Roboticist
Dow Chemical’s Digital Operations Center
William Rifenburgh is a career roboticist and leads the robotics team at Dow Chemical’s Digital Operations Center — an innovation center charged with bringing in the latest, cutting-edge digital technology into Dow’s manufacturing operations. Rifenburgh has a dual MS in aerospace engineering and medical robotics from the Univ. of Houston and the Univ. of Strasbourg. Before joining Dow in 2017, he worked at various robotics research laboratories including IRCAD France, the Florida Institute for Human Machine Cognition, and the NASA Johnson Space Center.