Prof. Aaron Stebner is the Eugene C. Gwaltney Jr. Chair in Manufacturing, Professor of the Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering and the School of Materials Science and Engineering, and the Executive Director of the Professional Master’s in Manufacturing Leadership Program at Georgia Tech. He works at the intersection of manufacturing, machine learning, materials, and mechanics. He is the Founding Director of the Georgia Artificial Intelligence Manufacturing (GA-AIM) coalition of universities, technical colleges, and non-profits, founder of the Georgia Tech Manufacturing 4.0 Consortium, and he is leading the design and implementation of the Georgia Tech AI Manufacturing Pilot Facility project. Previously he was the Rowlinson Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science at the Colorado School of Mines (2013 – 2020) where he was the Executive Director and Founder of the Alliance for the Development of Additive Processing Technologies (ADAPT) consortium and center. He also served as an Associate Editor and then Deputy Editor for the journal Additive Manufacturing (2020 – 2023), a postdoctoral scholar at the Graduate Aerospace Laboratories of the California Institute of Technology (2012 – 2013), a Lecturer in the Segal Design Institute at Northwestern University (2009 – 2012), a Research Scientist at Telezygology Inc. establishing manufacturing and “internet of things” technologies for shape memory alloy-secured latching devices (2008-2009), a Research Fellow at the NASA Glenn Research Center developing smart materials technologies for morphing aircraft structures (2006 – 2008), and a Mechanical Engineer at the Electric Device Corporation in Canfield, OH developing manufacturing and automation technologies for the circuit breaker industry (1995 – 2000).