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Owen Smith has received the prestigious NSF GRFP Fellowship! Congratulations!!

Owen is one of the two GRFP scholars from our lab. 
Two manuscripts from our lab have been accepted by NAMRC 53! Mr. Ethan Kang and Mr. Shengzhe Zhou will present their research at the conference in June about additive manufacturing data compression and federated learning for AM process certification, respectively. 

Congratulations to Ethan and Shengzhe!!! Good job!
Zac was an undergraduate student from Mechanical Engineering, and he was involved with the REU supplement research of my NSF project since 2022. He has just graduated ​in December 2024. 
In this study, a new adaptive AM data deidentification method is proposed that aims to mask the printing trajectory information in the AM process data in the form of melt pool images. 

​For ​more information, please see the link below.

https://asmedigitalcollection.asme.org/computingengineering/article/doi/10.1115/1.4067210/1209810 
His presentation title was "Generative Modeling Enabled Design De-identification for Enhanced Intellectual Property Protection in Metal-based Additive Manufacturing". This work was co-authored by Dr. Durant Fullington, Emmanuel Yangue, and Dr. Chenang Liu from Oklahoma State University. 
The objective of this study was to optimize the extrusion-based 3D bioprinting process parameters for composite polymer-ceramic scaffolds. 

​For ​more information, please see the link below.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1526612524009782 
Durant Fullington has successfully defended his PhD dissertation! Congratulations, Dr. Fullington! 

His dissertation title is Enhanced Intellectual Property Protection Mechanisms Towards Collaborative Data Sharing in Metal-based Additive Manufacturing. Durant will be joining CNA as a Research Analyst in September 2024. ​
Dr. Tian has been appointed as Associate Editor of ASME Journal of Computing & Information Science in Engineering. Her service term is from 7/1/2024 to 6/30/2027. 
​Bappy and Durant presented two presentations at NAMRC in Knoxville, TN. ​Great job!!
Owen Smith received the BCoE UG student Research Award. This award will support Owen's research on metal-based fused filament fabrication (FFF) process monitoring and material property prediction.
Congratulations, Owen!!
This paper highlights the state-of-the-art approaches in enhancing the use of small-scale datasets in additive manufacturing. Our vision for future research opportunities and directions in this area are also discussed.

The paper can be accessed from the link below:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0278612524000876 
Mahathir Mohammad Bappy has successfully defended his PhD dissertation! He will join the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at Louisiana State University as an assistant professor in August 2024. Congratulations!!
Dr. Tian is recognized as one of the 2024 Susan Smyth Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineers by SME. Since 1980, the SME Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award has recognized manufacturing engineers, age 35 or younger, who have made exceptional contributions and accomplishments in the manufacturing industry. Congratulations!
The NSF GRFP Award recognizes outstanding prospective and current graduate students who have demonstrated the potential to be high achieving scientists and engineers, early in their careers.

Ethan’s proposed research aims to advance the field of Additive Manufacturing (AM) by creating multiple frameworks that manage large volumes of diverse AM process data.
Mahathir Bappy won the Outstanding Graduate Student Researcher (on-campus) Award!

Durant Fullington won the Best Publication award!
Publication: Durant Fullington, Linkan Bian, and Wenmeng Tian. (2023) "Design De-Identification of Thermal History for Collaborative Process-Defect Modeling of Directed Energy Deposition Processes." Journal of Manufacturing Science and Engineering, 145(5). https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4056488)
Owen Smith won the Best Undergraduate Technical Paper competition at the IISE Southeast Regional Student Conference. Congratulations!
Two manuscripts from our team have been accepted by NAMRC, and Bappy and Durant will present their work at the NAMRC/MSEC conference in June, in Knoxville, TN. Congratulations!!

In addition, one paper titled "Leveraging Small-scale Datasets for Additive Manufacturing: Current Practice and Remaining Gaps" has been accepted for publication as a fast-track paper at the Journal of Manufacturing Systems. Congratulations to Durant, Mahathir Bappy, and our co-authors (Emmanuel Yangue, and Dr. Chenang Liu from Oklahoma State University)!