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Doktor-Ingenieur (Dr.-Ing.), summa cum laude
Technische Universität Braunschweig (TUBS)
2025

Master of Science (MSc)
Aalto University (Aalto)
2020

Bachelor of Architecture (BArch)
Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST)
2016

DR. Yinan Xiao
肖一楠

PostDoctoral Fellow

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Yinan Xiao received his Dr.-Ing. degree (summa cum laude) from the Institute for Structural Design (ITE) at Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany, with co-supervision from the Technical University of Munich. He holds a M.Sc. from the Design of Structures research group (ADS) at Aalto University, Finland, and a BArch from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China, graduating with distinction.

His doctoral research investigates geometry-based graphical methods as a means to integrate robotic fabrication, structural design, and gradient-based optimization. His current research interests lie at developing computational tools for AI-assisted structural design and analysis, with a focus on leveraging graph neural networks (GNN) and reinforcement learning (RL) for graph-based structural models.