Director

John S. Kang (email: jkang4 at sdsu.edu)

Director, Smart Sensors and Manufacturing Lab., SDSU

Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, SDSU

- RET Design Engineer (Data Scientist), Intel Corporation, 2015-2019

- Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2015

- M.S. in Management, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2012

- Associate Research Scientist, SNU Precision Co., Ltd., 2006-2009

​- M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Seoul National University, 2006

Ph.D. Students

Nick Satterlee (Spring 2022-)

Ph.D. Student in Mechanical Engineering 

- Research Area: LPBF defect detection using multi-sensors and machine learning

- Nuclear Fuel Engineer, Southern Nuclear

- M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, SDSU / B.S. in Nuclear Engieering, UC Berkeley

Xiaowei Zuo (Fall 2022-)

Ph.D. Student in Mechanical Engineering  

- Research Area: Inverse sintering-assisted additive manufacturing using machine learning

- M.S. in Computational Statistics and Machine Learning, University College London / B. S. in Mechanical Engineering, UC San Diego

M.S. Students

Shivam Raval (Spring 2020-)

M.S. Student in Mechanical Engineering

- Research Area: Parametric study on process parameters of LPBF

- B.E. in Mechanical Engineering, Silver Oak College of Engineering, Gujarat, India

Brian Wu (Spring 2020-)

M.S. Student in Mechanical Engineering

- Research Area: Machine learning-based fringe projection profilometry

- Quality Engineer, Solar Turbine, 2023-

- B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Seattle University

Enrique Ortiz (Spring 2024-)

M.S. Student in Mechanical Engineering

- Research Area: LPBF In-Situ Sensors 

- B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, New Mexico State University

Jan Lu (Summer 2024-)

M.S. Student in Mechanical Engineering

- Research Area: 

- Mechanical Engineering and Management, Technical University of Hamburg, Germany

- B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, CSU Sacramento

Undergraduate Students

Matthew Peterson (Fall 2024-), ME499 in Fall 2024

Undergraduate Student in Mechanical Engineering

- Research Area:

Roberto Burciaga (Fall 2024-), ME499 in Fall 2024

Undergraduate Student in Mechanical Engineering

- Research Area:

Zach Batista (Fall 2024-), ME499 in Fall 2024

Undergraduate Student in Mechanical Engineering

- Research Area:

Madison White (Fall 2024-), ME499 in Fall 2024

Undergraduate Student in Mechanical Engineering

- Research Area:

Brayden Chau (Fall 2024-), ME499 in Fall 2024

Undergraduate Student in Mechanical Engineering

- Research Area:

Grace Wise (Fall 2024-), ME499 in Fall 2024

Undergraduate Student in Mechanical Engineering

- Research Area:

Kyler Brown (Summer 2023-), SURP 2023, SURP 2024

Undergraduate Student in Mechanical Engineering

- Research Area: Development of a custom laser powder bed fusion printer

Matthew Chang (Spring 2024-), SURP 2024

Undergraduate Student in Mechanical Engineering

- Research Area: Measurement of spatial stiffness of soft tissues

Victor Reyes (Spring 2024-), ME499 in Spring 2024

Undergraduate Student in Mechanical Engineering

- Research Area: Silent speech recognition using EEG sensor

Matthew Steel (Summer 2024-), ME499 in Summer 2024

Undergraduate Student in Mechanical Engineering

- Research Area: 

Brayden Chau (Summer 2024-)

Undergraduate Student in Mechanical Engineering, Southwestern College

- Research Area: 

Outreach

Sofia Fajardo Delgado (Summer 2024), MESA 2024

Undergraduate Student in Electrical Engineering, Southwestern College

- Research Area: 

Nicholas Shand (Summer 2024), MESA 2024

Undergraduate Student in Mechanical Engineering, Southwestern College

- Research Area: 

Davis Tran

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