Dr. Narra's research focuses on advancing fundamental knowledge in metal additive manufacturing to enable lightweight, high-performance printed parts. This includes studying process-structure interactions, material behavior, and physics-driven process design paradigms aimed at accelerating industrial adoption. Her group works at the intersection of mechanical engineering and materials science to advance additive manufacturing technologies. Sneha P. Narra received her B.E. in civil engineering from Osmania University in India (2012). She pursued graduate education at Carnegie Mellon University, where she obtained her M.S. in computational mechanics (2013), M.S. in mechanical engineering (2015) and Ph.D. in mechanical engineering (2017). She then completed postdoctoral training at the NextManufacturing Center before joining the mechanical engineering department at Worcester Polytechnic Institute as an assistant professor in 2018. After three years in WPI’s materials and manufacturing engineering program, she joined the CMU mechanical engineering department in 2021. She is currently serving as the Associate Editor of the Additive Manufacturing journal and plays an active role in organizing symposia through the TMS Additive Manufacturing Bridge Committee and other educational and outreach activities.