Professor Yuebin Guo, Henry Rutgers Professor of Advanced Manufacturing, has been recognized by the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) Albert M. Sargent Progress Award for his seminal contributions to the development, understanding, and control of process−surface integrity−functionality relationships in a broad range of manufacturing processes and data-enabled adaptive manufacturing systems. The Albert M. Sargent Progress Award is the SME International Honor Award and recognizes significant accomplishments in the field of manufacturing processes, methods, or systems. The SME Albert M. Sargent Progress Award Recipients (1955 to present) can be found at https://www.sme.org/aboutsme/awards/albert-sargent-progress-award/.
Since joining Rutgers in 2019, Guo has led initiatives in AI manufacturing with research focusing on digitalization of manufacturing processes, physics-informed learning, materials informatics, digital twin, surface integrity, and functionality by integrating new technologies into production operations. Guo previously served as the Assistant Director for Research Partnerships at the U.S. Advanced Manufacturing National Program Office (AMNPO). Prior to AMNPO, he was a professor of mechanical engineering and served as the director of the Consortium for Surface Integrity and Functionality at the University of Alabama. He was also the Humboldt Research Fellow in WZL and Fraunhofer IPT at Aachen in Germany. He has been an SME member since 2002 and is a fellow of SME, ASME, and CIRP.