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Cheng, Lin

Cheng, Lin

Assistant Professor
Mechanical Engineering
Maryland Robotics Center
2108 Glenn L. Martin Hall, College Park, MD 20742

Dr. Lin Cheng joined University of Maryland, College Park (UMCP) as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering in 2024. Prior to this appointment, Dr. Cheng was an assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering at Wocester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) for three years.  Dr. Cheng received his PhD degree in mechanical engineering from University of Pittsburgh and worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Northwestern University from 2019 to 2021.  

EDUCATION

  • Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, 2019
  • M.S., Mechanical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 2014
  • B.S., Mechanical Engineering, Xi'an Jiao Tong University, 2011

HONORS AND AWARDS

  • NSF CAREER Award, 2026
  • James Nichols Heald Award in Mechanical and Materials Engineering at WPI, 2023
  • Fellow Competition Winner in virtual workshop, USACM, 2021
  • Best Research Assistant Award in Mechanical Engineering, UPitt, 2018
  • 1st Place in Poster Competition at RAPID + TCT conference, 2017
  • Graduate Travel Award at International Solid Freeform Fabrication Symposium, 2016, 2017

PROFESSIONAL SERVICES

  • Organizer/Chair of Conference: SES 2022, WCCM 2024
  • Journal Reviewer (Selected): Nature, Additive Manufacturing, Rapid Prototyping Journal, Computer-Aided Design, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, Journal of Manufcturing Science and Engineering, Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Computational Mechanics, Computer & Structures, ASME Journal of Mechanical Design, Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization, Journal of Manufacturing Processes, Scientific Report, Additive Manufacturing Letters

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