People

Principal Investigator

Davis J. McGregor

Assistant Professor - Mechanical Engineering | University of Maryland, College Park

Davis J. McGregor, Ph.D. is Director of the MIRAGE Lab, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Maryland, College Park, and Fischell Fellow at the Fischell Institute for Biomedical Devices.

Dr. McGregor is interested in how software and data can be leveraged to improve manufacturing and part qualification. He investigates methods for automating metrology of diverse part geometries using computer vision and computational geometry, and is developing machine learning models for rapidly qualifying additively manufactured parts. He is especially interested in developing models for qualifying part designs that have never previously been made, enabling first-time-right manufacturing strategies for additive manufacturing.

Before joining the University of Maryland in 2023, Dr. McGregor was Staff Manufacturing Scientist at Fast Radius, which was acquired by SyBridge Technologies in December 2022. While there, he led the development of manufacturing intelligence algorithms and the framework for continuous feedback and improvement of machine learning models.

Dr. McGregor received a Ph.D. from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He has published 15 journal articles with over 350 citations, holds one US patent, and is part of 4 pending patent disclosures.

Postdoctoral Researchers

Caroline Massey

Caroline Massey graduated with a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Georgia Tech in Fall 2024. While at Georgia Tech, she was the recipient of the NDSEG Fellowship and interned at Sandia National Laboratories. She also holds a M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Georgia Tech and a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from UMD. She joined the MIRAGE Lab in Spring 2025. Her research interests are in laser powder bed fusion, in-situ monitoring, and lattice structures.

Ph.D. Students

Ziteng (Jack) Wen

Ziteng (Jack) Wen received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Southern California in 2016 and 2017, respectively. He joined the MIRAGE Lab in Spring 2024, where his research focuses on using structured light scanning and machine learning to qualify additively manufactured parts.

Rafat Tabassum Sukonna

Rafat Tabassum Sukonna received her B.S. degree in Industrial and Production Engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology in 2022. After graduation, she worked as a full-time faculty member at Ahsanullah University of Science and Technology. During her undergraduate studies, she worked extensively on applying various AI-based and statistical models to enhance the performance of diverse manufacturing processes. Rafat will join the MIRAGE Lab in Fall 2024.

Teresa Thoundayil

Teresa Thoundayil received her B.S. degree in Aerospace Engineering from Georgia Tech in 2024. Her research interests include advanced manufacturing for aero and space applications.

Master's Students

Brandon Hill

Brandon Hill received his B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Maryland, College Park in 2023. His undergraduate work focused extensively on additive manufacturing operations. He joined the MIRAGE Lab in Spring 2024, where his research focuses on applying advanced metrology and AI to additive manufacturing, with the goal of drastically improving initial part outcomes and expanding the applications of the technology.

Chris Martinez

Chris Martinez received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Maryland, College Park. He joined the MIRAGE Lab in May 2024 as an undergraduate and contributed to various research projects, including the development of a custom structured light scanning system and OCR software. His research interests focus on implementing AI/ML in large scale manufacturing, semiconductors, and printed hybrid electronics. Chris is co-advised by Prof. Abhijit Dasgupta.

Ayush Chaudhary

Ayush Chaudhary is currently pursuing a Master’s in Machine Learning at the University of Maryland. He completed his B.Tech in Electrical Engineering with a Minor in Computer Science at IIT Delhi. He is experienced at applying complex deep learning models, such as GPT, GAN, etc., with a theoretical understanding of underlying optimization architectures. Ayush joined the MIRAGE Lab in Summer 2024.

Navdeep Singh

Navdeep Singh is a Master of Engineering student in robotics at the University of Maryland, specializing in deep learning, computer vision, and path planning algorithms. He has experience with Unscented Kalman Filtering, deep learning-based path planning, and semantic segmentation. Navdeep joined the MIRAGE Lab in Summer 2024.