研究领域：Sustainable Additive-subtractive Manufacturing (SASM); Post-processing of Additively Manufactured Metals and Polymers; Life Cycle Engineering; Low Carbon Manufacturing; Use of AI in Sustainable Manufacturing

Dr. Aqib Mashood Khan received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (NUAA), where he received the Outstanding Ph.D. Scholar Award. He is currently an Associate Professor in Mechanical Manufacturing and Automation at NUAA and previously served as an Associate Professor at Shandong University. He has secured and participated in national and international research projects with total funding exceeding RMB 2 million, including projects supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) and the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security of China.

Dr. Khan has authored more than 100 publications, two edited books, ten book chapters, and two invention patents. His work has received over 8,000 citations with an h-index of 50, and he has been listed among the World’s Top 2% Scientists by Stanford University and Elsevier for five consecutive years from 2022 to 2026. He has supervised and mentored undergraduate, master’s, and Ph.D. students and is an HEC-approved Ph.D. supervisor.

He serves as Associate Editor of Green Technologies and Sustainability and Associate Technical Editor of Machining Science and Technology. He has delivered more than 10 invited and keynote lectures internationally and received the MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 Seal of Excellence.  

His current research focus is on sustainable additive-subtractive manufacturing, high-speed machining, life-cycle engineering, climate-neutral production infrastructure, post-processing of additively manufactured metals and polymers, and Agentic AI for sustainable manufacturing.

工作经历：

 2020—2022                 副教授             山东大学

 2022—2023              助理教授          拉合尔查夸大学

 2023—现在              副教授             南京航空航天大学

 2023.10—现在          技术编辑         机械加工科学与技术 (SCIE Journal)

教育背景: 

 2016—2019    博士   南京航空航天大学

 2014—2016    硕士   塔克西拉工程技术大学

 2009—2013    学士   塔克西拉工程技术大学

主要代表作如下：

1.Aqib M. Khan (Aqib M. Khan), Ali, M. A., Waqar, S., Jamil, M., Kaynak, Y., & Zhao, G. (2026). Sustainability-oriented machining of additively manufactured SS316L: Impact of laser powder bed fusing process parameters under MQL milling. Journal of Manufacturing Processes, 170, 80-105. (SCI, IF=7.9). (WoS: Q1).

2.Aqib M. Khan, Ahmed, U., Rahat, M. R., (2026). A State-of-the-Art Review on Energy–Resource Synergy in Advanced Machining Using Hybrid Lubrication and Thermal Strategies. Energies, 19(12), 2767.

3.Aqib M. Khan, Pervaiz, S., Jamil, M., Zhao, W., & Meng, L. (2025). New Investigations on the performance Enhancement of Cryogenic-LN₂ assisted sustainable milling of titanium alloy. Manufacturing Letters, 44, 396-404.

4.Rehman, M., Aqib M. Khan,*(2025). A comparative bio-mechanical performance assessment of additively manufactured bone scaffolds using beta Ti alloys and Gyroid based cellular structure. Journal of Materials Research and Technology, 35, 1565-1585.

5.Javed, A., Aqib M. Khan,*(2025). The defect-postprocessing-lifecycle nexus: a critical review of interdependencies in metal additive-subtractive manufacturing. The International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology, 1-46.

6.Jamil, M., Hussain, M. I., Aqib M. Khan,* (2026). A comparative study on microstructural, mechanical and cryogenic machinability of Ti6Al4V fabricated via SLM and EBM additive manufacturing technologies. The International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology, 41, 3343-3358.

7.Aqib Mashood Khan Jamil, M., He Ning, et al. Energy consumption, carbon emission, and cost assessment under new system boundaries - A case study of nanofluid-assisted machining. Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews. (2020) (SCI, IF=17.9). (WoS: Q1)

8.Aqib M. Khan, Gupta, M. K., Hegab, H., (2020). Energy-based cost integrated modelling and sustainability assessment of Al-GnP hybrid nanofluid assisted turning of AISI52100 steel. Journal of Cleaner Production, 257, 120502. (SCI, IF=9.29). (WoS: Q1)

9.Aqib M. Khan, Jamil, M., Mia, M., He, N., Zhao, W., & Gong, L. (2020). Sustainability-based performance evaluation of hybrid nanofluid-assisted machining. Journal of Cleaner Production, 257, 120541. (SCI, IF=9.29). (WoS: Q1)

10.Aqib M. Khan, Alkahtani, M., Sharma, S., Jamil, M., Iqbal, A., & He, N. (2021). Sustainability-based holistic assessment and determination of optimal resource consumption for energy-efficient machining of hardened steel. Journal of Cleaner Production, 319, 128674. (SCI, IF=9.29). (WoS: Q1)

11.Aqib M. Khan, Jamil, M., He Ning et al. (2019). Multi-Objective Optimization of Energy Consumption and Surface Quality in Nanofluid SQCL Assisted Face Milling. Energies, 12(4), 710. https://doi.org/10.3390/en12040710(SCI, IF=2.71).

