Yong Chen   Professor Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering (by courtesy)   Director, Daniel J. Epstein Institute Viterbi School of Engineering University of Southern California 3715 McClintock Avenue, GER 201, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0193 Tel: (213) 740-7829 Fax: (213) 740-1120 Email: yongchen (at) usc.edu Google Scholar Profile

News: 2020: The annual International Advanced Manufacturing Research Conference (NAMRC/MSEC) 2021 will be held online on June21-25, 2021. Yong serves as the Technical Program Co-chair of the ASME MSEC 2021 conference. 2020: Our paper "Limpet Tooth-inspired Painless Microneedles Fabricated by Magnetic Field-assisted 3D Printing" was published by Advanced Functional Materials. 2020: Our paper "A Vibration-assisted Separation Method for Constrained-surface-based Stereolithography" was given the Best Paper Award (2nd Place) in the Annual ASME 2020 Manufacturing Science and Engineering Conference (MSEC2020) in Cincinnati, Ohio. 2020: Yong was given USC Stevens Technology Commercialization Award by USC's Stevens Center for Innovation. 2019: Dr. Cindy Li, a Ph.D. student who just graduated from our lab, will join the School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy at Arizona State University as an assistant professor starting from January 2020. Congratulations to Cindy! 2019: Dr. Yang Yang, a Post-doc researcher in our lab, will join the Department of Mechanical Engineering at San Diego State University as an assistant professor starting from January 2020.  Congratulations to Yang! 2019: Dr. Huachao Mao, a Ph.D. student who just graduated from our lab, joined the School of Engineering Technology at Purdue University as an assistant professor starting from August 2019.  Congratulations to Huachao! 2019: The annual International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (IDETC-CIE) 2019 was held in Anaheim, CA on August 18-21. Yong served as the Program Co-chair of the conference. 2019: Our paper "Electrically assisted 3D printing of nacre-inspired structures with self-sensing capability" was published by Science Advances. 2018: Yong was appointed as the Director of Daniel J. Epstein Institute in the USC Viterbi School of Engineering. 2018: Yong was promoted to Professor with Tenure. 2018: Our paper "Recent Progress in Biomimetic Additive Manufacturing Technology: From Materials to Functional Structures" was published by Advanced Materials. 2018: Our paper "A Vibration-assisted Method to Reduce Separation Force for Stereolithography" was given the NAMRI/SME Outstanding Paper Award in the 46th Annual SME North American Manufacturing Research Conference (NAMRC) in College Station, Texas. 2018: Yong was elected Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). 2017: Our paper "3D-Printed Biomimetic Super-hydrophobic Structures for Microdroplet Manipulation and Oil/Water Separation" was published by Advanced Materials. 2017: Our paper "Highly Removable Water Support for Stereolithography" was given the NAMRI/SME Outstanding Paper Award in the 45th Annual SME North American Manufacturing Research Conference (NAMRC) in Los Angeles, California. 2017: The annual International manufacturing research conference NAMRC/MSEC/ICM&P 2017 was held at USC on June 4-8. Yong served as the host of the conference. 2017: Prof. Yayue Pan, who graduated from our lab in 2014, was given 2017 Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineers from the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME).  Congratulations to Yayue! 2017: Our paper "Biomimetic Anisotropic Reinforcement Architectures by Electrically Assisted Nanocomposite 3D Printing" was published by Advanced Materials. 2017: The National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research funded the Center for Dental, Oral, and Craniofacial Tissue and Organ Regeneration (C-DOCTOR). 2016: Our paper "LISA: Linear Immersed Sweeping Accumulation" was given the NAMRI/SME Outstanding Paper Award in the 44th Annual SME North American Manufacturing Research Conference (NAMRC) in Blacksburg, Virginia. 2016: Two of our inventions received Technology Advancement Grants from USC Stevens Center for Innovation. 2016: A special issue on Advances of Automation for Additive Manufacturing (guest-edited by Charlie and Yong) in IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering is calling for papers. 