The following individuals have been involved in stringently curating programming and organizing the Symposium on Digital and Robotic Forming 2024.
Glenn Daehn (Lead Organizer)
The Ohio State University
Glenn Daehn is the Mars G. Fontana Professor of Metallurgical Engineering within the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at The Ohio State University and Director of the new National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center HAMMER – Hybrid Autonomous Manufacturing Moving from Evolution to Revolution. HIs focus of his work spans from process innovation in creating new manufacturing processes, to providing authentic content and professional development for K-12 STEM teachers, to advancing manufacturing policy with a focus on the role of the 21st-century land grant university. His long-term research has been in impulse-based manufacturing processes for the joining, shaping, and cutting of material. Daehn is also active in several manufacturing initiatives, playing a key role in establishing the Lightweight Innovations for Tomorrow Manufacturing USA institute, the Ohio State Center for Design and Manufacturing Excellence, and the Ohio Manufacturing Institute. He received his Ph.D. in materials science and engineering from Stanford University and an undergraduate degree from Northwestern University.
Sarah Wolff (Programming Chair)
The Ohio State University
Sarah Wolff is an assistant professor in the Mechanical and Aerospace Department at The Ohio State University. She was awarded the 2022 SME Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award and is an associate editor for Additive Manufacturing Letters. Her previous roles include an assistant professorship in the Industrial and Systems Engineering Department at Texas A&M University and an Enrico Fermi Fellow at Argonne National Laboratory. She graduated from Northwestern University in 2018 with a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering. Wolff's expertise is in metal additive manufacturing and laser processing, particularly in the areas of situ monitoring, high-speed X-ray imaging, image processing, and microstructural characterization.
Jian Cao
Northwestern University
Jian Cao (MIT ’95, MIT ’92, SJTU ’89) specializes in innovative manufacturing processes and systems, particularly in the areas of deformation-based processes and laser additive and subtractive manufacturing processes. She founded the university research center on Northwestern Initiative for Manufacturing Science and Innovation (NIMSI)at Northwestern. She has co-authored over 230 journal articles, 20 patents, and several op-ed articles. Cao is the Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Materials Processing Technology. Cao is an elected member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE), a Fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), ASME, CIRP, and SME. Her major awards include ASME Milton C. Shaw Manufacturing Research Medal, SME Gold Medal, DoD Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship, Charles Russ Richards Memorial Award from ASME and Pi Tau Sigma, SME Frederick W. Taylor Research Medal, ASME Blackall Machine Tool and Gage Award, and NSF CAREER Award. She served as president of the SME North America Manufacturing Research Institute, chair of ASME Manufacturing Engineering Division, and program director at the National Science Foundation. She is a recipient of the ASME Dedicated Service Award. Cao now serves on the National Materials and Manufacturing Board of the National Academies, Board of Directors of SME, and the Board of mHUB – accelerator for hardtech innovation and manufacturing in Chicago.
Kester Clarke
Colorado School of Mines
Kester Clarke is an assistant professor in the Metallurgical and Materials Engineering Department at Colorado School of Mines (Mines) in Golden, Colorado, and serves as the Forging Industry Education and Research Foundation (FIERF) Professor. He also engages in research on deformation processes in metal alloys with the university’s Center for Advanced Non-Ferrous Structural Alloys and the Advanced Steel Processing and Products Research Center. His research interests include alloy development, material deformation and fabrication processes, and the use of experimental and modeling methods to examine the effect of material processing history and microstructure on mechanical properties and performance. Clarke’s experiences prior to this include consulting metallurgical engineer for Engel Metallurgical, senior engineer for Caterpillar, and postdoctoral researcher at Los Alamos National Laboratory, where he is also a visiting scientist.
Clarke is currently serving on the Association for Iron and Steel Technology’s (AIST) Board of Directors and is the Chair for the TMS Shaping and Forming Committee and is the past chair of the AIST Metallurgy- Processing, Products and Applications Technology Committee. He received a B.A. in psychology from Indiana University, a B.S. in materials science and engineering from Wayne State University, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in metallurgical and materials engineering from the Colorado School of Mines.
Babak Raeisinia
Machina Labs
Babak Raeisinia is the co-founder and Head of Applications & Partnerships at Machina Labs. Machina Labs is an advanced manufacturing company based in Los Angeles, California. The company is developing Software-Defined Factories of the Future. Raeisinia holds a Ph.D. in materials engineering from the University of British Columbia in Canada. He previously led the Integrated Computational Materials Science and Engineering (ICME) effort and exploratory projects portfolio at Novelis, the leading producer of flat-rolled aluminum products and the world’s largest recycler of aluminum. He has worked on a variety of metal manufacturing processes, ranging from the more recent additive processes to the more established, legacy processes such as forging and rolling. Raeisinia's main focus for the past decade has been on the use of (new) technology in solving old and new manufacturing challenges.
Iain Todd
University of Sheffield
Iain Todd is based at the University of Sheffield where he directs the EPSRC Future Manufacturing Hub in Manufacture using Advanced Powder Processes. He presently holds the RAE/GKN Aerospace Research Chair in Additive Manufacture and Advanced Structural Metallics. His work lies at the interface between manufacturing technology and materials processing science and concerns the development of the understanding of underlying physical principles related to materials processing to better control material form, integrity, and function and hence, economic value. He holds a BEng and Ph.D. from the University of Sheffield.
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