November 13
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12:00 PM
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1:00 PM
UW-ISyE looks forward to welcoming Professor Hui Yang from Penn State.
Generative Digital Twinning for Resilient Manufacturing
Manufacturing systems often face unexpected disruptions, including machine failures, material shortages, workforce challenges, privacy breaches, demand fluctuations, and tooling problems. These disruptions can impact work-in-process (WIP) and, more importantly, compromise the system’s short- or long-term capability in meeting key performance indicators (KPIs). Manufacturing resilience refers to the ability of a production system to adapt, reconfigure, and recover its functionality and performance in response to such disruptions.
This talk will present a new paradigm in which generative AI and digital twins work synergistically toward autonomous and resilient reconfiguration of factory operations under disruptions and uncertainties. We will demonstrate innovative GenAI solutions, along with digital twins and statistical design strategies, to translate the autonomy and intelligence of individual machines and machine networks into measurable system-level performance gains.
Bio: Dr. Hui Yang is a Fellow of IISE, the Gary and Sheila Bello Chair Professor of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Biomedical Engineering at Penn State. He was the president (2017-2018) of IISE Data Analytics and Information Systems Society, the chair (2015-2016) of INFORMS Quality, Statistics and Reliability (QSR) section, and the program chair of 2016 IISE Annual Conference. He currently serves as the Editor-in-Chief (EIC) for IISE Transactions Healthcare Systems Engineering.
His research focuses on sensor-based modeling and optimization of complex systems, with applications in advanced manufacturing and smart health. He is a recipient of the prestigious NSF CAREER award and Fulbright Award. His research has been supported by National Science Foundation (NSF), National Institute of Health (NIH), National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), MxD, Fulbright Foundation, industry partners, and private foundations. His research group received multiple best paper awards and best poster awards from IISE, IEEE, and INFORMS Conferences.