Bio
Akash Tiwari received his PhD in Industrial Engineering from Texas A&M University in 2023. His research interests include Smart manufacturing cybersecurity and machine learning applications for manufacturing. He was a 2023 summer graduate intern at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory within the material science division. Akash Tiwari received his B.Tech. degree in Industrial and Systems Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur in 2019. In 2018, he was a summer research intern at the Durham University Business School, Durham, UK. He was a summer intern with Royal Enfield Motors Factory, Chennai, India, in 2017. He served as the Vice President of Academic Activities for the INFORMS student chapter at Texas A&M University between 2022 2023. He has also served as a peer-reviewer for JMP, JMSE, JCISE, MSEC, NAMRC, ESWA and IEEE. Previously, he has been a member of INFORMS and IISE.
Education
B.Tech, Industrial and Systems Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, 2019
Ph.D, Wm Michael Barnes '64 Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Texas A&M University, 2023
Other Publications
- Jag Prasad, Akash Tiwari. "Smart Manufacturing Plant Floor Cybersecurity." PhD diss., 2023.
- Galla, Shashank, Akash Tiwari, Kshitij Bhardwaj, Sean Michael Hayes, Satish Bukkapatnam, and Suhas Bhandarkar. "Scalable Anomaly Detection in Batch Polishing Processes for Inertial Confinement Fusion Shells." In ICML 2024 AI for Science Workshop.
- Galla, Shashank, Akash Tiwari, Saikiran Chary Nalband, Sean Michael Hayes, Suhas Bhandarkar, and Satish Bukkapatnam. "Detecting anomalous motions in ultraprecision shell-polishing process combining unsupervised spectral-band identification and Explainable-AI." Journal of Manufacturing Systems (2024).
- Jin, Shilan, Rui Tuo, Akash Tiwari, Satish Bukkapatnam, Chantel Aracne-Ruddle, Ariel Lighty, Haley Hamza, and Yu Ding. "Hypothesis tests with functional data for surface quality change detection in surface finishing processes." IISE transactions 55, no. 9 (2023): 940-956.
- Alexos, A., J. Liu, A. Tiwari, K. Bhardwaj, S. Hayes, P. Baldi, S. Bukkapatnam, and S. Bhandarkar. "Machine Learning-Enhanced Prediction of Surface Smoothness for Inertial Confinement Fusion Target Polishing." No. LLNL-CONF-853335. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States), 2023.
- Zhong, Yuhao, Akash Tiwari, Hitomi Yamaguchi, Akhlesh Lakhtakia, and Satish TS Bukkapatnam. "Identifying the influence of surface texture waveforms on colors of polished surfaces using an explainable AI approach." IISE Transactions 55, no. 7 (2023): 731-745.
- Hanchate, Abhishek, Parth Sanjaybhai Dave, Ankur Verma, Akash Tiwari, Cyan Subhra Mishra, Soundar RT Kumara, Anil Srivastava et al. "A graphical representation of sensor mapping for machine tool fault monitoring and prognostics for smart manufacturing." Smart and Sustainable Manufacturing Systems 7, no. 1 (2023): 82-110.
- Tiwari, Akash, Yuandong Wang, Kyle Saleeby, AL Narasimha Reddy, and Satish Bukkapatnam. "Learning digital emulators for closed architecture machine tool controllers." Journal of Manufacturing Systems 68 (2023): 695-703.
- Yamaguchi, H., F. Xu, A. Lakhtakia, A. Tiwari, and S. T. S. Bukkapatnam. "Coloration of stainless-steel surfaces using magnetic abrasive finishing." In Surface Engineering and Forensics, vol. 12490, p. 1249002. SPIE, 2023.
- Tiwari, Akash, and Satish Bukkapatnam. "Unsupervised spectral-band feature identification for optimal process discrimination." arXiv preprint arXiv:2212.03800 (2022).
- Karthikeyan, Adithyaa, Akash Tiwari, Yuhao Zhong, and Satish TS Bukkapatnam. "Explainable AI-infused ultrasonic inspection for internal defect detection." CIRP Annals 71, no. 1 (2022): 449-452.
- Tiwari, Akash, Eduardo Jose Villasenor, Nikhil Gupta, Narasimha Reddy, Ramesh Karri, and Satish TS Bukkapatnam. "Protection against counterfeiting attacks in 3D printing by streaming signature-embedded manufacturing process instructions." In Proceedings of the 2021 Workshop on Additive Manufacturing (3D Printing) Security, pp. 11-21. 2021.
- Tiwari, Akash, Fang Xu, Akhlesh Lakhtakia, Hitomi Yamaguchi, and Satish TS Bukkapatnam. "On colors of stainless-steel surfaces polished with magnetic abrasives." Applied Optics 60, no. 9 (2021): 2549-2559.
- Tiwari, Akash, AL Narasimha Reddy, and Satish TS Bukkapatnam. "Cybersecurity assurance in the emerging manufacturing-as-a-service (MaaS) paradigm: A lesson from the video streaming industry." Smart and Sustainable Manufacturing Systems 4, no. 3 (2020): 324-329.
- Mahesh, Priyanka, Akash Tiwari, Chenglu Jin, Panganamala R. Kumar, AL Narasimha Reddy, Satish TS Bukkapatanam, Nikhil Gupta, and Ramesh Karri. "A survey of cybersecurity of digital manufacturing." Proceedings of the IEEE 109, no. 4 (2020): 495-516.
- Gupta, Nikhil, Akash Tiwari, Satish TS Bukkapatnam, and Ramesh Karri. "Additive manufacturing cyber-physical system: Supply chain cybersecurity and risks." IEEE Access 8 (2020): 47322-47333.