Service

Society Activities

  • Elected as Board Member in Quality Control and Reliability Engineering Division of IIE, 2015~2017

  • Chair, Best Student Paper Competition in the Quality Control and Reliability Engineering (QCRE) Division of ISERC Annual Conference 2015

  • Elected as Council Member in Data Mining Subdivision of INFORMS, 2013~present

  • Newsletter Editor in the Quality, Statistics and Reliability subdivision of INFORMS, 2014~present

  • Judge of Best Student Paper Competition in Data Mining Subdivision of INFORMS Annual Conferences, and Best Student Paper Competition in the Quality Control and Reliability Engineering (QCRE) Division of ISERC Annual Conference, since 2012

Conference Organizing Activities

  • Co-Chair for the 1st International Workshop on Biomedical Informatics with Optimization and Machine Learning, in conjunction with 25th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) 2016

  • Co-Chair (with Dr. Mustafa Baydogan and Dr. Asil Oztekin) for the Data Mining and Analytics Workshop at INFORMS 2015

  • Cluster Chair for Data Mining Cluster at INFORMS Health Care 2015

  • Organizer of the BigBrain Mini-Symposium at the SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM 2015)

  • Session Chairs for Subdivisions of Quality, Statistics and Reliability, Data Mining, and Health Applications at INFORMS from 2011 ~ present

Editorial Board

  • Associate Editor, IIE Transactions on Healthcare Systems Engineering, 2016 - present

  • Associate Editor, Quality Technology & Quantitative Management, 2016 - present

  • Guest Editor: EURASIP Journal on Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, for the special issue - Biomedical Informatics with Optimization and Machine Learning, 2016

  • Guest Editor: Brain Informatics, for the Special Issue on Computational Methods for Neuroimaging Data Analysis, 2015-2016

  • Associate Editor, Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, 2015-2016

Journal and Conferences Reviewers

  • NIPS, KDD, ICML, SDM, IJCAI, Technometrics, IIE Transactions, Annals of Operations Research, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetic, IEEE Transactions on Reliability, IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, Neuroimage, PLOS one, Pattern Recognition, Neurocomputing, Journal of Manufacturing Systems

Membership

  • Institute for Operation Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)

  • American Society for Quality (ASQ)

  • Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE)

Honors and Awards

    • Honorable Mention, for paper “High-dimensional Process Monitoring and Change Point Detection using Embedding Distributions in Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Space (RKHS)”, IIE Transactions Focused Issue on Quality and Reliability Engineering Best Applications Paper Award Competition, 2016

    • Feature Article in IIE Magazine, for paper “High-dimensional Process Monitoring and Change Point Detection using Embedding Distributions in Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Space (RKHS)”, Oct. 2014

  • Best Paper Award, IIE Transactions Best Paper – Quality & Reliability Engineering, for “A Transfer Learning Approach for Network Modeling”, 2014

  • Outstanding Graduate Award, School of Computing, Informatics, and Decision Systems Engineering, Arizona State University, 2012

  • University Graduate Fellowship Award, School of Computing, Informatics, and Decision Systems Engineering, Arizona State University, 2012

  • Finalist of Best Student Paper Competition in Quality, Statistics and Reliability Subdivision of INFORMS Annual Conference, Charlotte, NC, Nov. 2011, paper title: Hypergraph-based Gaussian Process Models with Qualitative and Quantitative Input Variables

  • Finalist of Best Student Paper Competition in Data Mining Subdivision of INFORMS Annual Conference, Charlotte, NC, Nov. 2011, paper title: Brain Effective Connectivity Modeling for Alzheimer's Disease by Sparse Gaussian Bayesian Network

  • Best Poster Award (2nd Place), in Quality, Statistics and Reliability Subdivision of INFORMS Annual Conference, Charlotte, NC, Nov. 2011

  • Dissertation Poster Award (2nd Place), Doctoral Colloquium Dissertation Poster Competition of Industrial Engineering Research Conference (IERC), Reno, NV, May. 2011

  • Feature Article in IIE Magazine, for paper “Regression-based Process Monitoring with Consideration of Measurement Errors”, Jan. 2010