IDesign: Integrated & Intelligent Structure Design and Analysis

     Our research efforts are mainly devoted to exploring advanced computational theory and leading techniques to revolutionize functional product design procedure, and to advance the development of cutting-edge intelligent geometric computation and physical simulation theory, algorithms and techniques. This is mainly being achieved via developing the next generation intelligent CAD kernel to avoid the limitations of convetional industrial CAD softwares including, intensive CAD model fixing, cleaning-up, meshing, reconstruction and huge computional efforts. This fundamental and focused research area lies in between research directions on: geometry computing, computational mathematics and computational physics, artificial intelligent and parallel computings. The research topic particularly covers: intelligent 3D generative design, next CAD kernel, error-tolerant engineering analysis, mega-scale micro-structure design. The research has turned out more than 60 publications in leading international publications, including JCAD, ACM TOG, IEEE TVCG, CMAME, IJNME, JCP etc, and has found wide industrial applications in various national industrial applications. The researches are supported by projects from NSFC, the Ministry of Science and Technology and leading industrial parteners.

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Publications

Computer-Aided Design, 2025

Augmented sphere tracing for real-time editing mega-scale periodic shell-lattice structures


Computer Methods in App. Mech. and Eng, 2024

Coarsened C1 shape functions using B-spline patches for simulating ...


Computer-Aided Design, 2023

XVoxel-Based Parametric Design Optimization of Feature Models.


ACM Trans. Graphics (Siggraph), 2023

Topology-driven approximation to rational surface-surface intersections


The Visual Computer, 2024

Learning Microstructure-property Mapping Via Label-free 3D Convolutional Neural Network

IEEE Trans. Visual. and Comput. Graphics, 2024

Explicit Topology Optimization of Voronoi Foams.

Submitted, 2025

Conditioned Numer. Shape Func. on Unfitted Reduced Coarse Elements for Robust Analy. of Complex Solid Structures.

Computer-Aided Design, 2025

Physically reliable 3D styled shape generation via structure-aware topologyotimization in unified latent space

Our Team

Ming Li

Advisor
Design Optimization
Digital Material and Structures
Artificial Intelligence
Intelligent Design

Liangchao Zhu

Ph.D.
Interactive Simulation
Optimum Structural Design

Xingtong Yang

Ph.D.
Topology optimizatiom
Multi-material
Optimization algorithm

Dengyang Zhao

Ph.D.
Topology optimization
Additive Manufacturing
GPU Computing
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Jingqiao Hu

Ph.D.
Two-scale optimization
Microstructure
Inverse homogenization
Texture-guided

Wenbo Xu

Ph.D.
Graph Neural Network
Deep Learning

Wei Chen

Ph.D.
Crash Simulation
FEA

Peng Shen

Master
Prognostic and Health Management
Deep Learning
  • The new student enrollment period has started. Competent students are welcome to join our group on intelligent design and industrial applications, 202503.

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Welcome

Students interested in the next generation techniques for industrial design, including intelligent design, deep learning, CAD, physics simulation, large modeling and computing, and addictive manufacturing, are welcome to apply for graduate studies. Applicants are required to have experience in computer programming or numerical computing methods.

Contact Details

  • liming@cad.zju.edu.cn
  • State Key Laboratory of CAD&CG, Zijingang Campus, Zhejiang University. 310058, Hangzhou, China.