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2025,2024, 2023

2025

[2025-11-07] Our paper "High-Efficiency Design of 3D Hydrodynamic Metamaterials with Tailored Permeability." has been accepted by Computers & Structures.
[2025-11-03] Our paper "OpenTM: An Open-source, Single-GPU, Large-scale Thermal Microstructure Design Framework." has been accepted by Smart Materials in Manufacturing.
[2025-10-25] Our paper "Data-driven Inverse Design of Multifunctional Bicontinuous Multiscale Structures." has been accepted by Nature Communications. This is a milestone for our research group in this field. Congratulations to the authors! :)
[2025-08-15] Our paper "Computational multi-layered wood carving art." has been accepted by CAD/Graphics 2025 conference and published in Computers & Graphics.
[2025-07-02] Our paper "Process simulation‑informed topology optimization for formwork based concrete casting." has been accepted by Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization .
[2025-06-16] 中国工业与应用数学学会几何设计与计算专委会/ 中国图学学会微观几何设计与制造专业委员会《智能结构设计研讨会》.
[2025-06-12] Our paper "From Density to CAD: Automatic and Robust CAD Model Generation of Topology Optimization Results via Sparse Optimization." has been accepted by Advances in Engineering Software.
[2025-04-15] Our paper "Efficient Worst-Case Topology Optimization of Self-Supporting Structures for Additive Manufacturing." has been accepted the technical papers program of GMP 2025 and to be published in the special issue Advances in Geometric Modeling and Processing of Computer Aided Geometric Design.
[2025-04-13] Our paper "Low-melting-point alloy/polyurethane auxetic composite foam for outstanding impact protection with favorable shape memory effect." has been accepted by Smart Materials and Structures.
[2025-03-15] Our paper "Topology Optimization of Compatible Thermal Microstructures." has been accepted by International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer.
[2025-02-10] Our paper "INPR-Connector: Interlocking Negative Poisson's Ratio Connectors Design for Deployable Energy Absorption Structures." has been accepted by Composites Part B: Engineering.
[2025-01-04] Our paper "Constructing Boundary-identical Microstructures by Guided Diffusion for Fast Multiscale Designs." has been accepted by Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering.

2024

[2024-11-06] Our paper "Near-isotropic, Extreme-stiffness, Continuous 3D Mechanical Metamaterial Sequences Using Implicit Neural Representation." has been accepted by Advanced Science. This is a milestone for our research group in this field. Congratulations to the authors! :)

[2024-10-25] Our paper "Shape Optimization of Tunable Poisson's Ratio Metamaterials with Disk B-splines." has been accepted by International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering.

[2024-10-08] Our paper "Adaptive Isogeometric Topology Optimization of Shell Structures based on PHT-splines." has been accepted by Computers & Structures.

[2024-10-01] Our paper "Inverse-designed 3D Sequential Metamaterials Achieving Extreme Stiffness." has been accepted by Materials & Design.

[2024-9-05] Our paper "Tailored Functionally Graded Materials Design and Concurrent Topology Optimization with Implicit Fields." has been accepted by Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering.

[2024-8-28] Our paper "Unlocking the Potential of Low-Melting-Point Alloys Integrated Extrusion Additive Manufacturing: Insights into Mechanical Behavior, Energy Absorption, and Electrical Conductivity." has been accepted by Progress in Additive Manufacturing.

[2024-8-14] Our paper "3D printing low-melting-point alloys integrated soft robots." has been accepted by Materials Science in Additive Manufacturing.

[2024-7-28] Our paper "Machine learning-driven forward prediction and inverse design for 4D printed hierarchical architecture with arbitrary shapes." has been accepted by Applied Materials Today.

[2024-7-26] Our paper "Concurrent Topology Optimization of Multiscale Composites with Differentiable Microstructure." has been accepted by Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering.

[2024-7-15] Our paper "Density-based isogeometric topology optimization of shell structures." has been accepted by Computer-Aided Design.

[2024-6-28] Our paper "Nature-inspired interlaced printing strategies for additive manufacturing highly improved mechanical properties." has been accepted by Additive Manufacturing.

