Faculty
Dr. Yu Ding is the Mike and Sugar Barnes Professor of Industrial & Systems Engineering, Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering, a co-director of TEES Institute of Manufacturing Systems, and a Faculty Affiliate with Texas A&M Energy Institute and with the Institute of Applied Mathematics and Computational Sciences (IAMCS), all at Texas A&M University. Dr. Ding received a B.S. degree from the University of Science & Technology of China in 1993, an M.S. degree from Tsinghua University in 1996, an M.S. degree from Penn State University in 1998, and a Ph.D. degree from the University of Michigan in 2001. Dr. Ding’s research interest is in the area of system informatics, and data and quality science. Dr. Ding is a Fellow of IISE, a Fellow of ASME, a senior member of IEEE, and a member of INFORMS. Please also visit https://engineering.tamu.edu/industrial/people/yding.
Post-doctoral Research Associate
Dr. Hoon Hwangbo is currently a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Texas A&M University. Hoon received a B.Eng. in Industrial Systems and Information Engineering and an M.Eng. in Industrial Systems from Korea University, Seoul, South Korea, in 2008 and 2010, respectively. He obtained his Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from Texas A&M University in 2017. Hoon’s research interests include data analytics; reliability and quality assessment; and productivity and efficiency analysis. His ongoing research particularly focuses on performance evaluation of wind power production systems. Please also visit https://sites.google.com/site/hhwangbophd/.
Ph.D. Students
Yanjun Qian is currently a Ph.D. candidate in Industrial & Systems Engineering at Texas A&M University. Yanjun received the B.S. (2009) and M.S. (2012) in Automation from Tsinghua University, China. His research interests include data analytics, machine learning, and statistical modeling applied to advanced manufacturing. Yanjun is a student member of IISE, INFORMS and SIAM. For more information please visit https://sites.google.com/view/yjqian.
Ahmed Aziz Ezzat is currently pursuing his Ph.D. degree in Industrial and Systems Engineering at Texas A&M University. Aziz received the B.Sc. in Industrial & Management Engineering from the Arab Academy of Science & Technology in Alexandria, Egypt in 2013. His research focuses on the spatio-temporal modeling, prediction and control in complex engineering systems with particular emphasis on wind energy applications.
Imtiaz Ahmed is currently pursuing his Ph.D. and also working as a graduate research assistant in the Industrial & Systems Engineering Department at Texas A&M University. Imtiaz received B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Industrial & Production Engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology (BUET), Dhaka, Bangladesh in 2012 and 2014, respectively. He also served as a faculty member there for three years. His research interests are in data analytics, machine learning and quality control. For more information you are most welcome to visit his Google Scholar and LinkedIn profile. Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=CEouarIAAAAJ&hl=en; LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/imtiazahmedTAMUISEN.
Joel Macaluso is currently pursuing his Ph.D. degree in Industrial and Systems Engineering at Texas A&M University. Joel received the B.Sc. in Mathematics from Rice University, Houston, Texas in 2012. His research interests include deep learning applied to power grid prediction.
Shilan Jin is currently pursuing her Ph.D. degree in Industrial and Systems Engineering at Texas A&M University. Shilan received the B.Sc. in Mathematics from Jilin University, China in 2008 and the M.Sc. in Industrial and Systems Engineering from Texas A&M University in 2013. She also worked for the Walt Disney Company, as a Decision Science Consultant from 2013 to 2017. Her research interests include data analytics, machine learning, and statistical modeling applied to additive manufacturing.
M.S. Students
David Perez
Jason Lawley
Alumni
Pansoo Kim, Kyungpook National University, South Korea
Sampatraj S. Mandroli
Abhishek Gupta
Qinyan Liu
Jung Jin Cho, Baker Hughes, Houston, Texas
Yuan Ren, mParticles, New York City
Haifeng (Heidi) Rodenbeck, Freddie Mac, Virginia
Abhishek K. Shrivastava, Capital One, Dallas, Texas
Alan Sonntag, Sandia National Lab, Albuquerque, New Mexico
Eunshin Byon, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Chiwoo Park, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida
Giwhyun Lee, Korea Army Academy, South Korea
Arash Pourhabib, Walmart Labs, San Bruno, California
Erika Sy, Dow Chemical, Freeport, Texas