Hongyi Xu

Assistant Professor

Mechanical Engineering

Department of Mechanical Engineering
Assistant Professor

Dr. Hongyi Xu joined University of Connecticut in 2019 as an Assistant Professor in Mechanical Engineering. His research interests include computational design of complex structure and microstructure systems, uncertainty quantification and propagation, Design for Additive Manufacturing (DfAM), stochastic microstructure characterization and reconstruction, and battery materials modeling. Dr. Xu received his PhD from Northwestern University in 2014, and worked for the Research and Advanced Engineering of Ford Motor Company from 2014 to 2019. At Ford, he led and participated in multiple research projects, including Integrated Computational Materials Engineering (ICME) of carbon fiber composites, DfAM, and vehicle body and battery safety engineering. As of March 2023, Dr. Xu serves as associate editors of three international journals. He received the NSF CAREER award, three best paper/editor’s choice awards from ASME conferences and journals, one super paper award from the tire society, and several ASME reviewer’s awards.