Alumni

Name: Pic_hafizur Rahman Molla Hafizur Rahman
Education: Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, The University of Arkansas, Aug. 2017 – Aug. 2022.
Bio: Molla was a Ph.D. student and worked as a Graduate Research Assistant in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Arkansas. His dissertation research is focused on sequence learning and design decision-making. Before commencing his graduate studies at UA, he worked for a design farm for two years. His dissertation can be downloaded here, “Data-Driven Research on Engineering Design Thinking and Behaviors in Computer-Aided Systems Design: Analysis, Modeling, and Prediction.”

Current employment: Applied AI/ML Associate Senior at JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Name: Sumaoya_Taru Sumaiya Sultana Tanu
Education: Ph.D. student, Mechanical Engineering, The University of Arkansas, Aug. 2020 – Jan. 2022.
Bio: Sumaiya was a Ph.D. student and worked as a Research Assistant in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Arkansas from 2020 to 2022. Prior to joining SiDi Lab, she was working as an Aviation Engineer at Frontier Airlines in Denver, CO. Sumaiya was working on the topic of fairness-aware design, and particularly, the integration of consumer preferences and feedback into engineering design in support of designing marketing strategies with fair and positive targeting.
Current employment: Ph.D. student, Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Colorado State University.

Name: Laxmi Poudel
Education: Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, University of Arkansas, 2021. B.S., Mechanical Engineering, University of Arkansas, 2015.
Bio: Laxmi joined SiDi as a Ph.D. student at the University of Arkansas in 2017. His research was focused on Cooperative 3D Printing and Scheduling. His research has laid down the foundation for the realization of the swarm manufacturing of the future. His dissertation can be downloaded here, “Computational Frameworks for Multi-Robot Cooperative 3D Printing and Planning.” After the Ph.D. study, Laxmi received one-year training as a Postdoctoral Fellow in Dr. Down Tilbury’s Group in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at The University of Michigan.
Current employment: Research Engineer at GE Global Research.

Name: Jared Poe
Education: M.S., Mechanical Engineering, University of Arkansas, 2021. B.S., Mechanical Engineering, University of Arkansas, 2019.
Bio: Jared joined SiDi when he was a Master’s student at the University of Arkansas. His research was focused on thermal imaging and computer vision in unmanned ground vehicle system design. His master thesis can be downloaded here, “Material Detection with Thermal Imaging and Computer Vision: Potentials and Limitations.”
Current employment: L3 Technologies

Name: Colin Corcoran
Education: B.S., Mechanical Engineering, University of Arkansas, 2019.
Bio: Colin joined SiDi when he was a junior undergrad at the University of Arkansas. His research was focused on data-driven design and customer choice modeling in community-based additive manufacturing systems.
Current employment: Lockheed Martin Corporation

Name: Sree Chintalapudi SREE
Education: M.S., Operations Management, University of Arkansas, 2018.
Bio: Sree joined SiDi when she was an MS student in Operations Management at the University of Arkansas. Her research was focused on data-driven decision-making in community-based manufacturing service systems.
Current employment: Walmart Inc.

Name: Khoinguyen Trinh khoitrinh
Education: B.S. with Honor, Mechanical Engineering, University of Arkansas, 2019.
Bio: Khoi joined SiDi when he was a junior undergrad honor student at the University of Arkansas. His research was focused on complex networks, particularly using network motif theory to engineer complex communication networks in swarm systems.
Current employment: The Boeing Company

Name: Bofan Yang Bofan_Photo
Education: B.S., Mechanical Engineering, Tianjin University, 2019.
Bio: Bofan joined SiDi as an exchange scholar in the Summer 2018. She was a concurrently enrolled student at the University of California, Berkeley, from January to May 2018. Her research was focused on swarm 3D printing and strength behaviors of cooperatively 3D-printed parts.

Name: Eindra Nwe Headshot Original
Education: B.S., Mechanical Engineering, University of Arkansas, 2018.
Bio: Eindra joined SiDi when she was a junior undergrad student at the University of Arkansas. Her research was focused on game theory and its application in cybersecurity with an emphasis on the simulation of insider threats in power grid systems.

Name: Chandler Bair
Education: B.S., Mechanical Engineering, University of Arkansas, 2018.
Bio: Chandler joined SiDi when he was a junior undergrad at the University of Arkansas. His research aimed at developing a scalable mechanism for coordinating a swarm of robots to enable collaborative 3D printing.

Name: Kaleb Porter
Education: B.S., Mechanical Engineering, University of Arkansas, 2018.
Bio: Kaleb joined SiDi when he was a junior undergrad at the University of Arkansas. His research aimed at modeling designers’ sequential decision-making in complex systems design.
Current employment: CRB Consulting