Yi-Ping and Gourav wins First Place in the 2025 ASME IDETC-CIE Student Hackathon
Aug. 16, 2025
Yi-Ping and Gourav teamed up to win the 2025 ASME IDETC-CIE Student Hackathon on the ntop problem. The performance is evaluated based on surrogate model accuracy, inverse design quality, and technical presentations. They fully utilized the active learning perspective in both sampling and optimization, allowing the design window to be shrinked and identify a better design.
Yi-Ping and Gourav Wins the First Place in the 2025 ASME IDETC-CIE Student Hackathon Meme competition
Aug. 16, 2025
The meme created by Yi-Ping and Gourav was selected as the winner of the meme competition by popularity votes.
Yi-Ping’s co-authored paper is selected as one of the 10 “Paper of Distinction” by the Design Automation Conference (DAC) in 2025 ASME IDETC-CIE!
Aug. 16, 2025
Yi-Ping’s co-authored paper, led by Dr. Ying-Kuan Tsai titled “Multi-Generation Control Co-Design for Digital Twin-Enabled Systems With Deep Reinforcement Learning”, was selected as one of the 10 “Paper of Distinction” out of 108 submissions.
Yi-Ping completed the Management for Ph.D. Certificate Program offered by The Graduate School at Northwestern and Kellogg School of Management!
Aug. 05, 2025
The Graduate School has partnered with the Kellogg School of Management to offer a certificate program taught by Kellogg faculty that will equip promising post-candidacy doctoral students with the necessary business and leadership skills such as managing and leading teams and budgets, communicating with business-oriented colleagues, and surmounting the hurdles associated with the commercialization of research. This program offers doctoral students to expose to these situations before entering academia or other industries. Yi-Ping was very lucky to get admitted and finished the program. This will be a huge plus to his mentorship, managing skills, and diverse experience.
Yi-Ping’s first-authored paper is selected as the Outstanding (Best) Paper Award in Manufacturing Systems at NAMRC 53!
Jun. 26, 2025
The paper titled “Real-time decision-making for digital twin in additive manufacturing with model predictive control using time-series deep neural networks” is selected as the Outstanding Paper Award in Manufacturing System - —the only paper to receive this prestigious honor among ~270 submissions. Check out our paper here
Yi-Ping is awarded the Mentorship Award by the Department Mechanical Engineering at Northwestern University!
Jun. 06, 2025
Nominated by Professor Wei Chen, Yi-Ping is awarded the Mentorship Award by the Department. The M.E. Department recognizes his effort in mentoring prospective Ph.D. students for their doctoral study applications, mentorship on junior graduate students and undergraduate students, and dedication in helping incoming Ph.D. students for smooth transitions.
Yi-Ping is selected as one of the recipients of the Martin Outstanding Doctoral Fellowship by the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Northwestern University!
May. 27, 2025
Nominated by Professor Wei Chen and Professor Jian Cao, Yi-Ping is selected as one of the four recipients of the Martin Outstanding Doctoral Fellowship. The Martin Fellowship recognizes mid-career Ph.D. candidates for their outstanding scholarly and research achievements in mechanical engineering and encourage these young researchers to establish themselves as future leaders in their respective fields. Fellowship selectios were made by the ME faculty Committee of Graduate Studies.
Yi-Ping has been accepted into the 2025 Management for PhDs Certificate Program offered by Kellogg School of Management.
Apr. 26, 2025
Yi-Ping has been accepted into the Management for PhDs program offered by Kellogg School of Management, one of the best business school in the world. It was truely an honor and blessing to participate this program!
Yi-Ping has been selected to receive the National Science Foundation (NSF) Conference Registration Support Award for NAMRC 53!
Apr. 26, 2025
Yi-Ping has been selected to receive the traveling award to the North American Manufacturing Conference at Clemson, under the fast-tracked paper titled “Real-Time Decision-Making for Digital Twin in Additive Manufacturing with Model Predictive Control using Time-Series Deep Neural Networks”.
Yi-Ping has been selected to receive the USNCCM18 Travel Award!
Apr. 10, 2025
Yi-Ping’s has been selected to receive the traveling award to United State National Congress in Computational Mechanics 2025, under the abstract submission titled “Uncertainty-Aware Digital Twin: a Simultaneous Multistep Robust Model Predictive Control for Additive Manufacturing”.
Yi-Ping’s conference paper to NAMRC 53 was recommended for fast-tracking to Journal of Manufacturing Systems!
Mar. 10, 2025
Yi-Ping’s paper, titled “Real-Time Decision-Making for Digital Twin in Additive Manufacturing with Model Predictive Control using Time-Series Deep Neural Networks”, was considered a high-quality work, and was recommended by the Scientific Committee of NAMRC 53 for fast-tracking to Journal of Manufacturing Systems!
From historical stats, only less than 20 papers per year would be fast-tracked to Journal of Manufacturing Systems/Journal of Manufacturing Process. It is a great honor!
Yi-Ping’s work highlighted by EngiSphere!
Feb. 05, 2025
Yi-Ping’s paper “Real-Time Decision-Making for Digital Twin in Additive Manufacturing with Model Predictive Control using Time-Series Deep Neural Network” is introduced by EngiSphere, paraphrasing our techical article into a science blog for general audience.
Check out the blog post here!
Yi-Ping passed Dissertation Proposal Exam!
Nov. 25, 2024
Yi-Ping passed his dissertation prooposal, approved by his committee members Dr. Wei Chen, Dr. Jian Cao, Dr. Robert X. Gao, Dr. Daniel Apley, and Dr. Todd Murphey.
