Michael Borish, Ph.D.

I'm a computer scientist with a decade of leadership in industrial additive manufacturing software. I'm currently Director of Software at Raven Space Systems, a startup developing a novel direct ink write (DIW) extrusion platform. Before joining Raven I spent nine years as a Staff Researcher at Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Manufacturing Demonstration Facility, where I served as software lead for ORNL Slicer 2 - an open-source slicing and path-planning platform used by 250+ researchers and engineers across 60+ commercial, DOE, DOD, and academic organizations.I co-authored The Fundamentals of Slicing (Elsevier, 2023), have published 30+ peer-reviewed articles, and am the inventor on five patents and disclosures covering toolpath generation, closed-loop control, and process planning. My work spans polymer extrusion, directed energy deposition, powder bed fusion, and hybrid additive-subtractive systems as well as exotic and unique systems.

What I Consult On

Path planning, slicing, and toolpath algorithms. Continuous toolpaths, multi-axis pathing, computational-geometry approaches, and slicing strategies for non-traditional or large-format processes.Closed-loop control and in-situ monitoring. Thermal imaging, laser profilometry, structured light, melt-pool monitoring, real-time defect detection and correction.Hybrid additive-subtractive manufacturing. Process integration, level-set methods, and multi-process toolpath strategies including 5-axis and rotary motion planning.Industrial AM technology evaluation. Landscape assessment across the major process families. Technical due diligence for investors and corporate strategy teams.Automation, robotics, and machine integration. ROS/ROS2, KUKA and ABB integration, sensor fusion, autonomous inspection, OPC-UA and MTConnect interfaces.Computer vision, AR, and HPC for AM. GPU-accelerated path planning, simulation-based toolpath optimization, augmented-reality interfaces.

Selected Work

- Software lead, ORNL Slicer 2: open-source slicing and path-planning platform with 250+ users across 60+ partner organizations. github.com/ORNLSlicer/Slicer-2- Co-author, The Fundamentals of Slicing (Elsevier, 2023)- Five patents and invention disclosures, including Continuous Toolpaths for Additive Manufacturing (US 2021/0055710) and Site-Specific Melt Pool Size Control (US 2022/0105569)
- 30+ peer-reviewed publications — see Google Scholar- Founder and organizer of the Slicer User Group (SLUG) annual seminar- Guest Lecturer, University of Tennessee Knoxville — Introduction to Path Planning for Additive Manufacturing

Education

- Ph.D., Computer Science - University of Florida- M.S., Computer Engineering -University of Florida- B.S., Electrical and Computer Engineering & B.S., Computer Science - Duke University

Engagement

I'm available for expert-network calls, technical due diligence, multi-week advisory engagements, and longer strategy projects. Engagements with my current employer are excluded from scope. ORNL work is discussed only at the level of published research and public capability statements.