Yong Chen
Assistant Professor
Industrial and Systems Engineering
Phone: (213) 740-7829
Fax: (213) 740-1120
Email: yongchen@usc.edu
Web page: www-rcf.usc.edu/~yongchen
Education
Dr. Chen received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from Zhejiang University (Hangzhou, Zhejian, China) and Huazhong University of Science and Technology (Wuhan, Hubei, China) in 1993 and 1996, respectively. He received his Ph.D. degree from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2001. All the degrees are in Mechanical Engineering.
Experience
Dr. Chen worked for five years as a Senior Research and Development Engineer in 3D Systems, Inc. in Valencia, California (2001~2006). He also worked for a year and a half as a lecturer in the School of Mechanical Engineering and a research scientist in the Computer-Aided Design (CAD) Center at Huazhong University of Science and Technology (1996~1997).
Research Interests
- Computer-aided design tools for additive manufacturing
- Process development for Rapid Prototyping and Tooling
- Geometric reasoning in product design, analysis and manufacturing
Recent Publications
- Charlie C.L. Wang, Yong Chen, “Layered Depth-Normal Images: a Sparse Implicit Representation of Solid Models.” Computer-aided Design (accepted).
- Yong Chen, Shanglong Wang, “Computer-aided Product Design with Performance-Tailored Mesostructures.” Computer-aided Design and Application, Vol. 5, No. 1-4, pp. 565-576, 2008.
- Yong Chen, “An Accurate Sampling-based Method for Approximating Geometry.” Computer-aided Design, Vol. 39, No. 11, pp. 975-986, 2007.
- Yong Chen, “3D Texture Mapping for Rapid Manufacturing.” Computer-aided Design and Application, Vol. 4, No. 6, pp. 761-771, 2007.
- Hongqing Wang, Yong Chen, and David Rosen, “A Hybrid Geometric Modeling Method for Large Scale Conformal Cellular Structures.” ASME Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering, 2007 (accepted).
- Yong Chen, Hongqing Wang, David Rosen, and Jarek Rossignac, “A Point-Based Offsetting Method of Polygonal Meshes.” ASME Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering (in review).
- Tom Kerekes, Jouni Partanen, Yong Chen, Charles Hull. “Improved Wall Smoothness, Feature Accuracy and Resolution in Projected Images via Exposure Levels in Solid Imaging”. 3D Systems, Inc. (USP Applied, July 2006, in pending).
