​Andy Dong, Ph.D., is a Professor and holds the Warren Centre Chair for Engineering Innovation in the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technologies at the University of Sydney. He also holds a Future Fellowship sponsored by the Australian Research Council, one of the most prestigious research fellowships awarded by the Australian Government. Dr. Dong received his Bachelor of Science in 1992, his Master of Science in 1995, and his Ph.D. in 1997 from the University of California at Berkeley, all in Mechanical Engineering. He is the author of The Language of Design (Springer). Andy is an expert in the analysis of design data such as organizational interactions, design documents, and product data to forecast and manage the performance of engineering design. He served as the Conference Chair in 2013 for the 25th International Conference on Design Theory and Methodology.

Ashitava Ghosal is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering and a faculty member of the Centre for Product Design and Manufacturing at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. He obtained BTech, MS and PhD degrees in mechanical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology at Kanpur, University of Florida at Gainesville and Stanford University, respectively. Prior to joining Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore he had research appointments at Carnegie Mellon University and at Integrated Systems, Inc., Santa Clara. He has authored the textbook Robotics: Fundamental Concepts and Analysis (Oxford University Press, 2006).

Carl Nelson is a professor in the Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.  He received degrees in mechanical engineering from the University of Oklahoma (BS) and Purdue University (MS, PhD).  He is a Fellow of ASME and has served as chair of the ASME Mechanisms and Robotics Committee.  His research focuses on mechanical design, robotics, and applications including healthcare.  He previously served as an associate editor for ASME Journal of Medical Devices.

​​Christina L. Bloebaum is the Dennis and Rebecca Muilenburg Professor of Aerospace Engineering at Iowa State University in Ames, IA. She is also a member of the Virtual Reality Applications Center (VRAC) and the Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) program at ISU. She received her B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in aerospace engineering from the University of Florida in Gainesville, FL. She conducts research in design of complex engineered systems, with an emphasis on achieving consistency in physics (through incorporation of multidisciplinary design optimization) as well as preferences (through incorporation of value-based systems engineering and decision analysis). An additional area of research pertains to autonomous systems, with an emphasis of incorporating ethical, legal, societal and environmental implications (ELSEI) in UAS. She is a Fellow of AIAA and member of ASME. Among other awards, she is the recipient of the 2012 AIAA MDO Award, the NSF Presidential Faculty Fellows Award, the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching,  and the SUNY Research Foundation Excellence in Research Award.

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​Dr. Conrad Tucker is an Arthur Hamerschlag Career Development Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Machine Learning (Courtesy), and Robotics (Courtesy) at Carnegie Mellon University. His research focuses on the design and optimization of systems through the acquisition, integration and mining of large scale, disparate data. Dr. Tucker has served as PI/Co-PI on federally/non-federally funded grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR), the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the Army Research Laboratory (ARL), the Office of Naval Research (ONR) via the NSF Center for eDesign, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF). In February 2016, he was invited by National Academy of Engineering (NAE) President Dr. Dan Mote, to serve as a member of the Advisory Committee for the NAE Frontiers of Engineering Education (FOEE) Symposium. He received his Ph.D., M.S. (Industrial Engineering), and MBA degrees from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology.

Dr. Daniel A. McAdams is the Robert H. Fletcher Professor in the J. Mike Walker ’66 Department of Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin in 1999. He teaches undergraduate courses in design methods, biologically inspired design, and machine element design and graduate courses in product design and dynamics. Dr. McAdams research interests are in the area of design theory and methodology with specific focus on functional modeling; innovation in concept synthesis; biologically inspired design methods; inclusive design; and technology evolution as applied to product design. He has edited a book on biologically inspired design. His research has been supported by federal and private funding agencies.

Dar-Zen Chen received his B.S. degree from National Taiwan University (NTU) and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from University of Maryland, College Park in mechanical engineering. He served as an assistant professor at Cleveland State University in 1991. Currently, he is with the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Institute of Industrial Engineering at National Taiwan University as a professor. In addition to robotics, Kinematics and mechanism design, his research interests also cover intellectual property management, scientometrics and competitive analysis.

