Cao Research Group
Northwestern University · Mechanical Engineering
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Mechanical Engineering
PhD in Mechanical Engineering
Fall 2027Application deadline
Dec 15, 2026
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Source: mccormick.northwestern.eduChecked Nov 2, 2026
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Prof. Jian Cao at Northwestern University Mechanical Engineering lists Advanced Manufacturing, Computational Engineering, AI and Design, Robotics and Autonomy as their registered research area.
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Recent papers
- Hierarchy of property gradients in dissimilar transient liquid phase bonds between wrought and additively manufactured alloysMaterials & Design · Oct 7
- UNiCO-AM: Uncertainty-aware Neural Co-design for Additive Manufacturing via an Attention-based Spatio-Temporal Neural Operator and Bayesian OptimizationManufacturing Letters · Oct 1
- Mesh-structured graph neural network surrogates for 3D sheet metal forming process predictionManufacturing Letters · Sep 28
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