MANUFACTURING AUTOMATION & ROBOTICS
FACULTY
![Yusuf Altintas](https://mech2.sites.olt.ubc.ca/files/2024/03/Headshot-Altintas-Yusuf-Kai-Jacobsen.png)
Yusuf Altintas
Research Interests: modeling & analysis of machining processes, design & computer control of machine tool spindle & feed drives, mechanics, dynamics & control of micro-machining operations, design of virtual high performance machining simulation system, on line detection and suppression of chatter
![Adam Clare](https://mech2.sites.olt.ubc.ca/files/2024/03/Headshot-Clare-Adam-Kai-Jacobsen.png)
Adam Clare
Research Interests: Manufacturing technologies and approaches for a sustainable future; additive manufacturing (materials, processes, design and application); electrical discharge machining, electrolyte jet machining, electron beam and laser processes; stochastics in engineering design and manufacture; machine design and build; manufacturing for high value and high integrity applications (aerospace, biomedical, tool and nuclear).
![Clarence de Silva](https://mech2.sites.olt.ubc.ca/files/2014/12/S01_6975.jpg)
Clarence de Silva
Research Interests: multi-robot systems and applications including Homecare, process automation, mechatronics; integrated and automated design, control sensors and actuators, automated machine monitoring, diagnosis and repair, telemedicine, environmental monitoring
![Hsi-Yung (Steve) Feng](https://mech2.sites.olt.ubc.ca/files/2024/03/Headshot-Feng-Steven-Kai-Jacobsen.png)
Hsi-Yung (Steve) Feng
Research interests: CAD/CAM/CAI (Computer-Aided Design, Manufacturing & Inspection), emphasis on: scanning-derived geometric modeling, three-axis & five-axis CNC machining, 3D laser scanning and computational/coordinate metrology
![Xiaoliang Jin](https://mech2.sites.olt.ubc.ca/files/2024/03/Headshot-Jin-Xiaoliang-Kai-Jacobsen.png)
Xiaoliang Jin
Research Interests: manufacturing processes for advanced materials, vibration assisted machining, machining mechanics & dynamics, material characterization, surface integrity, hybrid additive and subtractive process for part repair and remanufacturing
![Dominic Liao-McPherson](https://mech2.sites.olt.ubc.ca/files/2024/03/Headshot-Liao-McPherson-Dominic-Kai-Jacobsen.png)
Dominic Liao-McPherson
Research Interests: model predictive control; constrained control; multi-agent systems; optimization algorithms and real-time optimization; algorithmic game theory; additive manufacturing; robotics; autonomous vehicles; energy systems; aerospace
![Hongshen Ma](https://mech2.sites.olt.ubc.ca/files/2024/03/Headshot-Ma-Hongshen-Kai-Jacobsen.png)
Hongshen Ma
Research Interests: microfluidics, instrumentation, cell sorting, cell biomechanics, circulating tumor cells, malaria and red blood cell, deformability, single cell technologies, cell migration and chemotaxis
![Ryozo Nagamune](https://mech2.sites.olt.ubc.ca/files/2024/03/Headshot-Nagamune-Ryozo-Kai-Jacobsen.png)
Ryozo Nagamune
Research Interests: Control Engineering: multiple robust control, parameter variation identification, nevanlinna-pick interpolation approach to robust control, machine tool servo control, wind turbine control, automotive engine control, hard disk drive track-following control, robust chatter stability analysis, magnetically actuated microlens control
![Robert N. Rohling](https://mech2.sites.olt.ubc.ca/files/2018/04/2017032017-03-02@11-25-32Pelletier.jpg)
Robert N. Rohling
Research Interests: biomedical engineering, medical imaging, medical information systems, robotics
![Christoph Sielmann](https://mech2.sites.olt.ubc.ca/files/2024/03/Headshot-Sielmann-Christoph-Kai-Jacobsen.png)
Christoph Sielmann
Research Interests: instrumentation, nanofabrication technology, MEMS, clean energy, artificial intelligence
![Machiel Van der Loos](https://mech2.sites.olt.ubc.ca/files/2024/03/Headshot-Van-der-Loos-Mike-Kai-Jacobsen.png)
Machiel Van der Loos
Research Interests: Robotics: rehabilitation robotics, human-robot interaction; Design: design for safety, design methodology and design, coaching, roboethics
![Kefei Wen](https://mech2.sites.olt.ubc.ca/files/2024/03/Headshot-Wen-Kefei-Kai-Jacobsen.png)
Kefei Wen
Research Interests: Kinematics, dynamics, and control of parallel mechanisms; parallel continuum robots; physical human-robot cooperation
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