Dr. Yi Xiong is a Tenured Associate Professor and Vice Head of the School of Automation and Intelligent Manufacturing at the Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech). A recognized provincial and municipal high-level talent, he also serves as a dual-appointed PhD supervisor at Peng Cheng Laboratory. Dr. Xiong earned his PhD in Engineering Design and Manufacturing from Aalto University, Finland, in 2016. His professional trajectory includes roles as Tenured Engineer at Flanders Make in Belgium and Research Fellow II at the Digital Manufacturing and Design Centre of the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD), where he contributed to the development of multiple industrial-grade additive manufacturing hardware and software systems.

Dr. Xiong’s research focuses on the intersection of intelligent additive manufacturing and mechanical optimization design. His current expertise spans intelligent design and manufacturing, composite additive manufacturing, Design for Additive Manufacturing (DfAM), and smart materials and structures. To date, he has led several prestigious research initiatives, including sub-projects of the National Key R&D Program of China, as well as General and Youth Programs of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC). 

An accomplished scholar, Dr. Xiong has published nearly 60 papers as first or corresponding author in top-tier journals such as Nature Communications, Additive Manufacturing, and Composites Science and Technology, including two ESI highly cited or cover papers. He currently serves as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing and sits on the editorial boards of the Journal of Engineering Design and Proc. Inst. Mech. Eng. Part L. In addition to his role as a Visiting Professor at the Institute of High-Performance Computing (IHPC) in Singapore, he is a regular reviewer for the European Science Foundation (ESF) and the Belgian National Fund for Scientific Research.

Dr. Xiong holds several leadership positions in professional societies, including Secretary-General of the Composite Additive Manufacturing Committee of the China Society for Composite Materials. His honors include a second-class provincial-level science and technology award, an "Excellent Oral Presentation" award for NSFC project completion, and multiple Best Paper awards at international conferences.

Research Area

1. Intelligent Design and Manufacturing

2. Design for Additive Manufacturing

3. Additive Manufacturing of Composites

4. Smart Materials and Structures

Working Experience

2025.11- present, Associate Professor, AiM, SUSTech

2020.04- 2025.10, Assistant Professor, AiM, SUSTech

2017.10-2020.04, Research Fellow II, Singapore University of Technology, Singapore

2016.04-2017.08, Research Engineer, Flanders Make, Belgium

2012.09-2016.04, Project Researcher, Aalto University, Finland

2011.10-2012.08,  Research Assistant, Tampere University of Technology, Finland

Education Background

2012 - 2016, DSc, Engineering Design and Production, Aalto University, Finland

2010 - 2012, MSc, Machine Automation, Tampere University of Technology, Finland

2006 - 2010, BEng, Mechanical Engineering, Hubei University of Technology, China

Publications

[SJ.10] Wang, Y., Ye, H., He, J., Ge, Q.*, Xiong, Y.* (2024). Electrothermally controlled origami fabricated by 4D printing of continuous fiber-reinforced composites. Nature Communications, 15(1), 2322.

[SJ.09] Wang, Y., Cao, Y., Zhou, L., & Xiong, Y.* (2024). 4D printed continuous fiber-reinforced self-locking Miura-ori composites with high energy absorption and cyclability. Composites Science and Technology, 110851.

[SJ.08] Dong, K., Hou, T., Zheng, P.*, & Xiong, Y.* (2024). Continuous fiber-reinforced 2.5 D hybrid lattice structures with superior compression performance via self-supporting suspension printing. Composites Science and Technology, 110845.

[SJ.07] Ren, H., Wang, D., Liu, G., Rosen, D. W., & Xiong, Y.* (2024). Concurrent optimization of structural topology and toolpath for additive manufacturing of continuous fiber-reinforced polymer composites. Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 430, 117227.

[SJ.06] He, J., Wang, Y., Shen, Z., Xia, L.*, & Xiong, Y.* (2024). Assembled mechanical metamaterials with integrated functionalities of programmable multistability and multitransition behaviors. Materials Horizons.

[SJ.05] Dong, K., Cheng, Z., Li, F., Ruan, K., Xiao, X., Zheng, P., Xiong, Y.* (2025). Mechanism-driven process planning for continuous fiber-reinforced suspension lattice structures with complex path features via self-supporting suspension printing. Additive Manufacturing, 104980.

[SJ.04] Zhang, G., Wang, Y., Chen, Z., Xu, X., Dong, K., Xiong, Y.* (2023). Robot-assisted conformal additive manufacturing for continuous fibre-reinforced grid-stiffened shell structures. Virtual and Physical Prototyping, 18(1), e2203695.

[SJ.03] Xiong, Y.*, Tang, Y., Zhou, Q., Ma, Y., Rosen, D. W. (2022). Intelligent additive manufacturing and design: state of the art and future perspectives. Additive Manufacturing, 103139.

[SJ.02] Xiong, Y.*, Duong, P. L. T., Wang, D., Park, S. I., Ge, Q., Raghavan, N., Rosen, D. W. (2019). Data-driven design space exploration and exploitation for design for additive manufacturing. Journal of Mechanical Design, 141(10), 101101

[SJ.01] Xiong, Y.*, Park, S. I., Padmanathan, S., Dharmawan, A. G., Foong, S., Rosen, D. W., Soh, G. S. (2019). Process planning for adaptive contour parallel toolpath in additive manufacturing with variable bead width. The International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology, 105, 4159-4170.

More publications:

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=uwYMVgUAAAAJ&hl=en