“SMART”: Smart Manufacturing with AI and Reliability Technology
About the Center
Focusing on the industrial and technological transformation on "AI + manufacturing" for renewable energy system equipment, this initiative explores cutting-edge smart manufacturing technologies characterized by ultra-high efficiency, reliability, intelligence, and low carbon consumption. It conducts research on key scientific theories and technologies, including high-reliability design of system form-performance coordination, highly efficient and smart extreme manufacturing, quality inspection and control, as well as intelligent operation and maintenance. The goal is to drive technological leaps and high-quality development in smart manufacturing across industries such as automotive, energy storage, photovoltaics, nuclear power, aviation, and shipbuilding.
Chief Scientist
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Sun Jin Director |
Mian Li Executive Director |
Core Members
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Jun Ni Distinguished Professor Intelligent maintenance of large industrial systems; Manufacturing operation optimization; Manufacturing process modeling, analysis and design; Precision Engineering and Metrology; Quality control methods |
Sun Jin Chair Professor Intelligent Manufacturing; Manufacturing Quality Control; Assembly Technology Development; Industrial Application |
Mian Li Professor Reliability Design of Mechatronic Systems; Intelligent Control Theory and Applications; Industial AI
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Tingting Yu Associate Professor Micro/nanorobotics; Micro/nanofabrication
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Yang Liu Associate Professor Smart Logistics and Transportation; Smart Supply Chain; AI for Energy Storage; Cyber-Physical Systems |
Jing Zou Assistant Research Professor Manufacturing system modeling and control |
Ruixiang Zheng Assistant Research Professor Energy system reliability design |
Bohan Feng Lecturer Robotic manufacturing
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Research Directions
1. Reliability Modeling and Intelligent Design for Form-Performance Coordination: system reliability design, form-performance coordination for modeling, fault analysis, and intelligent operation and maintenance.
2. Flexible Manufacturing System Modeling and Intelligent Control: quality inspection, lean modeling, intelligent process and procedure control, energy management, etc.
3. Highly Efficient and Reliable Embodied Intelligent Manufacturing Technology: highly efficient and reliable embodied intelligence technologies under complex environments, such as new energy vehicles and aerospace applications, including in-situ assembly, inspection, transportation, etc.
4. Disruptive Intelligent Manufacturing Technologies with Multi-physics Fusion: disruptive manufacturing and atomic-scale manufacturing technologies that integrate physical, chemical, mechanical, and information fields, such as micro/nano robotics, spatter-free welding, and adaptive bonding, etc.
Selected Project
· Project 9-sigma

GIFT-SMART Center is continuously recruiting new members and sincerely invites you to join!
Contact us: shan.su@sjtu.edu.cn