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Dr. Iris V. Rivero is the Paul and Heidi Brown Preeminent Chair and Department Chair of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Florida. She received her B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. in Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering from Penn State University. Prior to UF, she served as the Kate Gleason Professor and Department Head of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT). In addition, she was a member of the faculty and Associate Chair in the Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering at Iowa State University. Her research group iMED (Interdisciplinary Manufacturing Engineering and Design) laboratory specializes in research to design scalable hybrid manufacturing techniques of a wide array of material systems ranging from biopolymers, metal alloys, and concrete. Her research expertise is in additive and hybrid manufacturing processes, and biomanufacturing. Applications of her research extend to applications ranging from in-situ nondestructive testing of manufacturing processes to design of Additive Manufacturing alloys for aerospace and biomaterials for tissue engineering. She was a fellow at NASAs Marshall Space Flight Center. She has over 90 peer-reviewed publications and over 100 invited talks and presentations. She is a fellow in the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE).

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