Davis J. McGregor, Ph.D.

Davis J. McGregor, Ph.D. is Director of the MIRAGE Lab, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Maryland, College Park, and Fischell Fellow at the R.E.F. Institute for Biomedical Devices.

Dr. McGregor is interested in how software and data can be leveraged to improve manufacturing and part qualification. He investigates methods for automating metrology of diverse part geometries using computer vision and computational geometry, and is developing machine learning models for rapidly qualifying additively manufactured parts. He is especially interested in developing models for qualifying part designs that have never previously been made, enabling first-time-right manufacturing strategies for additive manufacturing.

Dr. McGregor is an expert in data science, machine learning, computer vision, and statistical analysis for traditional and advanced manufacturing, including additive manufacturing. He has extensive experience analyzing manufacturing vision data from photographs, X-ray computed tomography, and variable focus microscopy.

Before joining the University of Maryland in 2023, Dr. McGregor was Staff Manufacturing Scientist at Fast Radius, which was acquired by SyBridge Technologies in December 2022. While there, he led the development of manufacturing intelligence algorithms and the framework for continuous feedback and improvement of machine learning models.

Dr. McGregor received a Ph.D. from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. His dissertation was “Metrology Automation and Geometric Analysis for Additive Manufacturing.” He has led educational workshops and presented at professional conferences on leveraging machine learning and software automation in the manufacturing field. He has published 15 journal articles with over 350 citations, holds one US patent, and is part of 4 pending patent disclosures.