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Seminars in Biomedical Engineering
Mon, Nov 09, 2015 @ 12:30 PM - 01:50 PM
Alfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Yossi Chait, PhD , Professor, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
Talk Title: BME Faculty Research Areas
Series: Seminars in Engineering, Neuroscience & Health (ENH)
Biography: Yossi Chait is a Professor in the department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering at the University of Massachusetts. He graduated from the Ohio State University with BS (1982), Michigan State University with MS (1984), and PhD (1988) degrees in mechanical engineering. His research activities have been funded by the National Science Foundation covering diverse topics including the Quantitative Feedback Theory (QFT), robust multivariable control, reset control, Internet congestion control, modeling of the mammalian master clock, and dynamics of the human thyroid. Prof. Chait has consulted internationally in the area of robust control, and is a co-author of the QFT Control Design MATLAB Toolbox. He has held visiting professor positions at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland; the Technion, Israel, and Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands. He is a fellow of ASME.
His recent research focus lies at the interface of engineering, mathematics, and medicine, with a particular interest in chronic kidney disease. He is collaborating with clinicians at Western New England Renal Transplant Associates, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard medical school, the University of Louisville medical school, and New York Blood Center. His recent work has been supported by the National Institute of Health and the pharmaceutical industry.
Host: Stanley Yamashiro, PhD
Location: Olin Hall of Engineering (OHE) - 122
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Mischalgrace Diasanta
