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Education

PhD in Civil Engineering (Full Scholarship, Oct 2020–Oct 2024)

Centre for Innovative Structures and Materials (CISM), RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia

Supervisors: Distinguished Professor Yi Min "Mike" Xie, Dr Ting-Uei "Jeff" Lee, and Professor Roland Snooks.

Research interests: Topology optimization, Structural design, Extended reality (XR), Computational design, and Advanced manufacturing.

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Bachelor of Fine Arts (Environment Design, Sep 2014–Jul 2018)

GPA: 3.49/4 | School of Architecture, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China

Publications

Journal Articles:


Conference Paper:

  • Z. Li, T.-U. Lee and Y. M. Xie, “Exploring and optimizing innovative structures in virtual reality,” in Proceedings of the IASS Annual Symposium 2024: Redefining the Art of Structural Design, Zurich, Switzerland, Aug. 25–30, P. Block, G. Boller, C. D. Wolf, J. Pauli and W. Kaufmann (Eds.), 2024, pp. 1–10.

  • Z. Li, T.-U. Lee and Y. M. Xie, “Topology optimisation considering subjective preferences: current progress and challenges,” in Proceedings of the IASS Annual Symposium 2023: Integration of Design and Fabrication, Melbourne, Australia, Jul. 10–14, 2023, Y. M. Xie, J. Burry, T.-U. Lee and J. Ma (Eds.), 2023, pp. 2430–2440.

  • M. Bi, Y. He, Z. Li, T.-U. Lee, Y. M. Xie, “Creating novel dynamic architectural forms from kinetic elastica-ruled surfaces,” in Proceedings of the IASS Annual Symposium 2022: Innovation, Sustainability and Legacy, Beijing, China, Sep. 19–22, 2022, S.-D. Xue, J.-Z. Wu and G.-J. Sun (Eds.), 2022, pp. 2051–2061.


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Awards & Hornors

Experience

Work​:

  • Research Assistant (Postdoctoral, Full-time), School of Engineering, STEM College, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia (Sep 2024–Present).

  • Software developer (Internship), Nanjing Ameba Engineering Structural Optimization Research Institute Co., Ltd., Nanjing, China (Sep 2019–Dec 2019).

  • Research and Development Engineer (Full-time), Shanghai Xie Yimin Structural Design Office Co., Ltd, Shanghai, China (Jul 2018–Jul 2019).

  • Intern Computational Designer (Online Internship), Heroes Architects & Engineers Co., LTD, Tianjin, China (Oct 2016–Jan 2017).

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Talks​:

  • Presenter, Exploring and optimizing innovative structures in virtual reality, IASS 2024 Symposium Conference, Zurich, Switzerland (Aug 2024).

  • Guest lecturer, Digital design based on structural topology optimization techniques (Chinese), School of Architecture, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China (Nov 2023).

  • Presenter, Topology optimization considering subjective preferences: current progress and challenges, IASS 2023 Symposium Conference, Melbourne, Australia (Jul 2023).

  • Presenter, Interactive structural topology optimization with subjective scoring and drawing systems, IDD Webinar (May 2023).

  • Guest lecturer, Algorithm-inspired design: Computational design based on topology optimization (Chinese), School of Architecture, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China (Oct 2020).

  • Guest lecturer, Mesh-driven computational design (Chinese), Nanjing Tech University, Nanjing, China (Dec 2019).

  • Guest lecturer, Ameba: Computational design based on topology optimization (Chinese), College of Design & Innovation, Tongji University, Shanghai, China (Jun 2019).

 

Teaching:

  • Guest supervisor, Graduation projects for undergraduate students (Architecture), School of Architecture, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China (Sep 2024–Present).

  • Guest supervisor, Graduation projects for undergraduate students (Architecture), School of Architecture, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China (Sep 2023–Jul 2024).

  • Teaching assistant, Digital FUTURES 2019: X-Form, DigitalFUTURES, Shanghai, China (Jun 2019–Jul 2019).

  • Tutor, Tianjin University and the University of California, Los Angeles Joint Design Studio, Los Angeles, USA (Sep 2017–Dec 2017).

  • Teaching assistant, Tsinghua Architecture Summer School Parametric Design Workshop 2017, School of Architecture, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China (Jul 2017–Aug 2017).

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Grants:

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Volunteering:​

  • Graphic designer, IASS 2023 Symposium Conference, Melbourne, Australia (Sep 2022–Jul 2023).

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Workshop:

  • Student, 7th Summer Workshop "DigitalFUTURES Shanghai 2017 - Visualization vs. Materialization" Group 6: Cellular Cavity Structure for Shells with Thin Sheet Materials, DigitalFUTURES, Shanghai, China (Jun 2017).

  • Student, Robotic Timber Construction: Reciprocal Frame, Tsinghua Architecture Summer School Parametric Design Workshop 2016, School of Architecture, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China (Jul 2016).

  • Student, Robotic Fabrication for Foldable Steel Plate Structures, Laboratory for Creative Design, Shanghai, China (Aug 2016).

  • Student, the specialized course Place & Atmosphere, Bauhaus Summer School 2015, Weimar, Germany (Aug 2015).​

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