Dr. Jan Vandenbrande is a Senior Technical Advisor at MACH-20, focusing on computational design and manufacturing. He previously served as Vice President of SRI International’s Future Concepts Division (formerly Xerox PARC), driving disruptive innovation in advanced production, clean technologies, and intelligent systems for societal and economic impact. Earlier, as a DARPA Program Manager in the Defense Sciences Office, he initiated and funded transformative research in design, manufacturing, materials, and mathematics to deliver breakthrough capabilities for future DoD platforms and the public good.
Before joining DARPA he was a Technical Fellow and Senior Manager of the Applied Math group at Boeing where directed the development of in house computational tools that enabled breakthrough design and manufacturing processes that improved Boeing’s products.
At Unigraphics, now Siemens NX, Dr. Vandenbrande developed the initial architecture and user interface for the next generation Computer Aided Manufacturing (CAM) system and improved the system’s computational performance and accuracy. He is a former associate editor of JCISE, AIEDAM and CAD. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Rochester and an engineering degree from the Vrije Universiteit van Brussel, Belgium.
