Dr. Albert To is currently William Kepler Whiteford Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science at University of Pittsburgh, where he also serves as the Director of the Ansys Additive Manufacturing Research Laboratory. He is also the Founding Director of the MOST-AM Consortium, which is a public-private partnership of 30+ companies and national labs to address the most pressing needs in modeling and simulation for additive manufacturing. Dr. To received his B.S. degree from University of California, Berkeley and M.S. degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He received his Ph.D. from U.C. Berkeley in 2005 and conducted postdoctoral research at Northwestern University from 2005-2008. His current research interests lie in metal additive manufacturing (AM), specifically in process development, in-situ monitoring, process simulation, and design optimization enhanced by artificial intelligence. His research interests in Space Engineering include i) developing test artifacts and in-situ monitoring methods for qualification/certification of AM space flight hardware, ii) developing new method to process AM materials to withstand harsh space environment, and iii) enable AM in space using solar energy and native materials. Professor To has over 140 peer-reviewed journal publications in journals such as Additive Manufacturing and Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering. He is currently an associate editor for Additive Manufacturing responsible for the modeling and simulation area. He has been a recipient of the NSF BRIGE Award in 2009, the Board of Visitors Faculty Award from the School of Engineering in 2016, and the Carnegie Science Award in the Advanced Manufacturing and Materials Category in 2018.
