Kishore Pochiraju

• PhD (1993) Drexel University (Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics)
• MS (1988) Indian Insititute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur (Solid Mechanics and Design)
• BE (1986) National Institute of Technology (Mechanical Engineering)

• VP Enrollment Search Committee Member
• ABET visit Coordination Member
• SES Undergraduate Curriculum Committee (UGCC) Chair
• Mathematics Department Chair Search Committee Chair
• SES Undergraduate Curriculum Revision Committee Member

• ABET ABET Program Evaluator (ME and Similar Programs)
• American Society for Composites 2020-2021 President; 2021-22: Past President

• ASC – American Society for Composites Fellow
• ASME – American Society for Mechanical Engineers Fellow
• AAAS – American Association for Advancement of Science Member
• American Society for Engineering Eduction – American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Member

Book Chapter

1. Pitz, E.; Pochiraju, K. (2022). AI/ML for Quantification and Calibration of Property Uncertainty in Composites. Machine Learning Applied to Composite Materials (pp. 45--76). Springer Nature Singapore Singapore.

Co-Editor for Conference Proceedings

1. Pochiraju, K. (2020). Proceedings of the American Society for Composites—Thirty-Fifth Technical Conference on Composite Materials. Lancaster, PA: DESTech Publications, Inc..
   Proceedings of the American Society for Composites—Thirty-Fifth Technical Conference on Composite Materials.

