Editor-in-Chief

Suffix: Professor

Name: Amaresh Chakrabarti

Department & Affiliation: Department of Design and Manufacturing | Indian Institute of Science |Bangalore 560012 | India

Amaresh Chakrabarti is a Senior Professor and current Chair for Department of Design & Manufacturing, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru. He has BE (Mech Engineering, IIEST Shibpur), ME (Mechanical Systems Design, IISc) and PhD (Engineering Design, University of Cambridge UK). His interests are in synthesis, creativity, sustainability, AI, informatics, Industry 4.0, and design research methodology. He published 23 book volumes, over 300 peer-reviewed articles, and has 11 patents granted/pending. He co-authored DRM, a methodology used widely as a framework for design research. He has been Associate Editor, AI EDAM and Design Science Journals (Cambridge University Press), Area Editor, Research in Engineering Design, Regional Editor, Journal of Remanufacturing (Springer), and Advisory Editor for 7 Journals including Clean Technologies & Environmental Policy (Springer), and J of Engineering D and Int J Design Creativity & Innovation (T&F). He has been on the Advisory Board and Board of Management of the Design Society; member, CII Design Council India; Jury, India Design Mark; CII Smart Manufacturing Council India. He founded IDeaSLab – India’s first Design Observatory, co-founded India’s smart factory, and ICoRD series of conferences.

Email: ac123@iisc.ac.in

Website: https://cpdm.iisc.ac.in/cpdm/ideaslab/bio_ac.html" class="redactor-linkify-object">https://cpdm.iisc.ac.in/cpdm/i...

LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amaresh-chakrabarti-2ba45465/     

ResearchGate profile: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Amaresh-Chakrabarti

Associate Editor

Suffix: Professor

Name: Gaetano Cascini

Department & Affiliation: Politecnico di Milano Dept of Mechanical Engineering Milano, Italy

I hold a Ph.D. in Machine Design, and I’m Full Professor at Politecnico di Milano, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, and Fellow at Alta Scuola Politecnica (Honour program of Politecnico di Milano and Politecnico di Torino in Engineering, Architecture and Design). After defending my PhD thesis on a narrow focus (noise and vibration in the railway sector), I decided to broaden my research topics, i.e. Engineering Design Methods and Tools. For almost 25 years I have been studying design creativity and its multiple perspectives: approaches and techniques to enhance engineering creativity, design cognition, human behaviour in design, design creativity assessment, design education, ICT systems supporting the creative stages of design, computational models of collaborative design and innovation project development both with individuals and teams. 

Email: gaetano.cascini@polimi.it

Website: Link

LinkedIn profile: https://linkedin.com/in/gaetano-cascini-069666

ResearchGate profile: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Gaetano-Cascini    

Associate Editor

Suffix: Professor

Name: Katherine Fu

Department & Affiliation: Mechanical Engineering Building Office 2055 | University of Wisconsin | Madison, WI 53706 | USA

Dr. Kate Fu is the Jay and Cynthia Ihlenfeld Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. From 2014 to 2021, she was an Assistant and Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology. Prior to these appointments, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD). In May 2012, she completed her Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. She received her M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon in 2009, and her B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Brown University in 2007. Her work has focused on studying the engineering design process through cognitive studies, and extending those findings to the development of methods and tools to facilitate more effective and inspired design and innovation. Dr. Fu is a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award, the ASME Design Theory and Methodology Young Investigator Award, the ASME Atlanta Section 2015 Early Career Engineer of the Year Award, and was an Achievement Rewards For College Scientists (ARCS) Foundation Scholar.

Email: kfu26@wisc.edu

Website: https://directory.engr.wisc.edu/me/Faculty/Fu_Kate/

LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/katherinefu/

Associate Editor

Suffix: Professor

Name: Hitoshi Komoto

Department & Affiliation: National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) | Japan

Dr. Hitoshi Komoto studied his career as researcher at AIST in 2011. He studies information models and simulation techniques used in various product life cycle stages in the manufacturing industry, such as factory simulation, production scheduling, and product life cycle simulation, across research units at AIST, including the Advanced Manufacturing Research Institute and the Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems Research Center. He is a guest researcher at the University of Strathclyde (2018), the University of Tokyo (2020-present), and the Technical University Berlin (2023-present). He served as assistant director, Industrial Machinery Division, Manufacturing Industries Bureau, the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI), between 2016 and 2017. He is an associate fellow of CIRP, the International Academy for Production Engineering, a member of the Japan Society for Precision Engineering (JSPE), and a member of the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers (JSME). Regarding international standardization activities in smart manufacturing, he is active as expert of IEC System Committee Smart Manufacturing (SyCSM) /OF1, and of ISO TC184/SC5/WG10. Dr. Hitoshi Komoto received B.Sc. and Dipl-.Ing in Universität Karlsruhe (currently known as Karlsruhe Institute of Technology), Germany, in 2003 and 2004, respectively, and received a Dr. in Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands, in 2009.

