Joseph Bardin co-authors historic paper in journal “Nature” that says Google, using a quantum computer, has achieved a breakthrough by performing a task that isn’t possible with traditional computers.
Associate Professor Shelly Peyton of the Chemical Engineering Department has been elected to the AIMBE College of Fellows – Class of 2020.
Professor Neil St. John Forbes founded the company with current Ernest Pharmaceuticals CEO and bioengineer Nele Van Dessel.
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Professor Blair Perot is the principal investigator on a two-year, $1.18-million ARPA-E grant to support the creation of pioneering software for simulating offshore wind turbines.
Maciej Ciesielski
Professor Maciej J. Ciesielski, the associate head of the Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Department at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, has been elected as a 2020 Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) with a citation that reads, “for contributions to logic synthesis and formal verification of arithmetic circuits.” The Fellow is the highest grade of membership in the IEEE and is afforded annually to less than 0.1 percent of the more than 423,000 voting members in over 160 countries. As ECE Department Head Christopher Hollet responded, “This is a great achievement of which we are very proud!”
Tingyi “Leo” Liu
Assistant Professor Tingyi “Leo” Liu is one member of an international team of researchers from UMass Amherst, the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), and universities in China and Singapore that is using artificial intelligence to develop a system that minimizes the dosage of drugs used to treat human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) as a way to reduce side effects. Liu is the head of the Interdisciplinary Interface Engineering Laboratory in the College of Engineering. The findings are published in the journal Advanced Therapeutics. See Science Blog and News Office release.
Ara Kim (left)
Mechanical engineering doctoral student Ara Kim won the Best Data Presentation award at the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) 2019 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition (IMECE), ASME’s largest research and development conference focused primarily on mechanical engineering. Kim’s presentation described her work with her faculty advisor, Assistant Professor Jae-Hwang Lee of the Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Department, researching “High-strain-rate Dynamics of Copolymer Microparticles for Advanced Additive Manufacturing.”
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