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Title: "Digital Twin for Quality Innovations: Manufacturing and Health Applications"

Abstract: Modern industry is investing in new digital technologies, such as Internet of Things (IoT), advanced sensing and computing, to propel quality innovations in products and services. Real-time flow of sensing data gives rise to data-rich environments and an unprecedented opportunity to realize a new generation of digital twin (DT) in cyberspace. In a digital twin, physical dynamics are reflected in cyberspace through advanced sensing, information processing, and computer modeling. In the feedback loop, analytics in cyberspace (e.g., artificial intelligence and machine learning) exploits the acquired knowledge and useful information from sensing data for optimal actions to the physical world. This webinar will present our continuous research efforts on the “sensing-modeling-optimization” framework to build new cyber-physical digital twins in disparate disciplines of manufacturing and healthcare. Specifically, I will talk about recent research studies , including (1) sensor DT for statistical quality control; (2) factory DT for process; and (3) heart DT for smart health. The next generation of digital twin is strongly promised to innovate quality engineering, manufacturing processes, and healthcare services. At the end of this talk, future research directions will be discussed.

Biography: Dr. Hui Yang is a Fellow of IISE, a Professor of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Biomedical Engineering at Penn State, and is affiliated with Penn State CIMP-3D, Institute for Computational and Data Sciences (ICDS). Currently, he serves as the director of NSF Center for Health Organization Transformation (CHOT). He is a recipient of the prestigious NSF CAREER award and Fulbright Award. Dr. Yang has served as the president (2017-2018) of IISE Data Analytics and Information Systems Society, the chair (2015-2016) of INFORMS Quality, Statistics and Reliability (QSR) society, and the program chair of 2016 IISE Annual Conference. He is also the Editor-in-Chief (EIC) for IISE Transactions Healthcare Systems Engineering, as well as an Associate Editor (AE) for IISE Transactions, IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics (JBHI), ASME Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering (JCISE).