Suman Das is Director of the Direct Digital
Manufacturing Laboratory and Research Group at Georgia
Tech. He joined the Woodruff School of Mechanical
Engineering as an Associate Professor with tenure in Fall
2007. Prior, he was a tenured Associate Professor
(2006-2007) and an Assistant Professor (2000-2006) in the
Mechanical Engineering Department of the University of
Michigan at Ann Arbor. He received his B.S. (1990) in
Mechanical Engineering at the Indian Institute of
Technology, Madras. He obtained his M.S. (1993) and Ph.D.
(1998) in Mechanical Engineering as a member of the
Laboratory for Freeform Fabrication at The University of
Texas - Austin. Subsequently, he completed a post-doctoral
fellowship there during 1999-2000. His doctoral
dissertation titled "Direct Selective Laser Sintering of
Metals" received the 1999 University of Texas Outstanding
Dissertation award. He was awarded the 1998 TMS Michael
Koczak best paper award from the Minerals, Metals and
Materials Society, and the 1997 Los Alamos National
Laboratory director's post-doctoral fellowship. Dr. Das is
a recipient of the 2005 and 2004 Literati Club highly
Commended Award for Excellence, the 2004 Society of
Manufacturing Engineers M. Eugene Merchant Outstanding
Young Manufacturing Engineer Award, and the 2003 National
Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Award.
His current research interests include direct digital
manufacturing methods for heterogeneous, multifunctional
structures, machine design, modeling and control for laser
processing, design and manufacturing of bone tissue
engineering scaffolds, and large-area micro/nanofabrication
using laser processing.
