Publications
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Journal Publications
Graph Neural Network-Enabled Manufacturing Method Classification from Engineering Drawings
Liuyue Xie, Yao Lu, Tomotake Furuhata, Soji Yamakawa, Wentai Zhang, Amit Regmi, Levent Burak Kara, and Kenji Shimada. Computers in Industry, 2022.
A Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach for Global Routing
Haiguang Liao, Wentai Zhang, Xuliang Dong, Barnabas Poczos, Kenji Shimada, Levent Burak Kara. Journal of Mechanical Design, 2020, 142(6).
Data-driven Upsampling of Point Clouds
Wentai Zhang, Haoliang Jiang*, Zhangsihao Yang*, Soji Yamakawa, Kenji Shimada, Levent Burak Kara. Computer-Aided Design, 112(2019), p1-13. doi: 10.1016/j.cad.2019.02.006.
High Degree of Freedom Hand Pose Tracking Using Limited Strain Sensing and Optical Training
Wentai Zhang, Jonelle Z. Yu, Fangcheng Zhu, Yifang Zhu, Zhangsihao Yang, Nurcan Gecer Ulu, Batuhan Arisoy, Levent Burak Kara. Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering, 19.3(2019), p.031014. doi: 10.1115/1.4043757.
Conference Publications
Data Augmentation of Engineering Drawings for Data-Driven Component Segmentation
Wentai Zhang, Quan Chen, Can Koz, Liuyue Xie, Amit Regmi, Soji Yamakawa, Tomotake Furuhata, Kenji Shimada, and Levent Burak Kara. Proceedings of ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences/CIE, 2022.
Flaw Detection in Metal Additive Manufacturing Using Deep Learned Acoustic Features
Wentai Zhang, Brandon Abranovic, Jacob Hanson-Regalado, Can Koz, Bhavya Duvvuri, Kenji Shimada, Jack Beuth, Levent Burak Kara. Workshop of Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2020.
3D Shape Synthesis for Conceptual Design and Optimization Using Variational Autoencoders
Wentai Zhang, Zhangsihao Yang, Haoliang Jiang, Suyash Nigam, Soji Yamakawa, Tomotake Furuhata, Kenji Shimada, Levent Burak Kara. Proceedings of ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences/CIE, Anaheim, California, 2019.
High Degree of Freedom Hand Pose Tracking Using Limited Strain Sensing and Optical Training
Wentai Zhang, Jonelle Z. Yu, Fangcheng Zhu, Yifang Zhu, Nurcan Gecer Ulu, Batuhan Arisoy, Levent Burak Kara. Proceedings of ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences/CIE, Quebec City, Canada, 2018.
Machine learning enabled powder spreading process map for metal additive manufacturing (AM)
Wentai Zhang, Akash Mehta, Prathamesh S Desai, C. Fred Higgs III. Proceedings of the 28th Annual International Solid Freeform Fabrication Symposium, Austin, TX, 2017.
Poster / Presentations
Acoustic Process Monitoring of Metal Additive Manufacturing
Brandon Abranovic*, Wentai Zhang*, Haiguang Liao, Levent Burak Kara, Jack Lee Beuth. the 30th Annual International Solid Freeform Fabrication Symposium, Austin, TX, 2019.
Functionally-Based Conceptual Design Through Data-Driven Shape Analysis
Wentai Zhang, Zhangsihao Yang, Haoliang Jiang, Soji Yamakawa, Kenji Shimada, Levent Burak Kara. Machine Learning in Science and Engineering, Atlanta, GA, 2019.
On AM Spreading Process Maps Obtained Using Polydispersed Particle Modeling and Machine Learning
Prathamesh Desai, Akash Mehta, Wentai Zhang, C. Fred Higgs III. the 29th Annual International Solid Freeform Fabrication Symposium, Austin, TX, 2018.
3D Shape Abstraction and Style Transfer Using Deep Learning
Wentai Zhang, Zhangsihao Yang, Haoliang Jiang, Kenji Shimada, Levent Burak Kara. Machine Learning in Science and Engineering, Pittsburgh, PA, 2018.
* Equal contributions.