Jiong Tang

Professor

Mechanical Engineering

Department of Mechanical Engineering
Professor

Dr. Jiong Tang is the Pratt & Whitney Professor of Advanced Materials and Processing in Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Connecticut. He received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in Applied Mechanics from Fudan University, China, in 1989 and 1992, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Pennsylvania State University in 2001. Prior to joining UConn in 2002, he worked in GE Research Center as a research engineer.

Dr. Tang has studied a series of research subjects including motion and vibration controls, sensing and signal processing, robotics and automation, uncertainty quantification and propagation analyses, design optimization, computational intelligence and machine learning, and modeling and analysis of multi-physics systems and processes. He has published over 200 papers in these areas. Dr. Tang’s research has been supported extensively by federal agencies and industrial companies. Dr. Tang is a fellow of the ASME.