Greetings! I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at UNC Charlotte. Prior to joining UNC Charlotte, I earned my Ph.D. in Systems and Industrial Engineering (2025) and M.S. in Statistics and Data Science (2024) from the University of Arizona.
My research lies at the intersection of statistics, optimization, and simulation, with broad applications in complex systems reliability modeling, healthcare informatics, and transportation systems analysis.
August 2026 Omer Rehman joined our group as a Ph. D. student! Welcome, Omer!
May 2026 Shuai Shao joined our group as a Summer Graduate Researcher to work on the project titled "Investigating Human–AI Shared Situational Awareness in Safety-Critical Environments." Welcome, Shuai!
May 2026 Swapn Shah joined our group as a Summer Graduate Researcher to work on the project titled "Investigating Human–AI Shared Situational Awareness in Safety-Critical Environments." ! Welcome, Swapn!
April 2026 Dr. Fenglian Pan started an affiliated position in the School of Data Science at UNC Charlotte.
April 2026 Dr. Fenglian Pan received a seed grant from the School of Data Science at UNC Charlotte as a Co-PI to support research on Investigating Human–AI Shared Situational Awareness in Safety-Critical Environments.
January 2026 Samyoga Bhattarai joined our group as a Ph. D. student! Welcome, Samyoga!
October 2025 Dr. Fenglian Pan participated in INFORMS 2025, where she chaired a session titled “Integrative Modeling for Multi-Source and Multi-Level Data” and presented her recent work, “A Computationally Efficient Learning Framework for Artificial Intelligence System Reliability Considering Error Propagation.”
October 2025 Our team has been honored with the 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟰–𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱 𝗜𝗡𝗙𝗢𝗥𝗠𝗦 𝗩𝗼𝗹𝘂𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗲𝗿 𝗦𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗶𝗰𝗲 𝗔𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱 for our collaborative efforts in launching and growing the 𝗜𝗡𝗙𝗢𝗥𝗠𝗦 𝗞-𝟭𝟮 𝗘𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗢𝘂𝘁𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗵 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗡𝗲𝘁𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗺.
August 2025 Our paper titled "DR-AIR: A Data Repository Bridging the Research Gap in AI Reliability" has been accepted for publication in the journal of Quality Engineering.
August 2025 I joined the Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering at UNC Charlotte as an Assistant Professor.