About the Editors
Editor-in-Chief
Cheryl Xu, PhD
North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA
Dr. Cheryl Xu is a Professor at the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at NC State University. She is an expert with 20+ years of experience in multifunctional ceramic materials, high-temperature wireless sensing, and artificial intelligence (AI) for process modeling and real-time control. Dr. Xu is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).
Associate Editors
Dianne Chong, PhD
Bellevue, WA
Dr. Chong is currently retired from the Boeing Company where she worked for almost 30 years. Her job at the company encompassed managing materials and manufacturing for research and development and production support through the life cycles of all of Boeing's products. She was also responsible for hiring and workforce development of the materials and manufacturing people.
Thomas Kurfess, PhD
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA USA
Professor Kurfess' research focuses on the design and development of advanced manufacturing systems targeting secure digital manufacturing, additive and subtractive processes, and large-scale production enterprises.
Ralf Riedel, PhD
Technical University of Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany
My current research interest is focused on two research areas, namely i) molecular synthesis of advanced structural and functional ceramics for ultra-high temperature and energy-related applications as well as ii) ultra high pressure materials synthesis.
Shaoming Dong, PhD
Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy Of Sciences, Shanghai, China
Prof. Shaoming Dong has been conducting works on fiber reinforced ceramic matrix composites (CMC) and carbide ceramics. He has intensively studied the sintering, microstructure, mechanical property, and toughening mechanism of carbide ceramics and has proposed new design concepts for CMCs. He has developed the forming and densification techniques for large size SiC and CMC parts of complex shapes, and devoted to engineering applications of these materials.
Hejun Li, PhD
Northwestern Polytechnical University, China
Dr. Hejun Li is a Professor in Northwestern Polytechnical University, and an Academician in China Academy of Engineering. His research interests mainly rely on (1) the high performance composite materials; (2) Anti-oxidation coatings; (3) Material forming processing.
Ajay Malshe, PhD
Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA
Ajay “AJ” P. Malshe is R. Eugene and Susie E. Goodson Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Agriculture and Biological Engineering (by Courtesy) at Purdue University. He is the Inaugural Director of the Materials and Manufacturing Research Laboratories (MMRL) and a Co-Director of Purdue’s Engineering Initiative (PEI) for eXcellence in Manufacturing and Operations (XMO). He has a collective professional experience of 40 years, partly overlapping, in industries (as a Founder, Board Member, and CTO of NanoMech now VinTech Nano Materials; acquired in 2018 by VinTech International) and academia. He has gained a national and international reputation in advanced manufacturing, multifunctional-resilient-sustainable bio-inspired designing, functional multi-materials, and system integration and productization. Over the decades, application areas of his interest and contributions are biomanufacturing for future protein foods and farms at the point of need, heterogeneous microelectronics for high-density systems, nanomanufacturing for extreme machines, in-space servicing, assembly, and manufacturing (ISAM).
Editorial Board Members
ZJ Pei, PhD
Texas A&M University
College Station, TX, USA
Monique McClain, PhD
Purdue University
West Lafayette, IN, USA
Manoj K. Kolel-Veetil, PhD
Naval Research Laboratory
Washington, DC, USA
Mark Du, PhD
Argonne National Laboratory
Lemont, IL, USA
Muhammad Pervej Jahan, PhD
Miami University
Oxford, OH, USA
Krishna Kumar Saxena, PhD
KU Leuven
Leuven, Belgium
Fuda Ning,PhD
State University of New York at Binghamton
Binghamton, NY, USA
Mohsen Mohammadi, PhD
University of New Brunswick
Fredericton, NB, Canada
Wenzhuo Wu, PhD
Purdue University
West Lafayette, IN, USA
Bruno Azeredo, PhD
Arizona State University
Mesa, AZ, USA
Xuan Song,PhD
University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA, USA
Xiangfan Chen,PhD
Arizona State University
Tempe, AZ, USA
Majid Minary,PhD
University of Texas at Dallas
Dallas, TX, USA
Mehran Tehrani,PhD
University of California San Diego
La Jolla, CA, USA
Hitomi Yamaguchi,PhD
University of Florida
Gainesville, FL
Zhe Qiang,PhD
The University of Southern Mississippi
Hattiesburg, MS, USA
Wei Xiong,PhD
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Sneha Prabha Narra,PhD
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Soh Khim Ong,PhD
National University of Singapore
Singapore
Sezgin Ersoy,PhD
TU Braunschweig
Germany
Lei Chen, PhD
University of Michigan-Dearborn
Dearborn, Michigan, USA
Zhaoju Yu, PhD
Xiamen University
Xiamen, China
João Paulo Davim,PhD
University of Aveiro
Aveiro, Portugal
Qiming Wang,PhD
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA, USA
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