June 2026 – Attending CVPR 2026 in Denver, CO, and will be presenting our paper "Physics-Conditioned Video Diffusion for Nuclear Fusion Capsule Polishing Process Synthesis" at the VISION Workshop!
May 2026 - Attended the IISE Annual Conference 2026 and delivered an oral presentation on “Motion analysis of nuclear fusion target capsules during ultra-precision polishing.”
April 2026 – Delivered a guest lecture on “Uncertainty Propagation from Detection to Velocity in Multi-Object Tracking for ICF Capsule Polishing” for the Computer Vision for Manufacturing class at Virginia Tech.
April 2026 – Gave an invited talk through the Society of Manufacturing Engineers Manufacturing Edge Webinar on “Efficient screening of rare large pit anomalies on polished surfaces using a minimalist sampling scheme.”
February 2026 – Cheers! Our work “Pit Density Evolution Modeling for Nuclear Fusion Target Capsules” has been accepted for publication at Manufacturing Letters. We will be presenting this work at SME NAMRC 54
January 2026 – Gave an invited talk titled “How AI Meets the Physical World: Engineering the Future from Sensors to Intelligence” at Sreenivasa Institute of Technology and Management Studies, AP, India.
December 2025 – Attending NeurIPS 2025 in San Diego, CA, and organising the NewInML Workshop!
October 2025 – Attending INFORMS Annual Meeting 2025 in Atlanta and presenting our work on “End-to-End Resilience for Machine Tool Controllers Against Cyberattacks.”
October 2025 - Our work "Generation-Based Multi-Modal Anomaly Detection for Nuclear Fusion Target Polishing" has been accepted to the NeurIPS 2025 Workshop on Machine Learning and the Physical Sciences
May 2025 - Cheers! Our paper titled "Efficient screening of rare large pit anomalies on polished surfaces using a minimalist sampling scheme" has been awarded the Outstanding Paper Award in Manufacturing Processes, North American Manufacturing Research Conference (NAMRC), 2025
April 2025 - Our group (Yuhao Zhong, Haopeng Tian, Abhishek Hanchate) has been selected as a finalist for the IISE QCRE Data Challenge 2025! We will be presenting at the IISE Annual Conference 2025, held in Atlanta, GA
Update: We are the Runner-up for the IISE QCRE Data Challenge 2025!
March 2025 - Cheers! Our work "Efficient screening of rare large pit anomalies on polished surfaces using a minimalist sampling scheme" has been fast-tracked to the SME Journal of Manufacturing Processes! We will be presenting this work at the Student Research Presentation Competition during SME NAMRC 53
October 2024 - Our work "Domain-Adaptive ML for Surface Roughness Predictions in Nuclear Fusion" has been accepted to the NeurIPS 2024 Workshop on Machine Learning and the Physical Sciences
September 2024 - Our work "Nuclear Fusion Diamond Polishing Dataset" has been accepted in NeurIPS 2024 under the Datasets and Benchmarks Track
June 2024 - Our work "Precision polishing of ablator capsules via in-situ process monitoring and machine-learning-based optimization" has been accepted to the Fusion Science and Technology Journal