Sudarsanam BabuDr. Sudarsanam Babu is the UT/ORNL Governor’s chair of advanced manufacturing at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN. In this role he acts as a bridge to the ORNL’s expertise and infrastructure including manufacturing demonstration facility todevelop a collaborative research and education ecosystem locally and deploy engineering solutions to manufacturing industries. Dr. Babu has 23 years of experience in the area of advanced manufacturing, additive manufacturing, physical metallurgy, as well as, computational materials modeling. His work relates to welding metallurgy, solid-state joining, ultrasonic additive manufacturing, laser/electron beam assisted additive manufacturing, phase transformation issues related to low-alloy steels, inclusion formation, nonequilibrium solidification, and application of computational thermodynamics and kinetics to corrosion issues. He is also involved in the application of state-of-the-art characterization tools including atom probe tomography; synchrotron diffraction and neutron diffraction for understanding interaction between weld thermal cycles, phase stability and diffusion in complex alloys, as well as, energy storage materials. Dr. Babu has published 180 journal papers and numerous conference proceedings. He has received many awards in recognition of his technical and leadership service to the materials and manufacturing community. He is a fellow of AAAS, ASM International and AWS. Read More Read Less