Dr. Lang Yuan is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of South Carolina, specializing in materials science, additive manufacturing, and computational modeling. He earned his Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from Imperial College London, where his work on dendritic solidification led to the the open-source μMatIC/nuMatScale software. With a strong foundation in computational and experimental techniques, Dr. Yuan has held significant research roles, including as Lead Research Engineer at GE Global Research, focusing on additive manufacturing and microstructural modeling.