Research Interests

• Spatiotemporal Data Analytics

• Quality Engineering

• Computer Simulation and Optimization

• Complex Networks and Graph-based Machine Learning

News

04/08/2026, Richmond's proposal to SIUE Research Grants for Graduate Student got approved. His work with our collaborators from SIUE School of Nursing will investigate how to integrate real clinical data into digital patients for dynamic nursing simulation. 

03/17/2026, Joyce's paper titled "From Melt Pool Networks to Quality Prediction: A Spectral Transformer Approach" was selected as the Finalist for IISE DAIS Best Paper Reward. 

10/26/2025, Dr. Zhang presented the work of Dual Meltpool GAN at 2025 INFORMS Annual Meeting