News: 

• Our alumni, Hasnaa Ouidadi, has landed a postdoc position in The Industrial and Systems Engineering Department at The University of Wisconsin-Madison. Congratulations! (9/10/2025)

• Our paper, "Robotizing GTAW through Learning Human Response", by Yue Cao, Shenghan Guo, and Yuming Zhang, was accepted by Welding in the World. Congratulations! (8/26/2025)

• Hasnaa Ouidadi was awarded the ASU Engineering Graduate PhD Fellowship. Congratulations! (7/11/2025)

• Hasnaa Ouidadi has successfully defended her PhD thesis. Congratulations! (6/20/2025)

• The paper led by our alumni, Boyang Xu, "Data Quality Improvement and Geometric Information Recovery for Resistance Spot Welding with Spatial-Temporal Fast Fourier Transform", by Boyang Xu and Shenghan Guo, was accepted by Quality Engineering. Congratulations! (5/5/2025)

• Pius Gyamenah was awarded the AEC Student of the Year Award by the Applied Ergonomics Conference (AEC) 2025. Congratulations! (3/19/2025)

• Our alumni, Srinidhi Budhiraju, was recently accepted to the Physics Ph.D. program at Syracuse University. Congratulations! (2/20/2025)

• Our paper, "CLUMM: Contrastive Learning for Unobtrusive Motion Monitoring", by Pius Gyamenah, Hari Iyer, Heejin Jeong, and Shenghan Guo, was accepted by MDPI Sensors. Congratulations! (2/5/2025) 

• Our paper, "MPS-GAN: A Multi-Conditional Generative Adversarial Network for Simulating Input Parameters’ Impact on Manufacturing Processes", by Hasnaa Ouidadi and Shenghan Guo, was accepted by the Journal of Manufacturing Processes. Congratulations! (9/17/2024)

• Our paper, "Machine Learning–Enabled Direct Ink Writing of Conductive Polymer Composites for Enhanced Performance in Thermal Management and Current Protection", by Sri Vaishnavi Thummalapalli, Dhanush Patil, Arunachalam Ramanathan, Dharneedar Ravichandran, Yuxiang Zhu, Varunkumar Thippanna, Martin Taylor Sobczak, Abhishek Sajikumar, Lindsay B Chambers, Shenghan Guo, Arunachala M Kannan, and Kenan Song, was accepted by Energy Storage Materials. Congratulations! (7/30/2024)

• Shubham Chetan Shah was accepted to the ASU MORE Program for Fall 2024 and will join the research group. Congratulations! (4/30/2024)

• Neel Macwan was nominated for the Outstanding Student Researcher Award for his excellent work during the ASU Spring 2024 MORE Program. Congratulations! (4/19/2024)

• Neel Macwan has successfully completed the ASU Spring 2024 MORE Program and presented in the Forge Research Expo. Congratulations! (4/19/2024)

• Ethan Chang and Trinh Tran have successfully completed the ASU Spring 2024 FURI Program and presented in the Forge Research Expo. Congratulations! (4/19/2024)

• Our paper, "3D X-ray Computed Tomography Image Segmentation and Point Cloud Reconstruction for Internal Defect Identification in Laser Powder Bed Fused Parts", by Boyang Xu, Hasnaa Ouidadi, Nicole Van Handel, and Shenghan Guo, was accepted by the Journal of Manufacturing Science and Engineering. Congratulations! (2/22/2024)

• Our paper, "Support-Structure Decision in 3D Printing with Unsupervised Computer Vision" by Shenghan Guo, Hasnaa Ouidadi, and Boyang Xu, was accepted by MSEC 2024 (June 17-21, 2024, Knoxville, TN). Congratulations! (2/20/2024)

• Our paper, "Personalized Feature Extraction for Manufacturing Process Signature Characterization and Anomaly Detection", by Naichen Shi, Raed AI Kontar, and Shenghan Guo, was accepted by the Journal of Manufacturing Systems. Congratulations! (2/12/2024)

