Jiaqin Chen Ph.D Student of Computer Science M.S. Student of Mechanical Engineering

Education

• Ph.D. (expected in 2007) in Computer Science
  Department of Computer Science, University of Wisconsin at Madison
• M.S. (2006) in Mechanical Engineering
  Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Wisconsin at Madison
• M.S. (2004) in Computer Science
  Department of Computer Science, University of Wisconsin at Madison
• Ph.D. (2001) in Physics
  Department of Modern Physics, University of Science and Technology of China
• B.S. (1997) in Electric Engineering
  Special Class of the Gifted Young, University of Science and Technology of China

Award

• Best Paper Award, ASME 32nd Design Automation Conference (2006)

Experience

• 09/2002 - present, Research Assistant, Department of Mechanical Engineering, UW-Madison
• 05/2005 - 08/2005, Intern, GE Global Research Center, General Electric Company, Niskayuna, NY
• 09/1997 - 07/2001, Research Assistant, Huawei Institute of Information Science and Fast Electronics Laboratory, University of Science & Technology of China
• 09/1997 - 01/1998, Teaching Assistant, Department of Modern Physics, University of Science & Technology of China

Selected Technical Reports and Publications

• J. Chen, M. Freytag, and V. Shapiro, Shape Sensitivity of Constructively Represented Geometric Models, submitted.
• J. Chen, and V. Shapiro, Optimization of Continuous Heterogeneous Models, to appear in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2007.
• J. Chen, M. Freytag, and V. Shapiro, Shape Sensitivity of Constructive Representations, Proceedings of the 2007 ACM Symposium on Solid and Physical Modeling, 85-95, 2007, Beijing, China.
• J. Chen, A Meshfree Approach for Topology Optimization, Master's thesis, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Wisconsin at Madison, 2006.
• J. Chen, V. Shapiro, K. Suresh, and I. Tsukanov, Shape Optimization with Topological Changes and Parametric Control, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, 71(3):313-346, 2007.
• P. Singh, Y. Wu, R. Kaucic, J. Chen, and F. Little, Multimodal Industrial Inspection and Analysis, ASME Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering, 7(1):102-107, 2007.
• J. Chen, V. Shapiro, K. Suresh, and I. Tsukanov, Parametric and topological control in shape optimization, Proceedings of ASME 2006 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference, September 10-13, 2006, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. ( Best Paper Award .)

Recent Project

• Optimization of Continuous Heterogeneous Models
• Shape Sensitivity of Constructive Representations
• Parametric and Topological Control in Shape Optimization