Dr. David Gorsich is the Chief Scientist of the U.S. Army Tank Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center (TARDEC). He is the organization’s primary focal point to organizations such as DARPA and ARO, and serves as the technical director of the U.S. Army National Automotive Center. Previously Dr. Gorsich was the Director of Strategic Plans and Programs at TARDEC, and the Associate Director for Modeling and Simulation. As TARDEC’s Associate Director for Simulation, he also was responsible for the Center’s High Performance Computing program. Before 2003, Dr. Gorsich served as a research scientist in TARDEC’s Robotics Lab as well as the leader of National Automotive Center’s Vehicle Intelligence team. He received his Ph.D. in applied mathematics from M.I.T., his M.S. in applied mathematics from George Washington University, and his B.S. in electrical engineering from Lawrence Technological University.

David Myszka is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of Dayton. He received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in mechanical engineering from the State University of New York at Buffalo, M.B.A. and Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from the University of Dayton. He is author of Machines and Mechanisms: Applied Kinematic Analysis published by Pearson – Prentice Hall. He is co-director of the Design of Innovative Machines Laboratory, where he is involved in several academic and industrial projects related to machine and mechanism design, analysis, and experimentation.

Diann Brei, Ph.D., is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She received her BSE degree in Computer Systems Engineering and her Ph.D Degree in Mechanical Engineering from Arizona State University. She co-directs the General Motors/University of Michigan Multifunctional Vehicle Systems Collaborative Research Laboratory. She is the Technical Chair of the ASME Conference on Smart Materials, Adaptive Structures and Intelligent Systems and past chair of the AIAA Adaptive Structures Technical Committee. She is an AIAA Associate Fellow and recipient of the Hartwell Award, Univ. of Michigan Ruth and Joel Spira Outstanding Teaching Award, and National Multiple Sclerosis Society DaVinci Award.

Feng Gao is the Chair Professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. He earned his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics in 1991, and his Master in Mechanical Engineering at Northeast Heavy Machinery Institute in 1982. From 1995 to 1997, he was a postdoctoral research associate in the School of Engineering Science at Simon Fraser University. He was a full professor at Yanshan University from 1995 to 1999. He served first as Vice President and then as President of Hebei University of Technology from 2000 to 2004. From 2009 to 2013, he served as the director of the State Key Laboratory of Mechanical Systems and Vibration at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. 

H. Alicia Kim is Jacobs Scholar Chair Professor, Structural Engineering Department,  University of California San Diego (UCSD). She leads the Multiscale Multiphysics Design Optimization (M2DO) Laboratory, which focuses on design and topology optimization for coupled problems. She currently serves as a Review Editor for the Journal Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization and on the Editorial Boards for Springer Nature Applied Sciences and Multiscale Science and Engineering. She serves as the Secretary General on the Executive Committee of the International Society of Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization and several AIAA committees including Multidisciplinary Design Optimization Technical Committee and Complex Aerospace Systems Exchange. She received her Ph.D. and B.Eng. from the University of Sydney, Australia.

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Haijun Su is an Associate Professor in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department at The Ohio State University.  Dr. Su received his Ph.D. (2004) from the University of California, Irvine, all in Mechanical Engineering.  Awards received by Dr. Su include the MSC Software Simulation paper award in 2002, the finalists of Mechanism and Robotics best paper award in 2005, the NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award in 2008, the Compliant Mechanism Theory best paper award in 2009 and 2014, Air Force Summer Faculty Fellowship and ASME M&R Freudenstein/GM Young Investigator award in 2010, Lumley Research Award in 2015, Lumley Interdisciplinary Research Award in 2018.  Dr. Su served as a symposium and session chair for the ASME IDETC/CIE conferences in 2008-2012 and the Industry Relation Chair of the 2010 ASME IDETC/CIE.  He is currently an Associate Editor of ASME Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics and the chair of 2016 ASME Mechanisms and Robotics Conference. Dr. Su was elected to a Fellow of ASME in 2017.  

