{"id":224,"date":"2022-06-15T02:19:12","date_gmt":"2022-06-15T09:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.asu.edu\/ko\/?page_id=224"},"modified":"2026-04-10T16:21:36","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T23:21:36","slug":"welcome-to-dmd-lab","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.asu.edu\/ko\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to Ko DMD"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"uds-hero-sm alignfull has-btn-row \" style=\"margin-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--uds-size-8);\"><div class=\"hero-overlay\"><\/div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"2012\" src=\"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.asu.edu\/ko\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/107\/2023\/01\/michael-dziedzic-aQYgUYwnCsM-unsplash-scaled.jpg\" class=\"hero\" alt=\"Circuit board with red highlights\" srcset=\"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.asu.edu\/ko\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/107\/2023\/01\/michael-dziedzic-aQYgUYwnCsM-unsplash-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/faculty.engineering.asu.edu\/ko\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/107\/2023\/01\/michael-dziedzic-aQYgUYwnCsM-unsplash-500x393.jpg 500w, https:\/\/faculty.engineering.asu.edu\/ko\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/107\/2023\/01\/michael-dziedzic-aQYgUYwnCsM-unsplash-1500x1179.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/faculty.engineering.asu.edu\/ko\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/107\/2023\/01\/michael-dziedzic-aQYgUYwnCsM-unsplash-1000x786.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/faculty.engineering.asu.edu\/ko\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/107\/2023\/01\/michael-dziedzic-aQYgUYwnCsM-unsplash-1536x1207.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/faculty.engineering.asu.edu\/ko\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/107\/2023\/01\/michael-dziedzic-aQYgUYwnCsM-unsplash-2048x1609.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><div class=\"acf-innerblocks-container\">\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading has-white-color has-text-color\"><strong>Designing, Manufacturing, and Digitizing the World \u2014 and Beyond<\/strong><\/h1>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">About<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"is-style-default wp-block-paragraph\">Ko Digital Manufacturing and Design (Ko-DMD) is a research group in the School of Manufacturing Systems and Networks of the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University, led by <a href=\"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.asu.edu\/ko\/person\/hyun-ko\/\">Dr. <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.asu.edu\/ko\/hyun-ko\/\">Hyunwoong<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.asu.edu\/ko\/person\/hyun-ko\/\"> Ko<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ko-DMD research focuses on data science, manufacturing science, and design science, as well as their intersections. The group aims to lay the foundations for physical artificial intelligence (AI) and digital transformation in manufacturing and design. Such foundations facilitate integration among AI and Machine Learning, Cyber-physical Systems, and Digital Twins at multiple spatial-temporal scales in the context of advanced manufacturing, such as additive manufacturing, semiconductor processes, and robotics-enabled production. Ultimately, the group&#8217;s research improves critical control and decision-making in manufacturing and design, such as design for manufacturing, in-situ monitoring, model predictive control, and virtual metrology, leveraging AI on emerging data and newfound knowledge from both virtual and physical systems. Especially, our research emphasizes the following (in\u00a0alphabetical\u00a0order):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Additive Manufacturing<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span style=\"color: initial\">AI, Data Analytics, &amp; Machine Learning for Manufacturing<\/span> &amp; Design<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Causal Analytics at Multiple Scales<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Cyber-physical Systems<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span style=\"color: initial\">Data Fusion, Integration, &amp; Management<\/span> for <span style=\"color: initial\">Manufacturing<\/span> &amp; Design<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Digitization of Physical Real Entities and Properties<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Generative Modeling<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span style=\"color: initial\">Hybrid Physics-informed Data-driven Modeling<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Integration of AI and Machine Learning, Industrial-Internet-of-Things Sensing, and Simulation <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Semiconductor Manufacturing<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Robotics-based Manufacturing<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div 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