Dist. Professor Mike Xie
Professor
Details
-
College: School of Engineering
-
Department: School of Engineering
-
Campus: Bundoora East Australia
-
mike.xie@rmit.edu.au
Open to
- Media enquiries
- Masters Research or PhD student supervision
About
Yi Min ‘Mike’ Xie is Australian Laureate Fellow, Director of Centre for Innovative Structures and Materials, and Fellow of Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering.
Yi Min 'Mike' Xie is a Distinguished Professor of RMIT University and an Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow. He and his co-workers pioneered and established the evolutionary structural optimisation (ESO) and bi-directional evolutionary structural optimisation (BESO) methods, which are widely used by designers and researchers around the globe to create many lightweight and high-performance structures and materials.
His team has developed the topology optimisation software Ameba. Professor Xie served as the Head of Civil Engineering discipline at RMIT between 2002 and 2012. Since 2012 he has been the Director of RMIT Centre for Innovative Structures and Materials. He was elected as a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (ATSE) in 2011. He won the Clunies Ross Innovation Award from the ATSE in 2017 and received the AGM Michell Medal from the Institution of Engineers Australia in the same year.
In 2019 he was recognised in the Queen's Birthday Honours List and was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for his significant service to civil engineering and higher education. In 2020 he was awarded the Victoria Prize for Science and Innovation by the State Government of Victoria, Australia.
Industry experience:
Professor Xie has collaborated with a wide range of local and international companies, including Arup, Aurecon and Boeing.
Awards:
2021:
Pioneers’ Award, Spatial Structures Research Centre, University of Surrey, United Kingdom
2020:
Victoria Prize for Science and Innovation, State Government of Victoria, Australia
2019:
Member of the Order of Australia (AM), Council for the Order of Australia
2017:
-Clunies Ross Innovation Award, Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering
-AGM Michell Medal, Institution of Engineers Australia
-Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Research Impact, RMIT University, Australia
2011:
Elected Fellow, Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering
2005:
Teaching Quality Award, RMIT University, Australia
2000:
Vice-Chancellor’s Medal for Excellence in Research, Victoria University, Australia
1999:
The Most Inspiring Lecturer in Civil Engineering Prize, Victoria University, Australia
Yi Min 'Mike' Xie is a Distinguished Professor of RMIT University and an Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow. He and his co-workers pioneered and established the evolutionary structural optimisation (ESO) and bi-directional evolutionary structural optimisation (BESO) methods, which are widely used by designers and researchers around the globe to create many lightweight and high-performance structures and materials.
His team has developed the topology optimisation software Ameba. Professor Xie served as the Head of Civil Engineering discipline at RMIT between 2002 and 2012. Since 2012 he has been the Director of RMIT Centre for Innovative Structures and Materials. He was elected as a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (ATSE) in 2011. He won the Clunies Ross Innovation Award from the ATSE in 2017 and received the AGM Michell Medal from the Institution of Engineers Australia in the same year.
In 2019 he was recognised in the Queen's Birthday Honours List and was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for his significant service to civil engineering and higher education. In 2020 he was awarded the Victoria Prize for Science and Innovation by the State Government of Victoria, Australia.
Industry experience:
Professor Xie has collaborated with a wide range of local and international companies, including Arup, Aurecon and Boeing.
