
Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Institute for Applied Life Sciences
S421 Life Science Laboratories
240 Thatcher Way
Amherst, MA 01003-9292
(413)-577-0941
xiandu@umass.edu
www.umass.edu/engineering/about/directory/xian-du
Associate Professor of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Dr. Xian Du received his PhD degree in the program of Innovation of Manufacturing Systems and Technology from the Singapore-MIT Alliance. His current research focuses on health monitoring and quality control of advanced manufacturing processes through the integration of physics-informed machine learning, in-situ metrology, and multi-modal sensing. His ongoing projects span various areas, including scalable additive manufacturing, objective pain assessment, and quantitative analysis of clinical images. Dr. Xian Du is a recipient of the 2020 NSF Career Award and IEEE 2024 Region 1 Technological Innovation (Academic) Award for pioneering contributions to advancing machine intelligence and sensing technologies in roll-to-roll flexible electronics printing and medical devices for health monitoring.
Current Research
- Online inspection and feedback control for roll-to-roll flexible electronics printing processes.
- Chronic pain monitoring and assessment for long-term care residents with ADRD using AI Sensing.
- Development of a hand-held OCT probe with 3-D imaging-assisted tracking.
Learn more at Intelligent Sensing Lab
Academic Background
PhD in Manufacturing Systems and Technology from the Singapore-MIT Alliance at the National University of Singapore, 2007
CNRS Postdoctoral Fellow at CREATIS lab in France
Louisiana EPSCoR RII Fellow at Louisiana Tech University
Research scientist at MIT