Email: h.komoto@aist.go.jp

Website: https://unit.aist.go.jp/icps/en/member/index.html    

LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hitoshi-komoto-30bb07a/   

ResearchGate profile: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Hitoshi-Komoto

Associate Editor

Suffix: Professor

Name: Jianxi Luo

Department & Affiliation: Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD)|Singapore

Jianxi Luo was the Founder and Director of the Data-Driven Innovation Lab at SUTD from 2012 to 2024, and a Principal Investigator at the SUTD-MIT International Design Centre from 2013 to 2020. He also served as the Director of the SUTD Technology Entrepreneurship Programme from 2019 to 2021. His research has been instrumental in establishing the data-driven innovation paradigm, developing relevant theories, methods, tools, and knowledge infrastructures. Luo’s broader interests include design science, complex systems, artificial intelligence, entrepreneurship, innovation, leadership, and technology policy. He chaired the INFORMS Technology Innovation Management & Entrepreneurship Section from 2015 to 2016 and was an executive committee member for the Council of Engineering Systems Universities in the USA from 2022 to 2024. Prior to SUTD, Luo was a faculty member at New York University from 2011 to 2012 and a visiting scholar at Cambridge University in 2005 and Columbia University from 2011 to 2012. He has also worked briefly with the World Economic Forum, Environmental Defense Fund, Asian Development Bank, and Toyota USA. Luo holds a Ph.D. (2010) and S.M. (2006) from MIT, as well as M.S. (2004) and B.E. (2001) degrees from Tsinghua University.

Email: luo@sutd.edu.sg  

Website: http://ddi.sutd.edu.sg/  

LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jianxiluo/  

ResearchGate profile: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jianxi-Luo-2

Associate Editor

Suffix: (Dean’s Chair Associate) Professor

Name: Rudi Stouffs

Department & Affiliation: Architecture, College of Design and Engineering, National University of Singapore

Rudi Stouffs is Dean’s Chair Associate Professor and Assistant Dean (Research) in the College of Design and Engineering at National University of Singapore. He leads the Technologies Research Cluster and the Architectural and Urban Prototyping Lab in the Department of Architecture. He is Deputy Programme Lead of the “Health-driven design for cities (HD4)” research programme at the Cambridge Centre for Advanced Research and Education in Singapore (CARES) and contributes as a Principal Investigator to the Future Cities Laboratory (FCL) Global research programme at the Singapore ETH Centre (SEC). He is President of CAADRIA, the assocation for Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia, and past president of eCAADe, the association for Education and research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe. He received his PhD in Architecture from Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), an MSc in Computational Design, also from CMU, and an MSc in Architectural Engineering from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. He has held previous appointments at Carnegie Mellon University, ETH Zurich, and TU Delft. His research expertise and interests include computational issues of description, modelling, and representation for design, in the areas of shape recognition and design generation, building information modelling and analysis, virtual cities and digital twins.

Email: stouffs@nus.edu.sg

Website: https://cde.nus.edu.sg/arch/staffs/rudi-stouffs-dr/

LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rudistouffs/

ResearchGate profile: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Rudi-Stouffs

Associate Editor

Suffix: Professor

Name: Joshua Summers

Department & Affiliation: Department of Mechanical Engineering |The University of Texas at Dallas | USA

Joshua D. Summers is Head and Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Texas at Dallas, joining in 2021.  Dr. Summers earned his Ph.D. from ASU (design automation) and his MS (submarine design) and BS (fluidized bed design) from University of Missouri.  He has worked at the Naval Research Laboratory (VR Lab and NCARAI).  He was formerly a Professor at Clemson University (2002-2020).  Dr. Summers’ research has been funded by government, large industry, and small-medium sized enterprises.  His areas of interest include collaborative design, knowledge management, and design enabler development with the overall objective of improving design through collaboration and computation.  Dr. Summers’ greatest contributions are made through his mentoring of graduate students and other colleagues – developing people is his true passion. 

Email: joshua.summers@utdallas.edu

Website: https://me.utdallas.edu/people/joshua-summers/  

LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/medxlab/   

ResearchGate profile: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Joshua-Summers-2

Associate Editor

Suffix: Professor

Name: Ashutosh Tiwari

Department & Affiliation: School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering, University of Sheffield

Professor Ashutosh Tiwari is Deputy Vice-President for Innovation at the University of Sheffield and holds the prestigious Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng) and Airbus Research Chair. He is internationally renowned for research in digital manufacturing and works in partnership with industry to develop new techniques and solutions for digitalisation, instrumentation, in-process monitoring and real-time simulation of skill-intensive manufacturing processes, such as wing manufacture and engine assembly. He has a strong track record of leading research and innovation projects across technology readiness levels, and serves on the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Strategic Advisory Team for Manufacturing and the Circular Economy.

Email:  a.tiwari@sheffield.ac.uk

Website:https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/mac/people/mech-eng-academic-staff/ashutosh-tiwari    

LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashutosh-tiwari-sheffield/?originalSubdomain=uk

ResearchGate profile: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ashutosh-Tiwari-28

Associate Editor

Suffix: Professor

Name: Yong Zeng

Department & Affiliation: Concordia Institute for Information Systems Engineering (CIISE), Concordia University, Montreal, Canada

Prof. Yong Zeng is a Full Professor at the Concordia Institute for Information Systems Engineering, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada. His research is focused on design theory and its applications to transdisciplinary design problems. Using the Environment-Based Design (EBD) methodology he has proposed, he and his colleagues have designed many algorithms including human vision-based nonparametric curve reconstruction algorithms DISCUR and VICUR and a reinforcement learning-enabled automatic 2D quadrilateral mesh generation algorithm. He pioneered EEG-based neurocognitive studies of the human design, particularly the creative design, founded on his work on recursive design logic. His work has been applied to behaviour modelling and design in aerospace engineering, healthcare, learning and training, construction industry, and sustainability, all supported by major grants funded by industry and government. He was Canada Research Chair (Tier II) in Design Science (2004-2014) and NSERC Chair in Aerospace Design Engineering (2015-2020). He is a member of the Board of Directors in the Society for Design and Process Science after having served as its president from 2019 to 2023.

Email: yong.zeng@concordia.ca

Website: Dr. Yong Zeng - Concordia University

LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yong-zeng-00386120/

ResearchGate profile: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Yong-Zeng-21?ev=hdr_xprf