Jiong Tang

United Technologies Corporation Professor of Advanced Materials and Processing
Co-Director of the Management and Engineering for Manufacturing Program

Dr. Tang’s principal teaching and research interests are in the general areas of system dynamics, control, sensing and automation.  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 smart materials, motion and vibration controls, sensing and signal processing, uncertainty propagation, design optimization, computational intelligence, and modeling and analysis of multi-physics systems and processes.  Dr. Tang’s research has been supported extensively by federal agencies and industrial companies.