Conference Proceeding

1. Teker, A.; Pitz, E.; Pochiraju, K. (2023). Experimental Calibration of Randomness in Additively Manufactured Continuously Reinforced Composites. Proceedings of the American Society for Composites - 37th Technical Conference, ASC 2022.
2. Pitz, E.; Rooney, S.; Pochiraju, K. (2023). Modeling and calibration of uncertainty in material properties of additively manufactured composites. 36th Technical Conference of the American Society for Composites 2021: Composites Ingenuity Taking on Challenges in Environment-Energy-Economy, ASC 2021 (vol. 1, pp. 236-255). Destech Publishers15.
3. Narain, S.; Chee, D.; Iyer, P.; Mak, E.; Valdez, R.; Zhu, M.; Jha, N.; Fisac, J.; Hsu, K. C.; Terway, P.; Pochiraju, K.; Englot, B.; Pitz, E.; Rooney, S.; Huang, Y. (2023). AIMED: AI-Mediated Exploration of Design: An Experience Report. ACM International Conference Proceeding Series (pp. 136-140).
4. Gebre, B. A.; Nogueira, R.; Patidar, S.; Belle-Isle, R.; Nolan, K. J.; Pochiraju, K.; Zanotto, D. (2022). Efficient Digital Modeling and Fabrication Workflow for Individualized Ankle Exoskeletons. 2021 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition.
5. Kakanuru, P.; Pochiraju, K. (2022). STEREOLITHOGRAPHY PRINTING AND SINTERING OF SILICON CARBIDE (SIC) CERAMICS VIA OXIDATION-BONDING. ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Proceedings (IMECE) (vol. 2-A).
6. Rooney, S.; Pitz, E.; Pochiraju, K. (2022). Surrogates for Computationally Expensive and Failure-Prone Simulators. Proceedings - 4th Workshop on Design Automation for CPS and IoT, DESTION 2022 (pp. 1-6).
7. Clavijo, S. F.; Pochiraju, K. (2021). Virtual Elevator Pitch: Disruption or Opportunity?. 2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access.
8. Rooney, S. P.; Pitz, E.; Pochiraju, K. (2021). Detection of jamming and filament breakage in FDM using vibration of feeder stepper. ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Proceedings (IMECE) (vol. 3).
9. Payne, N.; Pochiraju, K. (2020). A constitutive model for materials with transversely isotropic strain locking microstructures. Proceedings of the American Society for Composites - 35th Technical Conference, ASC 2020 (pp. 238-267).
10. Pitz, E. J.; Rooney, S.; Pochiraju, K. (2020). Stochastic modelling of additively manufactured structures using a neural network for identification of random field parameters. Proceedings of the American Society for Composites - 35th Technical Conference, ASC 2020 (pp. 1885-1899).
11. Burns, M.; Zavoda, Z.; Nataraj, R.; Pochiraju, K.; Vinjamuri, R. (2020). HERCULES: A Three Degree-of-Freedom Pneumatic Upper Limb Exoskeleton for Stroke Rehabilitation (pp. 4959-4962). 42nd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society (EMBC), Montreal, QC, Canada,.
12. Clavijo, S.; Wade, M.; Pochiraju, K. (2020). Insights About an Academic Elevator Pitch Competition in Undergraduate Engineering Curricula (Paper ID #30657 ed.). 2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access.
    https://peer.asee.org/insights-about-an-academic-elevator-pitch-competition-in-undergraduate-engineering-curricula.
13. McQuien, J. S.; Hoos, K. H.; Pochiraju, K.; , D. M.; Iarve , E. V. (2020). Coupled Simulation of Hydrothermal Aging Effects on Residual Strength of Open Hole Composite Laminates. AIAA Scitech 2020 Forum.
    https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2020-1210.
14. Rooney, S.; Pochiraju, K. (2019). Simulations of online non-destructive acoustic diagnosis of 3D-printed parts using air-coupled ultrasonic transducers. ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Proceedings (IMECE) (vol. 2A-2019). ASME.
15. Pitz, E. J.; Pochiraju, K. (2019). Quasi Monte Carlo simulations for stochastic failure analysis in composites. Proceedings of the American Society for Composites - 34th Technical Conference, ASC 2019.