Harrison Kim is a Professor in the Department of Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) and is affiliated with the Computational Science and Engineering Program at the University of Illinois. He received his Bachelor of Science in 1995 and Master of Science in 1997 from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), and his Ph.D. in 2001 from the University of Michigan, all in Mechanical Engineering. Kim also serves as a member of the editorial board for the Engineering Optimization Journal. Kim received the National Science Foundation’s CAREER Award, Best Paper Award in ASME Design for Manufacturing and Life Cycle Conference, and Gold and Silver medals in the Lincoln Arc Welding Foundation Award as a faculty advisor.

James T. Allison is an associate professor at UIUC, and is the director of the Engineering System Design Lab. Prof. Allison holds MS (2004) and Ph.D. (2008) degrees in Mechanical Engineering, and an MS (2005) in Industrial and Operations Engineering (U of Michigan). He also holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering (2003, University of Utah) and an AAS in Automotive Technology (1998, Weber State University). He is the recipient of several awards, including the NSF CAREER Award, ASME Design Automation Young Investigator Award, ASME papers of distinction, and several teaching awards. Previous experience includes work in the automotive (Ford and GM) and the engineering software (MathWorks) industries. Prof. Allison’s work focuses on the creation and analysis of novel design optimization methods for engineering systems, and on producing new design knowledge for unprecedented systems.

Jamie Guest is an Associate Professor of Civil Engineering at the Johns Hopkins University (JHU). He leads the JHU Topology Optimization Group whose research focuses on developing topology optimization algorithms for the design of materials and ‘structures’ defined at a range of length scales, from material architectures to devices to large scale structural systems. He currently serves as a Senior Advisor and Associate Editor for the Journal Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization, as Chair of the Structural Engineering Institute’s (SEI) Technical Committee on Optimal Structural Design, and as a member of several technical committees including the ASME Design Automation Committee (DAC). He received his Ph.D. and M.S.E. from Princeton University, and B.S.E. from University of Pennsylvania, all in Civil Engineering.

Janet K. Allen, PhD is a Professor and John and Mary Moore Chair of Industrial Engineering at the University of Oklahoma. She received her SB degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and her PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. She is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, a Senior Member of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics and an Honorary Member of Pi Tau Sigma, the mechanical engineering honor society.

Jian S. Dai received a BEng and an MSc from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and received a PhD in Advanced Kinematics and Robotics from the University of Salford in the UK. Professor Dai, IEEE Fellow, ASME Fellow, IMechE Fellow, CEng, is Chair of Mechanisms and Robotics, King’s College London, and established the field of reconfigurable mechanisms and the sub-field of metamorphic mechanisms in robotics, a concept that could bridge the gap between versatile but expensive robots, and efficient but non-flexible machines, and their applications to health, home and manufacture.

He is also founder of the conference series ASME/IEEE International Conference on Reconfigurable Mechanisms and Robots (ReMAR) and organizer of a series of conferences, workshops and symposia with major scientific relevance (e.g., ASME M&R, IEEE ICRA). Professor Dai received 2010 King’s Overall Supervisory Excellence Award, 2012 ASME Outstanding Service Award, 2012 Mechanisms Innovation Award, 2015 ASME Mechanisms and Robotics Award for lifelong contribution in mechanisms and robotics, together with 1998 Best Paper Award, 2009 and 2011 SAGE Best Journal Paper Awards, 2018 Crossley Award, and 2019 AT Yang Award in Theoretical Kinematics and other best paper awards. 

