Ph.D. Students

  1. Darek Ceglarek, 1994, “Knowledge-Based Diagnosis for Automotive Body Assembly: Methodology and Implementation”, Co-Chair with late Prof. S. M. Wu
    Current Position: EPSRC Research Chair Professor, Director of Digital Product Lifecycle Management, University of Warwick, UK. Professor, Dept. of Industrial Engineering, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison (received the NSF CAREER Award in 2003)
  2. Chris Koh, 1995, “Tonnage Signature Analysis for Stamping Process Fault Detection and Isolation”, Co-Chair with Prof. J. Ni
    Current Position: Senior Lecturer, Dept. of Industrial and Mechanical Engineer, Nanyang University, Singapore
  3. Davoud Khorzad, 1996, “Model Based Optimization for Auto Body Dimensional Control in Design and Assembly”, Co-chair with J. Ni
    Current Position: Director of Engineering, Pharmaceutical Systems Inc. (PSI)
  4. Boon W. Shiu, 1996, “Modeling of an Automotive Body Assembly System for Dimensional Control”, Co-chair with D. Ceglarek
    Current Position: Assistant Professor, Dept. of Mechanical Engineer, Hongkong Polytech University
  5. Fu-gee Tsung, 1997, “Run-to-run Proportional-Integrated-Derivative Process Control and Monitoring Schemes”, co-Chair with Jeff Wu
    Current Position: Chair Professor, Dept. of Industrial Engineer, Hongkong Science and Technology University
  6. Dan Apley, 1997, “Supervisory Adaptive Control: Monitoring, Diagnosis and Uncertainty”, co-Chair with J. Ni
    Current Position: Professor, Dept. of Industrial Engineering, Northwestern University (received the NSF CAREER Award in 2001)
  7. Jionghua Jin, 1998, “Feature Extraction of Waveform Signals for Stamping Process Monitoring and Fault Diagnosis”
    Current Position: Endowed Professor, Dept. of Industrial and Operations Engineering, The University of Michigan (received the NSF CAREER Award in 2002, PECASE Award in 2004)
  8. Steve Dyer, 1999, “Real-time In-process Dynamic Balancing for High Speed Rotating Machinery”, co-Chair with J. Ni
    Current Position: Partner & Managing Director at AlixPartners, Co-Leader of Greater China, AlixPartners
  9. Qiang Rong, 2000, “Modeling and Diagnosis of Assembly Systems with Complaint Structures for Dimensional Control”, Co-chair with D. Ceglarek
    Current Position: Senior VP, Head of Core Product Solutions, Supernova Technology™
  10. Baocheng Sun, 2000, “Statistical Process Monitoring for Non-IID Process”
    Current Position: Senior Engineer, Ford Company
  11. Shiyu Zhou, 2000, “Real Time Dynamic Balancing under Abrupt Change Conditions”
    Current Position: Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor and Department Chair, Department of Industrial Engineering at the University of Wisconsin – Madison (received the NSF CAREER Award in 2005)
  12. Huifang Li, 2000, “Modeling, Analysis, and Performance Optimization for Material Handling of Compliant Sheet Metal Parts” co-Chair with D. Ceglarek
    Current Position: Sr. R & D Engineer, Robert Bosch
  13. Yu Ding, 2001, “Modeling and Analysis of Stream of Variation in Multistage Manufacturing Processes” co-Chair with Dr. D. Ceglarek
    Current Position: Anderson-Interface Chair and Professor, School of Industrial and System Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology (received the NSF CAREER Award in 2004)
  14. Sittiporn Pimsakul, 2002, “Reconfigurable Manufacturing systems for Automotive Body Assembly”, co-Chair with Dr. Darek Ceglarek
    Current Position: Professor, Industrial Engineering Department, King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology Ladkrabang, Thailand
  15. Qiang Huang, 2003, “Stream of Variation Modeling and Analysis in Machining Processes”,
    Current Position: Professor, Industrial Engineering and System Department, University of Southern California
  16. Yong Chen, 2003, “Integrated Design and Analysis of Product Quality and Tooling Reliability”, co-Chair with J. Jin.
    Current Position: Professor and Department Chair, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Iowa
  17. Jihyun Kim, 2004, “In-Process Sensor Fusion and Data Analysis for Forging Process Control and Quality Improvements”
    Current Position: Research Professor, Industrial Engineering Department, Korea University
  18. Hongbin Jia, 2005, “Rolling Process Control”, co-chair with Y. L. Murphy.
    Current Position: Engineer, OG Technology Company
  19. Pornpen Chaipradubkiat, 2006, “Integration of Part Quality and Tooling Information for Effective Process Control and Maintenance Planning”. co-chair with J. Jin.
    Current Position: Associate Professor, Industrial Engineering Department, Khon Kaen University, Thailand
  20. Jing Li, 2007, “Causation-based Quality Control Methodologies with Applications”,
    Current Position: Virginia C. and Joseph C. Mello Chair and Professor, School of Industrial and System Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology (received the NSF CAREER Awardin 2010)
  21. Eduardo Izquierdo, 2007, “Adaptive Assembly for Variation Reduction with Programmable Tooling”, co-Chair with S. Jack Hu
    Current Position: R&D Director, FPC TISSUE S.P.A.
