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Dennis Lin Department of Statistics

Curriculum Vitae

Lin CV (2021)

Dennis K.J. Lin

University Distinguished Professor, and Head, Department of Statistics
Purdue University, 250 North University Street, West Lafayette, IN 47907
(765) 494-6030 (phone), (765) 494-0558 (fax), dkjlin@purdue.edu (e-mail)

EDUCATION

Date Degree Focus
December, 1988 Ph.D. Statistics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA (Minor in Computer Science)
June, 1981 B.S. Mathematics, National Tsing-Hua University, Taiwan, ROC

EMPLOYMENT

Date Title University
01/20 to Present Distinguished Professor and Head Department of Statistics, Purdue University
01/15 to 12/20 University Distinguished Professor Department of Statistics, Penn State University
07/09 to 12/14 Professor Department of Statistics, Penn State University
01/05 to 12/09 University Distinguished Professor of Supply Chain & Statistics Penn State University
01/02 to 12/04 Professor Department of Supply Chain & Information Systems
07/98 to 12/02 Professor Department of Management Sciences & Information Systems
07/98 to present Adjunct Professor Department of Statistics and Department of Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, Penn State University
07/95 to 06/98 Associate Professor, Tenured MS&IS, Penn State University
08/93 to 06/95 Associate Professor, Tenured University of Tennessee at Knoxville
08/93 to 08/94 Visiting Scientist IBM Watson Research Center
07/89 to 07/93 Assistant Professor University of Tennessee at Knoxville
01/89 to 06/89 Postdoctoral Research Fellow University of Toronto

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES

  • American Statistical Association (Elected Fellow).
  • International Statistical Institute (Elected Member).
  • American Society for Quality (Elected Fellow).
  • Institute of Mathematical Statistics (Elected Fellow).
  • The Royal Statistical Society (Elected Fellow).
  • International Society for Business and Industry Statistics (ISBIS, Founding Member)
  • Chung-Hua Data Mining Society (Founding Member).
  • International Chinese Statistical Association (lifetime member).
  • Chinese Statistical Association, Taipei (lifetime member).
  • New York Academy of Science (ex-Member).
  • INstitute For Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS, ex-member).

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Design of Experiments, Quality Assurance, Response Surface Methodology, Supply Chain Management, Information Technology and Data Mining, RFID, Statistical Inference.

SELECTIVE (YEARLY) PUBLICATIONS

A total of near 200 papers are listed on the publications webpage. All can be downloaded on this website.

