Research
MIE’s Yubing Sun Receives Seed Grant for Collaborative Research with Hokkaido University
Sun is establishing a new collaboration with Dr. Toshiro Ohashi at Hokkaido University to study the mechanical regulation of collective-cell migration.
Jentoft Receives 2025-2026 Samuel F. Conti Faculty Fellowship
The Conti Fellowship recognizes the exceptional quality and significance of a faculty member’s accomplishments in research endeavors at UMass Amherst.
Five CoE Faculty Members Obtain Translational Seed Awards
The seed grants support faculty research teams from UMass Amherst that are developing startup companies and intellectual property to address societal needs.
UMass Amherst Selects MIE’s David Schmidt as a 2025 Provost Professor
This honorific recognizes exceptional faculty achievements in research and teaching and comes with a $12,500 award in addition to campus-wide recognition.
MIE’s Xian Du and Students Awarded U.S. Patent for Breakthrough in High-speed Autofocus Control
Du’s invention offers transformative potential for quality control in advanced manufacturing, which relies heavily on the inline-process inspection, and beyond.
ASCE Civil Engineering Magazine Features Pioneering CEE Research on Scanning At-risk Bridges
Simos Gerasimidis and Chengbo Ai have developed a trailblazing 3D-laser-scanning technology that could become the norm for bridge inspection in coming years.
New Study Reveals Polymers with Flawed Fillers Boost Heat Transfer in Plastics
The UMass Amherst-led team challenges the conventional wisdom that perfect fillers are better for making thermally conductive polymers.
Amir Arbabi and Peng Bai Receive DARPA Young Faculty Awards
Each will receive $500,000 over two years, with a potential for an additional third year.
National Academy of Engineering Inducts Two Distinguished ECE Alums
Bahl helped transform cloud computing with his work on edge computing and Swanson co-invented the pioneering technology optical coherence tomography.
ECE’s Joseph Bardin Serves on Google Team That Produces “Remarkable Technical Breakthrough” in Quantum Computing
A quantum computer equipped with Willow takes five minutes to perform a task that would take the world’s largest supercomputer ~10,000,000,000,000,000 years.
Communications Engineering Selects Paper by CEE’s Simos Gerasimidis, Chengbo Ai, and Colleagues as “Editor’s Choice”
The pioneering paper promises significant advancements in assessing aging bridge structures with higher accuracy and efficiency than any current approaches.
WET Center Serves as Invaluable Resource for Facing Water Challenges
The WET Center supports research and education aimed at developing new methods and products to address overarching problems in water treatment and water energy.