• Hasnaa Ouidadi has successfully passed the comprehensive exam of Manufacturing Engineering PhD Program. Congratulations! (1/26/2024)

• Hasnaa Ouidadi was awarded the ASU University Graduate Fellowship for her progress towards her Ph.D. degree. Congratulations! (1/9/2024) 

• Ethan Chang and Trinh Tran will be joining my team as undergraduate researchers for the ASU Spring 2024 FURI Program. Welcome! (1/8/2024)

• Pius Yaw Gyamenah will be joining our team in Spring 2024 as a new PhD student in Manufacturing Engineering. Welcome! (12/21/2023)

• Neel Macwan was accepted to the ASU MORE Program for Spring 2024. Congratulations! (12/10/2023)

• Our paper, "Thermal-Porosity Characterization Data of Additively Manufactured Ti–6Al–4V Thin-Walled Structure via Laser Engineered Net Shaping", by Christian Zamiela, Wenmeng Tian, Shenghan Guo, and Linkan Bian, was published in Data in Brief. Congratulations! (12/1/2023)

• Our paper, "pTS-LSTM: Temperature Prediction for Fused Filament Fabrication Using Thermal Image Time Series", by Shenghan Guo, Rui Dai, Haofan Sun, and Qiong Nian, was accepted by the Journal of Manufacturing Processes. Congratulations! (9/26/2023)

• Hasnaa Ouidadi has been selected as an honoree for SME Media’s 30 Under 30 special publication. Congratulations! (9/11/2023) 

• Our paper, "Knowledge-Transfer-Enabled Porosity Prediction for New Part Geometry in Laser Metal Deposition", by Shenghan Guo, Christian Zamiela, and Linkan Bian, was accepted by the Journal of Manufacturing Processes. Congratulations! (8/3/2023)

• Boyang Xu successfully passed the qualifying exams of ASU Data Science, Analytics, and Engineering (DSAE) PhD Program. Congratulations! (5/29/2023)

• Our paper, "Applications and Prospects of Machine learning for Aerosol Jet Printing: A Review", by Shenghan Guo, Hyunwoong Ko, and Andi Wang, was accepted by IISE Transactions. Congratulations! (5/17/2023)

• Our paper, "Real-time defect detection using online learning for laser metal deposition" by Hasnaa Ouidadi, Shenghan Guo, Christian Zamiela, and Linkan Bian, was accepted by the Journal of Manufacturing Processes. Congratulations! (5/3/2023)

• Shenghan Guo received the ASU FWA Outstanding Mentor Award 2023. Congratulations! (4/25/2023)

• Hasnaa Ouidadi received the NSF Student Travel Award from MSEC 2023 (June 12-16, 2023, New Brunswick, NJ). Congratulations! (4/3/2023)

• Nicole Van Handel received the NSF Student Travel Award from MSEC 2023 (June 12-16, 2023, New Brunswick, NJ). Congratulations! (4/3/2023)

• Hasnaa Ouidadi was nominated for the ASU FWA Distinguished Graduate Student Award 2023. Congratulations! (3/31/2023)

• Nicole Van Handel was nominated for the ASU FWA Distinguished Graduate Student Award 2023. Congratulations! (3/31/2023)

• Our paper, "Data Quality Improvement and Geometric Information Recovery for Manufacturing Thermography with Spatial-Temporal Fast Fourier Transform" by Boyang Xu and Shenghan Guo, was chosen as one of the four finalists for the DAIS Best Student Paper Competition at the upcoming IISE Annual Conference 2023. Congratulations! (3/29/2023)

• Our poster, "3D Image Segmentation for Internal Defect Identification in LPBF" by Boyang Xu, Nicole Van Handel, and Shenghan Guo, was accepted by MSEC 2023 (June 12-16, 2023, New Brunswick, NJ). Congratulations! (3/20/2023)