  22. Jian Liu, 2008, “System-level Quality Planning and Diagnosis for Complex Multistage Manufacturing Processes”
    Current Position: Associate Professor, Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Arizona
  23. Jing Zhong, 2009, “DOE-based APC: Variation Reduction beyond Robust Design”
    Current Position: Senior Data Scientist, Apple Company
  24. Ran Jin, 2011, “Modeling and Analysis for Multistage Wafer Manufacturing Processes”
    Current Position: Associate Professor, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Virginia Tech
  25. Chia-Jun Chang, 2012, “Statistics methods driven by engineering model for quality improvement”, (co-chair with Roshan)
    Current Position: Director, Bank of America, Great Boston Area
  26. Kaibo Liu, 2013, “Data fusion for quality improvement”
    Current Position: Grainger STAR Professor, Department of Industrial Engineering,  the University of Wisconsin – Madison
  27. Hao Li, 2015, “Residual life prediction and degradation-based control of multi-component systems”
    Current Position: Senior Applied Scientist, Amazon Company
  28. Matt Plumlee, 2015, “Fast methods for identifying high dimensional systems using observations”
    Current Position: Principal Applied Scientist, Amazon Company
  29. Cheng Zhou, 2016, “Process Monitoring and Fault Diagnosis Using Recurrence Plot in Industrial Processes” (Note: co-advised Ph.D. in Beijing Science and Technology University, P.R. China)
    Current Position: Research Engineer, Academy of Information Science Innovation
  30. Hao Yan, 2017, “Online Monitoring of High-Dimensional Streaming Data Using Adaptive Order Shrinkage”
    Current Position: Associate Professor, School of Computing Informatics & Decision Systems Engineering, Arizona State University
  31. Yibo Ai, 2017, “Study on Cross-scale Life Prediction of High Speed Train Gearbox Shell”
    Current Position: Professor, Department of Industrial Engineering, Beijing Science and Technology University (Note: co-advised Ph.D. in Beijing Science and Technology University, P.R. China)
  32. Xiaowei Yue, 2018, “Engineering-driven data analytics for in situ process monitoring of nanomanufacturing”
    Current Position: Associate Professor, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Tsinghua University
  33. Yuchen Wen, 2018, “Stream of Variation and shape control for composite fuselage assembly”
    Current Position: Senior Data Scientist, FedEx
  34. Mohammed Nabhan, 2019, “High-Dimensional Streaming Data Monitoring Using Correlation Based Sampling and Robust Sparse Reduction”
    Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia
  35. Juan Du, 2019, “Change Points Detection for Pipe Fasting Process” (Note: co-advised Ph.D. Student at Peking University; visiting Ph.D. student at Georgia Tech (2017-2018))
    Current Position: Assistant Professor, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)
  36. Ruizhi Zhang, 2019, “Robust Sparse Learning and Monitoring of High-Dimensional Data” (the IISE Pritsker Doctoral Dissertation Award, 1st Place, 2020)
    Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, University of Georgia
  37. Mostafa Reisi, 2019, “Modeling and Analysis Processes with Heterogeneous Sources of Data”
    Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Florida
  38. Xinran Shi, 2020, “Composite Index Development via Data Fusion for System Monitoring, Diagnosis and Decision-Making”
    Current Position: Quantitative Analytics Specialist, Wells Fargo
  39. Andi Wang, 2021, “Machine Learning in Manufacturing System Informatics”
    Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Industrial Engineering, the University of Wisconsin – Madison
  40. Zhen Zhong, 2021, “Advanced Process Control in Manufacturing Process With High-Dimensional Measurements”
    Current Position: Data Scientist, Amazon
  41. Shancong Mou, 2024, “Robust Learning for Fine-Grained Anomaly Detection in a Data-Rich But Label-Rare Environment”
    Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Minnesota
  42. Qunzhi Xu, 2024, “Efficient Active Quickest Detection for Streaming Data Under Sampling Control”
    Current Position: Post Doctor Fellow, New York University
  43. Michael Biehler, 2024, “Cyber-physical Security and 3D Machine Learning for Future Cyber-Manufacturing”
    Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Wisconsin – Madison
  44. Dhari Alenezi, 2024, “Exploring Strength in Weakness: Multifaceted Weakly Supervised Learning Approaches for Telehealth and Industrial Quality Predictions”
    Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Kuwait

    Current Ph.D. Students (and tentative thesis topics)

  45. Zihan Zhang, “Tensor-based Modeling, Analysis and Control for High Dimensional Data”
  46. Alina Gorbunova, “Monitoring and Diagnosis in High-Dimensional Model Relationship Profiles”
  47. Yifeng Wang, “Engineering-Informed Learning Methods for Quality Control in Advanced Composite Manufacturing”
  48. Yichen Ma, “Task-Oriented Importance Sampling for Large-Scale 3D Point Clouds”
  49. Sangyup Lee, “Statistical Modeling of Chip-Level Warpage for 3D Stacking”