Awards:
2021:
Pioneers’ Award, Spatial Structures Research Centre, University of Surrey, United Kingdom
2020:
Victoria Prize for Science and Innovation, State Government of Victoria, Australia
2019:
Member of the Order of Australia (AM), Council for the Order of Australia
2017:
-Clunies Ross Innovation Award, Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering
-AGM Michell Medal, Institution of Engineers Australia
-Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Research Impact, RMIT University, Australia
2011:
Elected Fellow, Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering
2005:
Teaching Quality Award, RMIT University, Australia
2000:
Vice-Chancellor’s Medal for Excellence in Research, Victoria University, Australia
1999:
The Most Inspiring Lecturer in Civil Engineering Prize, Victoria University, Australia
Media
Supervisor projects
- Effect Of Nanoparticles On The Structural Response Of The Bio-Inspired 3d Printed Materials
- 12 Feb 2024
- Innovative Design of Metamaterials and Structures with Mechanical Non-reciprocity
- 19 Dec 2023
- PhD Scholarships in Structural Engineering: Innovative Structural Design and Additive Manufacturing
- 23 Oct 2023
- Designing Innovative and Efficient Structures Using Topological Optimisation Techniques
- 17 Oct 2023
- Digital Design and Advanced Manufacturing of Customised Façade Panels and Structural Components
- 11 Aug 2023
- Study on Shear Behaviours of Reinforced High-Performance SFRC Beams
- 3 Nov 2022
- Creating Free-form Architectural Structures Using Building Components of Extreme Repetition
- 6 May 2022
- Programmable Mechanical Metamaterials based on Spinodal Architectures
- 11 Jan 2022
- Digital design and advanced manufacturing of customized facade panels using sustainable materials
- 2 Dec 2021
- Designing Innovative and Efficient Structures Using Topological Optimisation Techniques
- 28 Oct 2021
- Interactive Structural Topology Optimisation Considering Subjective Preferences
- 17 Sep 2020
- Structural Topology Optimisation using Reaction Diffusion based B-spline Level Set Method
- 13 Aug 2020
- Architecture design optimisation through generative structural optimisation techniques
- 18 Jun 2020
- Achieving Diverse and Competitive Designs Using a Parallel Bi-directional Evolutionary Structural Optimisation Framework
- 18 Jun 2020
- Topology Optimisation with an Adaptive Design Domain
- 1 Jun 2020
- Structural Topology Optimisation for Fibre Reinforced Composites
- 21 Apr 2020
- Mechanical Properties and Applications of Additively Manufactured Thermoplastic Polyurethane Material
- 13 Aug 2019
- Generative Design Of Light-weight Structural Systems
- 7 Feb 2019
- Design and Fabrication of Innovative Shell Structures Using Topology Optimisation and Advanced Manufacturing Techniques
- 11 Jan 2019
- Generating Structurally Efficient Forms for Digital Fabrication: A Pathway to Manufacturing-Ready Design
- 2 Jan 2019
- Structural Topology Optimisation for Additive Manufacturing using Body-fitted Mesh
- 14 Dec 2018
- Creating Diverse and Competitive Designs in Topology Optimisation
- 29 Oct 2018
- An Innovative Formwork System Based on Ice and Sand for Casting Optimised Concrete Components
- 9 Oct 2018
- Innovative Design of Fibre Reinforced Concrete Tunnel Segments
- 17 Sep 2018
- Topology Optimisation of Concrete Structures Considering Stress Constraints
- 2 Jul 2018
- Performance-driven Digital Design and Robotic Fabrication Based on Topology Optimisation and Multi-agent System
- 1 Mar 2018
- Why Woodpecker Can Resist the Impact
- 18 Jul 2016
- Design optimization of energy absorption structures with origami patterns
- 13 Oct 2014
- Static and Dynamic Behaviour of Plate-Like Assemblies Made of New Interlocking Bricks
- 7 Jul 2014
- Topology Optimisation and Additive Manufacturing of Structural Nodes of Gridshell Structures
- 3 Mar 2014
- Know thy tool: the intricacies of acupuncture needles
- 3 Jan 2014
Teaching interests
Supervisor interest areas:
-Structural design and optimisation
-Additive manufacturing
-Robotic fabrication
-Computational mechanics
-Form-finding
-Free-form architecture
Supervisor projects:
-Designing innovative and efficient structures using topological optimisation techniques
-Digital design and advanced manufacturing of customised façade panels and structural components
-Computational geometry for free-form architecture
-Optimal design and additive manufacture of novel metamaterials for exceptional mechanical performance
Programs:
Engineering
(https://www.rmit.edu.au/study-with-us/engineering)
-Structural design and optimisation
-Additive manufacturing
-Robotic fabrication
-Computational mechanics
-Form-finding
-Free-form architecture
Supervisor projects:
-Designing innovative and efficient structures using topological optimisation techniques
-Digital design and advanced manufacturing of customised façade panels and structural components
-Computational geometry for free-form architecture
-Optimal design and additive manufacture of novel metamaterials for exceptional mechanical performance
Programs:
Engineering
(https://www.rmit.edu.au/study-with-us/engineering)
Research interests
Professor Xie's research is focused on the following areas:
1.Shape and topology optimisation of structures for a wide range of applications;
2.Novel structural designs for free-form architecture;
3.Additive manufacturing and robotic fabrication of complex-shaped structures;
4.Design of metamaterials and composites for exceptional mechanical properties.
Research keywords:
Topology optimisation, Evolutionary structural optimisation, Computational mechanics, Free-form architecture, Advanced manufacturing, Robotic fabrication
1.Shape and topology optimisation of structures for a wide range of applications;
2.Novel structural designs for free-form architecture;
3.Additive manufacturing and robotic fabrication of complex-shaped structures;
4.Design of metamaterials and composites for exceptional mechanical properties.
Research keywords:
Topology optimisation, Evolutionary structural optimisation, Computational mechanics, Free-form architecture, Advanced manufacturing, Robotic fabrication