  1. Peng, J.Y. and Lin, Dennis K.J., (2020) "Small Screening Design When the Overall Variance is Unkown," Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 205, 1-9.
  2. Peng, J.Y., Mukerjee, Rahul and Lin, Dennis K.J., (2019) “Design of Order-of-Addition Experiments,” Biometrika, forthcoming
  3. Shen, W.J. and Lin, Dennis K.J. (2019) “Statistical Theories for Dimensional Analysis,” Statistica Sinica, 29, 527—550.
  4. Shen, Weijie and Lin, Dennis K.J. (2018) “A Conjugate Model for Dimensional Analysis,” Technometrics, 60, 79—89.
  5. Li, X.D., He, X., He, Y.Z. and Lin, Dennis K.J. (2017) “The Design and Analysis for the Icing Wind Tunnel Experiment of Deicing Coating,” Journal of American Statistical Association, 112, 1417—1429.
  6. Huang, Hengzhen, Lin, Dennis K.J., Liu, Min-Qian, and Yang, Jian-Feng, (2016) “Design and Analysis for Computer Experiments with Both Qualitative and Quantitative Variables,” Technometrics, 58, 495—507.
  7. Phoa, Frederick K.H. and Lin, Dennis K.J. (2015) “A Systematic Approach from the Construction of Definitive Screening Designs,” Statistica Sinica, 25, 853—861.
  8. Shen, W.J., Davis, T., Lin, Dennis K.J. and Nachtsheim, C.J. (2014) “Dimensional Analysis and Its Applications in Statistics,” Journal of Quality Technology, 46, 185—198.
    # This paper won the 2014 ASQ Brumbaugh Award.
  9. Lin, Dennis K.J. and Shen, W.J. (2013) “Comments: Experimental Design for Engineering Dimensional Analysis,” Technometrics, 55, 281-285.
  10. Tang, Y., Xu, H.Q. and Lin, Dennis K.J. (2012) “Uniform Fractional Factorial Designs,” Annals of Statistics, 40, 891-907.
  11. Ying, W., Zhao Z.B. and Lin, Dennis K.J. (2012) “A General Class of Nonparametric L-1 Regression with Its Application to Profile Control Charts,” Annals of Applied Statistics, 6, 409-427.
  12. Sun, F.S., Liu, M.Q. and Lin, Dennis K.J. (2011) “On Construction of Optimal Mixed-Level Supersaturated Designs,” Annals of Statistics, 39, 1310-1333.
  13. Coetzer, R.L.J., Engelbrecht, J.P., Crause, J.C. and Lin, Dennis K.J. (2010) “Statistical Robustness Study for Kinetic Models,” Industrial & Engineering Chemical Research, 49, 2932—2942.
  14. Sun, F.S., Liu, M.Q. and Lin, Dennis K.J. (2009) “Construction of Orthogonal Latin Hypercube Designs,” Biometrika, 96, 971-974.
  15. Huang, Z. and Lin, Dennis K.J. “The Time Series Link Prediction Problem with Applications in Email Surveillance,” INFORMS Journal on Computing, 21, 286-303.
  16. Coetzer, R.L.J., Rossouw, R.F. and Lin, Dennis K.J. （2008）“Dual Response Surface Optimization with Hard-to-Change Variable for Sustainable Gasifier performance,” Journal of Royal Statistical Society, Sec.C., 57, 567-587.
  17. Huang, C.M., Lee, Y.J., Lin, Dennis K.J. and Huang S.Y. (2007) “Model Selection for Support Vector Machines via Uniform Design,” Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, 52, 335-346. <Most Citation Award given in Year 2012>
  18. Mcdermott, J. and Lin, Dennis K.J. (2007) “Multivariate Density Estimation for Massive Datasets via Sequential Convex Hull Peeling,” IIE Transaction in Quality and Reliability, 39, 581-591.
  19. Steinberg, David M. and Lin, Dennis K.J. (2006) “A Construction Method for Orthogonal Latin Hypercube Designs,” Biometrika, 93, 279-288 (Amendments on p.1025).
  20. Xu, K., Lin, Dennis K.J., Tang, L.C. and Xie, M. (2004) “Multiresponse Systems Optimization Using the Goal Attainment Approach,” IIE Transaction, Quality and Reliability Engineering, 36, 433-445.
  21. Li, W.W. and Lin, Dennis K.J. (2003), “Optimal Foldover Two-Level Fractional Factorial Designs,” Technometrics, 45, 142-149.
  22. Liechty, J., Lin, Dennis K.J., and Mcdermott, J. (2003), “Single-Pass Low-Storage Arbitrary Quantile Estimation for Massive Datasets,” Statistics & Computing, 13, 91-100.
  23. Beattie, Scott D., Fong, Duncan K.H. and Lin, Dennis K.J. (2002) “A Two-Stage Model Selection Strategy for Supersaturated Designs,” Technometrics, 44, 55-63.
  24. McGrath, Richard N. and Dennis K.J. Lin, (2001) “Testing Multiple Dispersion Effects in Unreplicated Fractional Factorial Designs,” Technometrics, 43, 406-414.
  25. Fang, K.T., Lin, D.K.J., Winker, Peter and Zhang, Y (2000) “Uniform Design: Theory and Application,” Technometrics, 42, 237-248.
  26. Kim, Kwang-Jae and Lin, Dennis K.J. (2000) “Simultaneous Optimization of Mechanical Properties of Steel by Maximizing Exponential Desirability Functions,” Journal of Royal Statistical Society, Ser. C (Applied Statistics), 49, 311-325.
  27. Deng, L.Y., Lin, Dennis K.J. and Wang, J.N. (1999) “On Resolution Rank Criterion for Supersaturated Design,” Statistica Sinica, 9, 605-610.
  28. Westfall, Peter H., Young, S. Stanley and Lin, Dennis K.J. (1998) “Forward Selection Error Control in the Analysis of Supersaturated Designs,” Statistica Sinica, 8, 101-117.
  29. Deng, L.Y., Lin, Dennis K.J., Wang, J.N. and Yuan, Y. (1997) “Statistical Justification to the Combination Generators” Statistica Sinica, 7, 993-1003.
  30. Lin, Dennis K.J., Usher, J.S. and Guess, F.M. (1996) “Bayesian Estimation of Component-Reliability from Masked System-Life Data,” IEEE Transactions on Reliability, 45, 233-237.
  31. Lin, Dennis K.J. (1995) “Generating Systematic Supersaturated Designs,” Technometrics, 37, 213-225.
  32. Lin, Dennis K.J. (1994) “Making Full Use of Taguchi’s Orthogonal Arrays,” Quality and Reliability Engineering, International, 10, 117-121.
  33. Lin, Dennis K.J. (1993) “A New Class of Supersaturated Designs,” Technometrics, 35, 28-31.
  34. Lin, Dennis K.J. (1993) “Another Look at First-order Saturated Designs: the p-efficient Designs,” Technometrics, 35, 284-292.
  35. Lin, Dennis K.J. and Draper, N.R. (1992) “Projection Properties of Plackett and Burman Designs,” Technometrics, 34, 423-428.
  36. Draper, N.R. and Lin, Dennis K.J. (1990) “Small Response Surface Designs,” Technometrics, 32, 187-194.

SELECTIVE INVITED LECTURES

(A detailed of near 800 presentations are given on the presentation webpage. Here are some selective ones.)

