About Us

 Intelligent Systems Lab at University of Virginia, led by Dr. Qing (Cindy) Chang, works on various aspects of intelligent systems research as applied to manufacturing system:

• Cyber Physical Systems for Smart Manufacturing
• Human-Robot Collaboration in Industrial Settings
• Knowledge-guided Machine Learning based Control
• Integrated Modeling and Real-time Control through Multi-Agent Approach
• Intelligent Maintenance for Manufacturing Systems
• Real-Time Energy Management for Integrated Production and Energy System
• Battery Manufacturing System Modeling, Analysis, and Reliability Assessment

For more details, please visit the research and publications page.

News and Events

• April 2023
  • Congratulations to Kshitij Bhatta for successfully defending his MS dissertation

• October 2022
  • Congratulations to Tian Yu for successfully defending his PhD dissertation proposal
• September 2022
  • Welcome Mehregan Gilani Nejad to join our research group
• May 2022
  • Congratulations to Jing Huang for successfully defending his PhD dissertation
  • Congratulations to Cheng Zhu for passing his qualifying exam

• January 2022
  • Welcome Muhammad Waseem to join our research group

• November 2021
  • Congratulations to Tian Yu for passing his qualifying exam
• September 2021
  • Welcome Kshitij 'Horizon' Bhatta to join our research group
• January 2021
  • Welcome Chen Li to join Intelligent Systems Lab
• May 2020
  • Dr. Qing Chang was listed by SME in "The 20 Most Influential Professors in Smart Manufacturing"
  • Check out the following link for more details:

          https://www.sme.org/technologies/articles/2020/june/the-20-most-influential-professors/

• August 2019
  • Congratulations to Jing Zou for successfully defending his PhD thesis
  • Congratulations to Xinyan Ou for successfully defending her PhD thesis
  • Congratulations to Yu Qian for successfully defending his MS thesis
• January 2019
  • We moved from Stony Brook University to UVA (Jan. 2019)
• July 2018
  • Welcome Cheng Zhu, Yu Tian to join our research group
• September 2017
  • Welcome Jing Huang, Yu Qian and Rui Zhong to join our research group 

Position Openings

We have positions open for Ph.D. Students. Please contact Dr. Chang for details: q[email protected].