Journal of Mechanical Design

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Serena Graziosi

Dr. Serena Graziosi is an Associate Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering of Politecnico di Milano. She is a department board member, the delegate for international relations, and the Mechanical Engineering PhD Programme faculty member. She is affiliated with the Italian National Institute for Nuclear Physics and a member of the Advisory Board of the Design Society. She holds a PhD in Mechanical Engineering, including a visiting term at the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering. She also has two years of work experience in the innovation department of a multinational company. Since July 2018, she has been the Leader of the Design for Additive Manufacturing (DfAM) Special Interest Group, supported and promoted by the Design Society. She has also been a member of the UK Design for Additive Manufacturing Network Steering Committee. Her research explores and develops innovative engineering design methods, tools, and processes to foster product innovation. She also applies and contributes to the growth of those technologies that can help companies digitize and advance their processes. Her research focuses on computational design, metamaterial design, additive manufacturing, and design for sustainability.

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Richard Malak

Richard Malak

Dr. Richard Malak is Associate Professor and Gulf Oil/Thomas A. Dietz Career Development Professor I in the J. Mike Walker ’66 Department of Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M University. His research interests include decision making in engineering design and systems engineering (decomposition, delegation, etc.) and the application of computational techniques (optimization, machine learning, AI) to support engineering decision making. Recent applications of his work include morphing supersonic aircraft, functionally graded alloy design and resilient systems of systems. He holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from SUNY Stony Brook, an MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, and MS and PhD degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology. From August 2016 to January 2019, Dr. Malak served as Program Director for the Engineering Design and Systems Engineering (EDSE) program in the division of Civil, Mechanical and Manufacturing Innovation (CMMI) of the National Science Foundation. He is the recipient of several awards for teaching and research, including multiple best paper awards from the ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences (IDETC) and Computers and Information in Engineering (CIE) conference. 

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