September 2, 2022
Welcome Jun Zhou and Di Shi!
Dr. Xiang’s research lab welcomes two new PhD students this fall.
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Excited to be on the team of a new NSF grant
The project titled “A Dual-Mode Millimeter-Wave Sensor Network for Structural Monitoring in Wind Farms” was recently funded by NSF. I’m excited to work on this project with outstanding researchers at Texas Tech, Drs. Changzhi Li (PI) and Beibei Ren (co-PI). Existing structural monitoring techniques, such as contact-based sensors and...
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Dr. Xiang Joined UHIE
I’m happy to share that I’m starting a new position as an Associate Professor in the IE department at the University of Houston. (New IE Hire Xiang Pursuing Optimized Remanufacturing At Cullen ) I have greatly enjoyed and appreciated working in the IMSE department at Texas Tech University in...
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The 90th Military Operations Research Society Symposium
The 90th Military Operations Research Society Symposium was held in Quantico, VA. I was invited to present at the AI and Autonomous Systems Working Group.
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Honored to Be Elected as President-Elect of the IISE QCRE Division
QCRE Division provides excellent opportunities to foster, recognize and share innovations at the forefront of quality control, reliability engineering, and beyond. Look forward to serving the QCRE Division in the capacity of President-Elect.
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2022 IISE QCRE/ProcessMiner Data Challenge Competition
I had the great pleasure of co-chairing the 2022 IISE QCRE/ProcessMiner Data Challenge Competition with Dr. Chitta Ranjan at Processminer CFP Link In this data challenge, a research problem to advance the field of deep learning is posed to participants. We have received excellent papers that address emerging challenges...
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2022 IISE TransactionsBest Application Paper
Very happy and honored that the paper my former PhD student Zhicheng Zhu and I wrote on condition-based maintenance for multi-component systems was selected as the best paper by IISE Transactions. Here’s the link to IISE Transactions Spotlight on 2022 Best Papers. Multi-component maintenance planning joins a combinatorial optimization problem...
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2022 IISE Annual Conference
The IISE (IISE Annual Conference and Exposition) was held in Seattle, WA. I served as the co-track chair for the 2022 IISE Annual Conference QCRE track and chaired the QCRE Best Track Paper Competition. We made the following presentations.
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Dr. Archis Ghate Visited Dr. Xiang’s Research Group
Dr. Archis Ghate of the University of Washington visited my research group and gave a seminar titled “Robust Markov decision processes with data-driven, distance-based ambiguity sets”. We truly enjoyed Dr. Ghate’s visit and hope to have the pleasure to host him again in the future.
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Receiving the 2017 IISE Best Track Paper
The paper titled “A Constraint Programming Model for Ice Cream Processing” by Ezra Wari, Weihang Zhu & Yisha Xiang receives the 2017 IISE Best Track Paper. Congratulations!
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