Faculty

Wu has used his five-year tenure as the Armstrong/Siadat Endowed Professor to realize many achievements in research, publications, sponsored grants, and more.

Peterman serves as an Interdisciplinary Studies Institute Fellow in an initiative calling researchers to work together to solve the problems of our cities.

Zhao receives the AIChE Composites Area Mid-Career Professorship Award, which honors “field-shaping scholarship,” among other meaningful accomplishments.

The APS Fellow designation, which has been awarded since 1921, recognizes “excellence in physics and exceptional service to the physics community.” 

Roberts offers advice on (1) the impact of driver’s-license “points” from moving violations and on (2) how much car insurance increases after an accident.

Besides being president of the ARTBA Research and Education Division, Knodler was just named vice president of the Council of University Transportation Centers.

The UMass Amherst College of Engineering promotes three of its skilled and dedicated lecturers: MIE’s Jim Lagrant, BME’s Sam Wojda, and ChE’s Dandan Xu.

All five departments in the College of Engineering will be adding talented new faculty members for the Fall Semester at UMass Amherst.

New $5M NSF award will power PegasusAI, an AI-Driven workflow system to accelerate science from the edge to the cloud and high-performance computing.

The six faculty from the CEE, ChE, ECE, and MIE departments at UMass Amherst have been promoted to the status of associate professor within their departments.

The UMass Board awards distinguished professorships to full professors for outstanding contributions in research, teaching, and/or public service. 

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