Address
601 West Main Street
P.O. Box 843015
Richmond, Virginia 23284-3015
Education
- Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 2004
- M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, 1999
- Mechatronics Certificate Degree, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, 1999
- B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, 1997
Honors
- National Science Foundation GK-12 Program in Mathematics Fellowship (2002-04)
- National Science Foundation GK-12 PRIME Fellowship (2001-02)
- University of Utah, College of Engineering Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award (1999)
- University of Utah, Teaching Assistant of the Year Awards (1997-98, 1998-99)
- National Science Foundation Human and Computer Interface, and Intelligent Control Traineeship (1999)
Research topics
- High-precision control of piezo-based positioners for atomic force microscopes
- Precision positioning of shape memory alloy actuators for micro/nano-surgery
- Iteration-based feedforward control
- Mechatronic systems design for high-precision positioning applications
Class taught
Publications
- K. K. Leang and S. Devasia, Design of hysteresis-compensating iterative learning control piezo-positioners: application in atomic force microscopes, In press Mechatronics, The Science of Intelligent Machines.
- Q. Zou, K. K. Leang, E. Sadoun, M. J. Reed, and S. Devasia, Control issues in high-speed AFM for biological applications: collagen imaging example, Published in the special issue on “Advances in Nanotechnology Control” in the Asian Journal of Control, Vol. 6, No. 2, pp. 164-178, June 2004.
- K. K. Leang, and S. Devasia, Iterative control of piezo positioners for long-range SPM-based nanofabrication, The 3rd IFAC Conference on Mechatronic Systems, Manly Beach, Sydney, Australia, September 2004.
- K. K. Leang, and S. Devasia, Iterative feedforward compensation of hysteresis in piezo positioners, IEEE 42nd Conference on Decision and Control, Maui, Hawaii USA, 2626-2631, December 2003 (invited session on Nanotechnology: Control Needs and Related Perspectives).
- K. K. Leang, and S. Devasia, Hysteresis, creep, and vibration compensation, The 2nd IFAC Conference on Mechatronic Systems, Berkeley, CA., 283-289, December 2002 (invited session on Smart Materials and Structures).
- K. K. Leang, Q. Zou, and S. Devasia, Continuous- and discrete-time state-space modeling, A contributed chapter to the CRC Mechatronics Handbook, Edited by Robert Bishop, CRC Press, Chapter 23, pp. 40-54, 2002.
- J. S. Dewey, K. K. Leang, and S. Devasia, Experimental and theoretical results in output-trajectory redesign for flexible structures, ASME J. Dyn. Syst., Meas., Control Vol. 120, pp. 456-461, December 1998