Selected Publications

See Google Scholar for the complete list, and Codes Page for relevant codes.

Highlights: AI+Design/Geometric Modeling

• Qiang Zou*, Yingcai Wu, Zhenyu Liu, Weiwei Xu, Shuming Gao, Intelligent CAD 2.0, Visual Informatics (2024).
• Qiang Zou*, Lizhen Zhu, Boundary Representation Learning via Transformer, Computer-Aided Design (2025).
• Aijia Zhang, Weiqiang Jia*, Qiang Zou*, Yixiong Feng, Xiaoxiang Wei, Ye Zhang, Diffusion-CAD: Controllable Diffusion Model for Generating Computer-Aided Design Models, IEEE TVCG, 2025
• Qiang Zou*, Lizhen Zhu, Jiayu Wu, Zhijie Yang, SplineGen: approximating unorganized points through generative AI, Computer-Aided Design (2024).

Highlights: Microstructure Modeling ($\mu$-Geometric Modeling)

• Qiang Zou*, Guoyue Luo, Geometric modeling for microstructure design and manufacturing: A review, Computer-Aided Design (2024).
• Guoyue Luo, Qiang Zou*, Soap Film-inspired Subdivisional Lattice Structure Construction, Computer-Aided Design (2025).
• Sifan Chen, Guoyue Luo, Yuan Kong*, Qiang Zou* A Quasi-Optimal Shape Design Method for Lattice Structure Construction, ASME Trans. JMD (2025)
• Qiang Zou*, Yunzhu Gao, Guoyue Luo, Sifan Chen, Meta-meshing and triangulating lattice structures at a large scale, Computer-Aided Design (2024).
• Yaonaiming Zhao, Qiang Zou*, Guoyue Luo, Jiayu Wu, Sifan Chen, Depeng Gao, Minghao Xuan, Fuyu Wang, TPMS2STEP: error-controlled and C2 continuity-preserving translation of TPMS models to STEP files based on constrained-PIA, Computer-Aided Design (2024).
• Depeng Gao, Yuanzhi Zhang, Hongwei Lin*, Qiang Zou, Persistent Homology-Driven Optimization of Effective Relative Density Range for Triply Periodic Minimal Surfaces, Computer-Aided Design (2024).
• Junhao Ding, Qiang Zou, Shuo Qu, Paulo Bartolo, Xu Song, Charlie C. L. Wang*, STL-free digital design and manufacturing paradigm for high-precision selective laser melting, CIRP Annals. 2021 70(1): 167-170.
• Shengjun Liu, Tao Liu, Qiang Zou, Weiming Wang, Eugeni L. Doubrovski, Charlie C. L. Wang*, Memory-Efficient Modeling and Slicing of Large-Scale Adaptive Lattice Structures, ASME Trans. JCISE. 21.6 (2021): 061003.

Highlights: Tool Path Generation (Iso-Level Method)

• Qiang Zou, Juyong Zhang*, Bailin Deng, Jibin Zhao, Iso-level tool path planning for free-form surfaces, Computer-Aided Design 53 (11) (2014) 117–125.
• Zirui Wang, Shibo Liu, Ligang Liu, Qiang Zou*, Xiao-Ming Fu*, Computing smooth preferred feed direction fields with high material removal rates for efficient CNC tool paths, Computer-Aided Design (2023): 103591.
• Qiang Zou*, Length-optimal tool path planning for freeform surfaces with preferred feed directions based on Poisson formulation, Computer-Aided Design, 2021, 139:103072
• Qiang Zou*, Robust and efficient tool path generation for machining low-quality mesh surfaces, International Journal of Production Research. 2021 59(24), 7457-7467.
• Qiang Zou, Jibin Zhao*, Iso-parametric tool-path planning for point clouds, Computer-Aided Design 45 (11) (2013) 1459–1468.

Highlights: Direct Modeling

• Qiang Zou*, Hsi-Yung Feng, and Shuming Gao. Variational Direct Modeling: A framework towards integration of parametric modeling and direct modeling in CAD. Computer-Aided Design 157 (2023): 103465.
• Qiang Zou, Hsi-Yung Feng*, Push-pull direct modeling of solid CAD models, Advances in Engineering Software 127 (2019): 59-69.
• Qiang Zou*, Hsi-Yung Feng, A robust direct CAD modeling method for quadric B-rep models based on geometry-topology inconsistency tracking, Engineering with Computers 2022 38 (4), 3815-3830
• Qiang Zou, Hsi-Yung Feng*, A decision-support method for information inconsistency resolution in direct modeling of CAD models, Advanced Engineering Informatics. 44 (2020) 101087.
• Qiang Zou, Hsi-Yung Feng*, Variational B-rep model analysis for direct modeling using geometric perturbation, Journal of Computational Design and Engineering. 6 (4) (2019) 606-616.
• Zhihong Tang, Qiang Zou*, Shuming Gao*, Determining valid parameter ranges for multiparameter editing of 3D parametric CAD models, ASME Trans. JCISE. 2025.
• Zhihong Tang, Qiang Zou, and Shuming Gao*. A decision-support method for multi-parameter editing of parametric CAD models. Advanced Engineering Informatics 56 (2023): 101997.

Highlights: Physical Modeling (XVoxel Method)

• Li Ming, Chengfeng Lin, Wei Chen, Yusheng Liu, Shuming Gao, and Qiang Zou*. XVoxel-Based Parametric Design Optimization of Feature Models. Computer-Aided Design 160 (2023): 103528.

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Awards (Selected)

1. CCF CAD&CG Young Researcher Award, China Computer Federation, 2024
2. Annual Provincial Best Paper Award, Zhejiang Province, 2023
3. Best Poster Award, GDC, 2021
4. Faculty of Applied Science Graduate Award, UBC, 2014 & 2018
5. Departmental Scholar, UBC, 2015
6. UBC 4YF Doctoral Fellowship, UBC, 2014
7. Academic Research Award, Liaoning Province, China, 2014

Talks

1. Data-Driven B-Spline Modeling, SAC, Aug, 2024
2. Geometric Modeling for Microstructure Design and Manufacturing, SAC, April, 2024
3. From Tool Path Generation To Tool Path Optimization: An Implicit Framework, Tianyuan Math Cener, Aug., 2024
4. Structure Modeling: Efficient and Robust Geometric Modeling for Highly Complex Structures (HCS), GDC, Aug., 2022
5. Implicit Tool Path Optimization: Iso-Level Framework, Tool Path in Diffusion, Poisson Tool Path Generation, UCAS, Dec. 27, 2021
6. On Flexibility and robustness of Computer-Aided Design Modeling, GAMES, Oct. 2021. http://games-cn.org/games-webinar-20211014-203/
7. Direct Modeling for Computer Aided Design, State Key Lab of CAD&CG, Zhejiang University, Jan. 2020.
8. Fabrication in Computer Graphics, G&GC Lab at school of mathematical sciences, USTC, May 2014.
9. Iso-level Method: A New Framework for Tool Path Planning, Mid-term evaluation on the “973” project “Mathematics Mechanization and Digital Design and Manufacturing”, USTC, June 2013.