Awards
AIAA Multidisciplinary Design Optimization Best Paper Award
2024
AIAA Aviation Forum Best Student Paper Award in Multidisciplinary Design Optimization
2024
Toulouse Graduate School of Aerospace Engineering (TSAE) Scholarship
2021
Selected publications
Automated Parameterization for Aerodynamic Shape Optimization via Deep Geometric Learning
Zhen Wei, Aobo Yang, Jichao Li, Michaël Bauerheim, Rhea P Liem, Pascal Fua
Published in AIAA Journal in 2025
Diffairfoil: An efficient novel airfoil sampler based on latent space diffusion model for aerodynamic shape optimization
Zhen Wei, Edouard R Dufour, Colin Pelletier, Pascal Fua, Michaël Bauerheim
Published in AIAA AVIATION FORUM AND ASCEND in 2024
DeepGeo: Deep Geometric Mapping for Automated and Effective Parameterization in Aerodynamic Shape Optimization
Zhen Wei, Aobo Yang, Jichao Li, Michaël Bauerheim, Rhea P Liem, Pascal Fua
Published in AIAA AVIATION FORUM AND ASCEND in 2024
Latent representation of computational fluid dynamics meshes and application to airfoil aerodynamics
Zhen Wei, Benoît Guillard, Pascal Fua, Vincent Chapin, Michaël Bauerheim
Published in AIAA Journal in 2023
Robust Outlier Rejection for 3D Registration with Variational Bayes
Haobo Jiang, Zheng Dang, Zhen Wei, Jin Xie, Jian Yang, Mathieu Salzmann
Published in IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) in 2023
Dflow-SUR: Enhancing Generative Aerodynamic Inverse Design using Differentiation Throughout Flow Matching
Aobo Yang, Zhen Wei, Rhea Liem, Pascal Fua
Published in arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.08336 in 2025