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  • AME Seminar

    Wed, Oct 23, 2024 @ 03:30 PM - 04:30 PM

    Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering

    Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars


    Speaker: Jian Cao, Northwestern

    Talk Title: Physics-based AI-assisted Design and Control of Manufacturing Processes

    Abstract: Current research efforts at my manufacturing group aim to advance the capability to co-design materials and manufacturing processes using hybrid physics-based and data-driven approaches. In this talk, I will demonstrate our work in the development of differentiable simulation tools, sensing, and process control to achieve effective and efficient predictions and control of a material’s mechanical behavior in metal additive manufacturing processes. Furthermore, I will show how we use machine learning to accelerate the physics-based simulations and to realize active sensing with the goal of effective in-situ local process control. Our solutions particularly target three notoriously challenging aspects of the process: long history-dependent properties, complex geometric features, and the high dimensionality of their design space. The approaches are applicable to other manufacturing processes as well, such as flexible incremental forming.

    Biography: Cardiss Collins Professor Jian Cao (MIT’Ph.D, MIT’MS, SJTU’BS) specialized in innovative manufacturing processes and systems, particularly in the areas of deformation-based processes and laser additive manufacturing processes. She is the Founding Director of the research center on Manufacturing Science and Innovation at Northwestern, known as NIMSI. 
    Prof. Cao is an elected member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAA&S). She is a Fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), ASME, the International Academy for Production Engineering (CIRP) and SME. Her major awards include DoD Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship, ASME Ted Belytschko Applied Mechanics Award, the inaugural ASME Devor-Kapoor Manufacturing Medal, Hideo Hanafusa Outstanding Investigator Award for Flexible Automation, ASME Milton C. Shaw Manufacturing Research Medal, Charles Russ Richards Memorial Award from ASME and Pi Tau Sigma, SME Gold Medal, and SME Frederick W. Taylor Research Medal. Cao was the Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Materials Processing Technology. 
    Prof. Cao now serves as an Associate Vice President for Research at Northwestern, a member of the National Materials and Manufacturing Board of the National Academies, a member of the Defense Materials, Manufacturing and its Infrastructure (DMMI) Standing Committee of the National Academies, Board of Directors of SME, and Board of mHUB – accelerator for hardtech innovation and manufacturing in Chicago.
     

    Host: AME Department

    More Info: https://ame.usc.edu/seminars/

    Webcast: https://usc.zoom.us/j/96060458816?pwd=8LmoG2q6vBCQubqqWpcizd2F1bxqsH.1

    Location: Seaver Science Library (SSL) - 202

    WebCast Link: https://usc.zoom.us/j/96060458816?pwd=8LmoG2q6vBCQubqqWpcizd2F1bxqsH.1

    Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

    Contact: Tessa Yao

    Event Link: https://ame.usc.edu/seminars/

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