- Darek Ceglarek, 1994, “Knowledge-Based Diagnosis for Automotive Body Assembly: Methodology and Implementation”, Co-Chair with late Prof. S. M. Wu
Current Position: EPSRC Research Chair Professor, Director of Digital Product Lifecycle Management, University of Warwick, UK. Professor, Dept. of Industrial Engineering, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison, (received the NSF CAREER Award in 2003) - Chris Koh, 1995, “Tonnage Signature Analysis for Stamping Process Fault Detection and Isolation”, Co-Chair with Prof. J. Ni
Current Position: Senior Lecturer, Dept. of Industrial and Mechanical Engineer, Nanyang University, Singapore - Davoud Khorzad, 1996, “Model Based Optimization for Auto Body Dimensional Control in Design and Assembly”, Co-chair with J. Ni
Current Position: Director of Engineering, Pharmaceutical Systems Inc. (PSI) - Boon W. Shiu, 1996, “Modeling of an Automotive Body Assembly System for Dimensional Control”, Co-chair with D. Ceglarek
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Dept. of Mechanical Engineer, Hongkong Polytech University - Fu-gee Tsung, 1997, “Run-to-run Proportional-Integrated-Derivative Process Control and Monitoring Schemes”, co-Chair with Jeff Wu
Current Position: Associate Professor, Dept. of Industrial Engineer, Hongkong Science and Technology University - Dan Apley, 1997, “Supervisory Adaptive Control: Monitoring, Diagnosis and Uncertainty”, co-Chair with J. Ni
Current Position: Associate Professor, Dept. of Industrial Engineering, Northwestern University. (received the NSF CAREER Award in 2001) - Jionghua Jin, 1998, “Feature Extraction of Waveform Signals for Stamping Process Monitoring and Fault Diagnosis”
Current Position: Associate Professor, Dept. of Industrial and Operations Engineering, The University of Michigan. (received the NSF CAREER Award in 2002, PECASE Award in 2004) - Steve Dyer, 1999, “Real-time In-process Dynamic Balancing for High Speed Rotating Machinery”, co-Chair with J. Ni
Current Position: Manager, ATKEARNEY Management Consultants - Qiang Rong, 2000, “Modeling and Diagnosis of Assembly Systems with Complaint Structures for Dimensional Control”, Co-chair with D. Ceglarek
Current Position: Executive Director, Morningstar Company - Baocheng Sun, 2000, “Statistical Process Monitoring for Non-IID Process”
Current Position: Senior Engineer, Ford Company - Shiyu Zhou, 2000, “Real Time Dynamic Balancing under Abrupt Change Conditions”
Current Position: Associate Professor, Department of Industrial Engineering at the University of Wisconsin – Madison. (received the NSF CAREER Award in 2005) - Huifang Li, 2000, “Modeling, Analysis, and Performance Optimization for Material Handling of Compliant Sheet Metal Parts” co-Chair with D. Ceglarek
Current Position: Senior Engineer, General Motors. - Yu Ding, 2001, “Modeling and Analysis of Stream of Variation in Multistage Manufacturing Processes” co-Chair with Dr. D. Ceglarek
Current Position: Associate Professor, Dept. of Industrial Engineering, Texas A&M University. (received the NSF CAREER Award in 2004) - Sittiporn Pimsakul, 2002, “Reconfigurable Manufacturing systems for Automotive Body Assembly”, co-Chair with Dr. Darek Ceglarek
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Industrial Engineering Department, King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology Ladkrabang, Thailand - Qiang Huang, 2003, “Stream of Variation Modeling and Analysis in Machining Processes”,
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Industrial Engineering Department, University of Southern Florida. - Yong Chen, 2003, “Integrated Design and Analysis of Product Quality and Tooling Reliability”, co-Chair with J. Jin.
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Iowa. - Jihyun Kim, 2004, “In-Process Sensor Fusion and Data Analysis for Forging Process Control and Quality Improvements”
Current Position: Research Professor, Industrial Engineering Department, Korea University - Hongbin Jia, 2005, “Rolling Process Control”, co-chair with Y. L. Murphy.
Current Position: Engineer, OG Technology Company - Pornpen Chaipradubkiat, 2006, “Integration of Part Quality and Tooling Information for Effective Process Control and Maintenance Planning”. co-chair with J. Jin.
