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Welcome to the Smart Manufacturing

Smart manufacturing is the locomotive and at a pivotal strategic position in China’s future industrialization development. As an interdisciplinary field, smart manufacturing is the best carrier and motivity of the related fundamental research, and it can also demonstrate the impact of both fundamental and applied research more effectively and intuitively. We have already assembled a dynamic and highly qualified faculty team, and we will always be open to creative and talented scholars interested in cross-disciplinary research and teaching. Our degree program provides students with both cross-disciplinary fundamental theoretical training and hands-on training to prepare them better equipped for future challenges. Welcome to the Smart Manufacturing Thrust!

 

Kai Tang

SMMG Thrust

Introduction of the Head

Kai TANG

PhD in Computer, Information and Control Engineering
University of Michigan, 1990

Dr. Kai Tang was born and grew up in the ancient capital city Nanjing of China. He graduated from the No. 13 middle school of Nanjing in 1977 and was fortunate to continue on to go to college after the universities in China had been virtually shut down for 10 years due to the Cultural Revolution. He went to his hometown university the Nanjing Institute of Technology and received BEng in Mechanical Engineering in the Spring of 1982 (class of 21-77-1). Afterward, among the first selected by China’s Education Ministry, he went to the University of Michigan in 1984, enrolling in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, where he received MSc in 1986 and PhD in 1990, both in Computer Engineering. From 1991 to 2001 for 10 years, he worked as a software specialist in software industry, mostly in the area of Computer-Aided Design and Manufacturing software development. He also for a short period of one year worked as the chief engineer in a start-up company focusing on voice recognition technology. In June 2001, he “went back” to school and joined the faculty of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.