Dr. Christopher Williams is an Associate Professor in the departments of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering at Virginia Tech. He is the Director of the DREAMS Lab (http://www.dreams.me.vt.edu) - an Additive Manufacturing research lab - and co-Director of the Center for Innovation-based Manufacturing (http://www.cibm.ise.vt.edu). Within the field of Additive Manufacturing, he is the recipient of the Rapid Prototyping Journal Outstanding Paper Award (2014), a National Science Foundation CAREER Award (2013), the International Outstanding Young Researcher in Freeform and Additive Manufacturing Award (2012), and the Emerald Engineering Outstanding Doctoral Research Award (2010).