• Oct. 2022: Yinan is selected as the Panel Fellow in the 2023 cohort of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of CMMI Game Changer Academies for Advancing Research Innovation (CGCA). Congratulations!
  • Oct. 2022: Yinan is selected as the recipient of the Fall Technical Conference Early Career Grant Award from the American Society of Quality (ASQ). Congratulations!
  • Aug. 2022: Our paper “Structured-Light Three-Dimensional Scanning for Process Monitoring and Quality Control in Precast Concrete Production” won the Robert J. Lyman Award from Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute. Congratulations!
  • Aug. 2022: Yinan is selected as the recipient of the Best Ph.D. Dissertation Award from Computer and Information in Engineering (CIE) division at ASME. Congratulations!
  • May 2022: Our paper “WOOD: Wasserstein-based Out-of-Distribution Detection” won the Best Track Paper Award from Data Analytics and Information System (DAIS) Division at IISE. Congratulations!
  • Apr. 2022: Yinan is selected as the finalist of the 2022 Paul E. Torgersen Graduate Student Research Excellence Award, the winner will be further informed in May. Congratulations!
  • Apr. 2022: Yinan is selected as the recipient of Mary G. and Joseph Natrella Scholarship from ASA (American Statistical Association). He is also invited to give a presentation at Quality and Productivity Research Conference 2022. We thank the support from ASA!
  • Jan. 2022: Our paper “WOOD: Wasserstein-based Out-of-Distribution Detection” won the SPES + Q&P Best Student Paper Award from American Statistical Association (ASA). Congratulations!
  • Oct. 2021: Yinan is selected to join the IISE Future Faculty Fellows (3F) program. Congratulations!
  • Oct. 2021: Our paper “WOOD: Wasserstein-based Out-of-Distribution Detection” won the INFORMS Data Mining and Decision Analytics Workshop Best Theoretical Paper Award. Congratulations!
  • Oct. 2021: Our paper “NP-ODE: Neural Process Aided Ordinary Differential Equations for Uncertainty Quantification of Finite Element Analysis” won the Finalist of Best Student Paper Award from INFORMS Quality, Statistics, and Reliability (QSR) Section. Congratulations!
  • July 2021: Yinan is elected as the Student Board Member of QCRE (Quality Control & Reliability Engineering) division at IISE. Congratulations!
  • June 2021: Yinan is selected as the recipient of Educational Foundation Scholarship and Analysis Division Scholarship from International Society of Automation (ISA). We thank the support from ISA!
  • June 2021: Our work “NP-ODE: Neural Process Aided Ordinary Differential Equations for Uncertainty Quantification of Finite Element Analysis” won the Best Poster Award from NAMRC 49|MSEC 2021. Congratulations!
  • May 2021: Yinan is selected as the recipient of Gilbreth Memorial Fellowship from IISE (Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers). We thank the support from IISE!
  • May 2021: Yinan is elected as the President-elect of Virginia Tech INFORMS (Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences) Student Chapter. Congratulations!