Lightning Talks: Meet Our Faculty
Speaker: Prof. Mihai "Mishu" Duduta, Prof. Wajid Chishty, & Prof. Chang Liu
Date: Sep 8, 2023; Time: 2:30 PM Location: UTEB 175
Three ME faculty will present their research. Come and learn about their exciting research, ask questions, and learn about research opportunities.
Prof. Mihai “Mishu” Duduta obtained his B.S. degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Materials Science Engineering and received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Engineering Sciences from Harvard University. While at MIT he co-invented semi-solid electrodes for batteries, then after graduating, became the first employee of 24M Technologies, a battery start-up spun out to commercialize the technology. In 2019 he was a Bakken Medical Devices Innovation Fellow at the University of Minnesota – Twin Cities, focusing on finding soft robotic technological solutions to unmet clinical needs, then joined the University of Toronto as an assistant professor in Mechanical and Industrial Engineering until last year. His interdisciplinary research group is focused on soft transducers as building blocks for the next generation of soft machines that can interact safely with humans and disrupt medicine, manufacturing, communications and beyond.
Prof. Wajid Chishty joined the Department of Mechanical Engineering in January 2023. He has a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Virginia Polytechnic & State University (2005), an MSE in Aerospace Engineering from University of Michigan (1996) and an MBA in Finance from University of Karachi (1991).He has more than 30 years of experience in the areas of gas turbine maintenance, repair and overhaul, combustion research and teaching. He has authored many well-cited publications and is a member of ASME, ASEE and AIAA. His research interests include dynamics of droplets and bubbles, thermoacoustics, aircraft performance and engineering management. He has held senior management positions managing technology transfers and directing applied research in the fields of sustainable aviation, urban air mobility and renewable energy.
Prof. Chang Liu obtained his Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Johns Hopkins University in 2021 and then conducted postdoctoral research at the University of California, Berkeley before joining UConn. His research interest is the intersection among fluid dynamics, nonlinear dynamical systems, control theory, state estimation and optimization with a special focus on turbulence. He is interested in developing novel interdisciplinary approaches to obtain reduced-order models and better understandings of fluid dynamics. His current research topics include wall-bounded shear flows, flow control, and thermal convection.