
Youping Gao, PhD
Chief Scientist & EVP
Castheon, an ADDMAN Group Company
Dr. Gao is Chief Scientist & EVP, Castheon Inc, an ADDMAN Group Company. He founded Castheon Inc to advance the state of the art in additive manufacturing and industrialization. He is a Fellow, the Laser Institute, and an additive manufacturing DINO (Distinguished INnovator Operators), previously, Technical Fellow & Discipline Chief, Manufacturing Engineering at Aerojet Rocketdyne where he perfected AM process, made it a robust manufacturing platform where it is the first in the nation received NASA’s production certification for AM producing mission critical hardware for manned spaceflight. Dr. Gao has over 30 years experiences in industrial R&D and project management particularly in materials and processes development, design for manufacturing, product development which covers from additive manufacturing, laser and electron beam material processing, high temperature and high-pressure material processing, advanced high strength alloys development, hypersonics and rocket propulsion.
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