B.S. in Material Science and Engineering, Nanjing University, China, 2012 M.S. in Material Science and Engineering, WPI, US, 2014 Ph.D. candidate in Material Science and Engineering, WPI, US, 2018 Mr. Pan joined the Integrative Material Design Center (iMdc) at Worcester Polytechnic Institute since 2012. His expertise is in areas of friction stir welding (FSW), metallurgy and micro-structure analysis, fracture and failure analysis, computational simulation and modeling, and composite materials.