Hailong Chen, PhD

Associate Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Office: 279 RGAN | Tel.: (859)323-8114 | Email: hailong.chen@uky.edu

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Dr. Hailong Chen completed his PhD degree in Mechanical Engineering from Arizona State University in 2015. Dr. Chen obtained BS degree in Mechanical Design, Manufacturing and Automation from Shanghai Normal University (China) in 2010, and MS degree in Mechanical Engineering from University of Florida in 2012. Prior to joining UK, Dr. Chen worked as Postdoctoral Computational Scientist at Idaho National Laboratory from 11/2015 to 08/2018. From 09/2018 to 07/2024, Dr. Chen was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at UK.

Dr. Chen's research interests lie in the broad area of computational mechanics & materials, with focus on non-local meshfree methods and their applications.

Dr. Chen is a member of several professional communities, including American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), and United State Association for Computational Mechanics (USACM). Dr. Chen is an Associate Editor of the CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences journal.

Khaleda Akter Maya — PhD candidate, Mechanical Engineering

BS, Mechanical Engineering, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Bangladesh, 2021

Time: 2023.08 - 

Office: 212 RGAN

Research Topic: Computational modeling of porous fibrous materials

Ahsanul Islam — PhD student, Mechanical Engineering

BS, Mechanical Engineering, Khulna University of Engineering & Technology, Bangladesh, 2024

Time: 2025.08 - 

Office: 212 RGAN

Research Topic: Modeling polycrystalline materials using lattice particle method

Wei Guo — PhD student, Mechanical Engineering

MS, Mechanical Engineering, University of North Dakota, 2026

MS, Engineering Mechanics, Hunan University, China, 2008

Time: 2026.08 - 

Office: 212 RGAN

Research Topic: TBD

WaiLam Chan — PhD, Mechanical Engineering (2018.08 - 2022.12)

Research Topic:  Peridynamic material correspondence models

Donglai Liu — PhD, Mechanical Engineering (2020.08 - 2024.07); Postdoc (2024.08 - 2026.07)

Research Topic: Microstructure-based modeling and simulation of materials performance under thermal loads

Di Liu — PhD, Mechanical Engineering (2021.08 - 2026.08)

Research Topic: Modeling HCP polycrystalline materials using lattice particle method

Kou Wei Hsiu — MSTC program, Paul Laurence Dunbar High School

Research Topic: Machine learning for nonlocal computational models

Time: 2024.10 - 2026.05