Research Interests

Neural-based design and manufacturing optimization, computational geometry, additive manufacturing, robotics, multi-axis 3D printing, topology optimization, neural implicit representations for geometric modeling, fiber-reinforced composites, computational design frameworks

Research Experience

• Ph.D. Student

  2023 - Now
  The University of Manchester

  Advised by Prof. Charlie C.L. Wang
• Research Assistant

  2020 - 2023
  Central South University

  Advised by Prof. Shengjun LIU

Research Publications

• Neural co-optimization of structural topology, manufacturable layers, and path orientations for fiber-reinforced composites

  2025
  ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG)

  Tao LIU, Tianyu Zhang, Yongxue Chen, Weiming Wang, Yu Jiang, Yuming Huang, Charlie Wang
• Neural Slicer for Multi-Axis 3D Printing

  2024
  ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG)

  Tao LIU, Tianyu Zhang, Yongxue Chen, Yuming Huang, Charlie Wang
• Curve-Based Slicer for Multi-Axis DLP 3D Printing

  2025
  ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), 44(6):1--14, 2025 (Best Paper Award)

  Chengkai Dai, Tao LIU, Dezhao Guo, Binzhi Sun, Guoxin Fang, Yeung Yam, Charlie C. L. Wang
• Can Any Model Be Fabricated? Inverse Operation Based Planning for Hybrid Additive-Subtractive Manufacturing

  2025
  ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), 44(6):1--14, 2025

  Yongxue Chen, Tao LIU, Yuming Huang, Weiming Wang, Tianyu Zhang, Kun Qian, Zikang Shi, Charlie C. L. Wang
• Toolpath generation for high density spatial fiber printing guided by principal stresses

  2025
  Composites Part B: Engineering, 2025

  Tianyu Zhang, Tao LIU, Neelotpal Dutta, Yongxue Chen, Renbo Su, Zhizhou Zhang, Weiming Wang, Charlie Wang
• Memory-efficient modeling and slicing of large-scale adaptive lattice structures

  2021
  Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering, 21(6):061003, 2021

  Shengjun LIU, Tao LIU, Qiang Zou, Weiming Wang, Eugeni L Doubrovski, Charlie CL Wang
• Variational progressive-iterative approximation for RBF-based surface reconstruction

  2021
  The Visual Computer, 2021

  Shengjun LIU, Tao LIU, Ling Hu, Yuanyuan Shang, Xinru Liu
• Force-Based Adaptive Deposition in Multi-Axis Additive Manufacturing: Low Porosity for Enhanced Strength

  2026
  Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing, 2026

  Yuming Huang, Renbo Su, Kun Qian, Tianyu Zhang, Yongxue Chen, Tao LIU, Guoxin Fang, Weiming Wang, Charlie Wang
• Roadmap on Artificial Intelligence-Augmented Additive Manufacturing

  2026
  Advanced Intelligent Systems, 2026

  Ali Zolfagharian, Liuchao Jin, Qi Ge, Wei-Hsin Liao, Andrés Díaz Lantada, Francisco Franco Martínez, Tianyu Zhang, Tao LIU, Charlie C. L. Wang, and others
• Co-Optimization of Tool Orientations, Kinematic Redundancy, and Waypoint Timing for Robot-Assisted Manufacturing

  2025
  IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, 2025

  Yongxue Chen, Tianyu Zhang, Yuming Huang, Tao LIU, Charlie Wang
• Learning Based Toolpath Planner on Diverse Graphs for 3D Printing

  2024
  ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), 2024

  Yuming Huang, Yuhu Guo, Renbo Su, Xingjian Han, Junhao Ding, Tianyu Zhang, Tao LIU, Weiming Wang, Guoxin Fang, Xu Song, and others
• Implicit progressive-iterative algorithm of curves and surfaces with compactly supported radial basis functions

  2021
  Journal of Computer-Aided Design & Computer Graphics, 2021

  Haibo Wang, Tao LIU, Shengjun Liu, Wenyan Wei, Xinru Liu, Pingbo Liu, Yanyu Bai, Yue'an Chen

Education

• Ph.D. in Neural-Based Design and Manufacturing Optimization

  Now
  The University of Manchester
• M.S. & B.S. in Computational Mathematics

  Jun 2020
  Central South University

  GPA: 3.4/4 top 10%

Honors & Awards

• Best Paper Award

  2025
  SIGGRAPH Asia
• Central South University Scholarship

  2018
  School of Mathematics, Central South University
• University Recommendation for M.Sc. Admission (Exam-Exempt)

  2017
  School of Mathematics, Central South University
• Excellent Student

  2014
  School of Chemistry, Central South University

Academic Service

Reviewer for Journals and Conferences

• ACM SIGGRAPH and SIGGRAPH Asia
• Additive Manufacturing Process (AMP)
• Computer Aided Design (CAD)
• ACM Symposium on Computational Fabrication (SCF)
• Computer Aided Geometry Design (CAGD)
• Eurographics (EG)
• Graphical Models (GMod)
• Computers & Graphics (CG)

Teaching

• Graphics & Virtual Environments

  September 2025
  Teaching Assistant, The University of Manchester

  Undergraduate course
• Fundamentals of Computer Architecture

  September 2025
  Teaching Assistant, The University of Manchester

  Undergraduate course
• Experimental Methods (MSc Structural Engineering)

  September 2025
  Teaching Assistant, The University of Manchester

  Postgraduate course
• Introduction to Programming 1

  September 2024
  Teaching Assistant, The University of Manchester

  Undergraduate course
• Additive Manufacturing & 3D Product Modelling

  September 2023
  Teaching Assistant, The University of Manchester

  Undergraduate course
• Advanced Modelling & Simulation

  September 2023
  Teaching Assistant, The University of Manchester

  Undergraduate course
• Computer Graphics

  2018
  Teaching Assistant, Central South University

Skills

Languages

• Chinese

  Native
• English

  C1

References

Available on Request