  1. "If Deming Were Born Today - Quality, Statistics, and Modern Data Science," Deming Lecture, Joint Statistical (Virtual) Meetings, 2020.
  2. “Ghost Data,” Yuan-Shih Chow Lecturer, The 28th Southern Taiwan Statistical Conference (Taichung, Taiwan, 2019).
  3. “Design and Analysis for Order-of-Addition Experiments,” Hunter Conference (Raonoke, VA, 2018).
  4. “Big Data—it is not about Big, nor Data, it is more about Statistics,” 2017 JMP Discovery Summit (Beijing, 2017).
  5.  “SRC & AutoStat@Big2Data.IoT,” Banquet Speech at Spring Research Conference (IIT, Chicago, 2016).
  6. “AutoStat@Big2Data.IoT–Statistics for Internet of Things,” 2015 JMP Discovery Summit (Shanghai, 2015).
  7. “A tribute to C.F. Jeff Wu,” Banquet Speech at Statistics Conference in Honor of Jeff Wu’s 65th Birthday (MiLe, China, 2014).
  8. “Statistics for Big Data,” Southern Taiwan Conference on Probability & Statistics (Taiwan, 2014).
  9. “A tribute to George E.P. Box,” Fall Technical Conference Luncheon Speaker (with Stu Hunter, San Antonio, 2013).
  10. “BIGstat@IC2SA,” Banquet Speaker, ICSA-Canada Chapter Meeting (Toronto, 2013).
  11. “BIG Statistics,” 2011 Loutit Address, Statistical Society of Canada (June, 2011).
  12. “BIG Statistics,” 2011 Joint Seminar of Clemson-UGA (Clemson, SC; April, 2011).
  13. “Youden Square to George Box to Latin Hypercube,” The 2010 Youden Address at Fall Technical Conference (Birmingham, AL; October, 2010).
  14. “Recent Advances in Computer Experiment,” The 50th Anniversary of Department of Statistics, University of Wisconsin (June, 2010).
  15. “Computer Experiment: Recent Developments,” The 2009 Taipei Conference on Statistics & Probability (National Taipei University).
  16. “Process Mining and RFID,” IEEE-IEEM Keynote Speech, Singapore (2008).
  17. “Recent Advances in Design of Experiments,” Keynote speech, South African Statistical Association (SASA) Conference, University of Stellenbosch (South Africa, 2006).
  18. “Supersaturated Design: A Review and Some Potential Research,” DEMA2006 (Designed Experiments: Recent Advances in Methods and Applications), University of Southampton (United Kingdom, 2006).
  19. “Recent Advances in Industrial Statistics,” Distinguished Lecture Series, Mathematics Research Center, Zhejiang University (Hangzhow, China, 2005).
  20. “Response Surface Methodology: 50 Years Later,” Distinguished Lecture Series, Number 8, Institute of Statistical Sciences, Academia Sinica (Taipei, 2004).
  21. “Ridge Trace Analysis for Multiple Response Surface,” 2003 Experimental Design Workshop at Taipei (December, 2003)
  22. “Supersaturated Design: The Past Decade and The Future,” 2002 Taipei International Statistical Symposium (August, 2002).
  23. “Design of Experiment, Uniformity and Data Mining,” International Conference on Design of Experiments: Recent Trends and Future Directions, University of Delhi (Delhi, India, December, 2001)
  24. “Supersaturated Design,” One Day Workshop in Honor of Dennis Lin, hosted by Hyundai Motor Company and Korea Statistical Society (Seoul, February, 2001).
  25. “Recent Advances in Uniform Design,” Invited Keynote speaker in R.C. Bose Memorial Session, International Triennial Calcutta Symposium (Calcutta, India, December, 2000).
  26. “Statistical Data Mining,” A Two-Day Workshop at National Cheng Chi University, Taiwan (June, 2000).
  27. “What’s Statistics All About,” A TV presentation at Korea Open University, Seoul, Korea (June, 2000).
  28. “Design of Experiment: A Historical Perspective,” Invited Keynote Speech, Uniform Design Conference, Hong Kong (October, 1999).
  29. “Simultaneously Optimizing Several Response Surfaces: A Fuzzy Modeling Approach,” Q&P Invited Paper, Joint Statistical Meetings, ASA, Baltimore, MD (August, 1999).
  30. “Modern Quality Engineering for Government Budgeting,” Annual Meeting on Budget, Accounting and Statistics, Directorate-General of Budget, Accounting and Statistics, Taiwan Province (May, 1998).
  31. “Modern Quality Engineering,” LG Micor Ltd., Kumi City, Korea (March, 1998).
  32. “Designing Computer Experiments,” Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, Germany (November, 1998).
  33. “Rotated Factorial Designs for Computer Experiments,” Irsee Invited Conference, Irsee, Germany (October, 1997).
  34. “Recent Developments in Supersaturated Designs,” ASA Joint Meetings, ICSA Invited Session, Anaheim, CA (August, 1997).
  35. “Supersaturated Designs: Theory and Applications,” ASA Joint Meetings, SPES Invited Session, Chicago, IL (August, 1996).
  36. “Marginally Over-saturated Designs,” IMS Central Regional Meeting honoring the 70th Birthday of Bob Hogg, Iowa City, IA (May, 1995).
  37. “Recent Advances in Response Surface Designs,” The 12th Annual Quality and Productivity Research Conference, Scottsdale, AZ (May, 1995).
  38. “Masked System Lifetime Data Analysis,” International Research Conference on Lifetime Data Models in Reliability and Survival Analysis, Harvard University (June, 1994).
  39. “Supersaturated Designs,” Gordon Research Conference on Statistics in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, New Hampton, New Hampshire (August, 1994).
  40. “Plackett and Burman Designs: Some Recent Developments,” Optimal Design Conference, Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, Germany (May, 1993).
  41. “Economical Experimental Designs,” International Chinese Statistical Association Applied Statistics Symposium, Rutgers University (May, 1992).
  42. “Robust Designs: A Japanese Approach to Quality and Productivity,” Department of Statistics, University of Georgia (May, 1991).
  43. “Taguchi, the Person, the Method and the Thought,” The 1990 Quality Clinic and Conference, Knoxville, Tennessee (March, 1990).

