Dr. Kong was elected ASME Fellow due to his significant contribution in smart manufacturing, specifically sensing and data analytics in advanced manufacturing processes and systems.
Classification of recycled plastics using sparse and imbalanced spectral data and data augmentation by the generative adversarial network - now published in Analyst https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art
Dou, C., Wang, R., Gnanasambandam, R., Li, J., and Kong, Z.J., Layer-wise printing parameter optimization for laser powder bed fusion. J Intell Manuf (2026). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10845-026-02798-
A. I. Saimon, R. Gnanasambandam and Z.J. Kong, "Geometry-Aware Physics Informed PointNet (GeoPIPN) for Fast Thermal Distribution Prediction in Additive Manufacturing of Unseen Part Geometries," in IEE
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