Jonathan Cagan, Ph.D., P.E., is the George Tallman and Florence Barrett Ladd Professor in Engineering, in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, with courtesy appointments in the School of Design. At Carnegie Mellon, he serves as Associate Dean for Graduate and Faculty Affairs in the College of Engineering, co-directs the Integrated Innovation Institute, and is faculty co-directory of the Swartz Center for Entrepreneurship. He is the co-author of Creating Breakthrough Products (with Craig Vogel) and The Design of Things to Come (with Craig Vogel and Peter Boatwright), and the co-editor of Formal Engineering Design Synthesis (with Erik Antonsson). He is the recipient of the engineering college’ Outstanding Research Award. Cagan is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and serves on the Advisory Board for The Design Society. Dr. Cagan received his Bachelor of Science in 1983 and Master of Science in 1985 from the University of Rochester, and his Ph.D. in 1990 from the University of California at Berkeley. All of his degrees are in Mechanical Engineering.

Dr. Joo H. Kim is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at New York University (NYU).  He received a Ph.D. degree in mechanical engineering in 2006, M.S. degrees in mathematics, mechanical engineering, and biomedical engineering, all from the University of Iowa, and a B.S. degree in mechanical engineering from Korea University, Seoul, South Korea.  Before joining NYU in 2009, he was an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Postdoctoral Research Scholar in the Center for Computer-Aided Design at the University of Iowa. 

Dr. Kim is currently serving as an Associate Editor for the Conference Editorial Board of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society and for the ASME Journal of Mechanical Design.  Dr. Kim is the recipient of several awards and honors, including the 2007 Top Government Technology of the Year Award from the State of Iowa, the 2014 Advanced Modeling and Simulation Best Paper Award from the ASME Computers and Information in Engineering Division, and the 2015 Freudenstein/General Motors Young Investigator Award from the ASME Design Engineering Division. 

Julie Linsey is an Associate Professor at Georgia Tech and the director of the Innovation, Design Reasoning, Engineering Education and Methods Lab. She received her M.S. and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at UT-Austin and her B.S. from the University of Michigan. She received the 2010 ASEE-ERM (Education Research Methods) Apprentice Faculty award, and the 2018 DTM Best Paper Award. Her research focus is on design methods, theory, and engineering education with a particular focus on innovation and conceptual design. The goal of Dr. Linsey’s research is to discover new knowledge about how engineers think and leverage this knowledge into design methods and tools to improve engineering design.

Larry L. Howell, PhD, PE, is a Professor, Associate Dean, and past chair of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Brigham Young University (BYU), where he holds a University Professorship. Prof. Howell received his B.S. degree from Brigham Young University and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Purdue University. Prior to joining BYU in 1994 he was a visiting professor at Purdue University, a finite element analysis consultant for Engineering Methods, Inc., and an engineer on the design of the YF-22 (the prototype for the U.S. Air Force F-22). He is a Fellow of ASME and past chair of the ASME Mechanisms & Robotics Committee. Prof. Howell’s patents and technical publications focus on compliant mechanisms. He is the author of the book Compliant Mechanisms published by John Wiley & Sons.

Mary Frecker is a Professor of Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering at the Pennsylvania State University. She has a B.S. from the University of Dayton, and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Michigan. When she joined Penn State in 1997, she was awarded the Pearce Endowed Development Professorship in Mechanical Engineering. Dr. Frecker has also been awarded the GM/Freudenstein Young Investigator Award by the ASME Mechanisms Committee (2002), the Outstanding Advising Award by the Penn State Engineering Society (2002), and the Outstanding Research Award by the Penn State Engineering Society (2005). She is a Fellow of the ASME. Dr. Frecker is an Associate Editor of the ASME Journal of Mechanical Design, and serves as Chair of the ASME Adaptive Structures Technical Committee. She is also a member of the ASME Mechanisms Committee.

