Seymur Hasanov

Experience7

Harvard SEAS 2023 – present Lecturer & Asst. Director of Undergraduate Studies. Teach ES 51 & ES 192; advise capstones.

Boston AI Foundry 2025 – present Startup advisor on hardware & AI product development, concept through validation.

Handshake AI 2025 – 2026 Expert contributor providing mechanical & systems engineering expertise to evaluate and improve AI model outputs.

Snorkel AI 2024 – 2025 Expert contributor supplying engineering-domain data and evaluations for AI training pipelines.

UA Huntsville 2021 – 2022 Assistant Professor. Taught mechanical design, manufacturing, dynamics, mechanics of materials.

Tennessee Tech, CMR 2018 – 2021 Graduate researcher in functionally graded composites; FEA, simulation, characterization.

PMD Projects 2016 – 2018 Mechanical engineer. HVAC system design, performance simulation, on-site testing.

Skills5

Design & CAD SolidWorks (CSWE), Fusion 360, Onshape, AutoCAD, SpaceClaim.

Analysis ANSYS FEA, fatigue & thermal, tolerance stack-ups, GD&T, DFM / DFA, DoE.

Manufacturing Injection molding, sheet metal, CNC, 3D printing (FFF / SLA / SLS), composites.

ML & Data Python, PyTorch, TensorFlow, scikit-learn, OpenCV, LangChain / LlamaIndex, SQL.

Tools MATLAB, Docker, AWS, Git, Streamlit, Tableau.

Projects5

Low-Cost Robotic Manipulation 2026 A $400 robotic arm that picks and places real objects at 96% success, combining computer vision, a fine-tuned grasp model, and a vision-language-action policy on a Jetson Nano. Interface Strength Modeling in FGMs 2022 Modeling and experimentally validating interface strength in FFF-printed functionally graded materials, comparing direct, interlocked, and gradient transitions. Functionally Graded Additive Manufacturing 2022 Doctoral work on low-cost FFF fabrication of multi-material structures with graded properties: design, fabrication, characterization, and multi-scale modeling. Virtual Lab for Engineering Classrooms 2021 An NSF-funded immersive VR lab built in Unreal Engine for engineering and manufacturing education, with design, fabrication, and testing rooms. 3D-Printed Tooling for Lost-Foam Casting 2021 Applied R&D with Flowserve exploring 3D-printed mold patterns as a low-cost alternative to conventional tooling for lost-foam casting; ~40% cost reduction on target parts.

Research13

Critical Review on Short Fiber-Reinforced Composite Materials Manufactured by Material Extrusion: From Thermal Perspective 2024 Progress in Additive Manufacturing, Volume 10, Pages 783–808 (2025) Opportunities and Limitations of Additive Manufacturing 2023 In Springer Handbook of Additive Manufacturing, pp. 125–143 Material Extrusion of Thermoplastic Acrylic for Intraoral Devices: Technical Feasibility and Evaluation 2023 Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials, Volume 143, July 2023, 105950 Influence of the matrix material on the thermal properties of the short carbon fiber reinforced polymer composites manufactured by material extrusion 2023 Journal of Manufacturing Processes, Volume 92, Pages 521–533 Influence of Matrix Material on Impact Properties of Chopped Carbon Fiber-Thermoplastic Composites Made Using FDM/FFF 2023 In Proceedings of the ASME 2022 International Additive Manufacturing Conference (IAM), Paper No. IAM2022-88941 Review on Additive Manufacturing of Multi-Material Parts: Progress and Challenges 2021 Journal of Manufacturing and Materials Processing, 6(1), 4 Hierarchical homogenization and experimental evaluation of functionally graded materials manufactured by the fused filament fabrication process 2021 Composite Structures, Volume 275 Homogenized modeling approach for effective property prediction of 3D-printed short fibers reinforced polymer matrix composite material 2021 The International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology, Volume 118, Pages 4161–4178 (2022) All publications Browse the full list of 13 papers.

Learn9

ES-51: Computer-Aided Machine Design My Harvard course on mechanism design, CAD, fabrication, and DFx. Syllabus and overview. ES-192: Materials Selection in Mechanical Design My Harvard course on selecting materials by function, cost, and environment using Ashby methods. MIT Deep Learning Course My guide to MIT's open Deep Learning course: structure, content, and why it is a great free AI resource. MIT OpenCourseWare Thousands of free MIT courses across engineering, design, and science. MIT 2.007: Design & Manufacturing MIT's hands-on mechanical design and build course, free online. Modern Robotics (Northwestern) Kevin Lynch's full robotics specialization: kinematics, dynamics, control. Stanford Online Engineering Free and open engineering courses and lectures from Stanford. NPTEL: Manufacturing Open courses on manufacturing processes and production engineering. edX: Robotics & Engineering University robotics, mechatronics, and design courses, audit for free.

Life5

Chess Long games, slow improvement. I study the openings I keep losing to.

Hiking Weekends on New England trails. The longer the climb, the better.

Tennis A reliable way to forget about work for an hour.

Photography Landscapes, and the occasional well-lit prototype.

Cycling My favorite way to think through a stuck design problem.

Blog2

TinyML Object Detection for Mobile Robots May 2025 Developing, optimizing, and deploying a TinyML model for real-time object detection on resource-constrained, microcontroller-powered robots. Scales in Mechanics Education: the M³E Module May 2024 A reflection on how the M³E module helps students connect theory with real-world material behavior using multiscale experimentation.