Research
Sundar Krishnamurty Receives 2022 ASME Excellence in Research Award
The award recognizes Krishnamurty for outstanding research excellence and contributions in the discipline of computers and information in engineering.
Jinglei Ping Receives Air Force DURIP Award
MIE Assistant Professor Jinglei Ping obtains Air Force instrumentation grant to purchase an essential atomic-scale, thin-film processing system for $150,000.
NSF Awards Balasubramanian $502,159 to Improve the Healthcare of Patients with Complex Medical and Social Needs
Hari Balasubramanian is working with a coalition in New Jersey to better deliver care to patients facing physical, mental, and socio-economic challenges.
Breña and Peterman Receive $397,767 Grant to Develop Techniques to Improve Performance of Existing Reinforced Concrete Buildings During Earthquakes
CEE researchers will study better ways to retrofit older reinforced buildings so that communities often subjected to earthquakes can return quickly to normal.
Three College of Engineering Faculty Members Receive Manning/IALS Innovation Awards
Dr. Mariana Lopes of CEE, Dr. Juan Jiménez of MIE, and Dr. Chul Park of CEE have received awards of up to $100,000 each to pursue translational research.
PhD Student Shao-Hsiang Hung Awarded Prestigious Fellowship
Hung is developing a non-toxic manufacturing process for separation membranes that can be used in everything from water purification to kidney dialysis.
Yao and Colleagues Publish Paper in Science Advances Describing Pioneering Sensors for Cardiac Tissue
A research team led by Jun Yao has invented nano-electronic sensors capable of probing electrical and mechanical cellular responses in cardiac tissue.
Yubing Sun Receives NIH Award to Develop Superior Brain Organids
Sun’s grant will enhance brain organids, which are powerful tools to study fundamental mechanisms underlying human brain development and neurological disorders.
Erin Baker Publishes Paper on a “Just Energy Transition” in PLOS Climate
Baker’s paper focuses on how the energy research process can be harnessed to ensure an equitable, technology informed, clean-energy transition.
Ashwin Ramasubramaniam Obtains Collaborative Grant to Develop Superior, Ultracompact, On-chip Spectrometers
Ramasubramaniam and collaborators will create enhanced mid-infrared spectrometers for critical uses in biomedical, security, and industrial applications.
Joseph Bardin Wins IEEE Microwave Magazine Best Paper Award
Joseph Bardin, a professor in the UMass Amherst Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, has won the IEEE Microwave Magazine Best Paper Award.
REUs Bring Students to Campus for Summer Research and Mentorship
Two Research Experience for Undergraduates ran at UMass Engineering over the summer of 2022 and a third has recently been approved for NSF funding.