Dr. Johnson Samuel serves as an assistant professor in the Mechanical, Aerospace and Nuclear engineering department of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), USA. As director of the Nano/Micro-scale Manufacturing and Material Design Lab (NanoM3 Design Lab) at Rensselaer, he leads research and education efforts in the areas of advanced manufacturing and material design. Current research interests include: 1) Developing Patient-specific Bone Surgery Protocols; 2) Novel 3D Printing Technologies for Surgeon Training; 3) 3D Printing of Hierarchical Fibre-reinforced Soft Composites for Biological Tissue and Sensing Applications; 4) Big Data Analytics for Part-qualification in Metal Additive Manufacturing ; and (5) Life-cycle Enhancement of High-performance Micro-parts Using Graphene-based Lubricants. He is the recipient of the prestigious US National Science Foundation CAREER award (2014). His research efforts have also been recognized by the Rensselaer School of Eng. Research Excellence Award (2016) and the Outstanding Young Alumni Award (2016) from the Mechanical Science and Engineering Dept. of the Univ. of Illinois-Urbana Champaign. He has also been awarded the Rensselaer Class of 1951 Outstanding Teaching Award (2014) and the School of Eng. Education Innovation Award (2015) in recognition of his manufacturing education efforts at Rensselaer.

Website: www.johnsonsamuel.com