People

Dr. Juan Du, Assistant Professor

• Ph. D.  2019, Department of Industrial Engineering & Management,  Peking University

  • 2017-2019, Visiting/Joint Ph.D. student, H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial & Systems Engineering, Georgia Tech

• B. S.  2014, Composite Materials and Engineering, Honors School (Elite Student Program, 4-year GPA Rank No.1), Harbin Institute of Technology

  • 2013, Exchange Student, School of Material Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Xuanming Cao, Ph.D. Student, 2022 Fall-present

§ 2023 IISE Data Analytics and Information Systems (DAIS) Data Analytics Competition Award Winner

§ 2024 Best Application Paper Finalist at CSIE&CIEDH

Letian Bai, Ph.D. Student, 2024 Fall-present

Rui Wang, Ph.D. Student, 2025 Spring-present, co-supervised with Prof. Nan Chen@NUS

Siyuan He, Ph.D. Student, 2025 Spring-present

Dongheng Chen, Ph.D. Student, 2025 Spring-present, co-supervised with Prof. Huachen Cui

Yanshuo Zhang, Ph.D. Student, 2025 Fall-present

Xiangyong Tan, Ph.D. Student, 2025 Fall-present

Qingyu Liu, Ph.D. Student, 2023 Fall-present, co-supervised

Ziyun Yang, Ph.D. Student, 2023 Fall-present, co-supervised

Kaiwen Lin, MPhil Student, 2024 Fall-present, co-supervised with Prof. Xiaobei Shen@USTC

Qing Zhu, MPhil Student, 2025 Fall-present

Zilin Huang, MPhil Student, 2025 Fall-present

Jiale Hu, MPhil Student, 2025 Fall-present

Minrui OU, MSc Student, 2025 Fall-present

Jianbang You, RA, 2025 Spring-present

Xiaoyu Lu, RA, 2025 Summer- present

Chenjun Tong, RA, 2025 Summer- present

Chao Zhu, RA, 2025 Fall-present

Huimin Zeng, Undergraduate Research, 2025 Summer-present

Tsz Tsun Yang, Undergraduate Research, 2025 Summer-present

Xiangnan Gao, Undergraduate Research, 2025 Fall-present

Haoting Wang, Undergraduate Research, 2025 Fall, X program Completed. 

Alumni

Yanrong Li, RA@HKUST(GZ), Ph.D. from SJTU, graduated in 2024 

§  2024 INFORMS ICQSR Best Paper Award Finalist

Note: Co-supervised with Prof Wei Jiang at Shanghai Jiao Tong University 

Thesis: Reinforcement Learning for Quality Control with Applications in Semiconductor Manufacturing

First position: postdoc, NUS. Received the Assistant Professor offer from Chongqing Univ but did not join. 

Chengyu Tao, Ph.D., graduated in 2025

§  2025 IISE Transactions Best Paper Award (Design and Manufacturing Focus Issue)

§  2022 IISE Quality Control and Reliability Engineering (QCRE) Best Student Paper Award Finalist

§  2023 IISE Data Analytics and Information Systems (DAIS) Data Analytics Competition Award Winner

§  2022-23 HKUST IPO Best Research Award (Merit Prize)

Thesis: Machine Learning-Enabled 3D Surface Anomaly Detection of Fabricated Artifacts

First position: Huawei Industrial AI researcher @Shenzhen 

Yukun Xie, Mphil, graduated in 2024

§  2024 CSAMSE Annual Conference Best Practice Award 2nd Prize

Thesis: QUALITY INSPECTION MODELING BASED ON MULTICHANNEL PROFILE DATA IN MULTISTAGE MANUFACTURING PROCESS, co-supervised with Prof. Fugee Tsung

First position: Algorithm Engineer @RuiLi Scientific Instruments Shanghai

Hao Xu, Mphil, graduated in 2024

Thesis: Deep Learning-Based Unsupervised Anomaly Detection in Manufacturing Scenarios, co-supervised with Prof. Yingcong Chen

First position: PhD student @University of Sydney

Peng Ye, Mphil, graduated in 2025

§ 2023 IISE Data Analytics and Information Systems (DAIS) Data Analytics Competition Award Winner

§ 2023 Best Paper Award from the Reliability Division of the Chinese society of Operations Research  

§ 2024 Best Application Paper (First Prize) at CSIE&CIEDH

§ 2025 IISE Data Analytics and Information Systems (DAIS) Best Paper Award Winner

Thesis: Machine Learning for Industrial Periodic Surface Inspection and Fuselage Assembly Optimization

First Position: Huawei Noah's Ark Lab Engineer @ Shanghai 

Dr. Xin Zhou, Senior RA, 2025 Spring-2025 Summer

Research Topic: 3D Cloud Modeling under noisy scenarios 

First Position: postdoc, Western University @ Canada

Yifeng Cheng, RA, 2024 Spring-2025 Summer

Research Topic: 3D Point Cloud Generative Model

First Position: master student @ NUS

Man Wang, RA, 2025 Summer

Research Topic: data-driven UAV review

First Position: PhD student @ HKUST(GZ) at INTR thrust