Professor Luay Nakhleh, the J.S. Abercrombie Professor of Computer Science and Dean of the George R. Brown School of Engineering, will give the opening remarks at the 2nd annual AMPT Symposium on Friday morning, January 22, 2021.
Nakhleh will welcome over 50 industry representatives to the annual conference of Rice’e Additive Manufacturing, Performance & Tribology Center. In doing so, he follows the custom established by his predecessor Reggie DesRoches (now Rice’s Provost), who kicked off the Inaugural AMPT Symposium.
An award-winning teacher and researcher, Nakhleh joined the Rice faculty in 2004 after earning his B.Sc. from the Technion (Israel), M.S. from Texas A&M, and Ph.D. from the University of Texas. From 2017 to 2020, he served as Chair of the Department of Computer Science, which experienced impressive growth in research, teaching, and outreach under his direction. Succeeding Nakhleh as CS department chair is the AMPT Center’s Christopher Jermaine.
Nationally, Nakhleh is one of a very few computational scientists serving as Dean of Engineering at a top-tier research university. His elevation to this role is emblematic of Rice’s leadership in integrating computational and data-driven methods throughout engineering research. This integration is also a founding principle of the AMPT Center, whose growing roster of faculty includes Jermaine and Anshumali Srivastava (also in Computer Science), each scheduled to speak at the Symposium.
The 2021 AMPT Symposium is a fully online conference showcasing the current technical work of the AMPT Center and culminating in a leadership-level discussion of opportunities for industry-academic collaboration. The intended audience is executives and researchers from industry and government.
Last-minute registration is available and is complimentary.
About the AMPT Center
Following its successful launch in 2019, the AMPT Center is on pace to be the leading multi-disciplinary research center in the United States on the connected problems of:
- advanced additive manufacturing
- materials performance and characterization
- tribology and tribomechadynamics
- and the application of data, machine learning, and other innovative techniques to drive engineering solutions.
The current work of the AMPT Center will be showcased at the 2nd annual AMPT Symposium on January 22, 2021.