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Industrial Engineering Department, Khon Kaen University, Thailand. - Jing Li, 2007, “Causation-based Quality Control Methodologies with Applications”,
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Industrial Engineering, Arizona State University - Eduardo Izquierdo, 2007, “Adaptive Assembly for Variation Reduction with Programmable Tooling”, co-Chair with S. Jack Hu
Current Position: Assistant Professor, University of Warwick, UK. - Jian Liu, 2008, “System-level Quality Planning and Diagnosis for Complex Multistage Manufacturing Processes”
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Industrial Engineering, Univ. of Arizona - Jing Zhong, 2009, “DOE-based APC: Variation Reduction beyond Robust Design”
Current Position: Research Staff, Microsoft Research, Microsoft Company - Ran Jin, 2011, “Modeling and Analysis for Multistage Wafer Manufacturing Processes”
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Virginia Tech - Chia-Jun Chang, 2012, “Statistics methods driven by engineering model for quality improvement”, (co-chair with Roshan)
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Penn State University - Kaibo Liu, 2013, “Data fusion for quality improvement”
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Industrial Engineering at the University of Wisconsin ¨C Madison. - Hao Li, 2015, “Residual life prediction and degradation-based control of multi-component systems”
Current Position: Senior Analyst, Cox Communications Company - Matt Plumlee, 2015, “Fast methods for identifying high dimensional systems using observations”
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Dept. of Industrial and Operations Engineering, University of Michigan (Starting in August, 2015) - Cheng Zhou, 2016, “Process Monitoring and Fault Diagnosis Using Recurrence Plot in Industrial Processes” (Note: co-advised Ph.D. in Beijing Science and Technology University, P.R. China)
Current Position: Research Engineer, Academy of Information Science Innovation - Hao Yan, 2017, “Online Monitoring of High-Dimensional Streaming Data Using Adaptive Order Shrinkage”
Current Position: Assistant Professor, School of Computing Informatics & Decision Systems Engineering, Arizona State University - Yibo Ai, 2017, “Study on Cross-scale Life Prediction of High Speed Train Gearbox Shell” Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Industrial Engineering, Beijing Science and Technology University (Note: co-advised Ph.D. in Beijing Science and Technology University, P.R. China)
- Xiaowei Yue, 2018, “Engineering-driven data analytics for in situ process monitoring of nanomanufacturing”
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Virginia Tech - Yuchen Wen, 2018, “Stream of Variation and shape control for composite fuselage assembly”
Current Position: Senior Data Scientist, FedEx - Mohammed Nabhan, 2019, “High-Dimensional Streaming Data Monitoring Using Correlation Based Sampling and Robust Sparse Reduction”Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia
- Juan Du, 2019, “Change Points Detection for Pipe Fasting Process” (Note: co-advised Ph.D. Student at Peking University; visiting Ph.D. student at Georgia Tech (2017-2018)) Current Position: Assistant Professor, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) (Note: Dr. Du accepted an offer as an Assistant Professor, Oregon State University, but did not join there due to visa issue.)
- Ruizhi Zhang, 2019, “Robust Sparse Learning and Monitoring of High-Dimensional Data” (the IISE Pritsker Doctoral Dissertation Award, 1st Place, 2020), Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, University of Nebraska
- Mostafa Reisi, 2019, “Modeling and Analysis Processes with Heterogeneous Sources of Data”, Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Florida
- Xinran Shi, 2020, “Composite Index Development via Data Fusion for System Monitoring, Diagnosis and Decision-Making”, Current Position: Quantitative Analytics Specialist, Wells Fargo
- Andi Wang, “Machine Learning in Manufacturing System Informatics, Current Position: Assistant Professor, The Polytechnic School, Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering, Arizona State University
- Zhen Zhong, 2021, “Advanced Process Control in Manufacturing Process With High-Dimensional Measurements” Current Position: Data Scientist, Amazon
Current Ph.D. Students
41. Shancong Mou, “Data analytics for advanced manufacturing processes”
42. Dhari Alenezi, “Data Analytics Topics for Quality Improvements”
43. Michael Biehler, “Cyber-physical Security and 3D Machine Learning for Future Cyber-Manufacturing”
44. Zihan Zhang, “Tensor based modeling, analysis and control for high dimensional data”