PATENT

  • “An Algorithm for Single-Pass Low-Storage Arbitrary Probability Estimation for Massive Data Sets,” (2002) PSU Invention Disclosure Number #2001-2444; U.S. Patent#7,076,487 (with John Liechty and James McDermott).
  • “Random Number Generators,” (2007) PSU Invention Disclosure Number #2007-xxxx (With Deng, L.Y.)

LECTURES ON TELEVISION PROGRAM

  • What’s Statistics All About (and Modern Quality Engineering), Open University Network (1998, Seoul, Korea).
  • Statistical Data Mining, Open University Network (2001, Seoul, Korea)

ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCES

  • Hiring Committee, Chair five times and as Committee Members many times in Department of Management Sciences & Information Systems (1995-2002), Department of Supply Chain & Information Systems (2003-2008), and Department of Statistics (2009-2013).
  • P&T (Promotion & Tenure) Committee Chair for three times, and being members since tenured in 1993.
  • Chair, Search Committee for Eberly Chair Professorship (2009).
  • Graduate Students Advisor, Department of Management Science & Information Systems.
  • Faculty Advisory Committee (Smeal College of Business).
  • Chair (2004) and Chair-Elected (2003), Section on Physical & Engineering Sciences, American Statistical Association.
  • Chair, Committee on Membership, American Statistical Association (2003—2005).
  • Co-Editor, ASMBI (Applied Stochastic Models for Business & Industry).
  • Conference Organizer/Chair for various international/national conferences.

RESEARCH GRANTS

  1. Study on Order-of-Addition Experiments, National Science Foundation (NSF, 2018-2022, $150,000).
  2. Penn State – NTNU Collaboration Development Fund (2019—2020).
  3. Dimensional Analysis and Its Applications in Statistics, National Security Agent (NSA, 2015-2017, $80,000.00).
  4. Research Grant Competition, The Smeal College of Business Administration, Penn State University (2006-2007, $20,000.00).
  5. Exploiting RFID Technology under Different Supply Chain Integration Strategies, IBM Integrated Supply Chain Consortium (2005, with Jun Shu, $50,000.00).
  6. A Power5-Based SMP Computer for Simulations of Explosions, Statistical Data Mining, BioInformatics, Collaborative Software and Graduate Education, IBM Shared University Research Grant (2005, with L.N. Long and A.M. Lesk, $500,000.00).
  7. Research Grant Competition, The Smeal College of Business Administration, Penn State University (2005-2006, $25,000.00).
  8. Study on Optimal Budget Allocation, Directorate-General of Budget, Accounting & Statistics, Taiwan, ROC (2003-2004, $12,000.00).
  9. Research Grant Competition, The Smeal College of Business Administration, Penn State University (2004-2005, $20,000.00).
  10. Recent Development in Quality Assurance and Six Sigma, Mathematical Research Center (2003, Taiwan, R.O.C., $1,500.00)
  11. Research Grant Competition, The Smeal College of Business Administration, Penn State University (2003-2004, $10,000.00).
  12. Statistical Data Mining in e-Business, National Science Council of Taiwan (2002-2005, $24,242.00, a subcontract of a research project under Dr. K.F. Cheng of $1.5 million).
  13. Computer Experiment and Uniform Design, National Security Agency, (2002-2004, $45,083.00).
  14. A Study on Latin Hypercube Design, National Science Council of Taiwan, Republic of China, Taiwan (2001-2002, $34,664.00).
  15. Research Grant Competition, Smeal College of Business Administration, Penn State University (2001-2002, $11,400.00).
  16. Teaching Enhancement Award, Smeal College of Business Administration, Penn State University (2001-2002, $7,250.00).
  17. Data Mining Workshop, National Science Council of Taiwan, Republic of China, Taiwan (2000, $2,500.00).
  18. “First Midwest Conference for New Direction in Experimental Design,” National Science Foundation (2000, $16,120.00, with Angela Dean (Principal Investigator), Kathryn Chaloner, and Dibyen Majumdar).
  19. National Science Foundation (1997-2000, $168,102.00).
  20. Research Fellowship, The University of Hong Kong (1999, $2,700.00).
  21. Census Bureau, Taiwan, ROC (1998, part of the Census 2000 project of $60 Million budget).
  22. National Science Council of Taiwan, Republic of China, Taiwan (1998, $30,000.00, a subcontract of a research project under Dr. Min-Te Chao).
  23. IBM Shared University Research Grant (1997, PI with Sandy D. Balkin and J. Keith Ord, (1997, $30,000.00).
  24. Innovation in Learning Project Fund, Schreyer Institute for Innovation in Learning, Penn State University (1997, with J. Keith Ord, $5,000.00).
  25. Gender and Location Effects in Taiwan Economics, Census Bureau, Taiwan, ROC (1997, $3,000.00).
  26. New Faculty Projects Fund Award, The Smeal College of Business Administration, Penn State University (1996, $2,500.00).
  27. Professional Development Award, University of Tennessee (1993-1995, $12,000.00).
  28. National Science Foundation (1992-1995, $12,000.00).
  29. Professional Development Award, University of Tennessee (1992-1993, $5,000.00).
  30. Faculty Research Fellowship, College of Business Administration, University of Tennessee- Knoxville (1991-1992, $7,000.00).
  31. Faculty Research Fellowship, CBA, University of Tennessee (1990-1991, $7,000.00).
  32. Faculty Research Fellowship, CBA, University of Tennessee (1989-1990, $7,000.00).

