Jeremy Frank grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and developed an early passion for investigating machine health failures through his father’s forensic work with black hawk helicopter crashes. While pursuing his PHD at Penn State University, he started KCF Technologies with Professor Emeritus Gary Koopman and another Penn State researcher. The company focus is to research,… Read more »

Yanli Zhou is the Chief Technologist for Manufacturing Innovations in General Motors. Prior to her current role, she was Sr. Manager for the Global Automation Standards and Device Level Analytics (DLA) Group, leading global efforts on defining enterprise automation and DLA strategies, developing related standards, processes, and tools, and implementing DLA capabilities into multiple manufacturing… Read more »

Dr. Annie Zeng is currently Advanced Manufacturing and Digital Innovation with a focus on Digital Twin and Artificial Intelligence in Ford Motor Company. Her goal is to digitize and modernize manufacturing engineering and operation leveraging advanced technologies such as PLM, Digital Factory, Digital Twin and Machine Learning. Previously she was a Digital Manufacturing Supervisor overseeing… Read more »