Jiong TangView profile
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Jiong Tang is a Pratt & Whitney Chair Professor in Design and Manufacturing at the University of Connecticut , where he also serves as Co-Director of the Management and Engineering for Manufacturing Program . He received his B.S. and M.S. in Applied Mechanics from Fudan University, China (1989 and 1992), and his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Pennsylvania State University (2001). Prior to joining UConn, he worked at the GE Research Center as a research engineer. Research Interests : System dynamics, control theory, smart materials, vibration suppression, uncertainty propagation, computational intelligence, and multi-physics system modeling. Current Projects : Digital twin development for aerospace materials, physics-informed machine learning in manufacturing, adaptive metasurface design, and optimization of cooperative robotics. Methodological Focus : Combines Bayesian deep learning , Gaussian process metamodeling , transformer-based architectures , and multi-fidelity data fusion for industrial applications. His work emphasizes smart sensing , electromechanical integration , and uncertainty-robust inverse analysis . Collaboration : Research funded by federal agencies and industrial partners , with particular emphasis on aerospace and manufacturing technologies. His recent publications highlight generative adversarial networks for defect detection , piezoelectric metamaterials , and physics-guided neural network architectures across mechanical, structural, and composite systems.
