He is the Director of the Design, Research, and Education for Additive Manufacturing Systems (DREAMS) Laboratory in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Virginia Tech. His Additive Manufacturing (AM) expertise spans innovations in (i) AM processes and materials; (ii) design methodologies and tools to guide AM use (i.e., “Design for Additive Manufacturing”); and (iii) cyber-physical security for AM.
Mohammad Albakri
mohammad.albakri@qatar.tamu.edu
Mohammad Albakri received his Ph.D. degree in Engineering Mechanics from Virginia Tech in 2016 and his Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Masdar Institute of Science and Technology in 2011. His research interests are in the area of structural dynamics and smart materials with applications in nondestructive evaluation and advanced manufacturing. His research has been supported by the National Science Foundation and the Federal Railroad Administration.
Serkan Gugercin
Dr. Gugercin is a professor in the Department of Mathematics and the Division of Computational Modeling and Data Analytics (CMDA) in the College of Science at Virginia Tech. His research focuses on developing theoretical analysis and computational frameworks for constructing high-fidelity reduced models that are much easier to simulate yet approximate the original system accurately for a wide range of operating conditions.