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  • ScholarGPS announced that Professor Shin achieved the Number 4 lifetime ranking among all scholars (614,020 in total) worldwide in Manufacturing.  ScholarGPS is a California-based company that harnesses artificial intelligence including data mining, machine learning, and other data science techniques to rank over 30 million individual scholars worldwide, as well as over 55,000 academic and non-academic institutions.

  • Shunyu Liu, a former student in the group and now an assistant professor at Clemson University, was recently selected as 2024 SME Outstanding Manufacturing Engineer Award.  Congratulations.

  • Sijie Zhang gave a presentation titled "Application of ultrafast laser dicing in the semiconductor packaging process" at the 2023 ICALEO, which was held in Chicago, IL during Oct. 16-18, 2023.

  • Professor Shin delivered a keynote speech (virtual) at The 2nd International Conference on New Materials, Machinery and Vehicle Engineering, 2-4, Jun. 2023, Guiyang, China.   The title of the talk was "A high fidelity melt pool dynamics model with experimental validation results under various laser power densities and scanning speeds for laser additive manufacturing and welding processes".

  • Corbin Grohol was awarded the Bilsland Fellowship for 2023-2024.

  • Vaidyanath Hariyanara received his MSME degree in December, 2022 with the thesis title of "Three-dimensional microfabrication of mechanical metamaterials via stereolithography and two-photon polymerization", and is continuing his graduate study for the Ph.D.

  • A short video describing our group research activities on additive manufacturing and ultrafast laser processing is now available on youtube.

  • Professor Shin assumed the role of Editor-in-Chief for Advanced Manufacturing, a fully open access journal, published by ELS Publishing.

  • Professor Shin was elected as one of the most impactful faculty inventors of 2022 at Purdue University.

  • Professor Shin was an invited speaker at the INVIRTA Workshop on June 15, 2021.  The title of his talk is Additive Manufacturing of Ti6Al4V alloy: From Process to Microstructure and Properties.

  • Professor Shin has been selected by the Smart Manufacturing magazine of SME as one of the 20 most influential academics shaping smart manufacturing.  See the announcement .

  • Professor Shin gave a seminar in the Manufacturing Leadership Seminars with the topic of Additive Manufacturing: Capabilities, Challenges and Future on May 7, 2021. 

  • Christopher Katinas received his Ph.D. in March, 2021 and joined the Sandia National Laboratory in Livermore, CA, where he is currently working as a staff member.

  • Professor Shin served as a panelist of the NSF workshop, New Frontiers of Thermal Transport, on Jan. 4, 2021.  He will present the highlights of his research in the thermal transport area in metal additive manufacturing and his vision on the critical fundamental challenges that are hindering practical progress, and future research needs.

  • Shunyu Liu defended her thesis in Dec. 2020 and began her academic career as an assistant professor at Clemson University.

  • Professor Shin gave a talk titled "Prediction of Mechanical Properties and Damage of Metal Matrix Composites" as a distinguished invited speaker for the Thematic Webinar Series on Composites at the Sabancı University Integrated Manufacturing Research and Application Center (SU-IMC) on Dec. 2, 2020.   See the announcement.

  • Several undergraduates carried out research on data-driven modeling of microstructure-property relationships during summer of 2020.  See their youtube video.

  • Professor Shin was inducted into Purdue Innovator Hall of Fame, on March 5, 2020.

  • The Board of Trustees of Purdue ratified Professor Shin as the Donald A. and Nanch G. Roach Distinguished Professor on Feb. 7, 2020.  See the announcement.

  • Mohamed Elkhateeb finished his Ph.D. defense and began his career as an assistant professor at the Mansoura University, where he came from.

  • Neil Bailey successfully defended his Ph.D. exam and now is working at Fiat Chrysler Automobiles.

  • Professor Shin organized two back-to-back workshops on laser based manufacturing and additive manufacturing on September 25 and 26, 2019.   More than 12 industrial companies and multiple Purdue faculty and students attended the event.  These events were sponsored by the College of Engineering, School of Mechanical Engineering, and Center for Laser-based Manufacturing.

  • A new press release describing our work on creating microchannels with superhydrophobic internal surfaces has come out.  See details here.

  • Professor Shin has been granted a new US patent, titled, "Method of forming holes and etching surfaces in substrates" (U.S. Patent 10,052,722), on Aug. 21, 2018.

  • Wenda Tan, a former member of our group, now an assistant professor at the University of Utah, received the coveted NSF Career award early this year.  Congratulations!  He now joined the company of several former group members who received the similar awards.  Further news here.

  • News on the superhydrophobic surface creation has been released.   Link to news release

  • Kyung-Min Hong, a Ph.D. student working with Professor Shin, has been awarded Ward A. Lambert Graduate Teaching Fellowship for 2018-2019.   The Fellowship gives him the opportunity to teach a class in 2019.

  • Professor Shin received the 2018 CoE Faculty Awards of Excellence in Research.  See the web site for details.

  • Professor Shin delivered a lecture in the graduate seminar series at University of Illinois in Urbana Champaign  on Feb. 24, 2018 with the topic of “Laser-based Advanced Manufacturing and Materials Processing.

  • Professor Shin was an invited speaker at the SPIE Photonics West in San Francisco from Jan. 27-Feb. 1, 2018 and gave a talk with the title of "Additive Manufacturing: Capabilities, Challenges and Future".

