Hui Yang, PhD, IISE Fellow
Director: Center for Health Organization Transformation
Professor: Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Biomedical Engineering
Editor-in-Chief: IISE Transactions on Healthcare Systems Engineering
Affiliate: Penn State Cancer Institute (PSCI), Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI), Institute for Computational and Data Sciences (ICDS), CIMP-3D
Office: Leonhard 221, Penn State, University Park | Tel: 814-865-7397

Research Interests: Sensor-based modeling and analysis of complex systems for process monitoring/control, system diagnostics/prognostics, quality improvement, and performance optimization, with special focus on nonlinear stochastic dynamics, and the resulting chaotic, recurrence, multifractal, self-organizing, long-range dependence behaviors:

Sensing systems, data analytics, and artificial intelligence
Network science, nonlinear dynamics, and chaos
Computer simulation, system dynamics, and optimization
Quality engineering and applied statistics
Smart manufacturing and industry 4.0
Smart health, healthcare informatics, signal processing

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. Previously, he was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Industrial and Management Systems Engineering at the University of South Florida from 2009-2015. Dr. Yang received BS and MS degrees in Electrical Engineering from China University of Mining and Technology, Beijing, and the PhD degree in Industrial Engineering from Oklahoma State University, Stillwater.

Dr. Yang has been a principal investigator on over $10.7 million of sponsored research with funding by National Science Foundation (including the prestigious NSF CAREER award), National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), MxD, Department of Energy (DOE) Clean Energy Smart Manufacturing Innovation Institute (CESMII), Lockheed Martin, IBM, GM, NSF Center for e-Design, Susan Koman Foundation, Highmark, Siemens Healthineers, Hershey Medical Center, NSF Center for Healthcare Organization Transformation, Fulbright Foundation, Institute for Computational and Data Sciences, James A. Harley Veterans Hospital, and Florida James and Esther King Biomedical research program. His research group received a number of best paper/poster awards from IEEE EMBC, IEEE CASE, IISE and INFORMS Conferences. Also, he has been invited as a keynote/plenary speaker for several international conferences in complex systems, quality science, nonlinear science, data analytics, and service science.

Dr. Yang’s research focus is sensor-based modeling and optimization of complex systems, with special emphasis on nonlinear stochastic dynamics, and the resulting chaotic, recurrence, multifractal, self-organizing behaviors. He holds 2 US patents and has authored 5 books, 11 book chapters, 2 editorials, 99 refereed journal articles, and 65 peer-reviewed conference articles. Several of his papers are among the most highly cited in their respective journals such as IISE Transactions. His research outcomes are highlighted in news media, and also selected as feature articles or cover articles by flagship journals (e.g., IISE transactions, IEEE transactions, Chaos, and Physiological Measurement). His books include “Healthcare Analytics: From Data to Knowledge to Healthcare Improvement”, Wiley 2016, “Smart Service Systems, Operations Management, and Analytics”, Springer 2019, and “Sensing, Modeling and Optimization of Cardiac Systems”, Springer 2023.

His research has been the basis for 15 PhD dissertations. Twelve of his PhD students joined academia as tenured or tenure-track faculty in the research-one university (1 received NSF CAREER award). Dr. Yang was named Harold and Inge Marcus Career Professor in 2015, Schreyer Distinguished Honors Faculty Fellow in 2020 at Penn State. Previously, he received the Outstanding Faculty Award in 2015 from the University of South Florida. Dr. Yang was awarded the Best Reviewer of the Year (2016) by the IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, and was named in the SME’s list of 25 Leaders Transforming Manufacturing in 2022. Also, Dr. Yang has served in numerous leadership roles in international conferences sponsored by IISE, INFORMS and IEEE. He has organized multiple international workshops/conferences including INFORMS Workshop on Data Mining and Analytics 2014, IISE Annual Conference 2016, IEEE Workshop on Automation in Healthcare Delivery Systems 2017, INFORMS Conference on Service Science 2020.

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), and an Associate Editor for the Proceedings of IEEE CASE, IEEE EMBC, and IEEE BHI. He is a professional member of IEEE, IEEE EMBS, INFORMS, IISE, ASQ, ASEE, SME, ASME, AAAS, Alpha Pi Mu, and American Heart Association (AHA).