Dr. M Shafiqur Rahman is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Louisiana Tech University (LaTech), Ruston, LA. Before joining LaTech as a faculty, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Civil Engineering Department at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD. He pursued his Ph.D. and M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA, in 2020 and 2016, respectively, and served there as a faculty member in Mechanical Engineering. His areas of research cover additive manufacturing/3D printing, materials, solid mechanics, computational fluid dynamics, heat transfer, and machine learning.