Principal Investigator:
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Hailong Chen, PhD Associate Professor Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Office: 279 RGAN Tel.: (859)323-8114 Email: hailong.chen@uky.edu |
Dr. Hailong Chen completed his PhD degree in Mechanical Engineering from Arizona State University in 2015. Dr. Chen obtained BS degree in Mechanical Design, Manufacturing and Automation from Shanghai Normal University (China) in 2010, and MS degree in Mechanical Engineering from University of Florida in 2012. Prior to joining UK, Dr. Chen worked as Postdoctoral Computational Scientist at Idaho National Laboratory from 11/2015 to 08/2018. From 09/2018 to 07/2024, Dr. Chen was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at UK. Dr. Chen's research interests lie in the broad area of computational mechanics & materials, with focus on non-local meshfree methods and their applications. Dr. Chen is a member of several professional communities, including American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), Engineering Mechanics Institute (EMI), United State Association for Computational Mechanics (USACM), and the American Nuclear Society (ANS). Dr. Chen is an Associate Editor of the CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences journal. |
Current Group Members:
Graduate students:
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Donglai Liu PhD candidate Mechanical Engineering 2020.08 - Office: 212 RGAN |
BS, Mechanical Engineering, Beijing University of Technology, China, 2017 MS, Mechanical Engineering, University of Kentucky, 2020
Research Topics: Microstructure-based modeling and simulation of materials performance under thermal loads |
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Di Liu PhD candidate Mechanical Engineering 2021.08 - Office: 212 RGAN |
BS, Mechanical Engineering, Chongqing University, China, 2016 MS, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Syracuse University, 2018
Research Topics: Modeling HCP polycrystal systems using Lattice Particle Method |
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Khaleda Akter Maya PhD student Mechanical Engineering 2023.08 - Office: 212 RGAN |
BS, Mechanical Engineering, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Bangladesh, 2021
Research Topics: TBD |
Former Group Members:
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WaiLam Chan PhD Mechanical Engineering 2018.08 -2022.12 Research Topics: Peridynamic material correspondence models |