Rahul Rai

Rahul Rai received the B.Tech. degree from the National Institute of Foundry and Forge Technology (NIFFT), Ranchi, India, in 2000, the M.S. degree in manufacturing engineering from the Missouri University of Science and Technology (Missouri S&T), USA, in 2002, and the Ph.D. degree in mechanical engineering from The University of Texas at Austin, USA, in 2006. He is currently an Associate Professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering with the University at Buffalo-SUNY. His research is focused on developing computational tools for solving related problems in the manufacturing and system design domain. By combining engineering innovations with methods from machine learning, AI, statistics and optimization, and geometric reasoning, his research strives to solve important problems in the manufacturing and engineering design domain. His research has been supported by NSF, DARPA, ONR, NSWC, DMDII, HP, NYSERDA, and NYSPII. He has authored over 100 articles to date in peer-reviewed conferences and journals covering a wide array of problems. He was a recipient of the 2009 HP Design Innovation and the 2017 ASME IDETC/CIE Young Engineer Award. He also received the 2019 PHM Society Conference Best Paper Award.