COMMITTEE
COMMITTEE
Organising Committee
AIComp 2026 is organised by the University of British Columbia in collaboration with research and industry partners.
Conference Chair:
Dr. Alireza Forghani
- Director of Engineering, Convergent Manufacturing Technologies
- Adjunct Professor, University of British Columbia
Conference Co-chair:
Dr. Trevor Campbell
- Associate professor in the Department of Statistics, University of British Columbia
Conference Co-chair:
Dr. Navid Zobeiry
- Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Washington
Inaugural Conference Co-chair:
Dr. Iryna Tretiak
- AIComp Founder, Lecturer in Composites Manufacture, Bristol Composites Institute
Inaugural Conference Co-chair:
Dr. Bassam El Said
- Senior Lecturer in Digital Design and Manufacture of Composites, University of Bristol
Advisory Committees
Scientific Advisory
- Dr. Johnathan Belnoue, University of Brisol, UK
- Dr. Francisco Chinesta, Arts et Métiers Institute of Technology, France
- Dr. Martine Dubé, École de technologie supérieure (ÉTS), Canada
- Dr. Carlos González, Polytechnic University of Madrid, Spain
- Dr. Jia-Liang Le, University of Minnesota, USA
- Dr. Abbas Milani, University of British Columbia, Canada
- Dr. Susmita Nsakar, University of Southhampton, UK
- Dr. Tomonaga Okabe, Tohoku University, Japan
- Dr. Marco Petrolo, Polytechnic University of Turin, Italy
- Dr. Silvestre Pinho, Imperial College London, UK
- Dr. Anoush Poursartip, University of British Columbia, Canada
- Dr. Pavana Prabhakar, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
- Dr. Serge Prudhomme, Polytechnique Montréal, Canada
- Dr. Johannes Reiner, Deakin University, Australia
- Dr. Marco Salviato, University of Washington, USA
- Dr. Reza Vaziri, University of British Columbia, Canada
- Dr. Michael Wisnom, University of Bristol, UK
- Dr. Wenbin Yu, Purdue University, USA
Industrial Advisory
- Dr. Sunil Acharya, ANSYS, USA
- Dr. Abdul Arafath, Sabic, KSA
- Dr. Goran Fernlund, Convergent, Canada
- Dr. Anthony Floyd, Convergent, Canada
- Dr. Koichi Hasegawa, MHI, Japan
- Dr. Nav Muraliraj, NGC, USA
- Dr. Felix Nguyen, LMCO, USA
- Dr. Sung Park, NGC, USA
- Dr. Meysam Rahmat, NRC, Canada
- Dr. Sanjay Sharma, Hexcel, USA
More to come…
Scientific Advisory
- Dr. Johnathan Belnoue, University of Brisol, UK
- Dr. Francisco Chinesta, Arts et Métiers Institute of Technology, France
- Dr. Martine Dubé, École de technologie supérieure (ÉTS), Canada
- Dr. Carlos González, Polytechnic University of Madrid, Spain
- Dr. Jia-Liang Le, University of Minnesota, USA
- Dr. Abbas Milani, University of British Columbia, Canada
- Dr. Susmita Nsakar, University of Southhampton, UK
- Dr. Tomonaga Okabe, Tohoku University, Japan
- Dr. Marco Petrolo, Polytechnic University of Turin, Italy
- Dr. Silvestre Pinho, Imperial College London, UK
- Dr. Anoush Poursartip, University of British Columbia, Canada
- Dr. Pavana Prabhakar, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
- Dr. Serge Prudhomme, Polytechnique Montréal, Canada
- Dr. Johannes Reiner, Deakin University, Australia
- Dr. Marco Salviato, University of Washington, USA
- Dr. Reza Vaziri, University of British Columbia, Canada
- Dr. Michael Wisnom, University of Bristol, UK
- Dr. Wenbin Yu, Purdue University, USA
Industrial Advisory
- Dr. Sunil Acharya, ANSYS, USA
- Dr. Abdul Arafath, Sabic, KSA
- Dr. Goran Fernlund, Convergent, Canada
- Dr. Anthony Floyd, Convergent, Canada
- Dr. Koichi Hasegawa, MHI, Japan
- Dr. Nav Muraliraj, NGC, USA
- Dr. Felix Nguyen, LMCO, USA
- Dr. Sung Park, NGC, USA
- Dr. Meysam Rahmat, NRC, Canada
- Dr. Sanjay Sharma, Hexcel, USA
Local Organizing Committee
Composites Research Network at UBC
- Ms. Suzana Topic, MSc, MBA
- Ms. Sherry Kiafar, MSc
- Dr. Shayan Fahimi
Convergent Manufacturing Technologies
- Heather Breiddal
- Caitlin Bowe
- Dr. Nima Bakhshi
- Mr. Alberto Mussali, BASc, EIT
