News

May 16, 2026
Congratulations to Dr. Haolin Zhang on successfully completing his PhD dissertation and defense in Spring 2026! We appreciate his dedicated contributions to the team and wish him all the best in his future endeavors.
February 07, 2026
Congratulations to Haolin on his 3rd Place Advanced Manufacturing Award at the ASME IMECE 2025 Poster Competition!
January 23, 2026
Md Jahangir Alam successfully passed her PhD proposal examination in January 2026! Congratulations!
January 16, 2026
Yiquan Wang successfully passed her PhD proposal examination in January 2026! Congratulations!
November 20, 2025
Our ZIP-AM team earns Second Place in the NIST AM-Bench 2025 Polymer Challenge Modeling Competition at ASME IMECE 2025! (Click for more details.)
November 19, 2025
Haolin Zhang won the Best Presentation (1st Place) award in the ASME Materials Division Future Faculty Symposium at IMECE 2025. Congratulations!
October 27, 2025
Yue Zhang Successfully Defends Her PhD Dissertation! Congratulations! (Click for more details)
October 24, 2025
Heyang Zhang Successfully Defends His PhD Dissertation! Congratulations! (Click for more details)
September 20, 2025
Yousra Bensouda successfully passed her PhD proposal examination in September 2025! Congratulations!
April 09, 2025
Congratulations to Yue Zhang for receiving the 2024–2025 Research Assistant of the Year Award in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Pittsburgh’s Swanson School of Engineering!
March 21, 2025
Big congrats to Heyang Zhang for winning first place in the Swanson School of Engineering Three Minute Thesis competition and proudly representing the school at the University of Pittsburgh finals!
December 20, 2024
Haolin Zhang successfully passed his PhD proposal examination in December 2024! Congratulations!
May 22, 2024
PI Dr. Zhao received a research grant ($70,000) from the Manufacturing Pennsylvania Innovation Program. Thanks to this industry-academia partnership program, Dr. Zhao will collaborate with Du-Co Ceramics on Binder Jet 3DP. Congratulations!
April 24, 2024
In April 2024, ZIP-AM collaborated with UPCAM to co-host the "Women in 3D Printing Pittsburgh Chapter Meeting."
April 04, 2024
Outreach Service: ZIP-AM Lab and Carnegie Science Center Co-organized 2-Day AIM3DP Boot Camp! This event was featured in Pittwire "Accolades and Honors" section. [Read More]
April 02, 2024
Two ZIP-AM lab members received the Best TA and Best RA awards for 2023-2024 from the PITT Swanson School of Engineering. Congratulations to Heyang (Best TA) and Haolin (Best RA)! Truly inspiring achievements!
February 21, 2024
Outreach Service: Our ZIP-AM Lab exhibited our work at SciTech Day at Carnegie Science Center. (see inside for more information)
January 18, 2024
Heyang Zhang and Yue Zhang successfully presented their PhD proposals in January 2024! Congratulations to ZIP-AM lab's first two PhD candidates on this remarkable milestone. Great start of new year!
August 25, 2023
ZIP-AM lab welcomes two new PhD students: Md Jahangir Alam and Yiquan Wang. Wish for success!
August 15, 2023
In SFF 2023, Yousra and Haolin received a NSF sponsored conference grant, respectively. Congratulations!
May 17, 2023
ZIP-AM team launched an "AIM3DP" (AI & Metrology aided 3DP) workshop at PITT SSOE and hosted the first cohort of high school students and teacher from SciTech Academy. Thanks to our NSF projects, especially CAREER! (see photos in our website gallery)
May 16, 2023
Mahmudul Hasan has joined ZIP-AM as a postdoctoral researcher. Welcome!
April 06, 2023
PI Dr. Zhao received one of NSF’s most prestigious awards in support of early-career faculty (CAREER) with a research & education grant of $657,610 for developing a cyber-physical system of novel dual-wavelength photoinhibition aided PAM. Congratulations!
March 15, 2023
Sizhe Xu defended his M.S. thesis. Congratulations!
November 30, 2022
We were invited to present our published paper in the JMPT monthly webinar in Nov 2022. Thanks to JMPT for the recognition and promotion of our work!
November 01, 2022
In ASME IMECE 2022, Haolin received a NSF Student Poster Competition travel grant for his work on in-situ characterization of LPBF layer surface topography. Congrats! Thanks to our sponsors: DOE UTSR program and MDS-Rely Center (NSF IUCRC program)
August 28, 2022
Heyang successfully completed a three-month summer intern at Ansys with its Mechanical team in Austin TX. Welcome back to our lab!
