Prof. Xian Du

Dr. Xian Du is an assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering and the Institute for Applied Life Sciences at the University of Massachusetts (UMass), Amherst. He is also an adjunct faculty of the College of Information and Computer Sciences. His group work on the innovation of high-resolution, large-area and fast-speed sensing, machine vision and pattern recognition technologies for roll to roll flexible electronics printing process and personalized health monitoring devices. Dr. Xian Du is a recipient of the 2020 NSF Career award. Before joining UMass, Dr. Xian Du was a research scientist in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). During his research at MIT, Dr. Xian Du invented a concentric circular trajectory scanning and super resolution system, and image matching methods for the inspection of roll to roll manufacturing over meter-scale web and human health monitoring.