People

Farhad Ameri is an Associate Professor in the School of Manufacturing Systems and Networks  and the Director of Semantic Computing lab. His research interests include Knowledge-based Engineering (KBE) in design and manufacturing applications, Ontology Engineering, Digital Supply Chains, and Design Theory and Methodology. Dr. Ameri received his doctorate degree in Manufacturing Engineering in 2006 from the University of Michigan. He holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in Industrial and Systems Engineering.

He is one of the founding members of the Industrial Ontology Foundry (IOF) and a member of ASME and IFIP WG 5.7 Advances in Production Management systems (APMS). His research team has published research articles in high-impact  journals such as ASME Journal of Computing and Information Systems in Engineering , ASME Journal of Mechanical Design, International Journal of Production Research, ASME Journal of Manufacturing Science and Engineering, and many others. Dr. Ameri’s research has been funded by federal agencies such as NSF, NIST, Digital Manufacturing Institute (MxD), and multiple industrial sponsors.

Yunqing (Connie) Li

Ph.D., Industrial Engineering, The Edward P. Fitts Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, North Carolina State University

M.S., Mechanical Engineering, The USC Viterbi School of Engineering, University of Southern California

B.E., Vehicle Engineering, School of Mechanical and Automotive Engineering, Hefei University of Technology

Research Interest: Manufacturing AI, Knowledge Graph, Recommender System, Digital Supply Chain, Large Language Models, Graph Neural Networks, Retrieval Augmented Generation

Aseman Erfani Jazi

BS, Industrial Engineering, Isfahan University of Technology

Research Interests: AR/VR, Digital Twins, Machine learning, Data mining, Ontology engineering, Industry 4.0, Deep Learning

Mukund Shenoy

M.S., Decision Information Systems, W. P. Carey School of Business, Arizona State University

M.Tech., Manufacturing Technology, Ira Fulton College of Engineering, Arizona State University

M.B.A., Business Administration, W.P. Carey School of Business, Arizona State University

B.E., Mechanical Engineering, University of Mumbai

Research Interest: AI applications and Knowledge-based Engineering in Manufacturing and Supply Networks, Digital Twins, Complex Adaptive Systems, Strategic Decision and Risk Management

Ali Hasanzadeh

MA, Philosophy, University at Buffalo

BS, Physics, University of Washington

Research Interests: Food Ontology, Sustainability, Logic

Mansour Taheri Andani

MS, Engineering Management, Texas State University

BS, Material Science Engineering, Isfahan University of Technology

Research Interests: Object detection, Deep learning, Knowledge Graphs

Research Topics: Underwater Pipe Defect Detection from ROVs Images Supported by Deep Convolutional Neural Network and Semantic Knowledge Graphs, LLM