HONORS AND AWARDS

Professional Fellows

  • Elected Fellow, Institute of Mathematical Statistics (2013).
  • Elected Fellow, American Society for Quality (2006).
  • Elected Fellow, American Statistical Association (1998).
  • Elected Member, International Statistical Institute (1994).
  • (Elected) Fellow, Royal Statistical Society (1988).

Professional Awards

  • The 2020 Deming Lecture, Joint Statistical Meetings (Philadelphia, PA).
  • The 2019 Yuan-Shin Chow Award, The Chinese Probability Society (Taiwan).
  • The 2016 SPES Award (ASA).
  • The 2015 Shewhart Medal, the American Society for Quality.
  • The 2015 Brumbaugh Award, the American Society for Quality.
  • The 2014 William G. Hunter Award, the American Society for Quality.
  • The 2011 Don Owen Award, San Antonio Chapter, American Statistical Association.
  • The Isobel Loutit Address Speaker, Statistical Society of Canada (2011, Acadia University).
  • The Youden Address Speaker, The 2010 Fall Technical Conference (2010, Birmingham, AL).
  • The Shewell Award, American Society for Quality (2010).
  • Faculty Scholar Medal Award (The Recipient for Social & Behavioral Sciences), The Pennsylvania State University (2004).
  • The Best Paper Award, The Korean Federation of Science and Technology Societies (with Kwang-Jae Kim, 1998).
  • Citation of Excellent Service, Directorate-General of Budget, Accounting & Statistics, Taiwan, ROC (1998).
  • Citation of Excellence, ANBAR Electronic Intelligence (1998).
  • Visiting Scientist Fellowship, IBM Watson Research Center (1993-1994).

Honorary Professorship

  • Honorary Professor, College of Management, National Normal University (Taiwan, 2018—present).
  • Honorary Professor, Department of Statistics & Actuarial Science, the University of Hong Kong (2015—2018).
  • Shan-Jing Scholar, Shanxi University of Finance & Economics (2015—2018).
  • Chang-Jiang Scholar, Remin University of China (2008-2010).
  • Mercator Visiting Professor, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) program, University of Giessen (Germany, 2008).
  • Visiting Scholar Award, Chern Institute of Mathematics, Nankai University (China, 2008).
  • Distinguished Visiting Professor, National Sun Yat-Sen University (Taiwan, 2004-2005).
  • Honorary Fellow Professor, Jinan University (Guangzhou, China, 2010)
  • Honorary Fellow Professor, Fudan University (Shanghai, China, 2006)
  • Honorary Chair Professor, National Chengchi University (Taiwan, 2004)
  • Honorary Fellow Professor, Remin University of China (Beijing, China, 2003)
  • Honorary Chair Professor, XiAn Statistical Institute (China, 2001)
  • Research Visiting Fellow, National University of Singapore (2001).
  • William Mong Research Fellow, The University of Hong Kong (1999).

Others

  • Most Outstanding Presentation Award, Section on Physical and Engineering Sciences, American Statistical Association, Joint Statistical Meetings, Boston, MA (1993).
  • Alma & Hal Reagan Scholars Award, College of Business Administration, University of Tennessee (1993, 1994).
  • Allen H. Keally Outstanding Teaching Award, College of Business Administration, University of Tennessee (1992).
  • Listed in Who’s Who in Business Higher Education (WWBHE).
  • Listed in Who’s Who Among Asian American (1994), Gale Research Inc.: Washington, D.C..
  • Beginning Researcher Award, Gordon Research Conference on Statistics in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering (1991).

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Editorial Service

  • Co-Editor, Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry (2008-2010).
  • Guest Editor, Special Issue on Response Surface Methodology, International Journal of Quality Technology & Quality Management (2008)
  • Guest Editor, Special Issue on ISBIS4 conference papers, Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry (2006).
  • Associate Editor, Technometrics (2007—2010).
  • Associate Editor, Journal of Data Science (2001—present).
  • Associate Editor, International Journal of Quality Technology & Quality Management (2002—present).
  • Editorial Review Board member, Journal of Quality Technology (1994—present).
  • Associate Editor, Journal of Statistical Theory and Practice (2006—present).
  • Associate Editor, Statistica Sinica (1999—2002, 2005—2011).
  • Associate Editor, Journal of Statistics and Its Applications (2004—present).
  • Associate Editor, Journal of Data Analysis (2008—present).
  • Associate Editor, Statistics and Informatics (2008—present).
  • Associate Editor, Taiwan Outlook (2001—2004).
  • Associate Editor, The American Statistician (1996—2002).
  • Guest Editor, Special Issue on Data Mining, Journal of Statistics, National Cheng-Kung University (Volume 24, 2001).
  • Managing Editor, Statistica Sinica (1997-1999).
  • Guest Editor, Special Issue on Uniform Design, Journal of Chinese Statistical Association (December Issue, 2000).

