Welcome!

We are a team of enthusiastic engineers who are committed to bringing a better world through innovative research.

📄Quick facts

Team: Prof. Yi Shao & 5 Postdocs & 7 Ph.D. students & 3 M.S. students & 1 UG student

Team members have received 11 awards/fellowships

Team has published 21 Journal papers in top journals (ONLY!)

Lab history: 2022 Sep to present at McGill University with over $1 million in funding

🌟 We have a goal that:

Everyone will own their dream house in an affordable, reliable, and timely way!

What does the future look like?

The owners sketch their dream home (maybe the one from their childhood!). Our algorithm automatically optimizes the structure and generates the design. Our robots will autonomously build their dream houses, which are sustainable, resilient, and adaptable.

🚩Our mission:

(1) We commit to addressing our world’s pressing issues (e.g., labor shortage, global warming) with our research and inventions.

(2) We commit to educating tomorrow’s leaders with our supportive mentorship and training.

(3) We commit to spreading the knowledge with our engaging teaching and open-access efforts.

❤️Our value:

(1) We value the fun in research and the highest research standards. Our rigorous research targets fundamental advancement in science and broad impacts to society.

(2) We value the uniqueness of each student. We customize our mentorship to support the unique dream of individual members according to their unique situations.

(3) We value life-long and active learning. We invent and experiment with different methodologies to help our students develop knowledge AND ability through fun and hands-on activities.

🏃🏽‍♀️Our pursuit (5 H’s):

(1) Happy: we enjoy our work as well as our life.

(2) Healthy: we are active in exercising our bodies and minds.

(3) Honor: we take pride in our work.

(4) Humble: we acknowledge the limits of ourselves and our knowledge.

(5) Hungry: we stay hungry and seek new challenges.

🤝🏽If you share our values, we invite you to collaboratively create a better world!

Academic collaborators:

Prof. Glaucio H. Paulino (Princeton University)
Prof. Szymon Rusinkiewicz (Princeton University)
Dr. Zhen Dong (University of California, Berkeley)
Prof. Luca Sorelli (Université Laval)
Prof. Sarah L. Billington (Stanford University)
Prof. Claudia P. Ostertag (University of California, Berkeley)
Prof. Chung-Chan Hung (National Cheng Kung University)
Prof. Matthew J. Bandelt (New Jersey Institute of Technology)

Industry collaborators:

American Concrete Institute (ACI)
Precast Concrete Institute (PCI)
Canadian Precast Concrete Institute (CPCI)
NEx
MST Rebar Inc.
BPDL Inc.
Facca Incorporated
Sika Group
Cor-Tuf UHPC