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Panel – Advanced Manufacturing, Additive Manufacturing and AI
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All authors, speakers, presenters, and attendees are required to register and pay the conference fee to participate in the IEOM Conference<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Submission Link: https:\/\/www.xcdsystem.com\/IEOM\/abstract\/index.cfm?ID=t4tzIPt<\/a>
\nRegistration Link: https:\/\/www.xcdsystem.com\/IEOM\/attendee\/index.cfm?ID=HTzm6IL<\/a><\/p>\n

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2:30 – 4:00 pm – Wednesday, October 14, 2026<\/h3>\n

2:30 – 2:50 pm – Wednesday, October 14, 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"Krunal Patel\u00a0<\/strong>
\nSenior Technical Program Manager<\/strong>
\nApplied Materials in Silicon Valley<\/strong>
\nSan Francisco, California<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Krunal Patel is a Senior Technical Program Manager at Applied Materials in Silicon Valley, where he leads new product introduction programs for semiconductor manufacturing equipment. Over the past decade he has taken hardware from early research to high volume production, with prior roles at Tesla and Microsoft. He is a PMP, a Senior Member of IEEE and IISE, and a 2026 recipient of the IISE Manufacturing and Design Division Outstanding Practitioner Award. He serves as Director of Programs for the PMI San Francisco Bay Area Chapter, is a Forbes Technology Council member and TEDx speaker, and has published more than twenty peer reviewed papers. He writes on execution, agile hardware, and planning under uncertainty.<\/p>\n

From Idea to Market: Why Execution, Not AI, Is the Real Bottleneck in Advanced Manufacturing<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Artificial intelligence has made it faster to design, simulate, and analyze. It has not made it faster to decide, align, and physically build. In advanced manufacturing, the true limit on speed is execution across complexity: slow decisions, late discovery of problems, and risk that gets pushed down the road instead of resolved. This panel contribution draws on real programs that moved hardware from concept to high volume production, including a semiconductor deposition platform that reached more than one hundred production systems in a single year. I will share practical methods for planning under uncertainty, including probabilistic and range based planning rather than single point dates, and structured gate readiness that ties risk to real decisions. I will also mark where industrial AI genuinely speeds outcomes and where it simply produces faster analysis of the wrong things. The goal is a candid, useful discussion for practitioners who build complex products and want to move faster without giving up quality. I speak as an independent practitioner, sharing lessons that apply across semiconductor, automotive, and consumer hardware, not on behalf of any employer.<\/p>\n

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2:50 – 3:10 pm – Wednesday, October 14, 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"Dr. Alireza Kavianpour
\n<\/strong>Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, USC, CA, USA
\n<\/strong>Senior Professor, DeVry University, CA, USA
\n<\/strong>Adjunct Professor, UCI, CA, USA<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The title of talk:
\n<\/em><\/strong>Integration of Chatbot with your course<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Dr. Kavianpour has published over 100 research papers and has served as a Program Committee member and Chair for several conferences. He holds a patent in image processing and is the author of a book that has been translated into Farsi.\u00a0 He has worked as a consultant at Qualcomm in San Diego, CA, and was an invited lecturer at ICTP (International Center for Theoretical Physics) under UNESCO\/the United Nations. He has also served as a subject-matter expert in several patent disputes. He is a five-time recipient of the Outstanding Professor Award from UCI and previously served as an Associate Professor at Sharif University.<\/p>\n

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3:10 – 3:30 pm – Wednesday, October 14, 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"Dr. Ankit Gupta, Ph.D.<\/strong>
\nAssistant Professor, Engineering and Technology<\/strong>
\nCalifornia State University, Los Angeles, USA<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Dr. Ankit Gupta is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Engineering and Technology at California State University, Los Angeles. His research and teaching interests focus on advanced manufacturing, additive manufacturing and 3D printing, advanced materials, composite materials, manufacturing processes, and product design and development. His research includes the fabrication, characterization, computational modeling, and analysis of polymer, metal, and composite materials produced through advanced manufacturing technologies.<\/p>\n

Dr. Gupta has conducted research on fiber-reinforced additive manufacturing, high-temperature polymers, metal material extrusion, functionally graded materials, and computational modeling of additively manufactured components. His work has been published in journals including the Journal of Manufacturing Processes, International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology, Composite Structures, Composites Part B, and Journal of Composite Materials, as well as in the Springer Handbook of Additive Manufacturing.<\/p>\n

He is also actively engaged in hands-on engineering education, student design projects, and the application of advanced manufacturing technologies. His teaching interests include conventional and advanced manufacturing processes, materials science, mechanics of materials, CAD, product design and development, additive manufacturing, and lean manufacturing.<\/p>\n

Dr. Gupta received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Tennessee Technological University, M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines), Dhanbad, and B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Kurukshetra University, India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Panel – Advanced Manufacturing, Additive Manufacturing and AI All authors, speakers, presenters, and attendees are required to register and pay the conference fee to participate in the IEOM Conference Submission Link: https:\/\/www.xcdsystem.com\/IEOM\/abstract\/index.cfm?ID=t4tzIPt Registration Link: https:\/\/www.xcdsystem.com\/IEOM\/attendee\/index.cfm?ID=HTzm6IL 2:30 – 4:00 pm – Wednesday, October 14, 2026 2:30 – 2:50 pm – Wednesday, October 14, 2026 Krunal Patel\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1794","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ieomsociety.org\/irvine2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ieomsociety.org\/irvine2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ieomsociety.org\/irvine2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ieomsociety.org\/irvine2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ieomsociety.org\/irvine2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1794"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"https:\/\/ieomsociety.org\/irvine2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2319,"href":"https:\/\/ieomsociety.org\/irvine2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1794\/revisions\/2319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ieomsociety.org\/irvine2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}