Yang Zhang.

I'm a Postdoctoral Researcher at UConn DSC lab, working with Prof. Jiong Tang and Prof. Farhad Imani. I received my Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from University of Connecticut in December 2024. My research spans Foundation Models & Agentic AI, Scientific Machine Learning, Inverse Problems & Optimization, and Piezoelectric Sensing & Smart Structures.

I develop computational frameworks that combine these directions toward systems that sense their own state, diagnose their own faults, and act autonomously. Current work includes vision-language models and retrieval-augmented generation for manufacturing defect detection and wind turbine blade inspection, LLM-guided robotic scanning with vision-language-action models, physics-infused graph neural networks for machining digital twins, and remaining useful life prediction for aircraft compressors under uncertainty. This builds on my Ph.D. work on inverse analysis for structural damage identification, where I developed reinforcement learning-guided multi-objective optimization, compressive sensing and dictionary learning for sparse reconstruction, and tunable piezoelectric impedance sensing.

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