About
Dr. Ran Jin is a Professor and the Director of Laboratory of Data Science and Visualization at the Grado Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Virginia Tech.
Details
Dr. Jin received his Ph.D. degree in Industrial Engineering from Georgia Tech, Atlanta, his master’s degrees in Industrial Engineering, and in Statistics, both from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and his bachelor’s degree in Electronic Engineering from Tsinghua University, Beijing. Dr. Jin served as President of Engineering Faculty Organization at Virginia Tech, Operations Officer of Faculty Senate, and Co-Chair of Commission on Research at Virginia Tech. He also served as Chair of Quality, Statistics, and Reliability subdivision in INFORMS and Associate Editor for IISE Transactions (Design and Manufacturing). Dr. Jin is currently serving as an Associate Editor for ASME Journal of Manufacturing Science and Engineering, Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, and Associate Editor for INFORMS Journal on Data Science.
Research Interests
Dr. Jin’s research focuses on computation services in smart manufacturing and human-centered artificial intelligence (AI). His research includes lightweight middleware design in Industrial Internet, auto-machine learning and deep neural networks in manufacturing, and interface between data quality and data-driven modeling.
