SciML, A2E (AI-aided Engineering), Multiphysics Simulation, Computational Mechanics, Peridynamics, Advanced Manufacturing
Research Scientist, Jul. 2024 – Present
National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Mar. 2024 – Present
Department of Industrial & Manufacturing Systems Engineering, Kansas State University (KSU)
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Jun. 2022 – Jun. 2024
Beckman Institute; Department of Aerospace Engineering; UIUC
Advisor: Prof. Philippe Geubelle; AMS Group & REMAT Group
Graduate Research & Teaching Assistant; Research Scholar, Jan. 2018 – Jun. 2022
Department of Mechanical & Nuclear Engineering, Kansas State University (KSU)
Graduate Teaching Assistant:
Mentoring:
Sam Knight, B.S., Electrical & Computer Engineering (UIUC), 2023 Summer Topic: Photo-Induced Frontal Polymerization over Inner “Gap” Region, Collaboration with Sandia National Laboratories (SNL)
Ravi Shankar Kannaiya Vijayaraj, M.S., Aerospace Engineering (UIUC), 2024 Spring – 2025 Spring Topic: Leveraging Damage Modeling and Neural Networks for Stress-Strain Prediction in Composites, AE597 Independent Study for M.S. Degree
Farzad Jamaatisomarin, Ph.D. Candidate, Industry & Manufacturing Systems Engineering (KSU), 2024 Spring – present Topic: FEM Simulation of laser modification inside silicon, Ph.D. Dissertation Research
SkAI-Track Interpolation Team, Graduate Students at Northwestern University, 2025 Topic: AI-Driven Stellar Evolution Simulation, 2025 NCSA Open Hackathon
Peer-Review for Journals:
Illinois Compute Research, NCSA Funded
Regenerative Energy-Efficient Manufacturing of Thermoset Polymeric Materials (REMAT), DOE Funded
Peridynamics Theory and Coupling with FEM, Ph.D. Dissertation
Conformal FE Mesh of Realistic Textile Composite Micro-geometry, US Army Research Lab Funded
Generation of Complex Polymer Morphology, NASA Langley Research Center Funded
Liu, Qibang; Koric, Seid; Abueidda, Diab; Meidani, Hadi; Geubelle, Philippe (2025). "Toward signed distance function based metamaterial design: Neural operator transformer for forward prediction and diffusion model for inverse design." Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 446:118316. DOI: 10.1016/j.cma.2025.118316.
Koric, Seid; Liu, Qibang; Abueidda, Diab (2025). "Sequential Deep Operator Neural Networks for Thermomechanical Modeling of Steel Solidification with Multi-inputs." International Symposium on Innovative and Interdisciplinary Applications of Advanced Technologies, Springer, pp. 561–573. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-032-05159-2_35.
Kobayashi, Kazuma; Park, Jaewan; Liu, Qibang; Koric, Seid; Abueidda, Diab; Alam, Syed Bahauddin (2025). "When Network Architecture Meets Physics: Deep Operator Learning for Coupled Multiphysics." arXiv. arXiv:2507.03660.
Liu, Qibang; Koric, Seid (2025). "Sequential Neural Operator Transformer for High-Fidelity Surrogates of Time-Dependent Non-linear Partial Differential Equations." arXiv. arXiv:2507.03272.
Liu, Qibang; Zhong, Vincient; Meidani, Hadi; Abueidda, Diab; Koric, Seid; Geubelle, Philippe (2025). "Geometry-Informed Neural Operator Transformer." arXiv. arXiv:2504.19452.
Liu, Qibang; Cai, Pengfei; Abueidda, Diab; Vyas, Sagar; Koric, Seid; Gomez-Bombarelli, Rafael; Geubelle, Philippe (2025). "Univariate conditional variational autoencoder for morphogenic pattern design in frontal polymerization-based manufacturing." Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 438:117848. DOI: 10.1016/j.cma.2025.117848.
