Faez Ahmed

1.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
73 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Faez Ahmed is a scholar working on Mechanical Engineering, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering and Civil and Structural Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Faez Ahmed has authored 73 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 29 papers in Mechanical Engineering, 13 papers in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering and 11 papers in Civil and Structural Engineering. Recurrent topics in Faez Ahmed's work include Design Education and Practice (21 papers), Manufacturing Process and Optimization (12 papers) and Topology Optimization in Engineering (8 papers). Faez Ahmed is often cited by papers focused on Design Education and Practice (21 papers), Manufacturing Process and Optimization (12 papers) and Topology Optimization in Engineering (8 papers). Faez Ahmed collaborates with scholars based in United States, Netherlands and India. Faez Ahmed's co-authors include Kalyanmoy Deb, Wei Chen, Yu‐Chin Chan, Zhao Liu, Liwei Wang, Ping Zhu, Wei Chen, Binyang Song, Abhilash Jindal and Mark Fuge and has published in prestigious journals such as Applied Energy, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering and Applied Soft Computing.

In The Last Decade

Faez Ahmed

70 papers receiving 1.0k citations

Hit Papers

Deep generative modeling for mechanistic-based learning a... 2020 2026 2022 2024 2020 50 100 150 200
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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Deep generative modeling for mechanistic-based learning and design of metamaterial systems
    2020 239 citations Liwei Wang, Yu‐Chin Chan et al. Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Faez Ahmed United States 16 301 193 179 154 143 73 1.1k
Namwoo Kang South Korea 18 278 0.9× 52 0.3× 247 1.4× 230 1.5× 84 0.6× 62 1.2k
Xiaoqiang Zhou China 21 290 1.0× 282 1.5× 361 2.0× 130 0.8× 194 1.4× 74 1.5k
Yan Fu China 18 205 0.7× 53 0.3× 218 1.2× 53 0.3× 51 0.4× 94 1.0k
Goran Konjevod United States 21 278 0.9× 82 0.4× 197 1.1× 57 0.4× 113 0.8× 49 1.5k
Aydin Azizi Iran 17 243 0.8× 59 0.3× 236 1.3× 153 1.0× 63 0.4× 71 956
Gang Zhao China 22 733 2.4× 325 1.7× 72 0.4× 489 3.2× 123 0.9× 213 2.0k
Jizhuang Hui China 16 228 0.8× 71 0.4× 133 0.7× 240 1.6× 75 0.5× 71 1.0k
S.C. Fok Singapore 23 769 2.6× 42 0.2× 98 0.5× 363 2.4× 106 0.7× 88 1.7k
Yong Xie China 23 466 1.5× 89 0.5× 296 1.7× 187 1.2× 41 0.3× 59 1.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Faez Ahmed

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Fields of papers citing papers by Faez Ahmed

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Faez Ahmed

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Faez Ahmed. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Faez Ahmed based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Faez Ahmed. Faez Ahmed is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Ahmed, Faez, et al.. (2025). From concept to manufacturing: evaluating vision-language models for engineering design. Artificial Intelligence Review. 58(9). 7 indexed citations
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Dai, Angela, et al.. (2025). DrivAerNet: A Parametric Car Dataset for Data-Driven Aerodynamic Design and Prediction. Journal of Mechanical Design. 147(4). 2 indexed citations
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Tavares, Sérgio M. O., et al.. (2025). Offshore wind turbine tower design and optimization: A review and AI-driven future directions. Applied Energy. 397. 126294–126294. 6 indexed citations
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Ahmed, Faez, Wei Chen, Christopher McComb, et al.. (2025). Special Issue: Design by Data: Cultivating Datasets for Engineering Design. Journal of Mechanical Design. 147(4). 1 indexed citations
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Yu, Rui, et al.. (2025). Fast and accurate Bayesian optimization with pre-trained transformers for constrained engineering problems. Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization. 68(3). 66–66. 1 indexed citations
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Ahmed, Faez, et al.. (2024). Sketch2Prototype: rapid conceptual design exploration and prototyping with generative AI. Proceedings of the Design Society. 4. 1989–1998. 13 indexed citations
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Ahmed, Faez, et al.. (2024). Machine-Learning-Assisted Analysis of Visible Spectroscopy in Pulsed-Power-Driven Plasmas. IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science. 52(10). 4755–4763. 3 indexed citations
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Cheong, Hyunmin, et al.. (2024). DesignQA: A Multimodal Benchmark for Evaluating Large Language Models’ Understanding of Engineering Documentation. Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering. 25(2). 7 indexed citations
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Srivastava, Akash, et al.. (2023). Beyond Statistical Similarity: Rethinking Metrics for Deep Generative Models in Engineering Design. Computer-Aided Design. 165. 103609–103609. 19 indexed citations
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Ahmed, Faez, et al.. (2023). ShipGen: A Diffusion Model for Parametric Ship Hull Generation with Multiple Objectives and Constraints. Journal of Marine Science and Engineering. 11(12). 2215–2215. 17 indexed citations
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Ahmed, Faez, et al.. (2023). Diffusion Models Beat GANs on Topology Optimization. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 37(8). 9108–9116. 40 indexed citations
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Schiffmann, Jürg, et al.. (2023). Dated: Guidelines for Creating Synthetic Datasets for Engineering Design Applications. Infoscience (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne). 14 indexed citations
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Chen, Wei, et al.. (2021). RANGE-GAN: Design Synthesis Under Constraints Using Conditional Generative Adversarial Networks. Journal of Mechanical Design. 1–16. 8 indexed citations
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Wang, Liwei, Yu‐Chin Chan, Faez Ahmed, et al.. (2020). Deep generative modeling for mechanistic-based learning and design of metamaterial systems. Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering. 372. 113377–113377. 239 indexed citations breakdown →
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Ahmed, Faez, et al.. (2019). Structuring Online Dyads. 306–318. 6 indexed citations
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Ahmed, Faez & Mark Fuge. (2017). Capturing Winning Ideas in Online Design Communities. 1675–1687. 12 indexed citations

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