16. Pochiraju, K.; Clavijo, S. (2019). An Analysis of Freshman Teamwork Experiences in Required Design and Entrepreneurial Thinking Project-Based Learning Courses. Tampa, FL: ASEE 126th Annual Conference and Exposition.
    https://www.asee.org/public/conferences/140/papers/27270/view.
17. Kakanuru, P.; Pochiraju, K. (2019). Additively manufactured silica matrix composite structures. Proceedings of the American Society for Composites - 34th Technical Conference, ASC 2019.
18. Kakanuru, P.; Pochiraju, K. (2019). Effect of moisture on the mechanical properties of additively manufactured PLA, ABS and PLA/SiC composites. ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Proceedings (IMECE) (vol. 2A-2019).
19. Vitoroulis, N. E.; Zhang, C.; Pochiraju, K. (2018). Academic practice/Design interventions: An activity-based design course for conceptualizing failure and factor of safety. ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings (vol. 2018).
20. Clavijo, S. F.; Brunell, L.; Sheppard, K.; Pochiraju, K. (2018). Teaching entrepreneurial thinking through a companion course for all types of capstone senior design projects. ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings (vol. 2018).
21. Payne, N.; Pochiraju, K. (2018). Mechanics of edge-cracking and toughness determination for strain-locking composite materials. 33rd Technical Conference of the American Society for Composites 2018 (vol. 1, pp. 577-591).
22. Gebre, B. A.; Pochiraju, K. (2018). Modeling and machine learning aided analysis of a claw-less magnetically coupled ball drive design. Proceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference (vol. 5B-2018).
23. Besser, R.; Fisher, F.; Choi, C.; Shi, Y.; Cappelleri, D.; Pochiraju, K.; Sun, H.; Voiculescu, I.; Lin, Q.; Attinger, D. (2010). 2010 Metro Area MEMS/NEMS Workshop: NanoManufacturing.
24. Jang, S.; Du, S.; Pochiraju, K.; Manoochehri, S. (2010). Simulation and experimental studies of electrothermal behaviors of microwire initiators for fusing applications. Proceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference (vol. 4, pp. 827-832).
25. Li, D.; Tumkor, S.; Manoochehri, S.; Pochiraju, K. (2010). Fabrication of polymeric and polymeric nano-composite MEMS structures. ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Proceedings (PART A ed., vol. 12, pp. 309-313).
26. Yu, C.; Pochiraju, K.; Manoochehri, S. (2009). Pultrusion process analysis using knowledge-based system. 2008 Proceedings of the ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference, DETC 2008 (PART A ed., vol. 1, pp. 35-42).
27. Hadim, H.; Pochiraju, K.; Chassapis, C.; Vaccari, D.; Sheppard, K.; Korfiatis, G. (2005). Mechanical engineering program assessment in the Schaefer school of engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology. ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings (pp. 10199-10215).
28. Sheppard, K.; Korfiatis, G.; Manoochehri, S.; Nastasi, J.; Pochiraju, K.; McGrath, E.; Dominick, P.; Aronson, Z. (2004). Preparing engineering students for the international virtual workplace. Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Information Technology Based Higher Education and Training, ITHET 2004 (pp. 365-370).
29. Sheppard, K.; Korfiatis, G.; Manoochehri, S.; Pochiraju, K.; McGrath, E.; Dominick, P.; Aronson, Z. (2004). The role of virtual student design teams in engineering education for the "new workplace". ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings (pp. 12341-12357).
30. Esche, S.; Pochiraju, K.; Chassapis, C. (2001). Implementation of assessment procedures into the mechanical engineering curriculum. ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings (pp. 5523-5538).
31. Tang, L. Q.; Pochiraju, K.; Chassapis, C.; Manoochehri, S. (1996). Optimal design of cooling system for injection molding. Annual Technical Conference - ANTEC, Conference Proceedings (vol. 1, pp. 714-718).

