Funding Awarded to Engineering Professors from Rutgers CASS: Cyberinfrastructure and AI for Science and Society

Rohit Ramachandran, professor of chemical and biochemical engineering (CBE), Shishir Chundawat, CBE associate professor, Grace Guo, associate professor of industrial and systems engineering (ISE), Adam Gormley, associate professor of biomedical engineering (BME), and Yuebin Guo, professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering (MAE) were awarded $25,000 from Rutgers Cyberinfrastructure and AI for Science and Society (RU CASS) for their proposal titled “An AI-Enabled Digital Twin for Bio-Pharmaceutical Manufacturing”. RU CASS invites researchers, scientists, and technology experts within Rutgers New Brunswick to submit project proposals that operate at the intersection of AI and technology with social sciences, natural sciences, and engineering. RU CASS is funded by the Chancellor-Provost Challenge to build interdisciplinary scholarship and scholarly communities to serve the common good. The intellectual merit of the work is to bring together a cross-disciplinary team with synergistic skills and approaches from different engineering domain areas focusing on their integration with one another, to begin to develop and implement an AI-enabled digital twin setup of a biomanufacturing process (testbed) located at Rutgers CBE. The broader impact of the work will be to establish a conduit for cross-collaboration of student-driven research between CBE/MAE/ISE/BME, which in today’s digital era is an important new skill to foster in advanced manufacturing industries.