Cai, Pengfei; Liu, Sulin; Liu, Qibang; Geubelle, Philippe H.; Gomez-Bombarelli, Rafael. "Towards long rollout of neural operators with local attention and flow matching-inspired correction: An example in frontal polymerization PDEs." Machine Learning and the Physical Sciences Workshop @ NeurIPS 2024.
Park, Jaewan; Kushwaha, Shashank; He, Junyan; Koric, Seid; Liu, Qibang; Jasiuk, Iwona; Abueidda, Diab (2024). "Nonlinear Inverse Design of Mechanical Multi-Material Metamaterials Enabled by Video Denoising Diffusion and Structure Identifier." arXiv. arXiv:2409.13908.
Cai, Pengfei; Liu, Qibang; Geubelle, Philippe; Gomez-Bombarelli, Rafael. "Learning cure kinetics of frontal polymerization PDEs using differentiable simulations." ICML 2024 AI for Science Workshop.
Gao, Yuan; Paul, Justine E.; Chen, Manxin; Seth, Aarav; Liu, Qibang; Hong, Liu; Chamorro, Leonardo P.; Ewoldt, Randy H.; Sottos, Nancy R.; Geubelle, Philippe H. (2024). "Fluid convection driven by surface tension during free-surface frontal polymerization." Mechanics of Materials, 194:104987. DOI: 10.1016/j.mechmat.2024.104987.
Liu, Qibang; Abueidda, Diab; Vyas, Sagar; Gao, Yuan; Koric, Seid; Geubelle, Philippe H. (2024). "Adaptive Data-Driven Deep-Learning Surrogate Model for Frontal Polymerization in Dicyclopentadiene." The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 128(5):1220–1230. DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.3c07714.
Liu, Qibang; Chen, Muhao; Skelton, Robert E. (2023). "An extended ordinary state-based peridynamics for non-spherical horizons." Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 403:115712. DOI: 10.1016/j.cma.2022.115712.
Liu, Qibang; Xin, X.J.; Ma, Jeff (2022). "Adaptive coupling peridynamic least-square minimization with finite element method for fracture analysis." International Journal of Fracture. DOI: 10.1007/s10704-022-00678-4.
Mazumder, Agniprobho; Liu, Qibang; Wang, Youqi; Yen, Chian-Fong (2022). "A non-linear material model for progressive damage analysis of woven composites using a conformal meshing framework." Journal of Composite Materials. DOI: 10.1177/00219983221113615.
Liu, Qibang; Xin, X.J. (2021). "PDLSM-FEM: Solver of Coupled Peridynamics Least Squares Minimization with Finite Element Method." Journal of Open Source Software, 6(68):3688. DOI: 10.21105/joss.03668.
Mazumder, Agniprobho; Liu, Qibang; Wang, Youqi; Yen, Chian-Fong. "Stress and failure analysis of woven composites using an automated conformal mesh method." 36th Annual Technical Conference of the American Society for Composites. DOI: 10.12783/asc36/35935.
Liu, Qibang; Xin, X.J.; Ma, Jeff (2021). "Coupled Peridynamics Least Square Minimization with Finite Element Method in 3D and Implicit Solutions by Message Passing Interface." Journal of Peridynamics and Nonlocal Modeling. DOI: 10.1007/s42102-021-00060-3.
Liu, Qibang; Xin, X.J.; Ma, Jeff; Wang, Youqi (2021). "Simulating quasi-static crack propagation by coupled peridynamics least square minimization with finite element method." Engineering Fracture Mechanics, 252:107862. DOI: 10.1016/j.engfracmech.2021.107862.
Liu, Qibang; Mazumder, Agniprobho; Wang, Youqi; Xin, Xiaojiang; Su, Ji (2021). "A mesoscopic level multi-scale approach to generate a complex polymer morphology." Electroactive Polymer Actuators and Devices (EAPAD) XXIII, SPIE, 11587:74. DOI: 10.1117/12.2587907.
Liu, Qibang; Xin, X.J. (2021). "Revised non-ordinary state-based peridynamics and a new framework for coupling with finite element method." Engineering Fracture Mechanics, 242:107483. DOI: 10.1016/j.engfracmech.2020.107483.