Journal of Mechanical Design

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Jie Zhang

Dr. Jie Zhang is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (Affiliated) at the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD). Dr. Zhang received his Ph.D. (2012) in Mechanical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), Troy, NY, USA. His research expertise and interests are sustainable energy […]

Stefan Menzel

Stefan Menzel is a Chief Scientist with the Optimization and Creativity Group at the Honda Research Institute Europe, Offenbach, Germany. He received a Dipl.-Ing. degree in civil engineering from RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany, and a Ph.D. degree in civil engineering from Technical University Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany. His current research interests include evolutionary optimization with […]

Cyril Picard

Cyril Picard is a Swiss National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He received is B.Sc., M.Sc., and Doctor of Science, all in Mechanical Engineering from EPFL (École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne). His research is focused on exploring the use of machine learning to support the design of complex mechanical […]

Douglas Allaire

Dr. Douglas Allaire is an Associate Professor and Sallie and Don Davis ’61 Faculty Fellow in the J. Mike Walker ’66 Department of Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M University where he directs the Computational Design Lab (CDL).  He holds B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute […]

Faez Ahmed

Faez Ahmed is an assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT, where he leads the Design Computation and Digital Engineering (DeCoDE) lab. His research focuses on developing new machine learning and optimization methods to study complex engineering design problems. His recent work includes proposing automated design synthesis methods to generate novel high-performance […]

Mark Fuge

Mark Fuge is an Associated Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Maryland, College Park, where he is also an affiliate faculty in the Institute for Systems Research and a member of the Maryland Robotics Center and Human-Computer Interaction Lab. His staff and students study fundamental scientific and mathematical questions behind how humans and […]

Michel-Alexandre Cardin

Michel-Alexandre Cardin

Dr. Michel-Alexandre Cardin is a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Computational Aided Engineering at the Dyson School of Design Engineering, Imperial College London.