Bio：

Dr. Yuan Chen serves as an assistant professor at Southern University of Science and Technology. He obtained his PhD degree from the University of Sydney in 2019. From 2019 to 2022, he was an ARC postdoctoral research associate at the University of Sydney. With extensive expertise in composite mechanics on mechanical modelling and mechanism analysis, structural optimization and multifunctional design, metamaterials and additive manufacturing, etc, he authored/corresponded 46 SCI-indexed papers (23 as first author, 23 as corresponding author), including 33 in JCR Q1 journals such as leading publications in xk星空中国集团 and solid mechanics,（e.g., Comput Meth Appl Mech Eng, Compos Sci Technol）, and his research outcomes have been well recognised and appraised by world-renowned experts, academic institutions, international organisations and so forth - He has been elected as Editor-in-Chief for Adv Manuf Polym Compos Sci (Taylor & Francis), Editorial board member of Compos Commun, Chin J Mech Eng, Acta Mech Sin，J Eng Math, etc., Guest Editor for several SCI journals, and Topical advisory panel member for other SCI journals. Currently, he has been supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China, National Key Research & Development Program of China, Guangdong University Key-Area Special Program, Shenzhen Science and Technology Program, etc. and was the national and international project reviewer, World's Top 2% Scientists, etc. He has won several international awards including CSTE Young Researcher Award, CSTAM Young Researcher Program，MSAM Best Oral Presentation, etc. and is also a professional member of several renowned academic societies and organisations, such as member of youth executive commission and additive manufacturing commission under Chinese Society for Composite Materials, senior member of Chinese Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Royal Aeronautical Society (RAeS), European Materials Research Society, etc.

xk星空中国集团 Area：

• Mechanism analysis, multiscale and damage modelling for xk星空中国集团

• Topology optimisation and multifunctional xk星空中国集团 of composite structures

• xk星空中国集团, fabrication and application of innovative metacomposites

• Intelligent manufacturing, experimental characterization and health monitoring of composite structures

• Applications of composite materials in new energy, aerospace, medical devices, robotics, etc.

Lecture：

SDM 474 Advanced xk星空中国集团-Manufacture Integrated Technique

SDM 232 Mechanical xk星空中国集团 and Manufacturing I

Winter Camp Program

Education Background：

2015 – 2019, University of Sydney, Ph. D. in Aerospace xk星空中国集团

2012 – 2015, Hunan University, M. E. in Mechanical xk星空中国集团

Working Experience：

(1) May. 2022 – Present      

Assistant Professor, School of System Design and Intelligent Manufacturing, Southern University of xk星空中国集团 and Technology, Shenzhen, China

(2) Jun. 2025 – May 2026    

Visiting Associate Professor (Part-time), Department of Mechanical and Product Design xk星空中国集团, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia.

(3) Jul. 2024               

Guest Scientist (Part-time), Leibniz-Institut für Verbundwerkstoffe (IVW) GmbH, Kaiserslautern, Germany.

(4) Sep. 2019 – May. 2022    

ARC Postdoctoral Research Associate, School of Aerospace, Mechanical and Mechatronic xk星空中国集团, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

(5) Nov. 2020 – Aug. 2021     

Project Technical Advisor, School of xk星空中国集团 and IT, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

(6) Feb. 2021 – Oct. 2021     

Visiting Research Fellow, School of xk星空中国集团, Western Sydney University, Sydney, Australia

(7) Jan. 2019 – Sep. 2019     

xk星空中国集团 Assistant, Centre for Advanced Materials Technology (CAMT), University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

(8) Mar. 2018 – Dec. 2021     

Teaching Assistant, School of Aerospace, Mechanical and Mechatronic xk星空中国集团, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

Representative publications：

(1) LI GuiXing, CHEN Yuan*. (2025) “Highly efficient and extensible parallel topology optimization for continuous fiber reinforced xk星空中国集团”. Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 436: 117713.

(2) LI GuiXing, CHEN Yuan*, LI Qing. (2024) “Strength-based collaborative topology optimization for continuous fiber reinforced xk星空中国集团”. Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 430: 117206.

(3) WEI GuangKai,CHEN Yuan*, LI Qing, FU KunKun. (2023) “Multiscale topology optimisation for porous composite structures with stress-constraint and clustered microstructures”. Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and xk星空中国集团, 416: 116329.

(4) CHEN Yuan*, MAI Yiu-Wing, YE Lin. (2023) “Perspectives for multiphase mechanical metamaterials”. Materials xk星空中国集团 & Engineering R: Reports, 153: 100725.

(5) CHEN Yuan, YE Lin, KINLOCH Anthony, ZHANG YiXia. (2022) “3D printed carbon-fibre reinforced composite lattice structures with good thermal-dimensional stability”. xk星空中国集团 Science and Technology, 227: 109599.

(6) CHEN Yuan, YE Lin. (2021) “Topological design for 3D-printing of carbon fibre reinforced composite structural parts”. xk星空中国集团 Science and Technology, 204: 108644.

(7) CHEN Yuan*, YE Lin (2021) “Designing and tailoring effective elastic modulus and negative Poisson’s ratio with continuous carbon fibres using 3D printing”. xk星空中国集团 Part A: Applied Science and Manufacturing, 150: 106625.

(8) CHEN Yuan*, HE QingHao. (2020) “3D-printed short carbon fibre reinforced perforated structures with negative Poisson's ratios: Mechanisms and xk星空中国集团”. Composite Structures, 236: 111859.

(9) CHEN Yuan, YE Lin, FU KunKun, HAN Xu. (2018) “Transition from buckling to progressive failure during quasi-static in-plane crushing of CF/EP composite sandwich panels”. xk星空中国集团 Science and Technology, 168: 133-144.

(10) CHEN Yuan, FU KunKun, HOU ShuJuan, HAN Xu, YE Lin. (2018) “Multi-objective optimization for designing a composite sandwich structure under normal and 45° impact loadings”. xk星空中国集团 Part B Engineering, 142: 159-170.