[2024-6-14] Our paper "Differentiable Microstructures Design via Anisotropic Thermal Diffusion." has been accepted by the international conference of Shape Modeling International (SMI 2024).

[2024-6-12] Our paper "Bigdata, Machine Learning, and Digital twin assisted Additive Manufacturing: A Review." has been accepted by Materials & Design.

[2024-6-07] Our paper "Topology Optimization of Self-supporting Structures for Additive Manufacturing via Implicit B-spline Representations." has been accepted by the international conference of Symposium on Solid and Physical Modeling (SPM) 2024.

[2024-5-31] Our paper "Porous Structure Optimization via Non-uniform Thermal Diffusion." has been accepted by Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering.

[2024-5-22] Our paper "Isogeometric Topology Optimization of Multi-patch Shell Structures." has been accepted by the international conference of Symposium on Solid and Physical Modeling (SPM) 2024.

[2024-4-20] Our paper "Deep Learning Powered 4D Printing Design of Hierarchical Architecture with Non-Rectangular Shapes." has been accepted by 4D Materials Design and Additive Manufacturing Conference 2024.

[2024-3-20] Our paper "Optimizing stimuli-based 4D printed structures: a paradigm shift in programmable material response." has been accepted by SPIE Smart Structures + NDE 2024.

[2024-3-10] Our paper "Spider web-inspired additive manufacturing: unleashing the potential of lightweight support structures." has been accepted by the 21st International Conference on Manufacturing Research.

[2024-2-20] Our paper "High energy dissipation and self-healing auxetic foam by integrating shear thickening gel." has been accepted by Composites Science and Technology.

2023

[2023-11-19] I was invited to give a presentation about Fast reverse design of 3D metamaterials on Conference on Advanced Materials and Structural Mechanics in Extreme Environments.

[2023-10-15] I was invited to give a presentation about Topology optimization for functionality and additive manufacturing on the 21-st annual meeting of China society for industrial and applied mathematics.

[2023-10-13] Our paper "Voxel-based variable width continuous spiral path planning for 3D printing." has been accepted by Journal of Manufacturing Processes.

[2023-10-8] Our paper "Topology Optimization of Differentiable Microstructures." has been accepted by Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering.

[2023-9-17] Our paper "Design for Reversed Additive Manufacturing Low-Melting-Point Alloys." has been accepted by Journal of Engineering Design.

[2023-8-11] Our paper "An Optimized, Easy-to-use, Open-source GPU Solver for Large-scale Inverse Homogenization Problems." has been accepted by Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization.

[2023-7-21] IGA/FEA Workshop which Prof.Falai Chen organizes has been released.

[2023-7-13] I was invited to give a presentation about Structure Design and Path Planning Methods for Additive Manufacturing on GAMES Webinar-284.

[2023-7-11] Our paper "A Novel Strategy to Fabricate Low Melting Point Alloy and Its Composite Parts Using Extrusion Additive Manufacturing" has been accepted by the 50th International Conference on Computers and Industrial Engineering.

[2023-6-4] Advances in Computer Graphics, USTC Summer School 2023 《第十一届中国科学技术大学《计算机图形学》暑期课程》 is released.

[2023-6-3] Our paper "An Optimized, Easy-to-use, Open-source GPU Solver for Large-scale Inverse Homogenization Problems." has been accepted by SPM poster section.

[2023-6-2] Our paper "low-melting-point alloys integrated extrusion additive manufacturing." has been published by Additive Manufacturing.

[2023-6-1] Seminar on Frontiers of Mathematics and Interdisciplinarity 《数学与交叉学科前沿研讨会》 is released;

[2023-5-2] Our paper "Topology Optimization of Self-supporting Porous Structures Based on Triply Periodic Minimal Surfaces." has been accepted by Computer-Aided Design.

[2023-2-15] Our paper "Isogeometric topology optimization of auxetic materials based on moving morphable components method." has been accepted by International Conference on Advanced Topics in Mechanics of Materials, Structures and Constructions 2023.