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Principal Investigator:

Hailong Chen, PhD

Associate Professor

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Office:  279 RGAN

Tel.: (859)323-8114

Email: hailong.chen@uky.edu

Biosketch

Google Scholar Profile

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), and United State Association for Computational Mechanics (USACM). Dr. Chen is an Associate Editor of the CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences journal.

Current Group Members:
 

Graduate students:  

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 Topic: Modeling HCP polycrystalline materials using lattice particle method

Khaleda Akter Maya

PhD student

Mechanical Engineering

2023.08 - 

Office: 212 RGAN

BS, Mechanical Engineering, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Bangladesh, 2021

 

Research Topic: Computational modeling of porous fibrous materials

Ahsanul Islam

PhD student

Mechanical Engineering

2025.08 - 

Office: 212 RGAN

BS, Mechanical Engineering, Khulna University of Engineering & Technology, Bangladesh, 2024

 

Research Topic: Modeling polycrystalline materials using lattice particle method

Postdocs:  

Donglai Liu

PhD

 

Office: 212 RGAN

BS, Mechanical Engineering, Beijing University of Technology, China, 2017

MS, Mechanical Engineering, University of Kentucky, 2020

PhD, Mechanical Engineering, University of Kentucky, 2024

Former Group Members:

WaiLam Chan

PhD

Mechanical Engineering

2018.08 -2022.12

Research Topic:  Peridynamic material correspondence models

Donglai Liu

PhD

Mechanical Engineering

2020.08 - 2024.07

Research Topic: Microstructure-based modeling and simulation of materials performance under thermal loads