Chinedum
Okwudire
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Director, S2A Lab and 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
Alexander Martinez-Marchese
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Postdoctoral Fellow (2024-Present)
Personal Website ; Google Scholar Profile Research Interests: Metal Additive Manufacturing, Directed Energy Deposition, Binder Jetting, Laser Ultrasonics, Acoustics, Fluid Dynamics Current Projects: Novel Directed Energy Deposition processes, novel Binder Jetting processes, Binder Jetting part de-powdering |
Tao Liu
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Postdoctoral Fellow (2024-Present)
Google Scholar Profile ; Research Gate Profile Research Interests: Green's Function, Solid Mechanics, Heat Transfer, Infrared Optics, Additive Manufacturing Current Projects: Real Time Thermal Elastoplastic Residual Stress Prediction |
Arian Yousefiankalareh
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Postdoctoral Fellow (2026-Present)
Google Scholar Profile Research Interests: System Identification, Learning Based Control, Additive Manufacturing Current Project: Optimal control for additive manufacturing (Contrrol and optimization for EB-PBF) |
Cheng-Hao Chou
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Postdoctoral Fellow (2026-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 |
Chen Qian
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PhD Candidate (2023-Present)
Personal Website , Google Scholar Profile ; Research Gate Profile Research Interests: Metal Additive Manufacturing, Mechatronics Current Project: Manufacturing process and machine for binder jetting |
Nicholas Kirschbaum
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PhD Candidate (2023-Present)
Google Scholar Profile ; Research Gate Profile Research Interests: Metal Additive Manufacturing, Laser Powder Fusion, Control Theory, Heat Transfer Current Project: Developing feedforward-feedback melt pool control in Laser Powder Bed Fusion |
Conor Savage
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PhD Candidate (2024-Present)
Research Interests: Metal Additive Manufacturing, Wire Arc Additive Manufacturing, Control Systems, Design Current Project: WAAM Distortion Control |
Oluwadamilola (Temiloluwa) Sotomi
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PhD Pre-Candidate (2025-Present)
Google Scholar Profile Research Interests: Control Theory, Industrial Automation, Additive Manufacturing Current Project: Multi-robot Collaboration in Manufacturing |
David Junior Anani-Awusah
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PhD Pre-Candidate (2025-Present)
Google Scholar Profile Research Interests: Manufacturing, LPBF, Controls & Optimization Current Project: Thermo-elasto-plastic scan-sequence optimization (SmartScan 3.0) for LPBF accounts for plastic deformation to reduce residual stress and distortion and improve build reliability. |