Faculty and staff directory
Faculty
Areas of expertise:
- Digital factories
- Biofabrication
- Industry 4.0
- Digital twins
- AI in manufacturing
Areas of expertise:
- Robotics
- Design
- Dynamics
- Kinematics
- Mechanism design
- Manufacturing planning
- Laminate fabrication techniques
- Rapid prototyping
- Design for affordability
- Design for manufacturability
Areas of expertise:
- Semiconductor manufacturing
- Metal additive manufacturing
- Nanomanufacturing
Dhruv Bhate
Associate Professor and Chair of Undergraduate Manufacturing Programs
Areas of expertise:
- Bio-Inspired design
- Architected cellular materials
- Metal additive manufacturing
Areas of expertise:
- 3D printing
- Metamaterials
- Composites
- Wearable electronics
- Photonics
- Bioprinting
Areas of expertise:
- Industrial automation
- Robotics in manufacturing
Areas of expertise:
- Industrial informatics
- Statistical quality control
- Interpretable machine learning
- Big data analytics
Areas of expertise:
- Polymer additive manufacturing
- Metal additive manufacturing
- Solid state welding
Areas of expertise:
- AI in manufacturing and design
- Physics-informed machine learning
- Digitization of factories
- Cyber-physical systems
Areas of expertise:
- Haptic interfaces
- Haptic intelligence
- Sensory augmentation
- Smart multimedia
Sangram Redkar
Associate Director and Associate Professor
Areas of expertise:
- Robotics
- Dynamics and control
Areas of expertise:
- Polymers
- Nanoparticles
- Composites
- Textiles
- Smart coatings
- 3D printing
- Surface patterning technologies
- Nanoparticle assembly
- Bioplotting
- Plastics recycling
- Hybrid manufacturing
Thomas Sugar
President’s Professor and Program Chair of Graduate Programs (MFG)
Associate Dean, Polytechnic, Barrett Honors College – Polytechnic
Areas of expertise:
- Human-robot integration
- Exoskeletons
- Robotics
Areas of expertise:
- System informatics
- Data mining and machine learning
- Process monitoring and diagnostics
- Multi-modal data fusion
- Analytics for smart manufacturing systems
Wenlong Zhang
Research Programs Director and Associate Professor
Areas of expertise:
- Human-robot collaboration
- Dynamics systems modeling and control
- Wearable robots
- Soft robots
- Aerial robots
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