Professional Committees

  • Program Chair, Memphis Data - A Data Science Conference (2020).
  • The Don Owen Award Committee (ASA).
  • The Shewhart Medal Award Committee (ASQ)
  • Chair (2004) and Chair-Elected (2003), Section on Physical & Engineering Sciences, American Statistical Association.
  • Program Chair, Section on Physical & Engineering Sciences, American Statistical Association (1998).
  • Council Member, International Society for Business and Industrial Statistics (ISBIS, 2007-2010).
  • Steering Committee, Quality and Productivity Research Conference (1993—1994).
  • Fundraising Committee, International Chinese Statistical Association (1992—1994).
  • Chair, Committee on Membership, American Statistical Association (2003—2005).
  • Committee on Membership, American Statistical Association (2001—2003).
  • Board of Directors, International Chinese Statistical Association (1997—2000).
  • Committee for Applied Statistics, American Statistical Association (1996—1999).
  • Nominating Committee, International Chinese Statistical Association (2000—2001).
  • Fundraising Committee, International Chinese Statistical Association (1992—1994).
  • Editor Search Committee, International Journal of Quality Technology & Quality Management (2003)
  • Editor Search Committee, Journal of Quality Technology (2011).
  • SAMSI Forensic Statistics Committee (2015-).
  • Committee Member, The ASQ Shewhart Medal Committee (2015-)

Program Reviewer

  • Institute of Statistical Sciences, National Tsing Hua University (Taiwan, 2007).
  • Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Yuanze University (Taiwan, 2007).
  • Operation Research Program, Penn State University (2006).
  • The College of Reviewers, The Canada Research Chairs Program (2002—2005).

Advisory Board

  • Board of Trustees, NISS (National Institute of Statistical Sciences, 2016—2020).
  • SAMSI Leader Group in Forensic Statistics (2014—2016)
  • Policy Advisory Committee Member, Sun Yat-Sen Management Review (2006—present).
  • Board of Directors, Chung-Hua Data Mining Society (2002—2004).
  • Session of Uniform Design, China Mathematical Society (2000-2003, 2004-2007).
  • Finance & Monetary Division, National Policy Foundation, Taiwan (2002-present).
  • Taiwan Research Institute, Taiwan (2001—2004).
  • Tai-Fang Inc., Taiwan (2003—2005).
  • Directorate-General of Budget, Accounting & Statistics, Taiwan, ROC (1998-2000).
  • Statistical Consulting Center, Fu-Jen Catholic University, Taiwan, ROC (1997-present).

Conferences

  • Program Committee, The 3rd Pacific Rim Production Engineering and Experimental Design and Analysis Conferences, Hsinchu, Taiwan (2017).
  • Program Committee, The 10th ICSA International Conference, Shanghai, China (2016).
  • Conference co-Chair (with Vijay Nair and PG Thu), International Conference on Applied Probability & Statistics (2008, Hanoi, Vietnam).
  • Planning Committee, Making Statistics More Effective in Schools of Business Conference (1991—present).
  • Program Chair, The 2002 Taipei Data Mining Conference (Taipei, Taiwan, 2002).
  • Honorary Advisory Committee, The 5th ICSA International Conference (2001, Hong Kong).
  • Conference Co-Chair, The Twelfth Annual Meeting on Making Statistic More Effective in Schools of Business, University Park, PA. (1997, with J. Keith Ord).
  • Program Chair, The Annual Meeting on South Region Consul of Statistics, Gatlinburg, TN. (1997, Keynote Speakers: Drs. G.E.P. Box; J.A. Cornell; R.H. Myers).
  • Organizer, Invited Sessions on Industrial Statistics, ICSA Applied Statistics Symposium (1994, 1997, 1999, 2000).
  • Program Chair, The Seventh Annual Meeting on Making Statistics More Effective in Schools of Business, Knoxville, TN (1992, Keynote Speaker: Dr. Edward Deming).
  • Steering Committee, Quality and Productivity Research Conference (1993—1994).

Professorship

  • Affiliated Faculty Member, Center for Supply Chain Research (2005—2009)
  • Adjunct Professor, National Cheng Kung University (Tainan, Taiwan, 1998—present).
  • Adjunct Professor, National Central University (Chungli, Taiwan, 2002—2004).
  • Adjunct Professor, National Chengchi University (Taipei, Taiwan, 2001—2002, 2003).
  • Adjunct Professor, National Tsing Hua University (Hsinchu, Taiwan, 2001—2002).

Miscellaneous

  • Chair, Faculty Advisory Committee, Statistical Consulting Center, Penn State University (1997—2000).
  • Panelist, Knowledge & Distributed Intelligence (KDI) Program, National Science Foundation (1999).
  • User Advisory Group-Computing, University of Tennessee-Knoxville (1994).
  • Panelist, Service Enterprise Engineering (SEE) Program, National Science Foundation (2007)

Refereeing:

Manuscripts: Technometrics; Naval Research Logistics; Communications in Statistics; Journal of Quality Technology; Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference; Metrika; The American Statistician; Statistics and Probability Letters; International Statistical Review; Statistica Sinica; Mathematical Methods of Statistics; Journal of Royal Statistical Society, Ser. B; Quality Engineering; International Journal of Control; Lifetime Data Analysis; Advances in Accounting; Queueing Systems; International Journal of Quality Technology and Quality Management; European Journal of Operation Research; Omega—International Journal for Management Science.

Grant Proposals: National Science Foundation; Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada; National Security Agency; National Science Council of Republic of China, Taiwan; City University of Hong Kong; Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (United Kingdom).

