Release of AI/ML Manufacturing Technology Roadmap and Consortium Planning

Mike Molnar

Director – Advanced Manufacturing National Program Office

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

https://www.nist.gov/people/mike-molnar

Mike Molnar is the founding director of the Advanced Manufacturing National Program Office, the interagency team responsible for the Manufacturing USA program. Mike also leads the NIST Office of Advanced Manufacturing and serves as co-chair of the National Science and Technology Council, Subcommittee on Advanced Manufacturing – the team responsible for the National Strategic Plan for Advanced Manufacturing.

Bernard Bewlay

Chief Scientist

General Electric Aerospace Research

https://www.ge.com/research/people/bernard-bewlay

Bernard Bewlay is a Chief Scientist at General Electric Aerospace Research in Niskayuna, NY. He has extensive experience in high-temperature materials, including conventional turbine engine materials, such as nickel based superalloys and titanium alloys, and advanced high-temperature systems, such as titanium aluminides and refractory metal silicides. 



He is the inventor on more than 190 issued patents. He has published more than 130 articles in the area of processing-structure-property relationships in high-temperature temperature materials. He has given many invited talks throughout the World on Intermetallics and high-temperature structural materials. 



He has co-chaired numerous international conferences, and he was the 2016 Materials Research Society Fall meeting chair. He has received several prestigious awards for his contributions, including the General Electric 2018 Coolidge Award. He is a member of the Materials Research Society and TMS. He is also a Fellow of ASM International and IOM3. 

 

James Warren

Director of the Materials Genome Program

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

https://www.nist.gov/people/james-warren

Bio: Dr. James A. Warren is the Director of the Materials Genome Program in the Material Measurement Laboratory of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). After receiving his Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara, in 1992 he took a position as a National Research Council post-doc in the Metallurgy Division at NIST. In 1995, with three other junior NIST staff members, he co-founded the NIST Center for Theoretical and Computational Materials Science, which he has directed since 2001. From 2005-2013 he was the Leader of the Thermodynamics and Kinetics Group. His research has been broadly concerned with developing both models of materials phenomena, and the tools to enable the solution of these models. Specific foci over the years has included solidification, pattern formation, grain structures, creep, diffusion, wetting, and spreading in metals. In 2010-11, Dr. Warren was part of the ad hoc committee within the Office of Science and Technology Policy’s National Science and Technology Council (NSTC) that crafted the founding whitepaper on the Administration’s Materials Genome Initiative (MGI). Since 2012, Dr. Warren has served as the Executive Secretary of the NSTC MGI Subcommittee, coordinating inter-agency efforts to achieve the goals laid out in the MGI. 



 

Bijan Sayyar-Rodsari

Director of AI Center of Excellence

Rockwell Automation

https://www.linkedin.com/in/bijan-sayyar-rodsari-12001510/

Dr. Bijan Sayyar-Rodsari is Director of AI Center of Excellence at Rockwell Automation that focuses on enabling manufacturing industry’s transition from automation to autonomy. He received his Ph.D. degree in Information Theory from Stanford University in 1999. He has been involved in design, development, and real-world deployment of ML/AI driven solutions for predictive maintenance, modeling, control, and optimization in a diverse range of industrial applications for more than 20 years.