October 2025: The MIRAGE Lab is heading to Vegas, baby! 🎲 Dr. McGregor and his first two lab members (Jack and Brandon) will be speaking at the ASTM International Conference on Advanced Manufacturing (ICAM) in Las Vegas, NV.

The three talks cover 1) AI for part measurement, 2) ML enabled first-time-right manufacturing, and 3) a big data approch for defective lattice experiments.

August 2025: MIRAGE member, Christine, presented her summer research as part of the Fischell Institute Internship program. Her talk was titled "3D printed impact sensors for traumatic brain injury."

July 2025: Dr. McGregor joined the Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing (ARM) Institute as a panelist to discuss AI in manufacturing and key skills for the modern workforce. Webinar recording can be found here.

June 2025: MIRAGE member, Ayush, recently presented his research at the SPIE Optical Metrology conference in Munich, Germany. His talk was titled “Automated metrology for additively manufactured parts using deep learning and computer vision.”

The conference paper is available online: https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3062501

June 2025: MIRAGE is excited to welcome Christine as one of the five selected REF Institute Summer Research Interns! Read more.

May 2025: I’m thrilled to announce the publication of our latest research paper in npj Advanced Manufacturing and the granting of our US patent on a revolutionary approach to “fingerprinting” or identifying the source of 3D printed parts!

May 2025: MIRAGE member, Ben, presented his honors thesis titled “Dimensional accuracy of 3D-printed electrical connectors: influence of neighboring features in additive manufacturing.”

April 2025: Dr. McGregor spoke at Rapid TCT in Detroit, MI. His talk was titled “Automated metrology and machine learning predict additive manufacturing quality.”

January 2025: Welcome Caroline (PostDoc) and Teresa (PhD) to the MIRAGE Lab!

December 2024: MIRAGE member, Chris, presented his research as part of an undergraduate research exposition. His talk was titled “Optical character recognition for additive manufacturing.”

November 2024: Our paper on optimizing process parameters for laser powder bed fusion additive manufacturing has been published. https://doi.org/10.1115/DETC2024-143279

October 2024: Dr. McGregor spoke at the ASTM International Conference on Advanced Manufacturing (ICAM) in Atlanta, GA. His talk was titled “Automated metrology enables additive manufacturing process insights and predictions.”

August 2024: Welcome Rafat (PhD), Ben (BS), and Maxim (BS) to the MIRAGE Lab!

June 2024: Dr. McGregor becomes a Fischell Fellow at the REF Institute for Biomedical Devices. Read the press release about the MIRAGE Lab research: “McGregor: Harnessing the Potential of Additive Manufacturing“

May 2024: MIRAGE welcomes six new members. Welcome Ayush, Navdeep, Gaspar, Ariana, Sachin, and Chris!

May 2024: Our research using a Vision Transformer to auto-detect defects in X-ray CT scans of AM parts was published in Journal of Intellignet Manufacturing. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10845-024-02416-0

May 2024: Our research on federated learning and strategies for data sharing between factories was published in Journal of Manufacturing Systems. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmsy.2024.04.031 

March 2024: Dr. McGregor was invited to speak at the National Academies’ workshop on future directions for statistics, data analytics, AI, and digital twins for additive manufacturing qualification. Watch the recording online (day 3).

February 2024: Our research on how to think about geometry repeatability for patient-specific AM medical devices was published in Additive Manufacturing Letters. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.addlet.2024.100200 

January 2024: Welcome Jack (PhD) and Brandon (MS) to the MIRAGE Lab!

August 2023: Dr. McGregor joins the University of Maryland and starts up the MIRAGE Lab.