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Faculty directory

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Binil Starly

School Dir (ACD) & Professor

School of Manufacturing Systems and Networks

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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
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Daniel Aukes

Associate Professor

School of Manufacturing Systems and Networks

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Areas of expertise:

  • Robotics
  • Design
  • Dynamics
  • Kinematics
  • Mechanism design
  • Manufacturing planning
  • Laminate fabrication techniques
  • Rapid prototyping
  • Design for affordability
  • Design for manufacturability
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Bruno Azeredo

Associate Professor

School of Manufacturing Systems and Networks

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Areas of expertise:

  • Semiconductor manufacturing
  • Metal additive manufacturing
  • Nanomanufacturing
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Dhruv Bhate

Assoc Professor

School of Manufacturing Systems and Networks

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Areas of expertise:

  • Bio-Inspired design
  • Architected cellular materials
  • Metal additive manufacturing
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Xiangfan Chen

Asst Professor

School of Manufacturing Systems and Networks

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Areas of expertise:

  • 3D printing
  • Metamaterials
  • Composites
  • Wearable electronics
  • Photonics
  • Bioprinting
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Xiangyang Dong

Associate Professor

School of Manufacturing Systems and Networks

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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
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Ehsan Dehghan-Niri

Assoc Professor

School of Manufacturing Systems and Networks

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Areas of expertise:

  • Acoustic imaging
  • Non-destructive testing
  • Robotic inspection
  • In-situ quality control
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Jerry Gintz

Teaching Professor, MY

School of Manufacturing Systems and Networks

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Areas of expertise:

  • Industrial automation
  • Robotics in manufacturing
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Shenghan Guo

Asst Professor

School of Manufacturing Systems and Networks

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Areas of expertise:

  • Industrial informatics
  • Statistical quality control
  • Interpretable machine learning
  • Big data analytics
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Keng Hsu

Assoc Professor

School of Manufacturing Systems and Networks

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Areas of expertise:

  • Polymer additive manufacturing
  • Metal additive manufacturing
  • Solid state welding
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Hyunwoong Ko

Asst Professor

School of Manufacturing Systems and Networks

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Areas of expertise:

  • AI in manufacturing and design
  • Physics-informed machine learning
  • Digitization of factories
  • Cyber-physical systems
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Chao Ma

Associate Professor

School of Manufacturing Systems and Networks

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Areas of expertise:

  • Additive Manufacturing
  • Laser Manufacturing
  • Metal Matrix Nanocomposites
  • Porous Materials
  • Carbon Capture and Utilization
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Troy McDaniel

Asst Professor

School of Manufacturing Systems and Networks

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Areas of expertise:

  • Haptic interfaces
  • Haptic intelligence
  • Sensory augmentation
  • Smart multimedia
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Sangram Redkar

Professor

School of Manufacturing Systems and Networks

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Areas of expertise:

  • Robotics
  • Dynamics and control
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Thomas Sugar

President’s Professor

Barrett Honors College – Polytechnic

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Areas of expertise:

  • Human-robot integration
  • Exoskeletons
  • Robotics
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Andi Wang

Asst Professor

School of Manufacturing Systems and Networks

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Areas of expertise:

  • System informatics
  • Data mining and machine learning
  • Process monitoring and diagnostics
  • Multi-modal data fusion
  • Analytics for smart manufacturing systems

Areas of expertise:

  • Human-robot collaboration
  • Dynamics systems modeling and control
  • Wearable robots
  • Soft robots
  • Aerial robots