Yinan Wang

Yinan Wang

Assistant Professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Biography

Dr. Yinan Wang serves as the tenure-track assistant professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He received the Ph.D. degree in the Grado Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Virginia Tech under the supervison of Dr. Xiaowei Yue. His research interest lies in developing systematic engineering-driven machine learning methodologies with applications to advanced manufacturing.

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For current undergraduate and graduate students at RPI, if you are interested to work with me on the cutting-edge ML/DL/RL projects, please feel free to send me an email or stop by my office at CII 5213.

Interests
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Advanced Manufacturing
  • System Intelligence
  • Machine Learning
  • Deep Learning
Education
  • PhD in Industrial and Systems Engineering, 2022

    Virginia Tech

  • Master in Electrical Engineering, 2019

    Columbia University

  • Bachelor in Electrical Engineering and Automation, 2017

    Xi'an Jiaotong University

Selected Awards

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  • DAIS Mobile App Competition (Winner), IISE (2023)
  • Pritsker Doctoral Dissertation Award (2nd Place), IISE (2023)
  • IISE Transactions Best Paper Award (Focus Issue on Data Science, Quality and Reliability), IISE (2023)
  • IISE Transactions Best Paper Award (Focus Issue on Design and Manufacturing), IISE (2023)
  • Trustee Celebration of Faculty Achievement Award, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (2022)
  • Panel Fellow, NSF CMMI Game Changer Academy (2022-2023)
  • FTC Early Career Grant, ASQ (2022)
  • Best Ph.D. Dissertation Award, CIE Division, ASME (2022)
  • Best Track Paper Award, DAIS Division, IISE (2022)
  • Best Theoretical Paper Award, INFORMS 2021 Data Mining and Decision Analytics Workshop, Winner (2021)

News

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  • April 2024 Ph.D. student Yue Zhao passed the Doctoral Qualify Exam. Congratulations!
  • April 2024 Ph.D. student Jiayu Liu passed the Doctoral Qualify Exam. Congratulations!
  • Jan. 2024 Dr. Wang is elected as the Program Chair of ISA (International Society of Automation) ACARD (Automatic Controls and Robotics Division) 2024 Executive Board. Congratulations!
  • Nov. 2023: Our research work WOOD: Wasserstein-based out-of-distribution detection is accepted by IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (T-PAMI)! Congratulations to all the collaborators!
  • Oct. 2023: Ph.D. student Yue Zhao presented his research work at INFORMS Annual Meeting 2023 at Phoenix!
  • Oct. 2023: Ph.D. student Jiayu Liu presented his research work at the School of Engineering Academic Showcase at RPI!
  • Sep. 2023: Undergraduate research assistant Mr. Aaryan Sonawane received financial support from the Undergraduate Research Program (URP) at RPI. Congratulations!
  • Sep. 2023: Mr. Tommy Bird, Mr. Aadit Nagori, Mr. Joseph Park, and Mr. Aaryan Sonawane joined our group as undergraduate research assistants. Welcome!
  • Aug. 2023: Mr. Junfeng Wu joined our group as a Ph.D. student. Welcome!
  • Aug. 2023: Dr. Wang starts to serve as the Board Member at IISE DAIS Division.
  • June 2023: Ph.D. student Yue Zhao is one recipient of the Student Travel Grant from RPI. Congratulations, and We thank the support from the department and university!
  • May 2023: Dr. Wang received Pritsker Doctoral Dissertation Award (2nd Place) from IISE. Congratulations!
  • May 2023: Our developed application won First Place in the DAIS Mobile App Competition at the IISE Annual Conference & Expo 2023. Congratulations!
  • May 2023: Our work, CPAC-CNN, has been selected as the IISE Transactions Best Paper Award on Data Science, Quality, and Reliability. Congratulations to the author team!
  • May 2023: Our work, NP-ODE, has been selected as the IISE Transactions Best Paper Award on Manufacturing and Design. Congratulations to the author team!
  • May 2023: Dr. Wang served as an organizer for the Advances in Statistical Learning for Quality and Reliability in Smart Manufacturing Symposium at the MSEC 2023.

Experience

 
 
 
 
 
Assistant Professor
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Aug 2022 – Present Troy, NY
 
 
 
 
 
Graduate Research Assitant
Virginia Tech
Jan 2019 – May 2022 Virginia
 
 
 
 
 
Summer Research Intern
Lawrence Livermore National Lab
May 2021 – Aug 2021 CA
 
 
 
 
 
Summer Research Intern
Los Alamos National Lab
May 2019 – Aug 2019 NM

Group

Ph.D. Students

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Jiayu Liu

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Ph.D. Students

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Junfeng Wu

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Ph.D. Students

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Yue Zhao

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Ph.D. Students

Undergraduate Students

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Aadit Nagori

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Undergraduate Students

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Aaryan Sonawane

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Undergraduate Students

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Tommy Bird

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Undergraduate Students

Selected Publications

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Name*: Equal contribution as co-first author
Name: Student under Dr. Wang’s supervision
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