Bing Yao
Dan Doulet Early Career Assistant Professor
Industrial and Systems Engineering
The University of Tennessee Knoxville
CONTACT
Email: byao3 at utk.edu
Office: Tickle Engineering Building Room 513, the University of Tennessee Knoxville, TN 37996
Actively recruiting self-motivated Ph.D. students. If interested, please contact me with a detailed CV and college education transcript. Openings
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Big data analytics for spatiotemporal complex systems
Physics-informed machine learning
Computer simulation and optimization
Markov decision process and sequential decision making
Biomedical and health informatics
Sensor-based modeling and control of additive manufacturing
Data mining and signal processing
Grants
NSF/NIH Smart and Connected Health Program, R01HL172292: "SCH: Simulation Optimization of Cardiac Surgical Planning". Role: Lead-PI (mPI: Dr. Hui Yang; Co-Is: Dr. Christopher DeFlitch, Dr. Soraya Samii), 9/07/2023 - 8/31/2027
NSF/NIH Smart and Connected Health Program, R01EY033861: "SCH: Harnessing Tensor Information to Improve EHR Data Quality for Accurate Data-driven Screening of Diabetic Retinopathy with Routine Lab Results". Role: Co-investigator (PI: Dr. Tieming Liu; Other Co-Is: Dr. Chenang Liu, Dr. Ye Liang), 9/30/2021 - 8/31/2025
AI TENNessee Initiative – Seed Funds for AI Research and Teambuilding, “Developing ML/AI-based Tools to Analyze the Multi-dimensional Spectroscopic Data of Scanning Tunneling Microscopy”. Role: Co-PI (PI: Dr. Wonhee Ko; Other Co-PI: Dr. Ruixing Zhang), 05/18/2023 - 05/17/2024
HONORS & AWARDS
Best Poster Award, The Northeastern Regional Conference on Complex Systems (NERCCS), 2018
Susan Schall Fellowship, Penn State Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, 2018
The First Place, Healthcare Systems student best paper competition, IISE Annual Conference, 2017
IMS/ASA Spring Research Conference Scholarship, 2017
The First Place, Penn State, IEGA/IME Research Poster Competition, 2017
Best Poster Finalist, INFORMS MIF Poster Competition, 2016
The Samsung Scholarship, University of Science and Technology of China, 2011
Advised Student Honors
2023, Jianxin Xie, 1st Prize in 2023 QCRE Best Student Poster Session, IISE Annual Conference, May 18-21
2023, Jianxin Xie, Volunteer of Distinction, UTK
2023, Jianxin Xie, Outstanding Graduate Student Award, ISE, UTK
2022, Jianxin Xie, Gilbreth Memorial Fellowship, IISE
2022, Zekai Wang, Best Healthcare Automation Paper Award, IEEE 18th International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE), Mexico City, Mexico, Aug. 20-24
2022, Zekai Wang, Winner of IISE Annual Conference QCRE Session Best Student Poster Competition, May 21-24
2021, Zekai Wang, 3rd Place in INFORMS Poster Competition, INFORMS Annual Meeting, Oct. 24-27
2021, Jianxin Xie, Best Poster Award in QCRE & DAIS Tracks Best Student Poster Competition, IISE Annual Conference, May 22-25
2021, Jianxin Xie, Runner Up Best Paper Award in Operations Research Track, IISE Annual Conference, May 22-25
2020, Wuyang Qian, 1st Place in IISE DAIS Data Analytics Competition, IISE Annual Conference, Oct. 31 - Nov. 3
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