Keynote Speakers 2024
Dr. Costas Grigoropoulos
Distinguished Professor/ A. Martin Berlin Chair in Mechanical Engineering
University of California Berkeley
Costas P. Grigoropoulos a Ph.D. (1986) in ME from Columbia University. He joined the faculty of the Deparment of Mechanical Engineering at the University of California at Berkeley in 1990, after serving as an Assistant Professor of ME at the University of Washington.
Dr. Andrew Wells
Program Director - Advanced Manufacturing
National Science Foundation
Dr. Andy Wells has been a Program Director in the National Science Foundation’s Advanced Manufacturing program since 2019, where he supports fundamental research to advance American manufacturing technologies.
Dr. Rayne Zheng
Associate Professor - Department of Material Science and Engineering
University of California Berkeley
Prof. Xiaoyu (Rayne) Zheng 's group at the University of California, Berkeley, draws principles from mechanics, optics and material science to develop the next generation of additive manufacturing (3D printing) processes, material design and synthesis approaches to create multi-functional materials and all-in-one devices with controlled 3D architectures, compositions and multi-scale features. Our research builds at the interface between machine and materials.
Dr. Stephen Jesse
Distinguished Research Scientist
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Stephen Jesse is a Research and Development Associate at the Center for Nanophase Materials Science at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee. He graduated from the University of Tennessee with a M.S. in Mechanical Engineering and a Ph. D.