Bio

Rachuri Sudarsan’s career has focused on researching, developing, and applying advanced techniques and algorithms for capturing design and manufacturing knowledge in engineering software applications. Currently he is the federal program manager at the Department of Energy. Sudarsan was the program manager for a multi-million dollar research programs ''Smart manufacturing design and analysis'' and “Sustainable manufacturing'' at NIST. The objective of the programs is to to develop and deploy advances in measurement science to enable improvements in resource (energy, material) efficiency and waste reduction across manufacturing processes and product assembly. He joined George Washington University (GWU) in 1997 and was promoted as Research Professor after a rigorous tenure process. During his tenure at GWU he initiated many research programs and led industry collaborations. Sudarsan worked as a guest researcher at NIST through GWU from 1997-2008. During this time he has initiated many research programs at NIST. Sudarsan was the advisor to many post doctoral researchers and NIST guest researchers while managing many NIST projects. Sudarsan has made pioneering contributions in the area of design, manufacturing, information models for product engineering, and related standards and best practices. He is also successful in transferring technology to industry. Dr. Rachuri is an ASME Fellow, having been elected in 2012 for his significant contributions in the areas of information and semantic modeling of product life cycle management, and the application of measurement science for sustainable manufacturing. Dr. Rachuri is an AAAS Fellow, having been elected in 2017 for his significant contributions in advancing science through design and manufacturing research.