Book for Publishers: MacMillan Publishing Company; Prentice Hall; John Wiley and Sons, Inc.; South-Western College Publishing, Duxbury Publisher.

OFF-CAMPUS CONSULTING

  • Christian & Small LLP on eDiscovery (Alabama, USA)
  • SASOL Technology (Pty) Ltd (South Africa)
  • ARAMCO (Saudi Arabia)
  • National Policy Foundation, Finance & Monetary Division (Taiwan, ROC).
  • SASOL Technology (Pty) Ltd (South Africa)
  • ARAMCO (Saudi Arabia)
  • Taiwan Research Institute (Taiwan, ROC).
  • Ernst & Young, LLP (Washington, DC).
  • IBM Watson Research Center (Yorktown Heights, NY).
  • AT&T, Bell Laboratory (Murray Hill).
  • IRS, Division of Statistics of Incomes (Washington, DC).
  • Bureau of Census, Taiwan, ROC.
  • Bureau of Statistics, Taiwan, ROC.
  • Accton Technology Corporation, Hsinchu, Taiwan, ROC.
  • Chain-Go Survey Study Center, Co., Taipei, Taiwan.
  • State Bureau of Statistics, Beijing, P.R.China.

PROFESSIONAL VISITS

Date Location
2018 National Taiwan Normal University
2017 Hong Kong City University
2016 Shanxi University of Finance & Economics
11/2015 The University of Hong Kong
9-10/2015 Nankai University and University of Tianjing (China)
7-8/2015 Academia Sinica, Taiwan
05-06/2011, 2012 Fudan University (Shanghai, China)
04-07/2009 & 06-08/2010 Chang-Jiang Scholar, Renmin University of China
04/2009 Harvard University
03/2009 Columbia University
08/2008-01/2009 Chang-Jiang Scholar, Remin University of China
06-08/2008 Mercator Visiting Professor Award, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
(DFG) program, University of Giessen (Germany).
05-06/2007 Distinguished Visiting Scholar, Yuan-Ze University (Taiwan)
07-08/2006 College of Management, National Sun Yat-Sen University (Taiwan).
12/05-01/2006 College of Commerce, National Chengchi University (Taiwan).
05-08/2005 College of Commerce, National Chengchi University (Taiwan).
12/2004-01/2005 College of Management, National Sun Yat-Sen University (Taiwan).
06-07/2004 Department of Mathematics, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
04-06/2003 International Master of Business Administration (IMBA), NCCU, Taiwan.
01-05/2002 Department of Mathematics, Hong Kong Baptist University (Hong Kong)
07/2001-01/2002 Department of Statistics, National Cheng-Chi University (Taiwan)
03-05/2001 Department of Statistics, National Cheng-Kung University (Taiwan)
12/1997-08/1998 Institute of Statistical Science, Academia Sinica, Taiwan.
08/1993-08/1994 IBM Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY.
04-05/1993 Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Waterloo.
01-03/ 1993 Department of Statistics, University of California-Berkeley.
12/1991-01/1992 Institute of Statistical Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, ROC.
06-07/1990 Center for Quality and Productivity Improvement (CQPI), University of Wisconsin-Madison.

COURSES TAUGHT

*: graduate courses; all at Penn State, unless specified

  • Intelligent Data Collection Methods (Spring, 2020).
  • Design of Experiments*  (Fall, 2010; Fall, 2011; Fall, 2012; Spring, 2013; Spring, 2014; Spring, 2015; Spring 2016)
  • Mathematical Statistics (Spring, 2012; Spring, 2013; Spring, 2014)
  • Statistical Research Methods* (Fall, 2007)
  • Applied Statistics* (Fall, 2008, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China)
  • Statistical Data Mining* (Spring 2001, National Cheng-Kung University (Taiwan); Fall 2001, National Chengchi University and National TsingHua University (Taiwan); Spring 2002, Hong Kong Baptist University; Fall 2004 and Fall 2005, Penn State; Fall 2008, Renmin University of China).
  • Adventure in Statistics (Spring 2003, National Chengchi University).
  • Regression Analysis and Forecasting (Spring & Fall, 2000; Fall, 2002)
  • Designing Industrial Experimentation* (Fall, 1997)
  • Introduction to Business Statistics (Spring 1996; Spring 1997; Fall 1998; Fall 1999; Fall 2000; Fall 2002; Fall 2003; near 400 students for each session)
  • Introduction to Business Statistics, Honor Option (Fall, 2003; Fall, 2004; Fall, 2005; Spring and Fall, 2007)
  • Advanced Business Statistical Methods* (Fall 1995; Fall, 1996; Fall, 1997; Fall, 1998; Fall, 1999; Fall, 2000)
  • Statistical Process Control for MBA* (Fall 1995; Fall 1996)
  • Selected Topics in Time Series Analysis* (Spring 1995, University of Tennessee-UTK)
  • Design of Experiments* (Spring 1995, UTK)
  • Selected Topics in Experimental Designs and Linear Models* (Fall 1994, UTK)
  • Probability and Statistics for Scientists and Engineers (Spring 1991; Fall 1991; Fall 1992; Fall 1994, UTK)
  • ANOVA and Experimental Designs (Spring 1991, UTK)
  • Modern Quality Engineering* (Fall 1990; Fall 1991, University of Tennessee)
  • Industrial Statistics (Spring 1990, University of Tennessee)
  • Introduction to Statistics (Fall 1989; Spring/Fall 1992, University of Tennessee)
  • Experimental Designs (Spring 1989, University of Toronto)
  • Principles of Statistics (Fall 1988, University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Ph.D. STUDENTS DIRECTED

