{"id":2,"date":"2025-01-22T22:07:22","date_gmt":"2025-01-22T22:07:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/people.mtsu.edu\/lmiao\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2026-04-11T06:54:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T11:54:08","slug":"sample-page","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/people.mtsu.edu\/lmiao\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Short Bio<\/strong><br>I am currently Professor and Coordinator of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mtsu.edu\/programs\/mechatronics\/\">Mechatronics Engineering<\/a>\u00a0at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/\">Middle Tennessee State University<\/a>. I earned my Ph.D. degree from Boston University, Master&#8217;s and Bachelor&#8217;s degrees from Northeastern University of China, in 2006, 2001, and 1998, respectively. From 2006 to 2009, I was with Nortel Networks in Billerica, MA. From 2009 to 2011, I was with the University of Cincinnati. From 2011 to 2014, I was with NuVo Technologies\/Legrand North America. From 2014 to 2015, I was with the State University of New York Farmingdale. I joined MTSU in fall 2015 as an assistant professor and was promoted to Associate Professor and Professor in 2020 and 2024, respectively. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Prospective Graduate Students<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am graduate faculty member of M.S. program of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/programs\/et-ms\/index.php\">Engineering Technology<\/a>&nbsp;and Ph.D. program of&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/programs\/computational-science-phd\/\">Computational Science<\/a>&nbsp;at MTSU. If you&#8217;d like to pursue graduate studies at MTSU, please apply to our programs before the deadline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Graduate and undergraduate research assistant positions are available. If you are interested in working with me and have good academic standing, please send me your transcript and CV via email.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Short BioI am currently Professor and Coordinator of\u00a0Mechatronics Engineering\u00a0at\u00a0Middle Tennessee State University. I earned my Ph.D. degree from Boston University, Master&#8217;s and Bachelor&#8217;s degrees from Northeastern University of China, in 2006, 2001, and 1998, respectively. From 2006 to 2009, I was with Nortel Networks in Billerica, MA. From 2009 to 2011, I was with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"page-bannerandsidebar.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.mtsu.edu\/lmiao\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.mtsu.edu\/lmiao\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.mtsu.edu\/lmiao\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.mtsu.edu\/lmiao\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.mtsu.edu\/lmiao\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/people.mtsu.edu\/lmiao\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121,"href":"https:\/\/people.mtsu.edu\/lmiao\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.mtsu.edu\/lmiao\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}