2016: Dr. Tom Kwok, a Post-doc researcher in our lab, will join the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, as an assistant professor starting from August 2016.  Congratulations to Tom! 2016: Mr. Xuan (Sean) Song, a Ph.D. candidate in our lab, will join the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at the University of Iowa as an assistant professor starting from August 2016.  Congratulations to Xuan! 2016: Yong was invited to visit the Mechanical Department at Polytechnic University of Milan and gave a talk in their PhD lectures in March 2016. 2015: Sponsored by the National Institute of Health, the Center of Dental, Oral, and Craniofacial Tissue & Organ Regeneration (C_DOCTOR) was launched at USC. 2015: A special issue of Computer-Aided Design on Geometric and Physical Modeling for Additive Manufacturing (guest-edited by Charlie and Yong) is now available. 2015: Yong was invited to give a plenary talk in the 2015 SIAM Conference on Geometric and Physical Modeling to be held in Salt Lake City, Utah in Oct. 2015. 2015: Yong was invited to speak in the 2015 International Conference on Real-time Computing and Robotics in Changsha, China in June 2015. 2015: Yong was invited to an Additive Manufacturing panel in 2015 International Manufacturing Research Conference (NAMRC/MSEC) in Charlotte, NC in June 2015. 2015: Yong helped to organize the "Advanced Manufacturing" session in the National Academy of Engineering (NAE)'s 2015 China-American Frontiers of Engineering Symposium in June 2015. 2015: Our project ComfortCorrect, which is now in the clinical trial, was reported in Viterbi School's news. 2015: Yong was invited to speak in the 2015 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Education Leadership Summit in March 2015. 2015: Prof. Chi Zhou, who graduated from our lab in 2011, was given 2015 Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineers from the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME).  Congratulations to Chi! 2014: Yong helped organizing the 2nd HKUST-USC Forum on 3D Printing - Research and Practice held at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology on December 18th, 2014. 2014: Yong was invited to speak in the 4th International Conference on Additive Manufacturing and Bio-Manufacturing (ICAM-BM) in Beijing, China in November 2014. 2014: Yong was invited to attend a Dagstuhl Seminar "Computational Aspect of Fabrication" held at Leibniz Center for Informatics in Germany in September 2014. 2014: Our paper "Predictive Modeling of Geometric Deviations of 3D Printed Products - A Unified Modeling Approach for Cylindrical and Polygon Shapes" was given the Best Application Paper Award Finalist in the 2014 IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE 2014). 2014: Yong was invited to attend NSF US-South Korea Advanced Manufacturing Workshop held in Reno, Nevada on August, 2014. 2014: Yong gave a plenary talk on Additive Manufacturing in 2014 International Conference on Innovative Design and Manufacturing (ICIDM2014) in Montreal, Canada on August 13, 2014. 2014: Yong gave a keynote on Design for Additive Manufacturing in 11th Annual International CAD Conference and Exhibition (CAD2014) in Hong Kong on June 23, 2014. 2014: The student team of ComfortCorrect, in which Yong served as the academic advisor, won this year's Maseeh Entrepreneurship Prize Competition (MEPC) along with $50K in cash and $20K in legal services. Congratulations to John, Robert and Xuan! 2014: Yong gave an industrial tutorial on Computer-aided Design Tools for Additive Manufacturing in the 10th International Symposium on Tools and Methods of Competitive Engineering (TMCE 2014) in Budapest, Hungary on May 19, 2014. 2014: Ms. Yayue Pan, a Ph.D. candidate in our lab, joined the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) as an assistant professor in July 2014.  Congratulations to Yayue! 2014: Yong helped organizing the First HKUST-USC Forum on 3D Printing - Research and Practice held at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology on Jan. 18th, 2014. 2014: Yong took sabbatical leave at Chinese University of Hong Kong, National University of Singapore, and Aalto University in Finland from January 2014 to July 2014. 2013: Yong was invited to serve as a program chair of the 2014 International Conference on Innovative Design and Manufacturing (ICIDM) to be held in Montreal, Canada in August 2014. 