Mohsen Habibi

Dr. Habibi is the principle investigator of UC Davis Advanced Manufacturing Lab (AML). His research has predominantly centered on Additive Manufacturing (AM) and Computer Aided Design and Manufacturing (CAD/CAM) focusing on ultrasound, metamaterials, acoustic holograms and bioprinting. He invented a method of additive manufacturing known as Direct Sound Printing (DSP), ultrasound based method to print via sono and thermo-chemsitry. His inventions have been recognized as top 10 discoveries of 2022 by Quebec Science magazine, the winner of NSF Blue Sky competition and he received David Dornfeld Manufacturing Vision Award in 2024. Moreover, the DSP publication achieved the 99th percentile among articles of a similar age across all journals, as indicated by Altmetric data. Before joining UC Davis, he was a senior manufacturing engineer for General Motors and a mechanical designer at the space technology firm, MDA. In academia, he was a research associate at Concordia University in Canada and later, a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of British Columbia and collaborated with companies such as GM, Pratt & Whitney, Gleason and MAL Inc.