Dr. DebRoy is a Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at Penn State. He is the author of a 2023 Wiley textbook (in press) on “Theory and Practice of Additive Manufacturing, a book for everyone on “Innovations in Everyday Engineering Materials, five edited books, and over 380 well-cited technical articles. His work has been recognized by over 20 scholastic awards including a Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Brazil from the US State Department, the UK Royal Academy of Engineering's Distinguished Visiting Fellowship at Cambridge University, and Penn State's highest scholastic award, the Faculty Scholar medal. He has served as a Distinguished Visiting Professor at IIT Bombay, Aditya Birla Chair at IISc, Bangalore, Visiting Professor at the African University of Science and Technology at Abuja, Nigeria, and Visiting Professor at KTH, Stockholm. He is a Founding Editor of the journal “Science and Technology of Welding and Joining. Dr. Mukherjee is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Iowa State University, USA. Previously, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Pennsylvania State University, USA, from where he also got his Ph.D. He is the author of many papers in leading journals, including Nature, Nature Reviews Materials, Nature Materials, and Progress in Materials Science. He authored a textbook on “Theory and Practice of Additive Manufacturing (Wiley, 2023) as well as two edited books entitled “The Science and Technology of 3D Printing (MDPI, 2021) and “Applications of Modeling and Machine Learning in Additive Manufacturing (MDPI, 2025). He served as a Guest Editor for the journals “NPJ Advanced Manufacturing, “Computational Materials Science, “Materials, and “Science and Technology of Welding and Joining. He is an Editorial Board Member of the journals “Engineering Science in Additive Manufacturing, “International Journal of AI for Materials and Design, “Science and Technology of Welding and Joining, and “Welding Journal.