Prof. Massimiliano Gobbi is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Politecnico di Milano in Italy. He was awarded a master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering in 1994 (100/100 cum laude) from Politecnico di Milano and Ph.D. in Applied Mechanics in 1998.  He has published more than 150 technical papers in well-known, international, peer reviewed journals or presented at reputed international conferences. He is author (or co-author) of seven international patents and one book, ‘Optimal Design of  Complex Mechanical Systems with Applications to Vehicle Engineering’,  published by Springer Verlag. He is currently serving as Vice-Chair of the ASME Vehicle Design Committee (VDC) and has served as  Conference/Program Chair for the Advanced Vehicle Technologies (AVT) Conference at ASME IDECT/CIE in 2012 and 2013.

Massimo Callegari is professor of Machine Mechanics at the Polytechnic University of Marche in Ancona, Italy. He received the laurea degree in Mechanical Engineering in 1986 then he worked in the R&D departments of industries operating in the field of factory automation until 1990, when he joined the Department of Mechanics of the University of Genova as a researcher. He has participated into different national and international research projects in the fields of automation, robotics and innovative handling devices. He used to seat for several years in the “Board of Examiners” of the European Master in “Automotive Engineering” by the University of Hertfordshire at Hatfield (UK) and is currently chairing the board of teachers of the Mechanical Engineering degrees at the Polytechnic University of Marche.

Mian Li is an Associate Professor in the University of Michigan-Shanghai Jiao Tong University Joint Institute, and adjunct Associate Professor at the School of Mechanical Engineering, at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China. He received his Ph.D. degree from the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Maryland at College Park in 2007 with the Best Dissertation Award. He received his BE (1994) and MS (2001) in Control Engineering both from Tsinghua University, China. Within the Mechanical Engineering Program at the University of Michigan-Shanghai Jiao Tong University Joint Institute, his research work has been focused on robust/reliability based multidisciplinary design optimization and control, funded by NSF China and other funding agencies. He is the member of ASME, IEEE, IES and SAE.

Dr. Michel-Alexandre Cardin is a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Computational Aided Engineering at the Dyson School of Design Engineering, Imperial College London. His research focuses on the development and evaluation of new computer aided methodologies to support the design and analysis of flexible, resilient and sustainable infrastructure systems, in particular in energy, transportation, space and financial systems. Prior to joining Imperial College, Dr. Cardin worked as a Quantitative Researcher in the hedge fund industry, developing strategies for derivatives trading using machine learning techniques. He also served as a faculty member at the National University of Singapore, where he established and led the Strategic Engineering Laboratory. He was a principal investigator for the Singapore-ETH Centre Future Resilient Systems project, and the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology. Dr. Cardin holds a PhD in Engineering Systems and a Master of Science in Technology and Policy from MIT, a Master of Applied Science in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Toronto, Honors BSc in Physics from McGill University in Canada, and is a graduate of the Space Science Program at the International Space University. He is currently serving as Associate Editor for the INCOSE journal Systems Engineering, and served on the Editorial Review Board for the journal IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management (2013-2019). He established and served as founding chairman of the organizing committee for the conference on Complex Systems Design and Management Asia.

Olivier L. de Weck, Ph.D., dipl. Ing., is an Associate Professor of Engineering Systems and Aeronautics and Astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He obtained his degree in Industrial Engineering from ETH Zurich in 1993 and SM and PhD degrees in Aerospace Engineering from MIT in 1999 and 2001, respectively. His research focuses on understanding how complex man-made systems evolve over time and how we can design them to be more changeable while maximizing lifecycle value. Prof. de Weck has developed quantitative and implementable methods and tools that explicitly consider both changeability and commonality. Specific examples of such methods are Time-Expanded Decision Networks (TDN), the Delta-Design Structure Matrix (DSM) and the Technology Infusion Analysis (TIA) process. He is an Associate Fellow of AIAA, and also serves as Associate Editor for the Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets. He won two best paper awards at he 2004 INCOSE Systems Engineering conference, the 2006 Frank E. Perkins Award for Excellence in Graduate Advising at MIT, a 2007 AIAA Outstanding Service Award and the 2008 best paper award from the journal Systems Engineering. Since July 2008 he serves as Associate Director of the Engineering Systems Division at MIT, an academic unit with 53 faculty members and senior staff as well as approximately 440 graduate students.

