Khurram Altaf is a Senior Lecturer in the Mechanical Engineering Department at the Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS (UTP), Malaysia. He received his Master’s in Applied Mechanics and Design from the University of Engineering and Technology in 2001, and earned his Ph.D. in Additive Manufacturing/Rapid Tooling from UTP in 2011. He has several years of industrial and research/development experience in the public and private sectors before joining UTP. His research interests include additive manufacturing (AM)/3D printing (3DP), Rapid Tooling, 3D printing for metal casting, metal AM, design for additive manufacturing (DfAM), and advanced composite materials for AM/3DP.