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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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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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Alexander Martinez-Marchese
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
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Tao Liu
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
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Milad Azvar
Postdoctoral Fellow (2025-Present)
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Research Interests:
Digital Manufacturing, CNC Machine Tools, Metal Cutting, Chatter
Current Projects:
Combination of physics-based and data-driven models for control of 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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Chuan He
PhD Candidate (2021-Present)
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Google Scholar Profile ; Research Gate Profile
Research Interests:
Numerical Modeling, Optimal Control, Metal Additive Manufacturing
Current Projects:
Scan Sequence Optimization in Laser Powder Bed Fusion
Shape Error Compensation in Additive Manufacturing
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Chen Qian
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
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Nicholas Kirschbaum
PhD Candidate (2023-Present)
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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
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Conor Savage
PhD Candidate (2024-Present)
Research Interests:
Metal Additive Manufacturing, Wire Arc Additive Manufacturing, Control Systems, Design
Current Project:
WAAM Distortion Control
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Oluwadamilola (Temiloluwa) Sotomi
PhD Pre-Candidate (2025-Present)
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Google Scholar Profile
Research Interests:
Control Theory, Industrial Automation, Additive Manufacturing
Current Project:
Multi-robot Collaboration in Manufacturing
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