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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.”
Woodrow W. Winchester III
Woodrow W Winchester III, Ph.D., a lecturer and the director of Engineering Management in the Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Department, wrote a defining article in the American Society for Engineering Management’s (ASEM) Fall 2019 issue of Practice Periodical – Articles for the Practicing Engineering Manager. Winchester’s article was titled “Great Time to Be an Engineering Manager."
