
Faculty and staff directory
Faculty

Areas of expertise:
- Digital factories
- Biofabrication
- Industry 4.0
- Digital Twins
- AI in manufacturing

Areas of expertise:
- Neuro-symbolic Artificial Intelligence in Design and Manufacturing
- Semantic Interoperability
- Ontology Engineering/Knowledge-based Engineering
- Digital Supply Chains
- Digital Manufacturing and Industry 4.0
- Engineering Design Theory and Methodology

Areas of expertise:
- Robotics
- Design
- Dynamics
- Kinematics
- Mechanism design
- Manufacturing planning
- Laminate fabrication techniques
- Rapid prototyping
- Design for affordability
- Design for manufacturability

Bruno Azeredo
Associate Professor and Manufacturing Innovation Labs Director
Ira A. Fulton Development Professor
Areas of expertise:
- Semiconductor manufacturing
- Metal additive manufacturing
- Nanomanufacturing

Dhruv Bhate
Associate Professor and Chair of Manufacturing Engineering 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:
- Structural energy storage
- Sustainable manufacturing
- Additive manufacturing
- Multifunctional composites and ceramics
- Multiscale and Multiphysics informed machine learning modeling
- First-principles calculations, molecular dynamics simulations, and finite element methods
- Materials genome and materials design
- Laser-aided material processing
- Processing-microstructure-property relationship

Areas of expertise:
- Acoustic imaging
- Non-destructive testing
- Robotic inspection
- In-situ quality control

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:
- Additive Manufacturing
- Laser Manufacturing
- Metal Matrix Nanocomposites
- Porous Materials
- Carbon Capture and Utilization

Areas of expertise:
- Haptic interfaces
- Haptic intelligence
- Sensory augmentation
- Smart multimedia

Sangram Redkar
Professor and Associate Director
Areas of expertise:
- Robotics
- Dynamics and control

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
Associate Professor and Research Programs Director
Areas of expertise:
- Human-robot collaboration
- Dynamics systems modeling and control
- Wearable robots
- Soft robots
- Aerial robots
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