Sasan Sattarpanah Karganroudi is a research professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières and assigned to the Drummondville campus. A specialist in smart manufacturing, he conducts research based on strategies specific to Industry 4.0, including non-destructive evaluation and 3D metrology of mechanical components and structures. Also involved in R&D, he used experimental approaches to develop methods for engineering, precision and material processing and laser welding. Computer-aided design, manufacturing and inspection, optimization processes and artificial intelligence, finite element analysis, augmented reality and numerical simulation are frequently used in his work.