Jian Chen

Bio

Dr. Jian Chen Leads and supports a variety of fundamental and applied research and technology innovations sponsored by government agencies and industries. Current major research areas include:

•  Lightweight dissimilar materials joining/welding techniques for car body structures and EV battery enclosures
• Advanced welding techniques for nuclear power plant construction/repair
• Inline manufacturing NDE, sensing, process monitoring and control
• High-performance numerical algorithms and solvers for large-scale welding and additive manufacturing simulation

Professional Experience

• Sep 2013  – present (Senior R&D staff, ORNL, Oak Ridge, TN)
• Feb 2021 - Jan 2023 (Adjunct Associate Professor, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN) 
• May 2015 - Dec 2015 (Visiting Scientist, General Motors, Warren, MI)
• Dec 2010 - Sep 2013 (Post-doc, ORNL, Oak Ridge, TN)
   

Awards

• 2022 A. F. Davis Silver Medal Award - Structure Design (American Welding Society)
• 2021 Heinz Sossenheimer Software Innovation Award (International Institute of Welding)
• 2015 R&D 100 Market Disruptor Service Special Recognition Award, “Infrared Nondestructive Weld 
• 2022 ORNL’s Innovator Award
• 2022 ORNL’s Research Accomplishment Award
• 2021 ORNL’s Research Accomplishment Award
• 2020 ORNL’s Innovation Award
• 2015 ORNL’s Technology Commercialization Award
   

Education

• Ph.D., Industrial Engineering, 2010
• Master, Solid Mechanics, 2005
• Material Science and Engineering, 2002

Trademarks and Patents

Patents

• Laser Nanostructured Surface Preparation for Joining Materials (US patent 11,493,070 11/08/2022).
• Adaptive time scaling for accelerating explicit finite element analysis (US patent 11,288,424)
• Ultrasonic Rivet Joining of Dissimilar Materials (US Patent 11,253,908)
• Laser Nanostructured Surface Preparation for Joining Dissimilar Materials (US patent 10,082,166, 09/25/2018). 

Software Copyright

• High Performance GPU-Based FEM Code for Simulating Welding and Additive Manufacturing (TXu 2-170-001, Jan 3, 2020)
• IR Spot Weld Inspect (Txu 1-908-681, April 2, 2014) 
  
   

Publications