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September 5, 2023

Welcome Hunter (Yifan) Huant to join Dr. Xiang’s Research Group

Dr. Xiang’s research lab welcomes Hunter Huang to join the group.

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August 7, 2023

Paper Accepted for Publication in the IISE Transactions

The paper “Bayesian Prognosis Analysis of Human Papillomavirus-Associated Head and Neck Cancer using Hierarchical Dirichlet Process Mixture Models”  by Ying Liao, Ning Dong, and Yisha Xiang is accepted for publication in the IISE Transactions. Congratulations!

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July 20, 2023

Presented a Seminar in the IE Dept, Tsinghua University

I gave an in-person seminar in the IE department, Tsinghua University. It is an honor to present at this most prestigious university in China. Thank you, Prof. Kaibo Wang, for your invitation and hospitality during my visit.

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June 10, 2023

2023 ICQSR conference

The first INFORMS Conference on Quality, Statistics, and Reliability (ICQSR) is held in Raleigh, North Carolina on June 06 – 08, 2023. I served as the judge for the Best Poster Competition and organized a session.  The following presentation was given there. Distributional Robust Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes...

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June 5, 2023

Students Received NSF Travel Scholarships to Attend QPRC

Saunak Panda and Tong Li received prestigious NSF travel scholarships to attend the  39th Quality and Productivity Research Conference (QPRC). They did the following poster presentations at the QPRC. Dynamic resource matching in manufacturing using deep reinforcement learning by Saunak Panda, Yisha Xiang, and Ruiqi Liu. Distributionally Robust Partially...

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May 30, 2023

Ying Successfully Defended Her Dissertation

Congratulations to Dr. Ying (Leticia) Liao who successfully defended her PhD on May 30th. The title of her dissertation was “Statistical Machine Learning on Time Series with Applications to Manufacturing and Healthcare”. Dr. Liao has received multiple offers from top universities in China and will be joining the Business School...

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May 24, 2023

2023 IISE Annual Conference

The IISE (IISE Annual Conference and Exposition) was held in New Orleans, LA. I served as the co-track chair for the 2023 IISE Annual Conference QCRE track and chaired two sessions:  QCRE Best Track Paper Competition and NSF Proposal Writing Workshop. We made the following presentation. A Statistical Online...

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March 4, 2023

Paper Accepted for Publication in the Leading Bioinformatics Journal

The paper “DeepMiceTL: a deep transfer learning based prediction of mice cardiac conduction diseases using early electrocardiograms”  by Ying Liao, Yisha Xiang, Mingjie Zheng, and Jun Wang is accepted for publication in Briefings in Bioinformatics, a leading bioinformatics journal with an impact factor of 9.5.  In this study, we collaborated...

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January 5, 2023

New AMI Grant

My proposal, “Statistical Machine Learning Methods for Analysis and Control of the HTS Manufacturing Process,” was funded for $34,971 by the Advanced Manufacturing Institute (AMI). The goal is to develop novel machine learning methods to control the manufacturing process of high-temperature superconductors (HTS). Thank you, AMI, for your support.

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January 4, 2023

Paper Accepted for Publication in the EJOR

The paper “Data-Driven Remanufacturing Planning with Parameter Uncertainty” by Zhicheng Zhu, Yisha Xiang,  Yue Shi, and Ming Zhao is accepted for publication in the European Journal of Operational Research. We proposed a novel data-driven modeling framework for remanufacturing planning with parameter uncertainties. We model the remanufacturing planning problem as...

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