Faculty

Xiaohui (Frank) Zhang will serve as the next Department Head of Biomedical Engineering. He will begin his new role on September 1, 2025.

The Teaching Showcase, staged by the UMass Amherst Center for Teaching and Learning, highlights effective teaching strategies used by campus faculty members.

The Lilly Fellowship will help Huber redesign a key programming course and galvanize the growth and development of the robotics curriculum in MIE.

Tang served as an ECE professor for more than 35 years and co-founded the Shirley and Ting-wei Tang Endowment Lecture Series with his wife in 1999.

Sup received an ADVANCE Peer Mentoring Award, while Baker was a member of the faculty team that won an Equitable Practices in Collaboration Award.

The purpose of the Douglas Fund is to provide an Early Career Faculty Development Award annually to an untenured faculty member in the ChE department.

Three gifted faculty members receive the Outstanding Senior Faculty Award and Barbara H. and Joseph I. Goldstein Outstanding Junior Faculty Award.

This honor, achieved by only 15 percent of eligible SIR members, is bestowed on those who have demonstrated excellence in interventional radiology.

The fellowship is based on a generous endowment established by UMass alumnus Edward S. Price ‘90.

The COTA recognizes excellence in teaching and honors individual faculty members at each of the university’s colleges for their instructional accomplishments.

Gleason is working with University of Bristol Professor Paul Bates on delivering the promise of the NASA SWOT satellite’s “hydrologic revolution.”

As an expert source in a feature story, Raza advised CNBC on how Google’s new super-quantum-computer chip might affect the safety of future cryptocurrencies.