(2025 Aug) Our new paper on simulation of structures with interlocked geometries is published on Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering! Here is the paper link.
(2025 Jan) MAR-Group has a new member, Songjie Jia. Welcome!
(2024 Nov) Group coding and simulation training material is online on YouTube now. Check it out using this link. Hope this makes our internal training easier ;)
(2024 Aug) MAR-Group has a new member, Zhongqi Fan. Welcome!
(2024 Aug) Yi joined Michigan Tech as an Assistant Professor at August 2024. His lab is actively looking for talented students.
(2024 May) Our Nature Communications paper is featured on the front page of the website of UofM. Check out the news.
(2024 Mar) Our new paper on large scale modular and uniformly thick origami-inspired structures (MUTOIS) is published on Nature Communications.
(2024 Mar) Our new paper on large scale modular and uniformly thick origami-inspired structures (MUTOIS) is published on Nature Communications.
(2024 Mar) Our new paper on mixed-transducer micro-origami is published on Small
(2023 Mar) Yi Received Honorable Mention for the ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Awards
(2023 Jan) Yi is teaching CEE 515 Advanced Design of Reinforced Concrete Structures at University of Michigan.
(2022 Nov) Our new paper on origami inverse design is published in Scientific Reports
(2022 Aug) Our new review paper on simulation techniques for origami structures is published in Applied Mechanics Review.
(2022 May) Yi successfully defended his PhD thesis titled An Integrated Framework for Fabrication, Simulation, and Design of Functional Origami.
(2021 Dec) Yi wins the 2021 Richard and Eleanor Towner Prize for Outstanding PhD Research.
(2021 Dec) Our new conference paper on origami simulator published on IDETC 2021.
(2021 May) Our new paper on simulating electro-thermal origami published on International Journal of Mechanical Science
(2020 Sept) Yi received the MICDE Fellowship from Michigan Institute of Computational Discovery and Engineering
(2020 July) Our new paper on micro origami published on Advanced Functional Material
(2020 Apr) Our new paper on simulating origami with compliant crease published on Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics
(2019 Oct) Our new paper on simulation of origami contact published on Proceedings of the Royal Society A.
(2018 Oct) Paper on long-period ground motions published on Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering. (Yi participated in the project as undergraduate research assistant)
(2018 Jun) Yi graduated from UC Berkeley with a Master degree in Civil Engineering and will start his PhD study at University of Michigan!
(2018 Jun) Yi graduated from Tongji University with a Bachelor degree in Civil Engineering and will start his Master study at UC Berkeley!