A multidisciplinary team of 13 faculty members from five departments offers research expertise in the following areas:
- Advanced manufacturing processes: Additive manufacturing for traditional and non-traditional materials including polymers, metal, composites, ceramics, and energetic materials, laser materials processing, surface processing, nanomaterial synthesis, nano/micro fabrication.
- Sensing and robotics: Photonics/optical sensors, photovoltaic, chemical sensing, in situ sensor design, sensor fault-tolerance, motion planning and control, human-centered robotic design.
- Data integration for smart manufacturing systems: Data fusion, transfer learning, quality control, reliability modeling, advanced data analytics, data-driven process monitoring, prognosis, and control.
- Biomanufacturing and biotechnology: Biological systems such as cells and microorganisms to manufacture and process materials, including synthesizing biomaterials, 3D bioprinting of scaffolds, systems biology, biocatalysis, tissue-on-a-chip fabrications for medical devices, drug delivery, regenerative medicine, and bioscience research.
Advanced Manufacturing Processes
Xuan Song, Area Lead
Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Research areas: Additive manufacturing and 3D printing, ceramics and composites
Email: xuan-song@uiowa.edu
Hongtao Ding
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Research areas: Laser materials processing, metal additive manufacturing, surface processing
Email: hongtao-ding@uiowa.edu
Syed Mubeen
Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering
Research areas: Electrochemical synthesis of functional nanomaterials, semiconductor manufacturing
Email: syed-mubeen@uiowa.edu
Fatima Toor
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research areas: Nano/micro fabrication, chemical sensing, and energy generation
Email: fatima-toor@uiowa.edu
Sensing and Robotics
Fatima Toor, Area Lead
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research areas: Nano/micro fabrication, chemical sensing, and energy generation
Email: fatima-toor@uiowa.edu
Yong Chen
Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Research areas: Data science, smart manufacturing, quality control, sensor fault tolerance
Email: yong-chen@uiowa.edu
Yang Liu
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research areas: Machine learning, 3D computer vision, multimodal imaging, biophotonics
Email: yang-liu-ece@uiowa.edu
Deema Totah
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Research areas: Assistive robotics, wearable sensors
Email: deema-totah@uiowa.edu
Rachel Vitali
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Research areas: Biomechanics, robotics, data fusion, machine learning
Email: rachel-vitali@uiowa.edu
Data Integration for Smart Manufacturing Systems
Yong Chen, Area Lead
Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Research areas: Data science, smart manufacturing, quality control, sensor fault tolerance
Email: yong-chen@uiowa.edu
Yang Liu
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research areas: Machine learning, 3D computer vision, multimodal imaging, biophotonics
Email: yang-liu-ece@uiowa.edu
Rachel Vitali
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Research areas: Biomechanics, robotics, data fusion, machine learning
Email: rachel-vitali@uiowa.edu
Chao Wang
Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Research areas: Transfer learning, Bayesian analysis, quality control, smart manufacturing
Email: chao-wang-2@uiowa.edu
Biomanufacturing and Biotechnology
Suresh M.L. Raghavan, Area Lead
Roy J. Carver Department of Biomedical Engineering
Research areas: Medical devices for heart and lungs; bio-membranes and instruments
Email: ml-raghavan@uiowa.edu
Xuan Mu
Roy J. Carver Department of Biomedical Engineering
Research areas: Bioprinting, bioinspired materials, fabrication of biomedicine-related structures
Email: xuan-mu@uiowa.edu
Hyeongmin Seo
Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering
Research areas: Synthetic biology, protein engineering, microbial biocatalysts
Email: hyeongmin-seo@uiowa.edu
Kristan Worthington
Roy J. Carver Department of Biomedical Engineering
Research areas: Biomaterials, light-based 3D printing, drug and cell delivery
Email: kristan-worthington@uiowa.edu