Zheng is absolutely thrilled to share that our paper has won the prestigious Prof. Avram Bar-Cohen Best Paper Award in the Data Centers Thermal Management track at 2026 IEEE ITherm!
Zheng is incredibly grateful to our outstanding speakers for making our 2026 IISE Annual Conference session “Large Language Models & Generative AI in Manufacturing” (sub-session under Manufacturing & Design track) such a resounding success!
Zheng had a blast giving a talk at the Michigan Energy Efficiency Conference + Exhibition 2026! We discussed how to tackle data center thermal management using AI and digital twins, bridging the gap between theory and practice to achieve real-world energy savings for data centers.
IML is happy to share that Zheng secured his second funding (also as single PI): Physics-Informed Machine Learning for Data Center Cooling Systems Control Co-Design Optimization. IML will be diving deep into the world of data center cooling to push the boundaries of next generation AI infrastructure.
IML is happy to share that Zheng secured his first funding (also as a PI): Digital Light Processing of Passive Visible Light Tags. IML will be diving deep into the world of 3D printed smart tags alongside Professor Xiao Zhang and Professor Jing Tang to push the boundaries of smart manufacturing.
At the 2026 AIAA SciTech conference, Zheng presented Support-Free Additive Manufacturing via Multi-Axis Digital Light Processing, introducing a robotic, multi-axis DLP 3D-printing framework aimed at eliminating sacrificial supports for complex geometries.
Zheng is incredibly grateful to our outstanding invited speakers for making our 2025 INFORMS session “AI/ML for Complex Engineering Systems” (invited sub-session under Quality, Statistics & Reliability track) such a resounding success!
The Intelligent Manufacturing Lab (IML) at the University of Michigan-Dearborn is an innovative research space dedicated to advancing AI-driven engineering solutions. Our lab brings together students and faculty to tackle complex challenges at the intersection of artificial intelligence, manufacturing, and energy systems.
