This article is about the Chinese-American engineer. For the Chinese swimmer, see Chang Qing.
Qing (Cindy) Chang is a Chinese–American production engineer whose research combines control theory and machine learning in smart manufacturing. She is a professor of engineering at the University of Virginia,[1] jointly appointed in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and in the Department of Systems and Information Engineering.[2] She co-chairs the Technical Committee for Sustainable Production Automation of the IEEE Robotics & Automation Society.[3]
After working in industry for ten years as a research engineer for General Motors, Chang returned to academia as an associate professor of mechanical engineering at Stony Brook University. She moved to her present position at the University of Virginia in 2019.[1]
Recognition
At General Motors, Chang was part of teams that won the GM Boss Kettering Award three times and the GM R&D Charles L. McCuen Special Achievement Award three times.[1]