Leila Notash

Dr. Leila Notash is a professor in the Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering of Queen’s University, a Fellow of Engineers Canada and a licensed member of the Professional Engineers Ontario. She obtained her Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey. She obtained her Master of Applied Science in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Toronto, and received her Ph.D. […]
Girish Krishnan

Girish Krishnan is an associate professor in the department of industrial and enterprise systems engineering and an affiliate faculty at Mechanical Sciences and Engineering and Carle-Illinois College of Medicine at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research lies in the intersection of compliant mechanism design and soft robotics with applications in healthcare and agriculture. […]
Faez Ahmed

Faez Ahmed is an assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT, where he leads the Design Computation and Digital Engineering (DeCoDE) lab. His research focuses on developing new machine learning and optimization methods to study complex engineering design problems. His recent work includes proposing automated design synthesis methods to generate novel high-performance […]
Sara Behdad

Sara Behdad is an Associate Professor at the Engineering School of Sustainable Infrastructure & Environment at the University of Florida. From 2013 to 2020, she was an Assistant and Associate Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University at Buffalo. She received her Ph.D. in Industrial and Enterprise Systems […]
Kate Fu

Dr. Kate Fu is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at University of Wisconsin-Madison. From 2014 to 2021, she was an Assistant and Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology. Prior to these appointments, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD). In May 2012, […]
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 […]
Christopher McComb

Christopher McComb is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. He received dual B.S. degrees in Civil and Mechanical Engineering from California State University-Fresno in 2012. Later he attended Carnegie Mellon University as a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow and obtained his M.S. and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering in […]
Paul Witherell

Dr. Paul Witherell is a Mechanical Engineer in the Systems Integration Division of the Engineering Laboratory at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Paul received his Ph.D. from the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2009. Paul joined NIST in 2010 as a National Research Council (NRC) […]
Pingfeng Wang

Pingfeng Wang is an Associate Professor in the Department of Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), and the director of the Reliability Analysis and Safety Assurance (RASA) lab at Illinois. He received his B.S. in 2001 in Mechanical Engineering from University of Science and Technology in Beijing, his M.S. in […]
Eun Suk Suh

Dr. Eun Suk Suh is an Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Engineering Practice at Seoul National University, Korea. He completed his Ph.D. in Engineering Systems from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2005, an M.Eng. in Mechanical Engineering from Cornell University in 1995, and B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Clarkson University in 1994. His research […]