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 ~200 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.
