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Chinedum Okwudire

Director, S2A Lab and Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Personal Website; Google Scholar Profile; Research Gate Profile
Research Interests:
Smart manufacturing, additive manufacturing, automation, controls, precision machine design

CURRENT RESEARCHERS


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Keval S Ramani
Postdoctoral Fellow (2020-Present)
​Google Scholar Profile; Research Gate Profile
Research Interests:
Mechatronics, Controls, Dynamic and Vibrations
Current Project:
Automatic Shape Error Compensation in Additive Manufacturing;
Boosting the speed and accuracy of vibration-prone manufacturing machines at cost through software
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Nosakhare Edoimioya
PhD Candidate (2017-Present)
​Personal Website; Google Scholar Profile; Research Gate Profile
Research Interests:
Mechatronics, Manufacturing, Controls, 3D Printing
Current Project:
Vibration minimization of manufacturing machines with nonlinear kinematics through software compensation
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Pinyi Wu
PhD Candidate (2020-Present)
​Google Scholar Profile; Research Gate Profile
Research Interests:
Mechatronics, Controls, 3D Printing
Current Project:
Control of extrusion in 3D printing
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Cheng-Hao Chou
PhD Candidate (2021-Present)
Google Scholar Profile; ​Research Gate Profile
Research Interests:
Mechatronics, Controls, Machine Learning for Manufacturing
Current Project:
Combination of physics-based and data-driven models for control of manufacturing machines
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Chuan He
Phd Pre-Candidate (2020-Present)
Research Interests:
Mechatronics, Controls, Dynamics
Current Project:
Scan Sequence Optimization in Laser Powder Bed Fusion
Shape Error Compensation in Additive Manufacturing
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Heejin Kim
PhD Candidate (2020-Present)
​Google Scholar Profile; Research Gate Profile
Research Interests:
Mechatronics, Controls, Manufacturing
Current Project:
Computationally efficient motion command generation for manufacturing machines
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Samuel Aidala
Undergraduate Student (2020-Present)
Research Interests:
Mechatronics, Controls, Dynamics
Current Project:
Fault Detection for FDM 3D printers
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Koji Kususaki
Visiting Scholar (2020-Present)
Research Interests:
Dynamics, Tribology
Current Project:
Reduction of Ball Screw Friction 
Control Simulation Based on Dynamics of Ball Screw
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