  1. Nicholas Rios (in progress), "Order-of-Addition Mixture Experiments"
  2. Muzi Zhang (in progress), "Analysis of Interval Data"
  3. Ching-Chi Yang (2019) “Response Surface Methodology using Dimensional Analysis,” first employment at University of Memphis.
  4. Cheng You (2018) “Air Quality and Health Effect: Systematic Investigation,” (Statistics, Penn State), first employment at Well Fargo Bank.
  5. Jiayu Peng (2018) “Study on Order-of-Addition Experiment,” (Statistics, Penn State), first employment at Google Inc.
  6. Kevin Quinlan (2018) “Contribution on t-covering design,” (Statistics, Penn State), first employment at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
  7. Weijie Shen (2015) “Dimensional Analysis and Its Applications in Statistics,” (Statistics, Penn State), first employment at Google Inc.
  8. Wei Wang (2013) “Performance Criteria for Control Charts,” (Department of Statistics, Penn State), first employment at Fifth Third (53) Bank.
  9. Pannapa Changpetch, (2012) “Model Selection for Logistic Regression via Association Rule Analysis,” (Department of Statistics, Penn State), first employment at Bentley University.
  10. Anyi Chen (2009), “Analysis of Evolutionary Graphs,” (Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Penn State) first employment at St. Francis Hospital.
  11. Junjia Zhu (2008), “Monitoring Profile Data,” (Department of Statistics, Penn State University), first employment at Penn State University.
  12. James Mcdermott (2003). “Single-Pass, Low-Storage Density Estimation: Univariate and Multivariate,” (Department of Statistics, Penn State University), first employment at Merck.
  13. Sandy D. Balkin (2000). “A Statistical Implementation of Feedback Neural Network for Univariate Time Series” (Department of Management Science and Information Systems, co-direct with J. Keith Ord), first employment at Ernst & Young LLP.
  14. Richard N. McGrath (2000). “Topics on Industrial Statistics,” (Department of Statistics, Penn State University), first employment at Bowling Green State University.
  15. Scott D. Beattie (1999). “Topics on Design of Computer Experiments,” (Department of Statistics, Penn State University), first employment at Eli Lilly.
  16. JiaNong Wang (1995). “On Supersaturated Designs,” (Department of Mathematics, Memphis State University, co-directed with Lih-Yuan Deng), first employment at American Express.
  17. Timothy West (1993). “External Auditors’ Risk Assessment Decisions: The Impact of Implementing Activity-Based Costing,” (Department of Accounting, University of Tennessee, co-directed with Harold P. Roth), first employment at Iowa State University.

Ph.D. STUDENTS DIRECTED—Exchanged Students

  1. Kuo, Min-Hsun (Yuanze University, Taiwan, 2005-2006)
  2. Xiao, Lili (Tsinghua University, China, 2010-2011)
  3. Yang, Jingyu (Nankai University, 2011-2012)
  4. Liu, Yang (Shanxi University of Finance & Economics, 2015-2016)
  5. Zhao, Yuna (Nankai University, 2015-2016)
  6. Zhou, Panpan (Tianjin University, 2015-2017)

MASTER STUDENTS DIRECTED IN INDEPENDENT STUDY PROJECTS

At The Pennsylvania State University

  1. Luqi Yao (2015) on “Study on Bi-Partitie Network in Collaborative Filtering Recommendation Systems.”
  2. Daniel Nugent (2004), Department of Supply Chain & Information Systems.
  3. YuDing Wang (2004) on “Graphical Methods for Analyzing Fractional Factorial Designs,” Department of Statistics.
  4. Heather Ma (2003) on “Simpson Paradox and Association Rules,” Department of Statistics.
  5. David Weller (1999) on “Optimization of Lubricant Additive Systems,” Department of Management Science and Information Systems.
  6. Sami Huovilainen (1998) on “Evaluating the Measurement Processes of Nova-Borealis Compounds LLC,” Department of Statistics.
  7. Peter W. Phillips (1997) on “Use of Desirability Functions with MSE in Taguchi Parameter Design with Multiple Quality Characteristics,” Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering (second reader).
  8. An Ou-Yang (1997) on “Regional and Gender Effects in Wage Analysis: Data of 1995 Taiwan Incomes,” Department of Management Science and Information Systems.

At Department of Statistics, University of Tennessee-Knoxville:

  1. James Parker (1995) on “Study on Design Optimality.”
  2. Rong Lui (1995) on “Run Order Considerations for Two-Level Orthogonal Designs.”
  3. Kelly Ka-Lai Chao (1995) on “Three-Quarters Fraction of Plackett and Burman Design.”
  4. Cynthia Hale-Bennett (1995) on “From SPC to DOE: A Case Study.”
  5. Wanzhu Tu (1992) on “Dual Response Surface Optimization.”
  6. Scott Garber (1991) on “Partially Supplementing Designs.”
  7. Amy Kam (1991) on “The Missing Degrees of Freedom in Taguchi’s Orthogonal Arrays.”
  8. Wei Wu (1990) on “Missing Value Problems in Industry.”
  9. Anthony Cooper (1990) on “Factor Classification.”