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2023:
Our paper "Continuous Vat Photopolymerization
for Optical Lens Fabrication"
was published in Small.
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2023:
Our paper "3D Printing of
Nacre-inspired Structures with Exceptional
Mechanical and Flame-retardant Properties"
was given the Best Paper Award 2022
by journal Research.
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2023:
Our paper "Hopping Light Vat Photopolymerization
for Multiscale Fabrication"
was published in Small.
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2022: Yong was invited to give a plenary
talk at the annual International Mechanical
Engineering Congress & Exposition (IMECE
2022)
held in Columbus, Ohio on November 1, 2022.
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2022:
Dr. Yizhou Jiang,
a Post-doc researcher in our lab,
will join
the Department of Aerospace Engineering at
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Florida as an assistant professor
starting from August 2022. Congratulations
to Yizhou!
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2022: Yong served as the
Technical Program Chair
of the annual
ASME Manufacturing Science and Engineering Conference (MSEC2022)
held by Purdue University in West Lafayette, IN
on June27-July 1, 2022.
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2022:
Our paper "In-situ Transfer Vat
Photopolymerization for Transparent Microfluidic
Device Fabrication"
was published in Nature Communications.
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2021: InBrace - a startup company created
by two collaborators based on our
behind-the-teeth Smartwire patent raised Series
D funding.
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2021: SprintRay - a startup company created
by two Ph.D. students trained in our lab was reported in the USC
VSoE news.
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2021:
Our paper "3D Printing of Functional
Magnetic Materials: From Design to Applications"
was published in Advanced Functional Materials.
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2021:
Our paper "Hybrid-light-source
Stereolithography for Fabicating Macro-objects
with Micro-textures"
was given the Best Paper Award in the Annual
ASME 2021 Manufacturing Science and Engineering Conference
(MSEC2021) in the virtual confrence hosted by
the University of Cincinnati.
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2021: Our work - reusable support for
additive manufacturing was reported in the USC
VSoE news.
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2020:
Our paper "Limpet Tooth-inspired
Painless Microneedles Fabricated by Magnetic
Field-assisted 3D Printing" was published in Advanced Functional Materials.
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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.
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2020: Yong was given
USC Stevens Technology Commercialization Award
by USC's Stevens Center for Innovation.
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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!
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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!
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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!
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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.
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2019:
Our paper "Electrically assisted 3D
printing of nacre-inspired structures with
self-sensing capability" was published in Science Advances.
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2018:
Yong was appointed as the Director of Daniel
J. Epstein Institute in the USC Viterbi School
of Engineering.
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2018: Yong was promoted to
Professor with Tenure.
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2018:
Our paper "Recent Progress in
Biomimetic Additive Manufacturing Technology:
From Materials to Functional Structures" was
published in Advanced Materials.
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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.
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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 in Advanced Materials.
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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.
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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.
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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!
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2017:
Our paper "Biomimetic Anisotropic
Reinforcement Architectures by
Electrically Assisted Nanocomposite 3D Printing"
was published in Advanced Materials.
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2017:
The National Institute of Dental and
Craniofacial Research funded the Center for
Dental, Oral, and Craniofacial Tissue and Organ
Regeneration (C-DOCTOR).
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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.
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2016:
Two of our inventions received Technology
Advancement Grants from USC Stevens Center for
Innovation.
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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.
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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!
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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!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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2015: Yong was invited to speak in the
2015 ASME International Mechanical Engineering
Education Leadership Summit
in March 2015.
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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!
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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.
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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).
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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.
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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.
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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!
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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.
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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!
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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.
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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.
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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).
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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!
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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).
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2013: Yong was promoted to
Associate Professor with Tenure.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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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).
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2012: Our paper
"A Layerless Additive
Manufacturing Process based on CNC Accumulation"
was given the Outstanding Paper Award - 2012
selected by Rapid Prototyping Journal.
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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.
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2012:
Yong was given the
National Science Foundation (NSF)
Faculty Early CAREER Award on the mask
projection based additive manufacturing.
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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.
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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).
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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.
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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.
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2008:
Yong was given the
Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer (OYME)
Award from the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME).
