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Swee Leong Sing
Department of Mechanical Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
Interests:

Additive manufacturing; 3D printing; 3D bioprinting; Artificial Intelligence; Machine learning

Profile:

Dr Sing Swee Leong joins the Department of Mechanical Engineering, NUS, as an Assistant Professor in August 2021. Prior to joining NUS, he was a Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow at the School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Singapore Centre for 3D Printing, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, after receiving the prestigious fellowship in 2020. Swee Leong was named a Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate in 2024, 2023, and 2022. In 2022, he was also awarded the Young Professional Award by ASTM International for his work in additive manufacturing and contribution in standard development for the field. As a scientist and innovator, Swee Leong’s interest is enabling material development and creating strategic and sustainable values for Industry 4.0 and beyond through the use and integration of advanced manufacturing. He is actively involved in inter-disciplinary research.

Editorial Board Members
Wonjoon Choi
School of Mechanical Engineering, Korea University, Seoul, Korea
Interests:

Multiscale energy; Thermal / Fluidic transport

Wei Fan
School of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, China
Interests:

Metal additive manufacturing; Multi-material additive manufacturing; Hybrid manufacturing

Profile:

Dr. Wei Fan is a Professor at Northwestern Polytechnical University (NPU), where he focuses on multi-material additive manufacturing and hybrid manufacturing based on additive processes. He received his Ph.D., Master’s, and Bachelor’s degrees in Materials Science and Engineering from NPU between 2009 and 2021. From 2022 to 2024, he conducted postdoctoral research at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

Dr. Fan is a member of the Additive Manufacturing and Innovative Design team led by Professors Xin Lin and Weidong Huang. The team hosts several national and international research platforms, including the International Joint Research Center for Aerospace Material-Structure Integrated Design and Additive Manufacturing Equipment Technology, and the Key Laboratory of High-Performance Metal Additive Manufacturing and Innovative Design, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of China. They have also established the NPU-Airbus Joint Laboratory for Additive Manufacturing in collaboration with Airbus Europe.

The team conducts cutting-edge research in areas such as additive manufacturing and innovative design, precision solidification theory and technologies, and multiscale thermo-mechanical-microstructural modeling and simulation of materials processing. To date, they have published over 500 academic papers and hold more than 50 invention patents related to additive manufacturing. Their technologies serve over 100 industrial partners across sectors such as aerospace, aviation, power, and energy. Research outcomes have been successfully applied to major national programs including the C919 aircraft and the Tianwen-1 Mars mission. The team’s industrial spin-off, BLT (Bright Laser Technologies), became the first 3D printing company listed on China’s STAR Market and is now among the global leaders in the field.

Charlotte Hauser
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, Saudi Arabi
Interests:

Tissue engineering; Regenerative medicine; Nanotechnology; Biomaterials; Biomaterial engineering; Stem cell differentiation; Stem cell biology; Cell culture; Biomaterial science; Nanobiotechnology

Che-Nan Kuo
Department of Materials and Optoelectronic Science, National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan
Interests:

 Additive manufacturing; Amorphous alloys; Advanced alloys

Ming Leu
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla, United States
Interests:

Innovative smart & additive manufacturing

Profile:

Dr. Ming C. Leu is the Keith and Pat Bailey Distinguished Professor and Curator’s Distinguished Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Missouri University of Science and Technology. He founded Missouri S&T’s Center for Aerospace Manufacturing Technologies in 2004 and has been serving as its director until 2016.

He also served as the Director of Intelligent Systems Center, 2003-2020. Prior to joining Missouri S&T, he was a Program Director at the National Science Foundation, 1996-1999, the State Chair Professor in Manufacturing Productivity at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, 1987-1996, and a faculty member at Cornell University, 1981-1987. Professor Leu obtained his Ph.D. degree in 1981 from the University of California at Berkeley, his M.S. degree in 1977 from the Pennsylvania State University, and his B.S. degree in 1972 from the National Taiwan University, all in Mechanical Engineering.

His research interests include additive manufacturing, 3D printing, smart manufacturing, intelligent robotics, and cyber-physical systems. He has published over 500 refereed papers in professional journals and conference proceedings, as well as one e-book, 11 book chapters, and 5 granted U.S. patents.

Dr. Leu has received numerous professional awards including, among others, the ISC/MST Distinguished Investigator Award (2022), International Freeform and Additive Manufacturing Excellence (FAME) Award (2020), ASME Milton C. Shaw Manufacturing Research Medal (2018), University of Missouri President’s Leadership Award (2017), ASME Blackall Machine Tool and Gage Award (2014), ISFA Hideo Hanafusa Outstanding Investigator Award (2008), ASME Dedicated Service Award (2004), SME University Lead Award (1994), NJIT Harlan J. Perlis Research Award (1993), NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award (1985), SAE Ralph R. Teetor Education Award (1985), FPRS Wood Award (1981), and best paper recognition from multiple professional conferences.

