panagiotis Vogiatzis on receiving Gerondelis Foundation Scholarship.
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