Anurag Purwar
Anurag Purwar is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and an affiliate faculty of Institute for Advanced Computational Sciences (IACS) at Stony Brook University. His research lies at the intersection of machine learning and kinematics in service of mechanical design of robots and mechanisms. He is a co-founder of Mechanismic Inc, which brought an educational robotics product called SnappyXO to the market for K-12 and college students and created MotionGen, an AI-driven mechanism design software that has 100,000+ users in more than 150 countries. He is a recipient of several awards including best paper awards at ASME- IDETC conference, ASEE Distinguished Teaching award, Margaret Ashida STEM Leadership Award by The New York State STEM Education Collaborative, ASME Outstanding Student Section Advisor, and three Technology Accelerator Fund Awards from SUNY Research Foundation. He has been a PI and Co- PI of several projects sponsored by NSF, ONR, SUNY Research Foundation, and industry. He received his Ph.D from State University of New York (SUNY) at Stony Brook and B.Tech from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur, both in Mechanical Engineering. Anurag Purwar is a senior member of the National Academy of Inventors.
Jie Zhang
Dr. Jie Zhang is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (Affiliated) at the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD). Dr. Zhang received his Ph.D. (2012) in Mechanical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), Troy, NY, USA. His research expertise and interests are sustainable energy […]
Stefan Menzel
Stefan Menzel is a Chief Scientist with the Optimization and Creativity Group at the Honda Research Institute Europe, Offenbach, Germany. He received a Dipl.-Ing. degree in civil engineering from RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany, and a Ph.D. degree in civil engineering from Technical University Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany. His current research interests include evolutionary optimization with […]
Cyril Picard
Cyril Picard is a Swiss National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He received is B.Sc., M.Sc., and Doctor of Science, all in Mechanical Engineering from EPFL (École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne). His research is focused on exploring the use of machine learning to support the design of complex mechanical […]
Douglas Allaire
Dr. Douglas Allaire is an Associate Professor and Sallie and Don Davis ’61 Faculty Fellow in the J. Mike Walker ’66 Department of Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M University where he directs the Computational Design Lab (CDL). He holds B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute […]
Mark Fuge
Mark Fuge is an Associated Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Maryland, College Park, where he is also an affiliate faculty in the Institute for Systems Research and a member of the Maryland Robotics Center and Human-Computer Interaction Lab. His staff and students study fundamental scientific and mathematical questions behind how humans and […]
Michel-Alexandre Cardin
Dr. Michel-Alexandre Cardin is a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Computational Aided Engineering at the Dyson School of Design Engineering, Imperial College London.