People

Mason Ma (Co-advised with Dr. Tony Schmitz)

Mason is studying modeling and control methods for nonlinear dynamics in CNC machining and friction stir additive deposition in collaboration with NSF ERC-HAMMER, SEAMTN and ORNL.  

M.S., Industrial Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison 

M.S., Management Science and Engineering, Peking University

B.S., Automation, Tsinghua University

Email: hma19@vols.utk.edu 

Alisa Ren

Alisa is studying interpretable and robust machine learning for modeling nonlinear dynamics in manufacturing in collaboration with AI TENNessee Initiative and SEAMTN.

B.S., Financial Mathematics and Statistics, University of California Santa Barbara

Email: mren5@vols.utk.edu 

Jiajie Wu (Co-advised with Dr. Tony Schmitz)

Jiajie is studying modeling, control and machine learning for additive friction stir deposition (AFSD) and CNC machining in collaboration with NSF ERC-HAMMER and SEAMTN.

M.S., Business Analytics, University of Nottingham 

B.S., Pure and Applied Mathematics, Jinan University 

Email: jwu71@vols,utk.edu

Abir Ray

Abir is studying the AI-enabled integration of model-based systems engineering and digital twins for the fundamental research in spectrum management, and systems science and engineering.

D. Eng., Cybersecurity Analytics, George Washington University

M.A., Software Engineering, Harvard University

M.Eng., Systems Engineering, Cornell University

B.A., Interdisciplinary Study, University of Virginia

Email: aray49@vols.utk.edu