Speakers

Aswini Hariharan
Manufacturing Engineer III
Integer Holdings Corporation

Aswini Hariharan is a Mechanical and Industrial Engineer with 16 years of professional experience across 5 different industries: Automotive [Tata Motors], Oil & Gas [Schlumberger], Retail [Amazon & Weee!], Real Estate Tech [CloudKitchens] and Medical Device Manufacturing [Integer Holdings Corporation]. Her passion for Manufacturing led her to obtain a Master’s degree in Manufacturing Systems Engineering from the University of Wisconsin, Madison (2011). Some of her favorite work projects include

• manufacturing cementing trucks that comprise of large-scale triplex and centrifugal pumps that pump cement slurries downhole after drilling and ensures well integrity for Schlumberger
• designing Amazon warehouses for Last Mile Logistics using AutoCAD and launching over 25 new delivery stations across the US
• building a gear box from scratch at the Tata Motors, Pune, India plant as a Graduate Engineer Trainee
• helping develop the coating process for implantable stents for cardiac patients at Integer

Riddhi Padariya
Lead Control Engineer
The Boring Company
Riddhi Padariya has over seven years of experience in Manufacturing Automation and Controls. She currently works as a Lead Controls Engineer at The Boring Company. Previously, she has worked at Tesla, Heirloom Carbon, and Kimberly-Clark. In her free time, she serves as a Subject Matter Expert for the Technical Assembly at the International Society of Automation and as a Standing Standards Chair for the IEEE Control Systems Society. Over the years, she has delivered 10+ talks at various conferences, webinars, and events on Advanced Manufacturing Automation, and has completed 70+ peer reviews for leading journals such as IJAMT, ISA Transactions, JIMS, TTE, and others.

Jamesa Stokes
Materials Research Engineer
NASA Glenn Research Center
Dr. Jamesa L. Stokes is a materials research engineer in the Environmental Effects and Coatings Branch at NASA’s John H. Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio. Raised in Atlanta, Georgia, she graduated from the Lovett School and earned a Bachelor of Science in Physics, cum laude, from Auburn University in 2014. She was awarded a J. William Fulbright Scholarship to conduct research at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) in Stuttgart, Germany, where she tested materials for heat shields and thermal protection systems.

Dr. Stokes earned her Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from Pennsylvania State University in 2019, conducting research in the Applied Research Laboratory on environmental barrier coatings for ceramic components in gas turbine engines. Her work examined material degradation from molten dust particulates such as desert sand and volcanic ash. At NASA, her research focuses on materials behavior in extreme environments and the development of advanced environmental protection systems.