People
The University of Alabama
Dr. Hwan Yoon (Center Director)
Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Expertise: Modeling, simulation, and control of dynamic mechanical systems; application of AI technologies to automotive and manufacturing systems
Dr. Daniel Fonseca (UA Site Director)
Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Expertise: Implementation of innovative technologies to a wide variety of engineering applications, including the development of several intelligent schemes for complex manufacturing, transportation and logistic problems
Dr. Jackey Gong
Associate Professor of Computer Science
Expertise: Deep learning and generative models, AI for advancing human health, catalyzing creativity, fostering transparent knowledge frameworks, and pioneering materials exploration
Dr. Sadie Beck
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Expertise: Solid-state additive manufacturing material and mechanical performance evaluation, process-structure-property performance mechanisms of aluminums using AFSD
Dr. Nima Mahmoodi
Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Expertise: Dynamic systems and control of active systems, robotics and automation with applications to smart manufacturing, educational development in advanced manufacturing, sensors and actuators in micro and macro systems
Dr. Joseph Carpenter
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Expertise: Industrial Energy Efficiency, Compressed Air systems, Industrial Internet of Things
The University of Alabama in Huntsville
Dr. Judy Schneider (UAH Site Director)
Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering; Co-Director of Materials Science Program.
Expertise: Advanced, disruptive manufacturing processes; solid-state joining as well as metal additive manufacturing; development of industry standards and specifications for the friction stir welding process for NASA; methods to extract information from instrumentation data from advanced processes linking to global modeling efforts
Dr. Howard Chen
Assistant Professor of Industrial & Systems Engineering
Expertise: Ergonomics, Biomechanics, Multi-sensor data fusion, state estimation, machine learning, wearable sensors
Dr. Ana Wooley
Assistant Professor of Industrial & Systems Engineering
Expertise: Digital twin development, smart manufacturing, simulation, and seamless integration of these technologies into manufacturing systems
Dr. Vineetha Menon
Associate Professor of Computer Science
Expertise: Big Data Analytics, Data Science, Generative AI, bias and transparency in large language models (LLMs), AI-driven drug discovery, cyber security, remote sensing, deep learning, and explainable AI for better transparency in evolutionary human-AI autonomous system interaction domains
Dr. Nicholas Loyd
Clinical Professor of Industrial & Systems Engineering
Expertise: Director of the Center for Management and Economic Research (CMER); Toyota (and Lean) production system, strategic management and culture change, leadership development, and emerging technologies in advanced manufacturing.
Dr. Cheng Chen
Assistant Professor of Industrial & Systems Engineering
Expertise: AI for engineering design and requirements analysis, and machine learning for process optimization and quality control