COLLEGE STATION, Texas, Oct. 24, 2008 – Zuyi “Jacky” Huang, a graduate student in the Artie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering at Texas A&M University, has been named a recipient of a Computing and Systems Technology (CAST) Graduate Travel Grant for 2008.
Huang, who joined Texas A&M in 2005 after receiving his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Tsinghua University in China, will receive a $500 stipend and a trip to the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) annual meeting where he will be recognized and present his research.
Huang’s work involves the development of techniques for deriving signal transduction models that take into account that only a limited number of experimental data can be generated for these systems. Additionally, he is helping to develop new measurement techniques based upon the solution of inverse problems that will allow researchers to infer protein concentrations inside cells using non-invasive measurement techniques.
“I am pleased to have a student like Jacky working on these projects as it involves not only technical skills but also being able to constantly interact with researchers from another group,” said Assistant Professor Juergen Hahn in a letter nominating Huang for the award.
“He joined my research group in the spring of 2006 and has been a very hard working and extremely productive graduate student,” Hahn added.
Huang is an author of two papers accepted by the AIChE for oral presentation at its annual meeting: “Analysis Procedure for Signal Transduction Pathways by Clustering Parameters According to their Sensitivity Profiles” and “Quantitative Measurement Technique for Transcription Factor Profiles.”
CAST awards up to 10 travel grants each year to assist graduate students with travel expenses so that they can attend the AIChE Annual meeting to present the results of their research. To be eligible, the student must be a member of AIChE and present a paper at the Annual Meeting in a CAST-sponsored or co-sponsored session.
The CAST division of AIChE is responsible for the wide range of activities within the organization that involve the application of computers and mathematics to chemical engineering problems, including process design, process control, operations and applied mathematics.