He was elected to SME Fellow in 2018, CIRP Fellow in 2008, and ASME Fellow in 1993, and is a member of Sigma Xi, Tau Beta Pi, and Phi Kappa Phi honor societies.

Yanglong Lu
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China
Interests:

Computer-aided design and manufacturing (CAD / CAM); Fault diagnosis; Machine learning; Multidisciplinary design and optimization; Multiscale simulations

Tuhin Mukherjee
Department of Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, United States
Interests:

Additive manufacturing; Mechanistic modeling; Heat transfer and fluid flow; Metallurgy; Residual stress; Distortion; Defects

João Pedro Oliveira
Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Caparica, Portugal
Interests:

Welding; Additive manufacturing; Synchrotron X-ray diffraction; Mechanical behavior of materials; High entropy alloys; Shape memory alloys

Profile:

Professor João Pedro Oliveira is a Full Professor in the Department of Materials Science (DCM) and a researcher at CENIMAT-i3N – Centro de Investigação de Materiais, part of the I3N Associated Laboratory. He previously served as an Associate Professor in the same department, as an Invited Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering (DEMI), and as a researcher at UNIDEMI – the Research and Development Unit in Mechanical and Industrial Engineering.

Chinnapat Panwisawas
Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
Interests:

Additive manufacturing; Computational materials; Digital manufacturing; Digital twins; Data-centric engineering; Machine learning; Mechanics of materials and structures; Physics-based and data-driven modelling

Eujin Pei
College of Engineering, Design & Physical Sciences, Brunel University London, Uxbridge, United Kingdom
Interests:

Additive manufacturing; 3D printing; 4D printing; Rapid prototyping; Rapid manufacturing; Functionally graded materials

Abdollah Saboori
Department of Management and Production Engineering, Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy
Interests:

Advanced materials processing; Directed energy deposition (ded); Electron beam powder bed fusion; Laser powder bed fusion; Materials characterization; Materials engineering; Metal additive manufacturing; Metal matrix composites; Metallic materials

 

Panagiotis Stavropoulos
Laboratory for Manufacturing Systems and Automation, Department of Mechanical and Engineering & Aeronautics, University of Patras, Rio, Greece
Interests:

Advanced manufacturing; Manufacturing processes; Process quality; Additive manufacturing; Welding; Sustainable manufacturing

Caiwang Tan
Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Special Welding Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology at Weihai,
Weihai, Shandong
Interests:

Transition metal-nitrogen-carbon; Microstructure; Laser technology; Magnesium alloy; Fiber laser; Stainless steel; Mechanical property

Pan Wang
Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology (SIMTech), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A⁎STAR), 5 Cleantech Loop, 636732, Singapore
Interests:

Metal additive manufacturing; Artificial intelligence; Phase transformation and deformation; Metallic powder; High-throughput microstructure analysis; Novel structure design and optimization; Grain boundary engineering

Hongze Wang
School of Materials Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
Interests:

Additive manufacturing; Welding; Synchrotron radiation; Blue laser manufacturing; Multi-physics simulation

Xiaoming Wang
Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, North America
Interests:

Materials chemistry; Materials characterization; Materials processing

Zhonggang Wang
Central South University, Changsha, China
Interests:

Railway rolling stock; Lightweight composite materials and structural mechanics; Impact dynamics

Yi Xiong
Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China
Interests:

Engineering design; CAD/CAM; Additive manufacturing; Intelligent manufacturing; Polymer composites

Yuan Xu
School of Engineering, Newcastle University, Newcastle, UK
Interests:

Dynamic behaviour of materials; Impact engineering; Experimental mechanics; Microstructure; Additive manufacturing; Plasticity; High-speed imaging

Kenta Yamanaka
Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
Interests:

Metal additive manufacturing; Electron beam powder fusion; Cold spray; Multi-materials; Phase transformation; Mechanical behavior; Corrosion; Alloy design; Synchrotron and neutron diffraction techniques

Shuo Yin
Mechanical, Manufacturing and Biomedical Engineering, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
Interests:

Additive manufacturing; Cold spraying; Selective laser melting; Surface engineering; Digital light processing

Lang Yuan
Molinaroli College of Engineering and Computing,University of South Carolina, Columbia, United States
Interests:

Solidification; Microstructure and defects; Computational modeling and simulation; Materials processing

Quanren Zeng
Department of Mechanical Engineering Centre for Digital, University of Bath, Bath, UK
Interests:

Metal additive manufacturing; Precision engineering; Surface integrity;  Hybrid manufacturing; Manufacturing process modelling and simulation;  Remanufacturing; Sustainability

Yifan Zhang
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Clemson University, Clemson, USA
Interests:

Nanostructured materials; Electron microscopy; Micro/Nano mechanics; Physical metallurgy

Yaoyao Fiona Zhao
Department of Mechanical Engineering, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
Interests:

Additive manufacturing; Design for additive manufacturing; Ecodesign; Sustainable manufacturing; Machine learning and AI in design and manufacturing

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Engineering Science in Additive Manufacturing, Electronic ISSN: 3082-849X Published by AccScience Publishing