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Dr. Liang
joined the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Ottawa as an
assistant professor in July 1991. Since then, he has been actively involved in
both undergraduate and graduate
teaching, research, and academic services. He
became an associate professor in 1996 and a full professor in 2000. His
research areas include machinery and structure fault detection and diagnosis;
sensor and sensing technology; wind energy; vibration analysis and control;
nondestructive testing and evaluation; manufacturing planning, control, and
automation; machine learning and soft computing; smart machine and smart
factory; and biomedical signal processing and instrumentation. He has
initiated many funded projects on machinery fault detection, renewable energy
facility condition monitoring, integrated manufacturing planning, intelligent
manufacturing process control, tool path generation, and intelligent
optimization. He has collaborated with the Integrated Manufacturing
Technologies Institute of NRC, GasTOPS, Ltd., and other organizations on several
joint projects. Dr. Liang has been serving as an Editorial
Board Member of the IIE Transactions since 1996 and is an active reviewer for
more than 30 professional journals (including IEEE Transactions, ASME
Transactions, MSSP, MST, SMS, IJPR, IJPE, and IIE Transactions) and various
granting agencies. Dr. Liang has served in the NSERC Grant Selection
Committee (GSC) (2007-2010), and NSERC Scholarships and Fellowships Selection Committee
(2003-2005). He is a recipient of the Joseph Whitworth Award of the IMechE (2005) and has been listed in Who's Who in the World
(2007, 2009, 2010, 2011), and in Who¡¯s
Who in Science and Engineering (2011). He is also a Fellow of the International Society of
Engineering Asset Management (ISEAM),
and a Registered
Professional Engineer in the Province of Ontario (PEO), |