Thomas Kurfess

Dr. Thomas Kurfess is chief manufacturing officer at the Georgia Institute of Technology (GT) and executive director of the Georgia Tech Manufacturing Institute (GTMI), as well as HUSCO Ramirez Distinguished Chair in Fluid Power and Motion Control at GT. He is also Regents’ Professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology and professor and BMW Chair of Manufacturing Emeritus at Clemson University. Previously, he served as assistant director for the Advanced Manufacturing Office of Science and Technology Policy in the Executive Office of the President of the United States of America
(2012-2013) and as chief manufacturing officer of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (2019- 2021).

During the early stage of his career, he was an associate professor at Carnegie Mellon University. He has taught courses in subjects such as advanced manufacturing systems; quality control and quality assurance; vehicle testing; automotive electronics; real-time signal processing and control; precision systems and manufacturing; and robotics and advanced dynamics. 

Thomas Kurfess’ research focuses on the design and development of advanced manufacturing systems by integrating new technologies into production operations and on national and international manufacturing policy issues.

He is an elected member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering; chair of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering (NAE) study called “Options for a National Plan for Smart Manufacturing”; member of the U.S. National Materials and Manufacturing Board; and member of the Board of Governors of the
American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), among others.

Thomas Kurfess joined Tecnológico de Monterrey as a Distinguished Visiting Professor in Advanced Manufacturing for the School of Engineering and Sciences.

• Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
•  S.M., Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT
• S.M., Mechanical Engineering, MIT
• S.B., Mechanical Engineering, MIT 
   

• Lu, L. Kurfess, T.R., Saldana, C.J., “Effects of Extrinsic Noise Factors on Machine Learning Based Chatter Detection in Machining,” International Journal of Smart and Sustainable Manufacturing, 2021, accepted.

• Miers, J.C, Tucker, T.M., Kurfess, T.R., Saldana, C.J., “Voxel-Based Modeling of Transient Material Removal in Machining,” International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology, 2021, accepted.

• Parto Dezfouli, M., Urbina Coronado, Saldana, C.J., Kurfess, T.R., “Cyber-Physical System Implementation for Manufacturing with Analytics in the Cloud Layer,” ASME Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering, 2021.

• Feldhausen, T., Saleeby, K., Love, L., Kurfess, T.R., “Spinning the Digital Thread with Hybrid Manufacturing,” ASME Smart and Manufacturing Letters, Vol. 29, pp. 15-18, doi.org/10.1016/j.mfglet.2021.05.003, 2021.

• Castro‐Martin, A.P., Ahuett‐Garza, H., Guamán‐Lozada, D., Márquez‐Alderete, M.F., Urbina Coronado, P.D. 1, Orta Castañon, P.A., Kurfess, T.R., González de Castilla, E., “Connectivity as a Design Feature for Industry 4.0 Production Equipment: Application for the Development of an In‐Line Metrology System,” Applied Science, Vol. 11, doi.org/10.3390/app11031312, 2021

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