Prof. Naichen Shi — Research Profile
Northwestern University · Mechanical Engineering
Graduate application deadlines
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. Naichen Shi at Northwestern University Mechanical Engineering lists Advanced Manufacturing, AI and Design, Computational Engineering as their registered research area.
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Recent papers
- Intelligent SEEQPI enables reconstruction of inhibitory neuronal nuclei and dry-mass mapping deep in the living mouse brainNewPreprintbioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · Oct 28
- Adaptive Transfer of Representational Signatures for LLM Reliability DetectionPreprintarXiv (Cornell University) · Oct 24
- Delay-Guided Attention for Quality Prediction in Multistage ManufacturingPreprintarXiv (Cornell University) · Oct 21
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