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o   ACM Solid and Physical Modeling Best Paper Award: " Isogeometric analysis and shape optimization via boundary integral" by Kang Li and Xiaoping Qian won the Best Paper Award in SIAM/ACM GD/SPM 11 in Orlando, FL. (Nov 2011).

o    Dr. Qian awarded an NSF grant to study direct measurement from scan data (July 2010)

o    Dr. Qian to offer a tutorial on Isogeometric Modeling, Analysis and Optimization in the upcoming 2010 ASME IDETC/CIE conferences in Montreal, Canada. Also, there will be a workshop on Isogeometric Analysis to be held in UTexas, Austin (July 2010).

o    "SLICING POINT-SET SURFACES WITH TOPOLOGICAL GUARANTEE," by Pinghai Yang, Kang Li and Xiaoping Qian, has been selected as the Prakash Krishnaswami CAPPD best paper award in the upcoming 2010 ASME IDETC/CIE conferences. The award comes with a plaque and a check for $500. (July 2010)

o    Arash (Ph.D. student) won Research Poster Competition awards for his work in "Planning AFM based Nano Manipulation, " third place in the University competition, and 2nd place in the Department competition (April 2010)

o    Pinghai (Ph.D. graduate) won IIT/Sigma Xi Award, student division. He will be joining GE Research in summer 2010 (April 2010)

o    Finalist for Best Automation Paper Award at 2009 IEEE International Conference for Robotics and Automation (ICRA09) for "Adaptive Scanning in Atomic Force Microscopy" (May 2009)

o    Dr. Qian awarded the IIT/Sigma Xi Award for Excellence in University Research, Junior Faculty category (April 2009)

o    NSF grant on Variation Propagation in Periodic Structures: From Geometry to Dynamic Response (Feb 2009)

o    NSF grant on Direct Digital Design and Manufacturing from Massive Point-Cloud Data (Feb 2009)

o    Dr. Qian appointed as an Associate Editor for SME Journal of Manufacturing Systems(Nov 2008)

o    NSF grant on AFM imaging (June 2008)

o    Dr. Qian won the MMAE Excellence in Research award (March 2008)

o    Call for papers on Special issue of Computer-Aided Design on Point-based Computational Techniques (Dec 3, 2007)