Collaborate

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The AMPrint Center is a highly multi-disciplinary research center that features faculty and staff with expertise spanning process development, materials science, and application development. There are several ways to collaborate with the AMPrint Center.

New York State Companies

The AMPrint Center is partially supported by New York State to help grow the AM industry within the state. If your company has employees in New York State, then significant matching funds and resources may be available to help pay for collaborative research. AMPrint Center faculty and staff will work with you to help determine what resources are available.  

Grant Writing

AMPrint Center faculty and staff have decades of experience both writing grant proposals and serving as proposal reviewers for federal funding agencies.  

Identifying Faculty Members to Partner With

Please browse the list of AMPrint affiliate faculty and staff members you can reach out to and their focus areas. If you are unsure about who you should speak with, then Jade Myers will be happy to talk with you to understand your needs before making a recommendation on who you can speak to.  

Affiliated Personnel

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Denis Cormier
Professor
585-475-2713
drceie@rit.edu

AMPrint Center Director
Focus Areas: Engineered lattice structures; Multi-functional, multi-material 3D printing; 3D printed composite materials

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David Trauernicht
Research Professor
585-475-7890
dpteie@rit.edu

Senior Research Associate
Focus Areas: Inkjet printing, electronics, equipment fabrication

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Jade Myers
Research Development Specialist
585-475-6297
jdmeie@rit.edu

Focus Areas: Prosthetics and medical additive manufacturing

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Susan Rausch
Staff Assistant
585-475-4141
srreie@rit.edu
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Rui Liu
Assistant Professor
585-475-6819
rleme@rit.edu

Focus Areas: Material behavior and microstructure evolution during machining processes

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Yunbo Zhang
Assistant Professor
585-475-5571
ywzeie@rit.edu

Focus Areas: Dr. Zhang's research focuses on design for Additive Manufacturing and human centered design.

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Zipeng Guo
Assistant Professor
585-475-2632
zxgeie@rit.edu

Focus Areas: Metal Additive Manufacturing; Data-informed Smart Manufacturing; Sustainable Advanced Manufacturing

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Scott Williams
Professor
585-475-3033
sawppr@rit.edu

Focus Areas: Ink Chemistry; Sol Gel Synthesis; Nanoparticle Synthesis

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Karl Hirschman
Professor
585-475-5130
kdhemc@rit.edu

Focus Areas: Semiconductor device design and manufacturing

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Christopher Lewis
Associate Professor
585-475-6848
cllmet@rit.edu

Focus Areas: Plastics, composites, and biodegradation

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MD Ahasan Habib
Assistant Professor
585-475-7362
mahmet@rit.edu

Focus Areas: Development and optimization of materials and processes for 3D bioprinting

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Ahmad Kirmani
Assistant Professor
585-475-5192
arksch@rit.edu
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Mark Irving
Researcher/Engineer II
meieie@rit.edu

Focus Areas: Ink Chemistry

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Chris Chungbin
Research Engineer
ctceie@rit.edu

Focus Areas: Metal Additive Manufacturing

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Zhiheng Xu
Postdoctoral Associate
585-475-4197
zxxeie@rit.edu

Focus Areas: Ink Chemistry

Student Researchers

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Chris Ventre

MS Industrial and Systems Engineering
Research and Development: Low-cost metal droplet jetting printer

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Valeria Marin-Montealegre

MS Product Development
PhD Mechanical & Industrial Engineering 
Bioresorbable plates for craniofacial bone repair; Metal jetting AM

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Nidhi Munaganuru

PhD Mechanical & Industrial Engineering
Woven Continuous Carbon Fiber Reinforced Composite Skins on Non-Planar Surfaces 

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Usama Rifat

PhD Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Material characterization of droplet jetted aluminum

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Gabe Stash

PhD Mechanical & Industrial Engineering
Metal 3D printing and microextrusion of high viscosity materials

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Irtaza Razvi

PhD Mechanical & Industrial Engineering
Development of new processes for high throughput metal additive manufacturing

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Khushbu Zope

PhD Mechanical & Industrial Engineering
Simulation and quantification of heat transfer during liquid metal jetting

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Kareem Tawil

PhD Mechanical & Industrial Engineering
Multi-physics simulation of metal droplet jetting additive manufacturing

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Paarth Mehta

PhD Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Process mapping for additive manufacturing of lattice structures using molten metal droplet jetting

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Md Saidur Rahman Roney

PhD Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
New process development for continuous molten metal jetting additive manufacturing

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Daniel Cormier

PhD Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Software and algorithms to improve implementation of novel hardware. Machine learning, AI, data acquisition/processing, metal additive, & code optimization.