Professional Activities

Invited Talks:

• “Knowledge-Infused Sparse Learning for Quality Improvements in Smart Manufacturing Systems”, China R Conference, Capital of Statistics, November 2021, Virtual.  

• “A Deep Learning based Data Fusion Method for Degradation Modeling and Prognostics”, INFORMS Annual Meeting, October 2021, Virtual.

• “Knowledge-Infused Data Analytics for Quality Improvements in Smart Manufacturing Systems”, Symposium of Manufacturing Big Data Value Theory and Methodology, June 2021, Virtual. 

• “Optimal Shape Control via L_infinity Loss for Composite Fuselage Assembly”, Annual Meeting of Chinese Society of Management Science and Engineering, October 2020, Taiyuan, and also 2020 virtual INFORMS Annual Meeting.

• “A Deep Learning based Data Fusion Method for Degradation Modeling and Prognostics”, QR2MSE Young Scholar Meeting, October 2020, Xi’an, China.

• "Optimal Placement of Actuators for Composite Fuselage Shape Control ", INFORMS Annual Meeting, November 2018, Phoenix, Arizona, US. 

• "Data Fusion for Fuselage Shape Control and Assembly",  student seminars on Optimization and Machine Learning: Methods and Applications,  Georgia Tech, September 2018, Atlanta, Georgia, US. 

• “A Physics-Specific Change Point Detection Method using Torque Signals in Pipe Tightening Processes”, Joint Research Conference on Statistics in Quality, Industry, and Technology, June 2018, Santa Fe, New Mexico, US. 

• “Pairwise Critical Point Detection Using Torque Signals in Threaded Pipe Connection Processes”, poster presentations, INFORMS Annual Meeting, 2017, Houston, Texas, US. 

• “An Automatic Condition Detection Approach for Quality Assurance in Solar Cell Manufacturing Processes”, 13th International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (IEEE CASE 2017), August 2017, Xi’an, China. 

• “A Critical Change Point Detection Method in Threaded Steel Pipe Connection Processes Using Two Stage Sequential Piecewise Linear Approach”, 11th Manufacturing Science and Engineering Conference (MSEC 2016), Virginia Tech, June 2016, Blacksburg, Virginia, US. 

• “Pairwise Critical Point Detection Using Torque Signals in Threaded Pipe Connection Processes”, Symposium of College of Engineering, Peking University, May 2015, Beijing, China.

Membership: 

• Senior Member of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

• Senior Member of Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE)

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

• Member of Society of Mechanical Engineers (SME)

Community Services 

• 2019 INFORMS Annual Meeting, Best Student Paper Competition Reviewer for Data Mining Section. 

• 2020 INFORMS Annual Meeting, co-chair with Xiaowei Yue at VT for QSR Section “Computational Methods and Data Analytics for System Intelligence”. 

• 2021 IISE Annual Meeting, Best Student Paper Competition Reviewer for the Data Analytics and Information Systems (DAIS) Section. 

• 2021 INFORMS Annual Meeting, chair for the QSR Section “Data Analytics for Quality Improvement in Manufacturing Systems”. 

• 2022 IISE Annual Meeting, Best Student Paper Competition Reviewer & Best Track Paper Competition Reviewer for the DAIS Section.