It was again a successful conference for design engineers and researchers to gather together in Boston this year exchanging ideas and sharing their most recent work and discoveries. Good memories collected!

SiDi Lab had four students attended the conference this year and presented the following three papers:

• R. Stone, W. Zhou, E. Akleman, V. Krishnamurthy, Z. Sha, “Print as a Dance Duet: Communication Strategies for Collision-Free Arm-Arm Coordination in Cooperative Three-Dimensional Printing,” ASME 2023 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference, Boston, MA, Aug. 20-23, 2023.
• S. Chen, A. E. Bayrak, Z. Sha, “Multi-Agent Bayesian Optimization for Unknown Design Space Exploration,” ASME 2023 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference, Boston, MA, Aug. 20-23, 2023.
• P. Gavino, Y. Xiao, Y. Cui, W. Chen, Z. Sha, “Evolutionary Co-Mention Network Analysis via Social Media Mining,” ASME 2023 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference, Boston, MA, Aug. 20-23, 2023.

We were also glad to work with Dr. Kentaro Yaji’s group from Osaka University to report the work on multifidelity topology design at this year’s conference.

• T. Kii, K. Yaji, K. Fujita, Z. Sha, C. C. Seepersad, “Data-Driven Multifidelity Topology Design With a Latent Crossover Operation,” ASME 2023 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference, Boston, MA, Aug. 20-23, 2023.

We would like to take the opportunity to congratulate the following SiDi Lab members on receiving competitive awards from various activities organized at the conference.

• Ronnie Stone and Phillip Gavino: Runner-up for the 2023 ASME Hackathon
• Ronnie Stone: Computers and Information in Engineering 2023 Student Poster Session Award for the poster Toward Swarm Manufacturing: Developing a Multi-Robot Cooperative Framework for Complex Manufacturing Tasks.
• Siyu Chen: Top-10 Broadening Participation (B-Part) Poster Presentation at the ASME 35th International Conference on Design Theory and Methodology for the poster Unknown Design Space Exploration using Multi-Agent Bayesian Optimization.

Lastly, I am very happy to see the reunion of ASME Hackathon Committee members and the growth of ASME Hackathon community. We look forward to the 2024 hackathon in Washington DC.