Connor Armstrong

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR

Postdoc, Materials Science & Engineering, University of Illinois: Urbana-Champaign, 2025

Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2023

MS., Mechanical Engineering, University of Maryland: College Park, 2019

BS., Mechanical Engineering, University of Maryland: College Park, 2017

Polymers, Machine learning, Material discovery, Additive manufacturing, Autonomous experimentation

X. Sun, L. Yue, C. Forte, L. Yu, C.D. Armstrong, K. Zhou, F. Demoly, R.R. Zhao, H.J. Qi, “Machine Learning-Enabled Forward Prediction and Inverse Design of 4D-Printed Active Plates,” Nature Communications, 2024.
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-49775-z
A. Jain^*, C.D. Armstrong^*, V.R. Joseph, R. Ramprasad, H.J. Qi, “Machine-Guided Discovery of Acrylate Photopolymer Compositions,” ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.4c00759 (* authors made equal contributions)
C.D. Armstrong, S.M. Montgomery, L. Yue, F. Demoly, K. Zhou, H.J. Qi, “Robotic Conformal Material Extrusion 3D Printing for Appending Structures on Unstructured Surfaces,” Advanced Intelligent Systems, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1002/aisy.202300516
C.D. Armstrong, L. Yue, F. Demoly, K. Zhou, H.J. Qi, “Unstructured Direct Ink Write 3D Printing of Functional Structures with Ambient Temperature Curing Dual-Network Thermoset Ink,” Advanced Intelligent Systems, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1002/aisy.202200226
C.D. Armstrong, L. Yue, X. Kuang, D.J. Roach, M.L. Dunn, H.J. Qi, “A Hybrid Additive Manufacturing Process for Production of Functional Fiber-Reinforced Polymer Composite Structures,” Journal of Composite Materials, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1177/00219983221119270