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Chinedum Okwudire

Director, S2A Lab and Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
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Research Interests:
Smart manufacturing, additive manufacturing, automation, controls, precision machine design

CURRENT RESEARCHERS


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Kijoon Lee
Postdoctoral Fellow (2022-Present)
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Research Interests:
Metal Additive Manufacturing, Laser Powder Bed Fusion, Binder Jetting, Multi-Material Structures, Cost Estimation
Current Project:
Development of Novel process and machine for binder jetting
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Nevzat Bircan Buğdaycı
Postdoctoral Fellow (2023-Present)
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Research Interests:
Direct Energy Deposition, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Chatter Vibrations, Manufacturing Process Modeling and Monitoring 
Current Projects:
Scan Sequence Optimization in Additive Manufacturing
Shape Error Compensation in Laser Powder bed Fusion for Arbitrary Geometries 
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Md Moktadir Alam
Postdoctoral Fellow (2023-Present)
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Research Interests:
Industrial Robot, Artificial Intelligence, Optimization, Metrology
Current Projects:
Robotic Debinding in Additive Manufacturing, Cobot Performance Optimization, Robotic Retrofit Controller Improvement for Semiconductor Equipment, Multi-Robot Collaboration and Control for Generic Object Manipulation
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Heejin Kim
PhD Candidate (2020-Present)
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Research Interests:
Mechatronics, Controls, Manufacturing
Current Project:
Computationally efficient motion command generation for manufacturing machines
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Cheng-Hao Chou
PhD Candidate (2021-Present)
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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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Iago Pereira
PhD Pre-Candidate (2022-Present)
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Research Interests:
Mechatronics, Controls, Dynamics and Mechanical Vibration
Current Project:
Vibration control of robotic 6-DoF arm using software and hardware solutions
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Nathaniel Wood
Postdoctoral Fellow (2023-Present)
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Research Interests:
Metal Additive Manufacturing, Powder Bed Fusion, Control Theory, Heat Transfer, Numerical Modeling Techniques
Current Projects:
Developing Feedforward-feedback Control for Powder Bed Fusion, Physics-based AI Modeling of the Powder Bed Fusion Process
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Pinyi Wu
PhD Candidate (2020-Present)
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Research Interests:
Mechatronics, Controls, 3D Printing
Current Project:
Control of extrusion in 3D printing
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Chuan He
PhD Candidate (2021-Present)
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Research Interests:
Mechatronics, Controls, Dynamics
Current Projects:
Scan Sequence Optimization in Laser Powder Bed Fusion
Shape Error Compensation in Additive Manufacturing
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