Vispi Neville Karkaria receives the first prize Presentation Award at the annual North American Manufacturing Research Conference (NAMRC) 2024 for his paper titled, “Towards a Digital Twin Framework in Additive Manufacturing: Machine Learning and Bayesian Optimization for Time Series Process Optimization” (Karkaria, V., Goeckner, A., Zha, R., Chen, J., Zhang, J., Zhu, Q., Cao, J., Gao, R.X. and Chen, W.). This research advances Additive Manufacturing Process by integrating real-time monitoring, machine learning, and process optimization within a Digital Twin framework. Nine first-authored students were invited to compete for the prize based on the reviews of 300+ papers received by the conference. Vispi Karkaria was selected as the winner based on the competition of oral presentations, judged based on clarity, originality, and scientific merit by a panel from the NAMRI/SME Honors Committee.