Qianying Cao
Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Qianying Cao
Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Bio
Dr. Cao’s research focuses on developing scientific machine learning methods to solve complex scientific and engineering problems. Her work spans structural behavior prediction, system identification and health monitoring, AI-aided design of metamaterials for additive manufacturing, and data-driven modeling for climate and engineering systems. She has published 28 peer-reviewed research articles, including journal publications in Nature Machine Intelligence, Nature Communications, and Advanced Materials. Before joining RIT, she was a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Division of Applied Mathematics at Brown University.
Openings
I am currently recruiting fully funded Ph.D. students to join my research group. Potential research directions include AI-aided material and structure co-design and analysis, as well as complex system dynamics and control.
I welcome highly motivated applicants with backgrounds in mechanical engineering, ocean engineering, mechatronics, applied mechanics, materials science, computational science, or related fields. Experience with machine learning, scientific computing, finite element analysis, CFD, dynamics, control, optimization, programming, or experimental testing will be considered positively.