2013: Yong was interviewed in a USC news in November 2013. 2013: Yong was invited to participate in a DARPA ISAT workshop "Rethinking CAD" in Arlington, VA in October 2013. 2013: Yong gave a micro-seminar "Introduction to 3D Printing: Opportunities for Future Engineers" to the incoming students in the USC Welcome Week 2013. 2013: Our paper "An Integrated CNC Accumulation System for Automatic Building-around-inserts" was given the Outstanding Paper Award in the 41st Annual SME North American Manufacturing Research Conference (NAMRC). 2013: Dr. Chi Zhou, who recently graduated from our lab, joined the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University at Buffalo (SUNY) as an assistant professor in July 2013.  Congratulations to Chi! 2013: Our paper "Fast Micro-Stereolithography Process Based on Bottom-up Projection for Complex Geometry" was given the Honorable Mention Paper Award in the 8th International Conference on MicroManufacturing (ICOMM 2013). 2013: Yong was promoted to Associate Professor with Tenure. 2013: Yong was invited to speak at the National Science Foundation (NSF) Summer Institute - A Short Course on Additive Manufacturing. 2013: Yong was selected to participate in the National Academy of Engineering (NAE)'s 2013 German-American Frontiers of Engineering Symposium. 2013: Yong was invited to speak at the Advanced Manufacturing Seminars in 2013 Pacific Design and Manufacturing. 2013: Our new dental brace idea was top ranked in the 2012 Ideas Empowered Program organized by the USC Stevens Center for Innovation. 2012: Our paper "Direct Geometry Processing for Tele-fabrication" was given the CAPPD (Computer-aided Product and Process Development) Best Paper Award in the 32nd Annual ASME Computers and Information in Engineering (CIE) Conference. 2012: Our paper "Rapid Manufactruing in Minutes: The Development of a Mask Projection Stereolithography Process for High-speed Fabrication" was given the Best Paper Award (3rd Place) in the 2012 ASME Manufacturing Science and Engineering Conference (MSEC). 2012: Yayue Pan's presentation based on our paper "Smooth Surface Fabrication in Mask Projection based Stereolithography" was given the Student Research Presentation Award (3rd Place) in the SME 40th Annual North American Manufacturing Research Conference (NAMRC). 2012: Our paper "A Layerless Additive Manufacturing Process based on CNC Accumulation" was given the Outstanding Paper Award - 2012 selected by Rapid Prototyping Journal. 2012: Chi Zhou's PhD dissertation "Optimized Mask Image Projection for Large-area based Additive Manufacturing Process" was given the USC ISE Department Best Dissertation Award in 2012. 2012: Yong was given the National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early CAREER Award on the mask projection based additive manufacturing. 2011: Our paper "Self-intersection Free and Topological Faithful Slicing of Implicit Solid" was given the CAPPD (Computer-aided Product and Process Development) Best Paper Award in the 31st Annual ASME Computers and Information in Engineering (CIE) Conference. 2011: Our paper "Additive Manufacturing based on Optimized Mask Video Projection for Improved Accuracy and Resolution" was given the Outstanding Paper Award in the 39th Annual SME North American Manufacturing Research Conference (NAMRC). 2010: Our paper "Additive Manufacturing without Layers: A New Solid Freeform Fabrication Process based on CNC Accumulation" was given the SFF Symposium Outstanding Paper in the 21st Annual International Solid Freeform Fabrication (SFF) Symposium. 2009: Chi Zhou's poster "Optimized Mask Image Projection for Additive Manufacturing Process" was selected as the Finalist for the Best Student Poster in the 29th Annual ASME Computers and Information in Engineering (CIE) Conference. 2009: Yong was selected to participate in the National Academy of Engineering (NAE)'s Annual U.S. Frontiers of Engineering Symposium. 2009: Yong was invited to participate in the NSF workshop to Develop a Roadmap for Research in Additive Manufacturing. 2008: Our paper "Layer Depth-normal Images for Complex Geometries" was given the Best Paper Award in the 28th Annual ASME Computers and Information in Engineering (CIE) Conference. 2008: Yong was given the Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer (OYME) Award from the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME).