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Dr. F. Frank Chen is the Lutcher Brown Distinguished Chair in Advanced Manufacturing at the University of Texas at San Antonio. He previously served as the director of the Center for Advanced Manufacturing and Lean Systems at UTSA and held the John Lawrence Endowed Professorship of Manufacturing Systems Engineering at Virginia Tech, where he founded the Center for High Performance Manufacturing. His earlier career included a role as a Senior Engineer and Project Manager at Caterpillar Inc. Technical Center.

Dr. Chen was recognized with the 1996 NSF Presidential Faculty Fellows (PFF) Award. His research has received funding from agencies such as the Air Force Research Laboratory, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Army Research Office, and Sandia National Labs. His current research interests encompass cloud manufacturing, Industry 4.0, defense manufacturing, lean healthcare, and the application of lean principles in higher education and research and development organizations. He has authored over 350 refereed technical papers and served as an associate editor for the SME Journal of Manufacturing Systems.

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