Manufacturing

Investigating next generation products & services



  • Digital-Industrial Strategy, Business and Financial Models; Resilient and Sustainable Manufacturing & Supply Chains; Production Systems, Operations Management, Enterprise Systems; Smart Manufacturing, Industry 4.0, AIoT; Digital transformation, Digital Twins; Energy Transition & Transportation; Innovation Commercialization & Go-to-Market @Scale (Stephan Biller)

  • Manufacturing; Materials Processing; Microsystems Technology; Nanostructured Materials (Srinivasan Chandrasekar)

  • Laser materials processing; Hybrid manufacturing systems; Rapid manufacturing of 3D bulk structural nanomaterials; Manipulation and processing of biomaterials; Multilayer functional coating; Mechanical/physical property enhancement of metals (Gary Cheng)

  • Cyber-Physical Systems and Industry 4.0, IoT touch-screen devices, smart sensors, and Cloud services, Management of industrial monitoring system and AI/ML data analytics, Innovations in Experiential Learning and Professional Development practice, Global Technology Product Management. (Nga Hin Ben Fong)

  • Nanofabrication; Soft Robotics; Flexible Electronics; Wearable and Implantable Devices; Smart/Programmable Materials (Ramses Martinez)

  • Robotics, Mechanism Design, Tactile Perception (Yu She)

  • Real-time Control of Smart Factory and Extended Enterprises via Digital-Twin; Modeling Human Decision-Making (Extended Belief-Desire-Intention Model); Multi-paradigm Simulations (agent, discrete event, system dynamics, virtual reality); Modeling and Control of Emerging Applications (Emergency Evacuation, Healthcare, UAV/UGV Coordination, Social Network) (Young-Jun Son)

  • Nanomanufacturing; Self-powered Nanosystems; Renewable Energy; Human-integrated Technologies; Smart sensors and electronics (Wenzhuo Wu)