Principal Investigator

Prof. Xuan Song

Associate Professor | James A. Chisman Faculty Fellow    My CV

  • Ph.D.: Industrial & Systems Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA.

  • M.S.: Computer Science, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA.

  • M.S.: Mechanical Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China.

  • B.S.: Mechanical Engineering, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, China.

    • Contact Information:

    Office: 4609 Seamans Center

    Phone: 319-335-5680      Fax: 319-335-5669      Email: xuan-song@uiowa.edu



    PhD Students


    Levi Kirby
    2019 spring~present

    A. Bill Bangel
    2021 fall~present

    Jackson Berlage
    2023 fall~present



    Undergraduate Students


    Luke G. Striegel
    2023 spring~present

    Tram Le
    2022 winter~present

    Jake Atzen
    2023 spring~present




    Alejandro Mirafuentes
    2023 fall~present

    Alexander (Olek) Gralczyk
    2023 spring~present

    Diego Robles
    2023 fall~present



    Former Group Members

    PhD students

  • Fan Fei, Aug.2017 ~ July. 2022, “Hydrothermal-Assisted Jet Fusion: A Binder-Free Additive Manufacturing Approach for Ceramics,” now working as a postdoc researcher at HP labs, Palo Alto, CA.

  • Li He, Aug.2016 ~ May. 2020, “Suspension-enclosing Projection Stereolithography of Bi-continuous Piezoelectric Ceramic Composites,” now working as a researcher at Guangdong Academy of Sciences, China.

    • Master students

  • Wenbo Wang, Jan.2018 ~ May.2020, “Multi-scale Micro-projection Based Stereolithography for Microneedle Fabrication: Process Development and Optimization,” now a PhD student at Arizona State University (ASU).

    • Undergraduates

  • Alan E Jr Meyer, industrial engineering, spring 2023.

  • Prabhav Bhatt, mechanical engineering, Fall 2021 – Spring 2023

  • Xin Lyu, mechanical engineering, fall 2021 ~ fall 2022.

  • Thiago Xifra, mechanical engineering, spring 2022 ~ fall 2022.

  • Alexander Dotzler, mechanical engineering, fall 2019 ~ spring 2020.

  • Liyan Liu, mechanical engineering, spring 2020.

  • Baizhuang Zhou, mechanical engineering, Jan.2018 ~ Dec. 2019.

  • Ziyang Xu, mechanical engineering, Jun.2018 ~ Dec. 2018.

  • Ryan Dauzvardis, industrial engineering, Sep.2018 ~ Dec. 2018.

  • Justin Hoehne, electrical engineering, Sep.2018 ~ Dec. 2018.

  • Lamis Awdi, industrial engineering, Sep.2017 ~ July. 2018.

  • Genevieve Goelz, biomedical engineering, Feb.2018 ~ July.2018.

  • Qiwei Zhu, mechanical engineering, Feb.2017 ~ Dec.2017.

  • Oliver Stroh, industrial engineering (honor contract), Jan.2017 ~ Jun.2017.

    • Summer Interns

  • Xuan (Kevin) Yang, McCallie School(TN), K-12 SSTP program, June.2023 ~ July.2023.

  • Kevin Su, Heritage High School (Texas), K-12 SSTP program, June.2022 ~ July.2022.

  • Yash Fichadia, Millard North High School (Nebraska), K-12 SSTP program, June.2019 ~ July.2019.

  • Haoran Wu, West Senior High School (Iowa), June.2019 ~ August.2019.

  • Junkai Wu, No.2 High school of East China Normal University, K-12 SSTP program, June.2018 ~ July.2018.

    • Visiting Scholars

  • Xiaofeng Li, Wuhan University, China, 01.2020 ~ 01.2021.