Assistant Professor Jun Yao
Developing multifunctional nanobiosensors for cell interface, leading to more precise biomedical devices for disease modeling, drug screening and health diagnostics.
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Noh and Colleague Awarded UMass Armstrong Award to Support Research on Battery-less Wearable Sensors
Yeon-sik Noh
An interdisciplinary research team led by Sunghoon (Ivan) Lee, computer science, and Assistant Professor Yeon-sik Noh, nursing and electrical and computer engineering (ECE), has been awarded a $40,000 grant from the university’s Armstrong Fund for Science to fund their work on battery-less wearable sensors.
Prashant Meckoni
Doctoral student Prashant Meckoni of the Mechanical and Industrial Engineering (MIE) Department won first place in the Best Student Paper competition during the Health Systems Track at the Institute of Industrial & Systems Engineers’ IISE Annual Conference. Meckoni’s winning paper was titled “Appointment Scheduling in Primary Care with Recurring Visits,” and his faculty advisor is MIE Professor Hari Balasubramanian.
James Manwell
James F. Manwell, a professor in the Mechanical and Industrial Engineering (MIE) Department and the director of the UMass Wind Energy Center, is a member of the United Nations Wind Energy Sub-group of the Expert Group on Resource Management (EGRM), which recently drafted a key UN document to apply standard international specifications to wind energy resources everywhere.
