Research

Research Interest
  • Design, simulate, and experimentally validate multifunctional, resilient, and intelligent engineering structures and materials
  • Soft active materials with programmable behaviors
  • Tough and damage-resilient materials and structures
  • Composite structures
  • Topology optimization informed civil structures innovations
  • Multi-scale lattice design for resilient and lightweight metamaterials and structures
  • Bridging topology optimization and additive manufacturing
  • Robust design optimization under uncertainty through stochastic programming
  • Theoretical and algorithmic development of topology optimization to handle multi-objective and multi-constraints