Members

Principal Investigator

Prof. Yang Xu is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Data and Systems Engineering at The University of Hong Kong (HKU). He earned his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Beihang University, a Ph.D. in Industrial and Systems Engineering, and an M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Southern California (USC). Before joining HKU, Prof. Xu was a postdoctoral research associate at UC Berkeley.

Prof. Xu’s research is dedicated to advancing design and manufacturing technologies with the potential to transform future product design and production. His current focus areas include next-generation additive manufacturing (AM) processes, intelligent manufacturing systems, and innovative designs empowered by AI/ML.
 

Awards and Honors

05/2022    William F. Ballhaus Jr. Prize for Excellence in Graduate Engineering Research, Viterbi School of Engineering Best Ph.D. Dissertation Award (runner-up), USC

04/2022    Best Ph.D. Dissertation Award, USC’s Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering

06/2021    Selected Doctoral Symposium Speaker, ASME 2021 Manufacturing Science and Engineering Conference (MSEC2021)

04/2021    Student Support Award, National Science Foundation (NSF)

06/2020    Best Paper Award (2nd Place), ASME 2020 Manufacturing Science and Engineering Conference (MSEC2020)

08/2017    Plenary Speaker, 2017 Annual International Solid Freeform Fabrication Symposium (SFF Symp 2017)

08/2016    Viterbi Graduate School Ph.D. Fellowship, University of Southern California

Ongoing Students at HKU

Postdocs:

• Dou Hu (from Northwestern Polytechnical University, 2024~)
• Ming Li (from Imperial College London, 2024~)
• Luting Wang (from Northeastern University of China, National University of Singapore, 2024~)

Ph.D. Students:

• Mengxuan Gao (from Beihang University, 2024~)
• Xue Lei (from Sichuan University, 2024~)
• Yuhu Li (from Beihang University, 2024~)
• Chengkun Zhang (from Chu Kochen Honors College, Zhejiang University, HKPFS/HKUPS recipient, 2025~)
• ​Likun Ye (from the University of Hong Kong, 2025~)

M.S. Students:

• ​Jialiang Kang (from Xi’an Jiaotong University, 2025~)

Students mentored at USC and UC Berkeley

Ph.D. students:

• William Dong (currently a Ph.D. student at UC Berkeley)
• Yeowon Yoon (currently a Ph.D. student at USC)
• Manqi Li (currently a Ph.D. student at USC)
• Yichen Cui (currently a Ph.D. student at USC)

M.S. students:

• Wenhao Zhang (currently a Ph.D. student at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University)
• Zhengyu Du (currently a Ph.D. student at Virginia Tech)
• Xu Ouyang (currently a Ph.D. student at the University at Buffalo)
• Weijia Yan (currently a Ph.D. student at Texas A&M University)
• Zhuoyuan Yang (currently a Ph.D. student at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University)
• Klaus Zhou (currently working as a mechanical engineer at A&C Kings, LLC, CA)
• Yun Zhou (currently working as a mechanical engineer at BYD Electronics America Corp., CA)
• David Gao (currently a Ph.D. student at the University of Nottingham)
• Yujie Shan (currently a Ph.D. student at Purdue University)
• Jingwen Gong (currently a Ph.D. student at the University of Southern California)
• Fangjie Qi (currently a Ph.D. student at North Carolina State University)
• Yifeng Sun (currently working as a mechanical engineer in Beijing, China)
• Yizhen Zhu (currently a Ph.D. student at Arizona State University)
• Siyu Gong (currently a co-founder of Syncstore Inc. CA)

B.S. students:

• Ziqi Wang (currently a Ph.D. student at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, EPFL)
• Cole Dunn (currently a undergraduate student at UC Berkeley)