Dr. Santosh Kumar Parupelli is an accomplished Research Scientist with over 11 years of interdisciplinary experience in advanced manufacturing, additive manufacturing (3D printing), biomedical device fabrication, and digital manufacturing systems. He currently serves in the College of Engineering at North Carolina A&T State University, where he has led and contributed to federally funded research projects involving hybrid manufacturing techniques, tissue engineering, microneedle drug delivery systems, machine learning-based process monitoring, microfabrication, additive manufacturing, digital-twin, Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine, healthcare, electronics, automotive, and process optimization.