Editorial, Conference Proceeding

1. Pochiraju, K.; Gupta, N. (2020). Preface. Proceedings of the American Society for Composites - 35th Technical Conference, ASC 2020 (pp. XX).

Journal Article

1. Pitz, E.; Pochiraju, K. (2024). A neural network transformer model for composite microstructure homogenization. Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence (vol. 134).
2. Huang, Y.; Lin, X.; Hernandez-Rocha, M.; Narain, S.; Pochiraju, K.; Englot, B. (2024). Mission-Oriented Gaussian Process Motion Planning for UUVs Over Complex Seafloor Terrain and Current Flows. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (2 ed., vol. 9, pp. 1780-1787).
3. Rooney, S.; Pitz, E.; Pochiraju, K. (2024). AutoML-driven diagnostics of the feeder motor in fused filament fabrication machines from direct current signals. Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing.
4. Pitz, E.; Pochiraju, K. (2023). A Neural Network Transformer Model for Composite Microstructure Homogenization. arXiv preprint arXiv:2304.07877.
5. Oh, L.; Pitz, E.; Pochiraju, K. (2023). Spindle Condition Monitoring With a Smart Vibration Sensor and an Optimized Deep Neural Network. Journal of Nondestructive Evaluation, Diagnostics and Prognostics of Engineering Systems (2 ed., vol. 6, pp. 021003). American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
6. Pitz, E.; Rooney, S.; Pochiraju, K. (2023). Estimation of spatial uncertainty in material property distributions within heterogeneous structures using optimized convolutional neural networks. Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence (vol. 117).
7. Narain, S.; Mak, E.; Chee, D.; Englot, B.; Pochiraju, K.; Jha, N. K.; Narayan, K. (2022). Fast Design Space Exploration of Nonlinear Systems: Part I. IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (9 ed., vol. 41, pp. 2970-2983).
8. Kakanuru, P.; Pochiraju, K. (2022). Simulation of shrinkage during sintering of additively manufactured silica green bodies. Additive Manufacturing (vol. 56).
9. Pitz, E. J.; Pochiraju, K. (2022). Quantifying Uncertainty of Damage in Composites Using a Quasi Monte Carlo Technique. Journal of Verification, Validation and Uncertainty Quantification (1 ed., vol. 7).
10. Liu, W.; Pochiraju, K. (2022). Shape recovery of polymers with inclusions under multi-axial stress. Journal of Thermoplastic Composite Materials.
11. Narain, S.; Mak, E.; Chee, D.; Englot, B.; Pochiraju, K.; Jha, N. K.; Narayan, K. (2021). Fast Design Space Exploration of Nonlinear Systems: Part I. arXiv preprint arXiv:2104.01747.
12. Payne, N.; Pochiraju, K. (2021). A constitutive model for materials with directionally strain locking microstructures. Journal of Composite Materials.
13. Kakanuru, P.; Pochiraju, K. (2020). Moisture Ingress and Degradation of Additively Manufactured PLA, ABS and PLA/SiC Composite Parts. Additive Manufacturing (vol. 36).
14. Gebre, B. A.; Pochiraju, K. (2019). Machine Learning Aided Design and Analysis of a Novel Magnetically Coupled Ball Drive. IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics (5 ed., vol. 24, pp. 1942-1953).
15. Payne, N.; Pochiraju, K. (2019). Methodologies for constitutive model parameter identification for strain locking materials. Mechanics of Materials (vol. 134, pp. 30-37).
16. Liu, W.; Wu, N.; Pochiraju, K. (2018). Shape recovery characteristics of SiC/C/PLA composite filaments and 3D printed parts. Composites Part A: Applied Science and Manufacturing (vol. 108, pp. 1--11). Elsevier.
17. Liu, W.; Pochiraju, K. (2018). A methodology for the prediction of back-pressure induced stall in eductor-jet pumps. International Journal of Refrigeration (vol. 95, pp. 165-174).
18. Nie, M.; Kalyon, D.; Pochiraju, K.; Fisher, F. (2017). A controllable way to measure the interfacial strength between carbon nanotube and polymer using a nanobridge structure. Carbon (vol. 116, pp. 510-517).
19. Park, K. M.; Pochiraju, K.; Chassapis, C.; Manoochehri, S. (2002). Rapid manufacturability evaluation of die-cast components. Concurrent Engineering Research and Applications (1 ed., vol. 10, pp. 67-74).
20. Tang, L. Q.; Pochiraju, K.; Chassapis, C.; Manoochehri, S. (1998). A computer-aided optimization approach for the design of injection mold cooling systems. Journal of Mechanical Design, Transactions of the ASME (2 ed., vol. 120, pp. 165-174).
21. Pochiraju, K.; Chassapis, C.; Manoochehri, S. (1998). Multidisciplinary parametric design optimization for enhancing the affordability of molded composites. Journal of Thermoplastic Composite Materials (4 ed., vol. 11, pp. 364-392).
22. Skourlis, T. P.; Pochiraju, K.; Chassapis, C.; Manoochehri, S. (1998). Structure-modulus relationships for injection-molded long fiber-reinforced polyphthalamides. Composites Part B: Engineering (3 ed., vol. 29, pp. 309-319).
23. Tang, L. Q.; Pochiraju, K.; Chassapis, C.; Manoochehri, S. (1996). Three-dimensional transient mold cooling analysis based on galerkin finite element formulation with a matrix-free conjugate gradient technique. International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering (18 ed., vol. 39, pp. 3049-3064).

Patent Application

1. Gebre, B. A.; Pochiraju, K. (2021). Magnetically Coupled Ball Drive for Actuation of Spherical Surfaces.

Public Preprint

1. Narain, S.; Mak, E.; Chee, D.; Huster, T.; Cohen, J.; Pochiraju, K.; Englot, B.; Jha, N. K.; Narayan, K. (2020). Robot Design With Neural Networks, MILP Solvers and Active Learning. arXiv preprint arXiv:2010.09842.

Report

1. Blackburn, M.; Verma, D.; Dillon-Merrill, R.; Blake, R.; Bone, M.; Chell, B.; Dove, R.; Dzielski, J.; Grogan, P.; Hoffenson, S.; Hole, E.; Jones, R.; Kruse, B.; Pochiraju, K.; Snyder, C.; Cloutier, R.; Grosse, I.; Hagedorn, T. (2018). Transforming Systems Engineering through Model-Centric Engineering (SERC-2017-TR-111 ed.). SERC.