Academics

Faculty Research Directory

Name	Gender	Title	Discipline	Research Interest
Shouhang Bo	Male	Assistang Professor	Mechanical Engineering	1. Material- and system-level studies of solid-state materials for energy storage devices (e.g., Li-ion, Na-ion, Mg-ion and solid-state batteries) 2. Real-time scattering and spectroscopic studies of materials synthesis, unraveling the chemical and physical principles governing the formation of materials under synthesis conditions
Qianli Chen	Female	Assistang Professor	Mechanical Engineering Electronic Science and Technology	1. Ion and electron transport in energy materials 2. Charge distribution in electronic and electrochemical devices
Yong Long	Female	Assistang Professor	Electronic Science and Technology Information and Communication Technology	1. Computational imaging 2. Signal, image and video processing 3. Machine learning 4. Compressed sensing 5. Large-scale data processing and optimization
Lei Shao	Male	Assistang Professor	Mechanical Engineering Electronic Science and Technology	1. Micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS), transducers and sensors; 2. Precision measurement 3. Smart sensing and control
Yanfeng Shen	Male	Assistang Professor	Mechanical Engineering Mechanics	1. Structural health monitoring (SHM) and Nondestructive Evaluation (NDE) 2. Active materials, smart structures, and sensing technology 3. Computational dynamics and numerical modeling 4. Ultrasonic waves 5. Metamaterials for vibration and wave control
Chang-Ching Tu	Male	Assistang Professor	Electronic Science and Technology	1. Cancer diagnostics and treatment using silicon quantum dot nanoparticles 2. Optoelectronic devices, such as LEDs, solar cells and transistors, based on colloidal semiconductor nanomaterials
Paul Weng	Male	Assistang Professor	Control Science and Engineering Information and Communication Technology	1. Sequential decision-making, e.g., (deep) reinforcement learning, multi-armed bandits 2. Multiobjective optimization, e.g., fair optimization, compromise programming 3. Preference learning/elicitation with applications to e.g., learning from demonstration
Rui Yang	Male	Assistang Professor	Electronic Science and Technology Information and Communication Technology	1. Resonant nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS), for sensing and radio frequency signal processing 2. Emerging nonvolatile memories, for in-memory computing and neuromorphic computing 3. Flexible electronic devices based on two-dimensional (2D) materials
Hong Zhu	Female	Assistang Professor	Mechanical Engineering	1. Advanced energy and electronic materials design through atomistic modeling, high throughput computations and data mining 2. Physical property tailoring through band structure, defect and interface engineering
Qiao Heng	Male	Assistang Professor	Information and Communication Technology	1. Statistical Signal Processing, Array Signal Processing 2. Compressed Sensing (Theory & Algorithm) 3. Convex/Non-Convex Optimization 4. High-Dimensional Statistics and Big Data 5. Applications of Signal Processing in Machine Learning Theory