Mingdong Zhou is an Associate Professor at Department of Mechanical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU). He received his Ph.D. degree in Mechanical and Automation Engineering from The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2013 and Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Technology from Zhejiang University in 2009. Prior to joining SJTU, he worked at TopOpt group of Technical University of Denmark and Tosca.Structure team at Dassault Systèmes Simulia Deutschland GmbH.

Research Interests

– Multidisciplinary structural topology and shape optimization

– Design optimization and process simulation for additive manufacturing 

– Industrial applications of lightweight structural design 

– Large-scale topology optimization

– Multi-scale integrated design for lattice structure and material

– High-efficiency CAE simulation and parallel computing

PUBLICATION

M. Zhou, J. Lin, and X. Jin, Mesh repair with least-squares meshes. Journal of Engineering Graphics (Chinese), 30(5), 13-21, 2009.[pdf]

J Xu, X Jin*, Y Yu, T Shen, M Zhou,  Shape‐constrained flock animation, Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds 19 (3‐4), 319-330, 2008.[pdf]

Conference paper (presentation, abstract)

M. Zhou, TOPOLOGY OPTIMIZATION OF CHANNEL-COOLING STRUCTURES FOR THERMOMECHANICAL BEHAVIORS, IUTAM Symposium on Ultralarge-scale Topology Optimization Copenhagen, 23-26 April, 2023.

M. Zhou, Topology optimization of self-supporting infill structures, 14th TOP Webinar, 26th August, 2021.[online vedio]

M. Zhou, Y. Liu, C. Wei, Y. Lu, Topology Optimization of Supports and Infills for Additive Manufacturing with Process Simulations and Geometric Constraints, 14th World Congress of Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization, 2021.

Y. Liu, C. Wei, M. Zhou, Topology Optimization of Self-supporting Infills for Additive Manufacturing, 14th World Congress of Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization, 2021.

Y. Lu, Y. Liu, M. Zhou, Concurrent Optimization of Shells and Self-supporting Infills for additive manufacturing, 14th World Congress of Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization, 2021.

D. Geng, M. Zhou, Topology Optimization of Channel-Cooling Cellular Structures for Thermomechanical Behaviors. Advances in Mechanical Design, 111:2421-2436, 2022. Procedings of the 2021 International Conference on Mechanical Desiqn ICMD 2021

刘义畅,周明东,面向增材制造的支撑结构拓扑优化设计, 中国力学大会2019, 杭州。

M. Zhou, On bridging structural topology optimization and additive manufacturing with process simulation and geometry constraints, 13th World Congress of Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization, 2019, Beijing, China.

Y. Liu, M. Zhou, Thermal conductive support structure design for additive manufacturing by topology optimization, 13th World Congress of Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization, 2019, Beijing, China.

C. Wei, Y. Liu, M. Zhou, Topology optimization of tree-like support structures for additive manufacturing by geometric constraint, 13th World Congress of Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization, 2019, Beijing, China. 

[Keynote Lecture] M. Zhou, et.al., Topology optimization of straight-channel cooling structures for efficient heat transfer and mechanical behaviors. 6th European Conference on Computational Mechanics, 2018，Glasgow, UK.

M. Zhou, Y. Liu, Structural topology optimization for thermal stress control in laser additive manufacturing, IUTAM symposium: when topology optimization meets additive manufacturing – theory and methods, 2018, Dalian, China.

周明东, 基于单纯复形的结构拓扑形状优化及其应用，中国力学大会2017，北京。

M. Zhou, et al., Shape Optimization of Fully Stressed Design and Channel Flow Problems by Explicit Boundary Tracking, 12th World Congress of Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimisation 2017, Braunschweig, Germany.

C. Lundgaard, J. Alexandersen, C. Andreasen, M. Zhou and Ole Sigmund, Topology optimization for fluid-structure-interaction problems,12th World Congress of Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimisation 2017, Braunschweig, Germany.

C. S. Andreasen, J. Alexandersen, J.J. Asmussen, X. Zhao, M. Zhou and O. Sigmund, Simplified flow models for topology optimization of thermofluidic devices, (ECCOMAS) VII International Conference on Coupled Problems in Science and Engineering 2017, Rhodes Island, Greece.

M. Zhou, et al., Topology Optimization for Manufacturing with Optical Microlithography, European Congress on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences and Engineering 2016, Crete, Greece.

M. Zhou, et al., Topology Optimization of Thermal Convective Problems, 2nd KAIST-DTU-DLUT Workshop on Design Optimization 2015, Daejeon, South Korea.

Mingdong Zhou, Boyan S. Lazarov, Fengwen Wang, Ole Sigmund, Achieving Minimum Length Scale in Topology Optimization by Geometric Constraints, in Proc. of 11th World Congress on Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization, 2015, Sydney, Australia.

M. Zhou, et al., Industrial Applications of topology Optimization on Combined Thermal Conductive and Convective Problems, LaSciSO Project Final Meeting 2015, Sofia, Bulgaria.

M. Zhou, et al., Topology Optimization for Optical Projection Lithography with Manufacturing Uncertainties, OPTI-I 2014, Kos, Greece.

M. Zhou, M.Y. Wang, L. Li, Structural Optimization Using Adaptive Level Set Method, in Proc. of the ASME/ISCIE 2012 International Symposium on Flexible Automation, 2012, S.t Louis, USA.