Oscar Altuzarra was born in Bilbao in 1971, received his M. Sc. Mechanical Engineering degree from the Engineering School of Bilbao, Universidad del País Vasco (UPV/EHU), Spain, in 1995 and the Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the same University in 1999. He spent a year at the Coventry University in Coventry (U.K.) in 1993 where he obtained a Diploma in higher studies. He is Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Engineering School of Bilbao, Universidad del País Vasco (UPV/EHU). His research interests are theoretical kinematics, mechanisms, design of parallel kinematic machines, robotics, and computational solutions to complex mechanical problems in the field of the theory of mechanisms. He gives lectures on Applied Mechanics at Graduate levels, and Kinematic Analysis at Postgraduate levels. He is involved in several academic as well as industrial projects related to the field of mechanisms and robotics. Regarding recent research issues, he has developed several new morphologies of parallel machines for pick and place operations, and solar trackers with high tilting capabilities.

Qi Fan, PhD, is a Senior Gear Theoretician and Director of Bevel Gear Technology (China) at The Gleason Works. Dr. Fan currently serves as Chair of the ASME Power Transmission and Gearing (PTG) Committee. Previously, he was an associate professor of mechanical engineering at Wuhan University of Technology in China. Before joining Gleason Works, he was a postdoctoral associate at the Gear Research Center of the University of Illinois at Chicago where he received his PhD degree. He received his M.S. degree in mechanical engineering at Wuhan Transportation University in 1987. Dr. Fan is a recipient of the NASA Tech Brief Award (2004) and the Thomas Bernard Hall Prize (2001) awarded by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, UK.

Dr. Qiaode Jeffrey Ge, ASME Fellow, is Professor and Chair, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stony Brook University, the State University of New York. He received his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from University of California, Irvine, M.S. in mechanical engineering and applied mechanics from University of Pennsylvania, and dual B.S. in mechanical and electrical Engineering from Shanghai Jiaotong University. He was elected to serve as chair of ASME Mechanisms and Robotics Committee, chair of ASME Design Engineering Division, and chair of the Constitution Committee of IFToMM, the International Federation for the Promotion of Mechanisms and Machine Science. He was past Associate Editor of ASME Journal of Mechanical Design, ASME Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics, and International Journal of Mechanics Based Design of Structures and Machines. Dr. Ge is also a member of US National Academy of Inventors.

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. 

Shorya Awtar, Sc.D. is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and the Founder and Chief Technology Officer of FlexDex Surgical. He earned his engineering degrees from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (B.Tech., 1998), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (M.S., 2000), and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Sc.D., 2004). His research interests include machine design, flexure mechanisms, parallel kinematics, mechatronic systems, and precision engineering. Application areas include medical devices for minimally invasive surgery, motion stages for metrology and manufacturing, electromagnetic and electrostatic actuators, and microsystems. He worked at the National Institute of Standards and Technology and GE Global Research prior to joining the University of Michigan.

Tahira Reid Smith is an Associate Professor in the School of Mechanical Engineering at Purdue University and is the director of the Research in Engineering and Interdisciplinary Design (REID) Laboratory. Her research interests include quantifying and integrating human-centered considerations in the design process and human-machine systems. Her research program has received funding from the National Science Foundation, Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Procter & Gamble, General Motors, Ford Motor Company, and other sources.  Prior to arriving to Purdue in 2012, she completed a postdoctoral position in the Mechanical Engineering Department at Iowa State University. In 2010, she received her PhD from the University of Michigan in Design Science, with Mechanical Engineering and Psychology as her focus areas.  Dr. Reid Smith received both her BS and MS degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in 2000 and 2004, respectively. ​

Dr. Chase is a Professor and Morse-Alumni Distinguished Teaching Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Minnesota. Dr. Chase received his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in 1984. He is a past chair of the Design Engineering Division (2002-03), the Mechanisms Committee (1993-94), and the Design Engineering Technical Conference in 1994.