  • Xiangyang Dong received his Ph.D. in 2017 and began an academic career at the Missouri University of Science and Technology as an assistant professor.

  • Professor Shin gave a seminar at Georgia Institute of Technology on Oct. 24, 2017 with the topic of “Can Lasers Light Up Advanced Manufacturing and Materials Processing Arena?”

  • Professor Shin gave a talk as an invited speaker with the title of “Ultrafast Laser Induced Plasmas: Modeling, Measurement and Its Implication”, at the Symposium on Applied Spectroscopy and Photonics (SASP), Purdue University Chapter of Society for Applied Spectroscopy, which was held on September 16th, 2017.

  • The paper co-authored by Abhishek Ajri (MSME, 2017) and Professor Yung Shin received the best paper award (2nd place) out of more than 250 refereed papers presented at the 2017 Manufacturing Science and Engineering Conference held in Los Angeles during June 4-8, 2017.   The presented paper was subsequently published in the ASME Transactions on Journal of Manufacturing Science and Engineering.

  • A happy time with former and current group members and friends during Awards Luncheon at the 2017 MSEC held in Los Angeles on June 4-8, 2017.  

      At MED Award Luncheon with former and current group members

      Another Angle

  • Kyung-Min Hong has been awarded the Adelberg Fellowship for 2017-2018.  He is one of the three recipients of this prestigious fellowship.

  • Professor Shin received the SME/NAMRI S.M. Wu Research Implementation Award on June 30, 2016 for his pioneering work on laser-assisted machining and industrial implementation during the 2016 MSEC/NAMRC conference held in Blacksburgh, Virginia.   See the announcement and SME web site

  • Professor Shin gave an invited talk at the Workshop on Predictive Theoretical and Computational Approaches for Additive Manufacturing held on Oct. 7-9, 2015 at the National Academy of Science in Washington, DC.   His lecture can be viewed from the NAS web site.

  • Professor Shin delivered a lecture as an invited speaker for the Department Seminar Series with the title of "Lasers in Advanced Manufacturing and Materials Processing" at Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina, on March 25, 2016.

  • Professor Shin delivered a lecture with the title of "Can lasers light up new advanced manufacturing and materials processing?" as the distinguished speaker at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, Utah, on Oct. 9, 2015.

  • Yunfeng Cao completed his Ph.D. in 2015 and is now working at Ford.

  • Professor Shin was recognized on June 1, 2015 at Cobo Hall in Detroit, Michigan, during SME Gala with the SME Fredrick W. Taylor Research Medal for his significant contributions to the science and art of manufacturing processes.  For further information, see the press release.

is recognized with the SME Frederick W. Taylor Research Medal for his significant contributions to the science and art of manufacturing processes - See more at: http://www.sme.org/2015-honor-award-winners/#sthash.BTZ8h1Se.dpuf
is recognized with the SME Frederick W. Taylor Research Medal for his significant contributions to the science and art of manufacturing processes - See more at: http://www.sme.org/2015-honor-award-winners/#sthash.BTZ8h1Se.dpuf
is recognized with the SME Frederick W. Taylor Research Medal for his significant contributions to the science and art of manufacturing processes - See more at: http://www.sme.org/2015-honor-award-winners/#sthash.BTZ8h1Se.dpuf
is recognized with the SME Frederick W. Taylor Research Medal for his significant contributions to the science and art of manufacturing processes - See more at: http://www.sme.org/2015-honor-award-winners/#sthash.BTZ8h1Se.dpuf
is recognized with the SME Frederick W. Taylor Research Medal for his significant contributions to the science and art of manufacturing processes - See more at: http://www.sme.org/2015-honor-award-winners/#sthash.BTZ8h1Se.dpuf
is recognized with the SME Frederick W. Taylor Research Medal for his significant contributions to the science and art of manufacturing processes - See more at: http://www.sme.org/2015-honor-award-winners/#sthash.BTZ8h1Se.dpuf

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Former Students

  • Wenda Tan moved to the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Michigan from the University of Utah, 2021.

  • Christopher Katinas received his Ph.D. and joined the Sandia National Laboratory as a postdoc in 2021.

  • Nitin Rohatgi finished his M.S. program and joined ASML.

  • Neil Bailey was recently promoted to a group manager overseeing additive manufacturing at FCA in Kokomo Indiana.

  • Gaurav Inamke defended his M.S. thesis in 2019 and began the career at Bruker.

  • Frank Pfefferkorn has been promoted to the rank of full professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2019.

  • David Shamine is now Engineering Manager at the General Dynamics.

  • Chengying "Cheryl" Xu joined the Mechanical Engineering department of North Carolina State University as associate professor, 2018.

  • Wenqian Hu has been promoted to Product Validation Engineering Manager at Cummins in 2018.  Congratulations.

  • Hongtao Ding, assistant professor at the University of Iowa, has been promoted to the rank of associate professor in 2018.

  • Abhishek Ajri completed his M.S. degree and began his career at Glidewell Laboratories in 2017.

  • Pooja Shah completed her M.S. degree and began her career at Apple, 2017

  • Xiangyang Dong began an academic career at the University of Missouri Science and Technology as an assistant professor in 2017.

  • Xin Zhao at Clemson University was selected as a recipient of 2018 SME Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award.

 

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