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Dennis Lin Department of Statistics

Professional Activities

Editorial Service

  • Associate Editor, Journal of Data Analysis (2008—present).
  • Associate Editor, Statistics and Informatics (2008—present).
  • Associate Editor, Journal of Statistical Theory and Practice (2006—present).
  • Associate Editor, Journal of Statistics and Its Applications (2004—present).
  • Associate Editor, International Journal of Quality Technology & Quality Management (2002—present).
  • Associate Editor, Journal of Data Science (2001—present).
  • Editorial Review Board member, Journal of Quality Technology (1994—present).
  • Associate Editor, Statistica Sinica (1999—2002, 2005—2011).
  • Co-Editor, Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry (2008-2010).
  • Associate Editor, Technometrics (2007—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, 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).
  • Guest Editor, Special Issue on Uniform Design, Journal of Chinese Statistical Association (December Issue, 2000).
  • Managing Editor, Statistica Sinica (1997-1999).

Professional Committees

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

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—2019).
  • Policy Advisory Committee Member, Sun Yat-Sen Management Review (2006—present).
  • Finance & Monetary Division, National Policy Foundation, Taiwan (2002-present).
  • Statistical Consulting Center, Fu-Jen Catholic University, Taiwan, ROC (1997-present).
  • SAMSI Leader Group in Forensic Statistics (2014—2016)
  • Session of Uniform Design, China Mathematical Society (2000-2003, 2004-2007).
  • Tai-Fang Inc., Taiwan (2003—2005).
  • Board of Directors, Chung-Hua Data Mining Society (2002—2004).
  • Taiwan Research Institute, Taiwan (2001—2004).
  • Directorate-General of Budget, Accounting & Statistics, Taiwan, ROC (1998-2000).

Conferences

  • Program Committee, The 3rd Pacific Rim Production Engineering and xperimental 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

  • Adjunct Professor, National Cheng Kung University (Tainan, Taiwan, 1998—present).
  • Affiliated Faculty Member, Center for Supply Chain Research (2005—2009)
  • 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.