News
September, 2026
Amir Vahedi presents at IROS 2027 our new paper GAASP: Graph-Based Automated Assembly Sequencing and Planning
August, 2026
New NSF grant SPI2-F: A Unified, Extensible, and Differentiable Optimization Framework for Conceptual Design of Complex Engineered Systems
August, 2026
Best Paper Award: our paper titled Spatial Packaging and Routing Optimization of Complex Interacting Engineered Systems received the 2025 Editor’s Choice (Best Paper) Award for the ASME Journal of Mechanical Design!
January, 2026
New paper published SPGD Steepest Perturbed Gradient Descent Optimization
January 2026
New invention disclosure with Amir Vahedi titled Contact Graph-Guided Disassembly Planning for Assembly with Physics-Based Validation
November, 2025
Horea Ilies gave an invited seminar at University of Delaware
August, 2025
New US Patent Electrowetting For Drop-On-Demand Metal Additive Manufacturing, Patent #US12397549B2, with Jiangce Chen
August, 2025
Mohammad officially graduated and started his position with Google X, The Moonshot Factory
January 2026
New invention disclosure with Amir Vahedi titled Medial-Bot - A Reconfigurable Robotic Platform for Shape-Adaptive Locomotion
January, 2025
New paper published Spatial Packaging and Routing Optimization of Complex Interacting Engineered Systems
November, 2024
Horea Ilies gave an invited seminar at Carnegie Mellon University on Design Space Parametrizations and Their Role in Mechanical Design Space Exploration.
November, 2024
Mohammad successfully defended his PhD thesis. Congratulations!
October, 2024
Our new paper on Spatial Packaging and Routing Optimization of Complex Interacting Engineered Systems has been accepted to ASME JMD.
August, 2024
Mohammad Behzadi and Amir Vahedi presented their work at ASME IDETC 2024 in Washington DC
August, 2024
Welcome Syed Ahmad to the group. Syed is a new PhD student.
August, 2024
Congratulations to Kyle Vu for his MS defense and graduation
July, 2024
Horea Ilies gave a keynote presentation at WCCM 2024 in Vancouver
July, 2024
New ARK 2024 paper out: The Evolving Role of Robot Kinematics in Bio-Nanotechnology
April, 2024
New Nano Today paper on synthesizing controllable cyclic peptides as novel biomaterials
March, 2024
Book chapter on exploring the role of robot kinematics in bio-nanotechnology to appear, with K. Kazerounian
February, 2024
Our CAD paper on improving connectedness of ML predictions is out
August, 2023
Amir and Rakesh have joined the CDL team. Welcome to the group!
August, 2023
Mohammad presented a paper at IDETC 2023
August, 2023
Meysam started a postdoc position at Stanford
July, 2023
The DREAM Research center officially launches
June, 2023
New paper on biodegradable sensors appears in Science Advances
June, 2023
Meysam successfully defended his MS thesis in BME
June, 2023
New paper on actuating nanorobots appears in ARK
January, 2023
Jiangce started a postdoc position @ CMU
November, 2022
Jiangce successfully defended his PhD thesis
September, 2022
Our GAN applied to protein contact map prediction showcased in the Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal.
August, 2022
Meysam successfully defended his MS thesis in BME
August, 2022
The overview paper on SPI was published in JMD
February, 2022
New paper on graph-based shape analysis of heterogeneous geometric datasets appears in CAD
November, 2021
Jiangce successfully defended his MS thesis in CS