12.Aqib M. Khan, Jamil, M., He Ning et al. (2018).Multi-Objective Optimization for Grinding of AISI D2 Steel with Al₂O₃ Wheel under MQL. Materials, 11(11), 2269. https://doi.org/10.3390/ma11112269(SCI, IF=3.0).

13.The authors have published a list of 70+ SCI papers (as the first and corresponding author), which can be found on the Google Scholar account: https://scholar.google.nl/citations?user=FUwFC6IAAAAJ&hl=en

著书:

1.Jamil Muhammad, Aqib Mashood Khan* et. Al., (2026) Advancements in Defect Detection and Quality Control– Book name: Data-Driven Decision Making in Advanced Manufacturing. ASME DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1115/1.889312

2.Aqib Mashood KHAN et al., (2026) Global Policy With Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) In Circular Manufacturing Practices Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) and Circular Manufacturing in Industry 5.0– Book name: Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) and Circular Manufacturing in Industry 5.0. Emerald publishers.

3.Aqib M. Khan et al., M. (2021). Fabrication of a Smart-Meter for Power Consumption Measurements of Machine Tools. In Functional Reverse Engineering of Strategic and Non-Strategic Machine Tools (pp. 227-247). CRC Press. (WRE 2020 Book Series).

发明专利：

 Aqib M. Khan, et al., A Computer-Implemented Intelligent Life Cycle Assessment System and Method Based on Multi-Source Data Integration and Dynamic Impact Analysis, China Patent no. CN121257982B.

获奖情况：

[1] Aqib Mashood Khan got out standing award from NUAA in PhD

[2] Aqib Mashood Khan got his name in Stanford's list of the top 2% scientists of the entire world 2022-2026).  

讲授课程：

本科

《Intelligent Manufacturing》，《Sustainable Manufacturing》

研究生

《Material and Manufacturing》，《Research Methodology and Design of Experiments (RMDoE)》，《Metal Cutting Principles》

教学经验和教学兴趣

Manufacturing Technologies; Materials and Manufacturing Processes; Strength/Mechanics of Materials; Fundamentals of Additive Manufacturing ; Material Science and Engineering; Industrial Health Safety and Control ; Production Planning and Control; Fluid Mechanics; Strength of materials; Mechanical Vibration; Engineering Physics;

项目：

国家项目

1.Role: Principal Investigator (PI); Funding Source: Research Startup Fund, Additive Manufacturing of Metals; Grant No.: 1005-xxx; Funding: RMB 60,000.

2.Role: Principal Investigator (PI); Funding Source: Research Fund for International Young Scientists (RFIS-I), National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC); Grant No.: GIA24xxx; Funding: RMB 400,000.

3.Role: Principal Investigator (PI); Funding Source: Research Open Fund; Funding: RMB 60,000.

4.Role: Participant; Funding Source: National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC); Funding: RMB 480,000.

5.Role: Principal Investigator (PI); Funding Source: 2026 National Foreign Expert Individual Project (Category H), Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security of the People’s Republic of China; Project Title: Low-Carbon Post-Processing for Steel-Based Composite Funding: RMB 400,000.

6.Role: Participant (as PhD Student); Funding Source: National Key Research and Development Program of China; Grant No.: 2018YFB2002202; Project Title: Low-Temperature Dry Cutting Mechanism and Design Theory and Methods for Low-Temperature Functional Components;

7.Role: Participant (as PhD Student); Funding Source: Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, China; Grant No.: NP2018302; Project Title: Fundamental Theory and Cutting-Edge Technology of Clean Cutting;

8.Role: Participant; Funding Source: Research Fund for International Young Scientists, National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC); Grant No.: 52250410358; Project Title: Design, Manufacture and Implementation of a Novel and Sustainable Hybrid Dry-Ice Blasting System to Improve the Machinability of Aerospace Alloys; Funding: RMB 200,000

国际项目

1.Role: Part-time Research Associate; Funding Source: The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU), Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering; Project No.: 1-45-37-BBR8; Project Title: Electrical Discharge Machining (EDM) of Superhydrophobic Surfaces on Binderless Tungsten Carbide with a Novel Self-Assembly Electrode.

2.Role: Collaborator; Funding Source: Research Grant, Universiti Brunei Darussalam, Brunei; Grant No.: UBD/RSCH/1.3/FICBF; Funding: Not specified. ~RMB 358,000

3.Role: Collaborator; Funding Source: Higher Education Commission (HEC) National Research Program for Universities (NRPU), University of Engineering and Technology (UET) Taxila, Pakistan; Grant No.: 2025/59xx; Funding: ~RMB 250,000.

4.Role: Collaborator; Funding Source: Raytheon Chair for Systems Engineering (RCSE), King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; Funding: ~ RMB 300,000

指导研究生情况：

已独立指导3名硕士研究生完成学业，目前另有2名硕士研究生在读；同时依托南京航空航天大学先进切削技术研究团队（Advanced Cutting Technologies Group），参与联合指导2名本科生、6名硕士研究生和3名博士研究生。