August 08, 2022
ZIP-AM lab had a farewell party to celebrate former postdoctoral research fellow and forever friend Dr. Chaitanya Vallabh for his new position. Many many thanks, Chaitanya! All the best in your future endeavors. (see our Gallery)
August 02, 2022
ZIP-AM lab warmly welcomes a new PhD student - Yousra from Morocco! Hope she enjoys the research and life at PITT!
July 29, 2022
In SFF 2022, Yue received a NSF travel grant for her work on modeling and monitoring of photopolymer AM, and Haolin's presentation and poster on in-situ monitoring of LPBF gained great interest and attention. Thanks, Zippers. Congratulations!
May 10, 2022
ZIP-AM lab welcomes an undergraduate summer research intern - Kimberly Newhall. She is sponsored by PITT MEMS Department FIRE (Facilitating Inclusive Research Experiences) 8-week program. Welcome, Kimberly! Thanks, FIRE! Hello, Summer!
May 05, 2022
ZIP-AM lab members attended PITT MOST-AM Consortium meeting hosted by Prof. Albert To and presented a poster of our unique in-situ LPBF monitoring system (STWIP and FPP) to attendees (industry, NASA, ONR, etc.). Many thanks to Chaitanya and Haolin!
March 04, 2022
Dr. Zhao's group co-organized and presented in the "Women in 3D Printing - Pittsburgh Chapter" Meeting! Hail to PITT UPCAM and Zippers! (details inside)
March 04, 2022
Heyang serves as a Category Award Judge for Physics and Astronomy at the 83rd Pittsburgh Regional Science & Engineering Fair. Go, Zippers, community helpers!
October 05, 2021
Dr. Zhao is invited by NIST as a panelist in the launching workshop of the newly founded Photopolymer Additive Manufacturing Alliance (PAMA) which will facilitate photopolymer additive manufacturing collaboration and research
August 28, 2021
PI Dr. Zhao received a research grant ($500k) from the NSF Future Manufacturing program. Congratulations!
August 27, 2021
Haolin Zhang joined the ZIP-AM lab as a PhD student. Welcome!
August 16, 2021
Heyang Zhang joined the ZIP-AM lab as a PhD student. Welcome!
May 10, 2021
Elliot Kerachsky joined the ZIP-AM lab, thanks to the MCSI summer undergraduate research program! Welcome, Elliot!
April 06, 2021
Miss Tong Su defended her M.S. thesis. Congratulations!
December 07, 2020
Yubo Xiong defended his M.S. thesis. Congratulations!
August 16, 2020
Miss Yue Zhang joined us as a PhD student. Welcome! She had to stay in Cambodia for two weeks before being able to come to the USA due to the Covid pandemic. Thanks to Yue, who bravely took the adventure and showed great support and passion for ZIP-AM lab
August 16, 2020
Dr. Zhao opened a new undergraduate/graduate class "Smart Manufacturing - Key to Innovations" in Fall 2020
July 09, 2020
PI Dr. Zhao received a research grant ($25,000) from the Manufacturing Pennsylvania Innovation Program - COVID19 Challenge. Dr. Zhao will collaborate with Du-Co Ceramics. Wish the pandemic will end soon!!!!!!
May 27, 2020
PI Dr. Zhao received a research grant ($70,000) from the Manufacturing Pennsylvania Innovation Program. Thanks to this industry-academia partnership program, Dr. Zhao will collaborate with Kennametal on Ceramic 3D Printing. Congratulations!
March 11, 2020
Dr. Zhao gave a presentation at Women in 3D Printing Pittsburgh Chapter meeting
January 27, 2020
Dr. Zhao gave a presentation at PITT's SSOE (Swanson School of Engineering) Faculty Research Symposium
January 01, 2020
Dr. Zhao opened a new graduate class "Advanced Manufacturing Metrology and Process Control" in Spring 2020
October 22, 2019
Dr. Zhao gave a presentation to PITT's meeting with the Association of American Ceramic Component Manufacturers (AACCM)
August 01, 2019
Dr. Chaitanya Vallabh joined the ZIP-AM lab as a postdoctoral research associate. Welcome!
June 19, 2019
PI Dr. Zhao received a research grant ($67,720) from the Manufacturing Pennsylvania Innovation Program. Thanks to this industry-academia partnership program, Dr. Zhao will collaborate with Kennametal. Congratulations!
June 10, 2019
PI Dr. Zhao received a research grant from the U.S. Department of Energy (DoE). The total DoE award is $802,400 and the total project cost is $1,000,3000 with Pitt and GaTech finances. Congratulations!
December 11, 2018
Dr. Zhao was introduced and gave a presentation at PITT's MOST-AM Consortium
October 10, 2018
Dr. Zhao gave a presentation at PITT's Center for Advanced Manufacturing (UPCAM)
August 26, 2018
Dr. Zhao joined PITT as a faculty and created the Laboratory of ZIP-AM