Scholars@Duke
Boyuan Chen

Boyuan Chen

Assistant Professor in the Thomas Lord Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Thomas Lord Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
boyuan.chen@duke.edu
135 North Building, Box 90300, Durham, NC 27708
144 Hudson Hall, Box 90300, Durham, NC 27708

Selected Publications

Towards end-to-end structure determination from x-ray diffraction data using deep learning

Journal Article npj Computational Materials · December 1, 2024 Powder crystallography is the experimental science of determining the structure of molecules provided in crystalline-powder form, by analyzing their x-ray diffraction (XRD) patterns. Since many materials are readily available as crystalline powder, powder ... Full text Cite

Human-robot facial coexpression.

Journal Article Science robotics · March 2024 Large language models are enabling rapid progress in robotic verbal communication, but nonverbal communication is not keeping pace. Physical humanoid robots struggle to express and communicate using facial movement, relying primarily on voice. The challeng ... Full text Cite

Fully body visual self-modeling of robot morphologies.

Journal Article Science robotics · July 2022 Internal computational models of physical bodies are fundamental to the ability of robots and animals alike to plan and control their actions. These "self-models" allow robots to consider outcomes of multiple possible future actions without trying them out ... Full text Cite

Automated discovery of fundamental variables hidden in experimental data.

Journal Article Nature computational science · July 2022 All physical laws are described as mathematical relationships between state variables. These variables give a complete and non-redundant description of the relevant system. However, despite the prevalence of computing power and artificial intelligence, the ... Full text Cite