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Physics-Informed Geometric Operators to Support Surrogate, Dimension Reduction and Generative Models for Engineering Design
In this work, we propose a set of physics-informed geometric operators (GOs) to enrich the geometric data provided for training …
Shahroz Khan
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Zahid Masood
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Muhammad Usama
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Konstantinos Kostas
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Panagiotis Kaklis
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Wei (Wayne) Chen
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Inverse Design of Nonlinear Mechanics of Bio-inspired Materials Through Interface Engineering and Bayesian Optimization
In many biological materials such as nacre and bone, the material structure consists of hard grains and soft interfaces, with the …
Wei Zhang
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Mingjian Tang
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Haoxuan Mu
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Xingzi Yang
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Xiaowei Zeng
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Rui Tuo
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Wei (Wayne) Chen
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Wei Gao
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Generative Inverse Design of Metamaterials with Functional Responses by Interpretable Learning
Metamaterials with functional responses can exhibit varying properties under different conditions (e.g., wave-based responses or …
Wei (Wayne) Chen
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Rachel Sun
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Doksoo Lee
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Carlos M. Portela
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Wei Chen
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Data-Driven Design for Metamaterials and Multiscale Systems: A Review
Growing materials data and data-driven informatics drastically promote the discovery and design of materials. While there are …
Doksoo Lee
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Wei (Wayne) Chen
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Liwei Wang
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Yu-Chin Chan
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Wei Chen
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ET-AL: Entropy-targeted active learning for bias mitigation in materials data
Growing materials data and data-driven informatics drastically promote the discovery and design of materials. While there are …
Hengrui Zhang
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Wei (Wayne) Chen
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James M. Rondinelli
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Wei Chen
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Uncertainty-Aware Mixed-Variable Machine Learning for Materials Design
Data-driven design shows the promise of accelerating materials discovery but is challenging due to the prohibitive cost of searching …
Hengrui Zhang
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Wei (Wayne) Chen
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Akshay Iyer
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Daniel W. Apley
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Wei Chen
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GAN-DUF: Hierarchical Deep Generative Models for Design Under Free-Form Geometric Uncertainty
Deep generative models have demonstrated effectiveness in learning compact and expressive design representations that significantly …
Wei (Wayne) Chen
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Doksoo Lee
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Oluwaseyi Balogun
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Wei Chen
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t-METASET: Tailoring Property Bias of Large-Scale Metamaterial Datasets through Active Learning
Inspired by the recent achievements of machine learning in diverse domains, data-driven metamaterials design has emerged as a …
Doksoo Lee
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Yu-Chin Chan
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Wei (Wayne) Chen
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Liwei Wang
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Anton Van Beek
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Wei Chen
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IH-GAN: A Conditional Generative Model for Implicit Surface-Based Inverse Design of Cellular Structures
Variable-density cellular structures can overcome connectivity and manufacturability issues of topologically optimized structures, …
Jun Wang
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Wei (Wayne) Chen
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Daicong Da
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Mark Fuge
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Rahul Rai
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Inverse Design of 2D Airfoils using Conditional Generative Models and Surrogate Log-Likelihoods
This paper shows how to use conditional generative models in two-dimensional (2D) airfoil optimization to probabilistically predict …
Qiuyi Chen
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Jun Wang
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Phillip Pope
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Wei (Wayne) Chen
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Mark Fuge
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RANGE-GAN: Design Synthesis Under Constraints Using Conditional Generative Adversarial Networks
Typical engineering design tasks require the effort to modify designs iteratively until they meet certain constraints, i.e., …
Amin Heyrani Nobari
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Wei (Wayne) Chen
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Faez Ahmed
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MO-PaDGAN: Reparameterizing Engineering Designs for Augmented Multi-objective Optimization
Multi-objective optimization is key to solving many Engineering Design problems, where design parameters are optimized for several …
Wei (Wayne) Chen
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Faez Ahmed
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PcDGAN: A Continuous Conditional Diverse Generative Adversarial Network For Inverse Design
Engineering design tasks often require synthesizing new designs that meet desired performance requirements. The conventional design …
Amin Heyrani Nobari
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Wei (Wayne) Chen
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Faez Ahmed
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Deep Generative Model for Efficient 3D Airfoil Parameterization and Generation
In aerodynamic shape optimization, the convergence and computational cost are greatly affected by the representation capacity and …
Wei (Wayne) Chen
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Arun Ramamurthy
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PaDGAN: Learning to Generate High-Quality Novel Designs
Deep generative models are proven to be a useful tool for automatic design synthesis and design space exploration. When applied in …
Wei (Wayne) Chen
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Faez Ahmed
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Airfoil Design Parameterization and Optimization using Bézier Generative Adversarial Networks
Global optimization of aerodynamic shapes usually requires a large number of expensive computational fluid dynamics simulations because …
Wei (Wayne) Chen
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Kevin Chiu
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Mark Fuge
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Synthesizing Designs with Inter-part Dependencies Using Hierarchical Generative Adversarial Networks
Real-world designs usually consist of parts with inter-part dependencies, i.e., the geometry of one part is dependent on one or …
Wei (Wayne) Chen
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Mark Fuge
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Active Expansion Sampling for Learning Feasible Domains in an Unbounded Input Space
Many engineering problems require identifying feasible domains under implicit constraints. One example is finding acceptable car body …
Wei (Wayne) Chen
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Mark Fuge
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Beyond the Known: Detecting Novel Feasible Domains over an Unbounded Design Space
To solve a design problem, sometimes it is necessary to identify the feasible design space. For design spaces with implicit …
Wei (Wayne) Chen
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Mark Fuge
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Design Manifolds Capture the Intrinsic Complexity and Dimension of Design Spaces
This paper shows how to measure the intrinsic complexity and dimensionality of a design space. It assumes that high-dimensional design …
Wei (Wayne) Chen
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Mark Fuge
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Noa Chazan
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