Joshua Vaughan

Dr. Joshua Vaughan leads manufacturing automation and controls research at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Working within the U.S. Department of Energy’s Manufacturing Demonstration Facility at ORNL, Vaughan conducts research on the controls systems for a variety of advanced manufacturing systems, including a robotic thermoset 3D printer, a system combining additive manufacturing and compression molding, and several multi-agent additive manufacturing systems. Across those systems, he is working to develop open-source, data-driven controls algorithms for advanced manufacturing. He is currently the principal investigator for the automation and controls the co-principal investigator on convergent manufacturing. Prior to joining ORNL, Vaughan was an associate professor in in mechanical engineering at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.