August 2011 - present
Assistant Professor, Grado Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Virginia Tech
September 2015 - present
Director, Laboratory of Data Science and Visualization (DSV), Grado Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Virginia Tech
Dr. Ran Jin is an Associate Professor and the Director of Laboratory Laboratory of Data Science and Visualization at the Grado Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Virginia Tech. He received his Ph.D. degree in Industrial Engineering from Georgia Tech, Atlanta, his Master’s degrees in Industrial Engineering, and in Statistics, both from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and his bachelor’s degree in Electronic Engineering from Tsinghua University, Beijing. His research focuses on data fusion in smart manufacturing, computation services, and cognitive-based interactive visualization. He is currently serving as an Associate Editor for IISE Transactions, Associate Editor for Journal of Manufacturing Science and Engineering, and Associate Editor for INFORMS Journal on Data Science. He has been working with many leading manufacturing companies in aerospace, semiconductor, personal care, optical fiber industries.