Behrokh Khoshnevis, Ph.D.
Dr. Behrokh Khoshnevis is the Louise L. Dunn Distinguished Professor of engineering at University of Southern California and is the President and CEO of Contour Crafting Corporation. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Through his passion driven inventive research activities, he has made many useful inventions and innovations in different domains including robotics, haptics, biomedical, oil and gas, renewable energy, fabrication, construction and space systems. His automated construction inventions, Contour Crafting, is destined to cause a revolution in terrestrial construction and is regarded as the most promising approach for planetary construction of human outposts. A prestigious NASA organization awarded Contour Crafting the Grand Prize of the Create the Future Design Contest among 1000+ globally competing technologies.Another invention of Khoshnevis, SSS, received the top NASA prize in an international competition on in-space fabrication technologies, and in 2017 he was recognized by the Connected World magazine as one of ten pioneers in the Internet of Things (IoT).
Dr. Khoshnevis has nearly 200 technical publications, and holds over 100 US and international patents. He has developed products that help people worldwide. He is a NASA Innovative Advanced Concept Fellow, a Fellow of the Institute of Industrial & Systems Engineering, a Fellow of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers, and a Fellow of the Society for Computer Simulation.