awards

complete list

• Ranked among top 2% of global scientists (2020, 2021, 2022 -  rank 67,671/7,948,526, rank 580/83,299 for IE, 2023 - 55,804, rank 604 for IE) (data 2020:  http://dx.doi.org/10.17632/btchxktzyw.2; data 2021: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3000918, data 2022: https://doi.org/10.17632/btchxktzyw.4; data 2023: https://elsevier.digitalcommonsdata.com/datasets/btchxktzyw/6)

• Highly Ranked Scholar (ScholarGPS) in Manufacturing: Lifetime #289, Prior Five Years #39 (2023). link

• Listed in 'Who’s Who in Industry 4.0? Top 50 Influencers to Follow' by Onalytics (2023). 

• Recipient of Editor's Choice award for our paper on Pattern Recognition in Multivariate Time Series:Towards an Automated Event Detection Method for SMS published in JMMP.

• WVU Benjamin M. Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources ‘ 2022 Statler Outstanding Researcher of the Year/Senior' Award (2022).

• Featured among the 20 Manufacturing Innovators and Thought Leaders You Should Know by Matics Manufacturing Analytics (2022)

• Recipient of the 2021 WVU Value Coin for representing the core Mountaineer Values of Service, Curiosity, Respect, Accountability and Appreciation presented by Pedro Mago (2021).

• Listed in Who's Who in Industry 4.0 by onalytica (2021).

• Recipient of the IISE/Joint Publisher Book-of-the-Year award for Digital Supply Networks (2021)

• David Dornfeld Manufacturing Vision Award Finalist. NAMRC/SME/NSF Blue Sky Competition (2021). link

• Wuest named among 2021 Pros to Know Awardees by Supply & Demand Chain Executive (2021) link

• Recognized as one of 'The 20 most influential professors in smart manufacturing' by SME (2020). link

• Commended Paper Award at the 5th International Conference on System-Integrated Intelligence (SysInt 2020) for the paper 'Data-Driven Context Awareness of Smart Products in Discrete Smart Manufacturing Systems'. link

• Paper 'Pattern Recognition in Multivariate Time Series: Towards an Automated Event Detection Method for Smart Manufacturing Systems' Selected as Title Story for Journal of Manufacturing and Materials Processing link

• Recommended by WVU President E. Gordon Gee for President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (2020).

• WVU Benjamin M. Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources ‘Outstanding Teacher of the Year 2019’ Award (2019). link

• Featured Paper Award at the International Conference on Advances in Production Management Systems (APMS 2019) for the paper 'The APMS Conference & IFIP WG 5.7 in the 21st Century - A Bibliometric Study'.

• SME Journal Award - 2018 Outstanding Reviewer Award for the Journal of Manufacturing Systems. link

• 2018 IJAT Best Review Paper Award for the most prominent review paper in recent years published in the International Journal of Automation Technology (IJAT) for the paper ‘"Industrie 4.0" and Smart Manufacturing - A Review of Research Issues and Application Examples’. link

• 2018 - 2nd Place for Graduate Student Paper Competition for my Ph.D. advisee Muztoba A. Khan link

• Most Read 2017 in two categories: Economics, Finance, Business & Industry as well as Engineering & Technology; Taylor & Francis / Routledge: 'Machine Learning in Manufacturing: advantages, challenges, and applications' (Wuest et al., 2016). link

• Marco Garetti Best Paper Award Nominee at the IFIP 15thInternational Conference for Product Lifecycle Management (PLM 18) for the paper ‘Sustainability of Cascading Product Lifecycles: The need for adaptive management to end-of-life supply chains’. 

• Paper 'Cascade Use and Management of Product Lifecycles' Selected as Cover Story for Sustainability Issue 9 Vol. 9 (out of 176 accepted papers) link

• J. Wayne and Kathy Richards Faculty Fellow in Engineering link

• Best Faculty Paper Award at 'The 46th International Conference on Computers & Industrial Engineering (CIE 46)' for the paper 'Towards an Operator 4.0 Topology: A Human-Centric Perspective n the Fourth Industrial Revolution Technologies'

• BIG12 Fellowship to support a research visit at Texas Tech University

• IDEA Fellowship in the office of the Provost of West Virginia University. 

• IPID4ALL – Senior Researcher mobility grant. Funding for guest lecture at the University of Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany.    

• 'Springer Theses - Recognizing Outstanding Ph.D. Research' award. The best theses from internationally top-ranked research institutes are selected annually for the award and publication in the prestigious Springer Theses series. (Free publication in the series, complimentary author exemplars plus monetary price) link

• Annual Grant for Doctoral Students from German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD Jahresstipendium für Doktoranden); August 2013 – Mai 2014. (Full funding incl. travel cost, living expenses, health insurance, research expenses) link

• Best Presentation Award, LDIC 2012 Doctoral Workshop. link

• Best Paper Award, APMS 2011 Doctoral Workshop for the Best Research Plan. link

• Rheinstahl-Stiftung scholarship recipient from ThyssenKrupp Technologies AG. Scholarship for exceptional engineering graduate students. (Funding incl. monetary support of living expenses) link

• e-fellows scholarship (sponsors e.g., McKinsey, Deutsche Telekom, DHL). (Funding incl. access to academic databases (e.g., Academic Search Premier), access to mentors, subscriptions to academic journals, etc.) link

• careerloft scholarship (sponsors e.g., Audi, BCG, SAP). (Funding incl. access to academic databases (e.g., SpringerLink), monetary support for literature, etc.) link

• Top Student in International Business for the March 2008 Graduation. (Master of Professional Business Studies Programm at AUT University Business School, Auckland, New Zealand)