Welcome to Boyang Chen's research group

Boyang Chen is currently an Associate Professor at Department of Aerospace Structures and Materials, Faculty of Aerospace Engineering of Delft University of Technology (TU Delft). He obtained his PhD jointly from National University of Singapore and Imperial College London on Mechanical Engineering/Aeronautics in 2014. He holds a Master (Diplôme d'Ingénieur) from Ecole Polytechnique and a BEng. from National University of Singapore under the NUS French Double Degree program since 2010. 

Boyang's research aims to introduce the power of Quantum Computing and (quantum-enhanced) Machine Learning into the field of computational mechanics for solids and structures, with a particular focus on modelling and optimization problems of composite materials and structures. Boyang's group is the first in the world to apply Quantum Annealing (adiabatic quantum computing) to structural optimization (see also our publication). He also leads the interdisciplinary collaborative lab on Quantum-enhanced AI for aerospace materials and structures, QAIMS, at TU Delft. The QAIMS team is the first in the world to develop a quantum computing approach to the optimization of composite laminate, the work on which has been selected as the winner for the "Golden Application" of the Airbus-BMW quantum computing challenge in 2024. 

On computational mechanics, he advocates the development of C1-continuous structural elements for the  modelling of composite laminates, which allow the modelling of delamination on coarse meshes. His earlier research on the Floating Node Method, an enriched finite element technology to model cracks mesh-independently, has been adopted by aerospace industries such as NASA and Boeing for their high-fidelity simulation of composites damage (see the NASA FNM software and verifications).

Boyang has taught master courses on structural stability analysis and Finite Element Method. He has co-developed a bachelor course on AI for Aerospace Engineering. He has given a lecture in the summer school on AI at TU Delft in 2022. He currently teaches a master course on non-linear Finite Element Method. He is invited to deliver summer school lectures on Quantum Computing in CISM Udine, Italy.