Dr. Wei Chen is the Wilson-Cook Professor in Engineering Design and Chair of Department of Mechanical Engineering at Northwestern University. She received her Ph.D. from the Georgia Institute of Technology, M.S. from University of Houston, and B.S. from Shanghai Jiao Tong University (China), all in mechanical engineering.  Dr. Chen is an elected member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) and fellow of ASME. She currently serves as the President of the International Society of Structural and Multidisciplinary Design (ISSMO).  In the past, she served as a member then Chair of the ASME Design Engineering Division (DED) Executive Committee and was an elected Advisory Board member of the Design Society. Before becoming the editor-in-chief of JMD, Dr. Chen was the Associate Editor of the JMD, Design Science, and the SIAM/ASA Journal on Uncertainty Quantification (JUQ).  She also served as the Review Editor of the Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization (SMO) and the Department Editor for the IIE Transactions.  Dr. Chen was the recipient of the joint ASME and Pi Tau Sigma Charles Russ Richards Memorial Award (2021), ASME Robert E. Abbott Award ( 2019) for life time service, ASME Design Automation Award (2015), Intelligent Optimal Design Prize (2005), ASME Pi Tau Sigma Gold Medal achievement award (1998), and the NSF Faculty Career Award (1996).  Her research team has received five ASME Design Automation Conference Best Paper Award (2019, 2016, 2014, 2012, and 1998) and the JMD Editors’ Choice Award (2014).

Xiaoping Du is a Professorin the Department of Mechanical and Energy Engineering at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. He received his Ph.D., M.S., and B.S. from the University of Illinois at Chicago, Chongqing University, China, and Shanghai Jiaotong University, China, respectively, all in Mechanical Engineering. He previously served as Curator’s Distinguished Teaching Professorin the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the Missouri University of Science and Technology, and Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Southwest Petroleum University in China. In addition to his academic job, Dr. Du assumed a mechanical engineer position at two companies. He has received many grants from NSF and other funding organizations in support of his research in the area of design under uncertainty and reliability.

Xiaoping Qian is a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and his MS and BS from the Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China, all in mechanical engineering. He is an elected ASME Fellow. He has served as an associate editor for ASME Journal of Manufacturing Science and Engineering and ASME Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering as well as in the editorial board of the journal Computer-Aided Design.

Zhang-Hua Fong, Ph.D., is a CCU Outstanding Research Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Dean of the College of Engineering at National Chung Cheng University in Taiwan. He received his B.S. degree from National Chung Hsing University and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from National Chiao Tung University, all in mechanical engineering. Prior to joining National Chung Cheng University, he was an engineer and manager of gearing dept. in the Industrial Technology Research Institute. He currently serves the IFToMM Gearing Committees and technology advisor to the Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA), Taiwan. He was a recipient of the Distinguished Research Award by National Science Council, the Outstanding Professor of Industrial Economical Contribution Award, and the Gold Medal Award of National Invention Prize by MOEA, Taiwan.

Zissimos P. Mourelatos is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Oakland University and has served as the Chair of Mechanical Engineering Department (2010-2014). Before joining Oakland University in 2003, he spent 18 years at the General Motors Research and Development Center. He conducts research in the areas of design under uncertainty, structural reliability methods, reliability analysis with insufficient data, Reliability-Based Design Optimization (RBDO), vibrations and dynamics, and NVH (Noise, Vibration and Harshness). Dr. Mourelatos has published over 170 journal and conference publications and a book entitled, “Decision Making under Uncertainty using Limited Information.” He served as Editor of the International Journal of Reliability and Safety, and as an Associate Editor of the SAE International Journal of Materials and Manufacturing, SAE International Journal of Commercial Vehicles, and the ASME Journal of Mechanical Design. Dr. Mourelatos is a Fellow of ASME and SAE.