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A new
patent based on our work has been issued: Methods of
Enhancing Surface Hardness of Quench-Sensitive Age-Hardening
Materials, Alloys Produced Therefrom, and Laser Cladding Systems
Therefor, YC Shin, C Grohol, US Patent 12,233,479 B2, March
10, 2025. See the full list of
patents.
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Professor Shin is serving as a chair of
The 2nd International Electronic Conference on Metals to be
held during May 5-May 7, 2025. This online conference is
sponsored by MDPI, Metals.
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Some
of our recent graduates are active in the industry and
government labs. Jeongwoo Lee and Corbin Grohol are now working
at Trumpf and Oerlikon AM, while Christopher Katinas and
Akanksha Parmar are working at the Sandia and Idaho National
Laboratories.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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".
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Corbin
Grohol was awarded the Bilsland Fellowship for 2023-2024.
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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.
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A
short video describing our group research activities on additive
manufacturing and ultrafast laser processing is now available on
youtube.
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Professor Shin assumed the role of Editor-in-Chief for
Advanced
Manufacturing, a fully open access journal, published by ELS Publishing.
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Professor Shin was elected as one of
the most impactful faculty inventors of 2022 at Purdue
University.
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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.
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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
.
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Professor Shin gave a
seminar in the Manufacturing Leadership
Seminars with the topic of Additive Manufacturing: Capabilities,
Challenges and Future on May 7, 2021.
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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.
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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.
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Shunyu
Liu defended her thesis in Dec. 2020 and began her academic
career as an assistant professor at Clemson University.
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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.
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Several undergraduates carried out research on data-driven
modeling of microstructure-property relationships during summer
of 2020. See their
youtube
video.
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Professor Shin was inducted into
Purdue Innovator Hall of Fame, on March 5, 2020.
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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.
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Mohamed Elkhateeb finished his Ph.D. defense and began his
career as an assistant professor at the Mansoura University,
where he came from.
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Neil
Bailey successfully defended his Ph.D. exam and now is working at
Fiat Chrysler Automobiles.
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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.
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A new
press release describing our work on creating microchannels with
superhydrophobic internal surfaces has come out. See
details here.
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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.
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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.
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News on the superhydrophobic surface creation has
been released.
Link to news release
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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.
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Professor Shin received the 2018 CoE
Faculty Awards of Excellence in Research. See the
web site for details.
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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.
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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".
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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.
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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?”
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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.
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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.
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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.
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At MED Award Luncheon with former and current
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Kyung-Min Hong has been awarded the Adelberg Fellowship for
2017-2018. He is one of the three recipients of this prestigious
fellowship.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Yunfeng Cao completed his Ph.D. in 2015 and is now working at
Ford.
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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.
