NSF Workshop:
Faculty Development Needs for Advanced Manufacturing in the USA
Located at the National Science Foundation, Arlington, VA on January 9th and 10th, 2014
Dr. Satyandra K. Gupta
Program director in the Division of Information and Intelligent Systems
National Science Foundation
Dr. Satyandra K. Gupta is a program director in the Division of Information and
Intelligent Systems at the National Science Foundation. He manages National
Robotics Initiative. He is also a Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department
and the Institute for Systems Research at the University of Maryland, College Park. He
was the founding director of the Maryland Robotics Center. Prior to joining the
University of Maryland, he was a Research Scientist in the Robotics Institute at
Carnegie Mellon University. Dr. Gupta's interest is broadly in the area of automation.
He is specifically interested in automation problems arising in Engineering Design,
Manufacturing, and Robotics. His current research focus is mainly on simulation-based
computational synthesis and automated planning. He is a fellow of the American
Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). He has served as an Associate Editor for
IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, ASME Journal of
Computing and Information Science in Engineering, and SME Journal of
Manufacturing Processes. Dr. Gupta has received several honors and awards for his
research contributions. Representative examples include: a Young Investigator Award
from the Office of Naval Research in 2000, a Robert W. Galvin Outstanding Young
Manufacturing Engineer Award from the Society of Manufacturing Engineers in 2001, a
CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation in 2001, a Presidential Early
Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) in 2001, Invention of the Year
Award in Physical Science category at the University of Maryland in 2007, Kos Ishii-
Toshiba Award from ASME Design for Manufacturing and the Life Cycle Committee in
2011, and Excellence in Research Award from ASME Computers and Information in
Engineering Division in 2013. He has also received six best paper awards at
conferences and 2012 Most Cited Paper Award from Computer Aided Design Journal.
Intelligent Systems at the National Science Foundation. He manages National
Robotics Initiative. He is also a Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department
and the Institute for Systems Research at the University of Maryland, College Park. He
was the founding director of the Maryland Robotics Center. Prior to joining the
University of Maryland, he was a Research Scientist in the Robotics Institute at
Carnegie Mellon University. Dr. Gupta's interest is broadly in the area of automation.
He is specifically interested in automation problems arising in Engineering Design,
Manufacturing, and Robotics. His current research focus is mainly on simulation-based
computational synthesis and automated planning. He is a fellow of the American
Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). He has served as an Associate Editor for
IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, ASME Journal of
Computing and Information Science in Engineering, and SME Journal of
Manufacturing Processes. Dr. Gupta has received several honors and awards for his
research contributions. Representative examples include: a Young Investigator Award
from the Office of Naval Research in 2000, a Robert W. Galvin Outstanding Young
Manufacturing Engineer Award from the Society of Manufacturing Engineers in 2001, a
CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation in 2001, a Presidential Early
Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) in 2001, Invention of the Year
Award in Physical Science category at the University of Maryland in 2007, Kos Ishii-
Toshiba Award from ASME Design for Manufacturing and the Life Cycle Committee in
2011, and Excellence in Research Award from ASME Computers and Information in
Engineering Division in 2013. He has also received six best paper awards at
conferences and 2012 Most Cited Paper Award from Computer Aided Design Journal.
