Profession
Editorial Activities
Associate Editor, ASME Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering (JCISE), 2021-present.
Associate Editor, Transactions of the Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering (TCSME), 2017-present.
Topic Editor, MDPI Micromachines, 2021-2023.
Guest Editor, MDPI Micromachines, Special Issue on “Machine Learning for Advanced Manufacturing”, 2022.
Guest Editor, ASME Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering (JCISE), Special Issue of Computers and Information in Engineering Conference, 2021.
Guest Editor, MDPI Materials, Special Issue on “Design and Manufacturing of Bioinspired Material and Structures”, 2021.
Guest Editor, MDPI Micromachines, Special Issue on “Machine Learning in Micro Fabrication”, 2021.
Guest Editor, Computer-Aided Design, Special Issue on “Process Planning for Additive/Hybrid Manufacturing”, 2019.
Guest Editor, Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering, Special Issue on “Software Engineering for Smart Manufacturing”, 2020.
Committee Member
Executive Committee Chair/Member, Virtual Environments and Systems (VES) Technical Committee, ASME CIE Division, 2023-2027.
Chair/Vice-chair, Additive Manufacturing Technical Committee, ASME MED Division, 2023-2027.
Program Committee Member, ACM SIGGRAPH International Conference on Virtual-Reality Continuum and its Applications in Industry (VRCAI), 2022.
Executive Committee Chair/Member, Computer-Aided Product and Process Development (CAPPD) Technical Committee, ASME CIE Division, 2017-2022.
Executive Committee Member, Manufacturing Technical Committee, Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering (CSME), 2019-present.
Scientific Committee Member, Concordia Institute for Aerospace Design and Innovation, 2019-present.
Program Committee Member, SME North American Manufacturing Research Conference, 2020-present.
Program Committee Member, Symposium on Solid and Physical Modeling (SPM), 2020-present.
Technical Committee Member, International Symposium on Computer Graphics, Multimedia and Image Processing (CGMIP), 2019-present.
Program Committee Member, Computer Graphics International (CGI). 2017-present.
International Program Committee Member, International Symposium on Visual Computing (ISVC). 2018-2020.
Organizational Activities
Conference Chair, Symposium on Solid and Physical Modeling (SPM), Montreal, Canada, Jul 8-10, 2024.
Conference Co-Chair, Symposium on Solid and Physical Modeling (SPM), Genoa, Italy, Jul 1-7, 2023.
Track Organizer, “Design, Systems and Complexity”, ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition, 2022.
Panel Organizer and Moderator, “Generative design: succeed or fail in product development?”, ASME Computers and Information in Engineering Conference, 2021.
Symposium Co-Organizer, Human Modeling and Simulation for Engineering, ASME Computers and Information in Engineering Conference, 2020 - present.
Symposium Organizer, Computational Methods and Process Planning for Additive Manufacturing, ASME International Manufacturing Science and Engineering Conference.
Symposium Organizer, Graduate Student Poster Symposium, ASME Computers and Information in Engineering Conference, Aug 18-21, 2019, Anaheim, CA, USA.
Symposium Co-Organizer, Design, Simulation and Optimization for Additive Manufacturing, ASME Computers and Information in Engineering Conference.
Symposium Co-Organizer, Computer-Aided Product and Process Development – General, ASME Computers and Information in Engineering Conference.
Technical Tour Organizer to Concordia, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), May 20-24, 2019, Montreal, Canada.
Program Chair, International Conference on Innovative Design and Manufacturing (ICIDM). July 17-19, 2017, Milan, Italy.
Awards and Honors
ASME CIE Best Paper Award, 2024.
SMA Young Investigator Award, 2022.
CSME I.W. Smith Award, 2022.
Top World 2% Scientists, 2021.
SME The 20 Most Influential Academics in Smart Manufacturing, 2021.
University Research Award, 2020.
The International exhibition of inventions of Geneva, Silver Medal, 2019.
Interviews and News
We Want to Create These Tools of Design Automation to Help Customization for Everyone, Concordia 4th Space, 2021.
Ask us anything about AI, Concordia Digital Strategy, 2020.
The Forefront of Heart Engineering, The Concordian, 2018.
Designing Compound Objects Through 3D Printing and Augmented Reality, 3DPrint.com, 2018.
Additive Manufacturing and Mass Customization, CSME Bulletin – Faculty Spotlight, 2018.
New Research Advances Liquid Metal 3d Printing, 3D Printing Industry, 2017.
Spotlight: Origami-inspired 3D Printing, USC Viterbi, 2015.