# overview
Dr. Yu Ding is the Mike and Sugar Barnes Professor of Industrial & Systems Engineering, Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Associate Director for Research Engagement of Texas A&M Institute of Data Science (TAMIDS), and a Faculty Affiliate with Texas A&M Energy Institute and TEES Institute of Manufacturing Systems.  Dr. Ding serves on the Executive Committee of Texas A&M TRIPODS Research Institute for Foundations of Interdisciplinary Data Science (FIDS). Dr. Ding's research interest is in data and quality science.  Dr. Ding is the Editor-in-Chief of IISE Transactions (formerly IIE Transactions) for the term of 2021-2024.  He previously served as an Editor for IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering and a Senior Editor for INFORMS Journal on Data Science.  He also served as a Department Editor for IISE Transactions from 2005 to 2020, as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering from 2006 to 2009, and a special issue Guest Co-Editor for Technometrics from 2013 to 2015.

# keywords[]
Thin Plate Regression Splines With Non-negativity

# keywords[]
4009 Electronics, Sensors And Digital Hardware

# keywords[]
Partially Observed Markov Decision Process

# keywords[]
9 Industry, Innovation And Infrastructure

# keywords[]
Partially Observed Markov Decision Process

# keywords[]
4007 Control Engineering, Mechatronics And Robotics

# keywords[]
9 Industry, Innovation And Infrastructure

# keywords[]
4007 Control Engineering, Mechatronics And Robotics

# keywords[]
Surveillance System For Ports And Waterways

# keywords[]
4007 Control Engineering, Mechatronics And Robotics

# keywords[]
4603 Computer Vision And Multimedia Computation

# educationAndTraining[].organization.label
Pennsylvania State University - (State College, Pennsylvania, United States)

# educationAndTraining[].organization.label
Tsinghua University - (Beijing, Beijing, China)

# educationAndTraining[].organization.label
University of Science and Technology of China - (Hefei, China)

# educationAndTraining[].organization.label
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor - (Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States)

# awardsAndHonors[].label
Association of Former Students University-Level Distinguished Achievement Award, The

# awardsAndHonors[].label
Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program

# publications[].label
A classification procedure for highly imbalanced class sizes

# publications[].label
Bayesian hierarchical model for combining misaligned two-resolution metrology data

# publications[].label
SIMULATION OF WIND FARM OPERATIONS AND MAINTENANCE

# publications[].label
Calculating the Breakdown Point of Sparse Linear Models

# publications[].label
Spline model for wake effect analysis: Characteristics of a single wake and its impacts on wind turbine power generation

# publications[].label
Special section on distributed sensing for quality and productivity improvement

# publications[].publisher
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

# publications[].label
OPTIMAL MAINTENANCE STRATEGIES FOR WIND TURBINE SYSTEMS

# publications[].label
Fault Tolerance Analysis of Surveillance Sensor Systems

# publications[].publisher
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

# publications[].label
Season-Dependent Condition-Based Maintenance for a Wind Turbine Using a Partially Observed Markov Decision Process

# publications[].publisher
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

# publications[].label
Automating material image analysis for material discovery

# publications[].label
Design evaluation of multi-station assembly processes by using state space approach

# publications[].label
Hypothesis tests with functional data for surface quality change detection in surface finishing processes

# publications[].label
Robust Calibration for Localization in Clustered Wireless Sensor Networks

# publications[].publisher
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

# publications[].label
Segmentation, Inference and Classification of Partially Overlapping Nanoparticles.

# publications[].publisher
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

# publications[].label
Detecting nuclear materials smuggling: performance evaluation of container inspection policies.

# publications[].publisher
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

# publications[].label
Optimal Maintenance Strategies for Wind Turbine Systems Under Stochastic Weather Conditions

# publications[].publisher
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

# publications[].label
MODELING AND ANALYSIS OF TIME-PERIODIC GEARBOX VIBRATION

# publications[].label
Integration of process-oriented tolerancing and maintenance planning in design of multistation manufacturing processes

# publications[].publisher
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

# publications[].tags
9 Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure

# publications[].label
Identifying multi-stage nanocrystal growth using in situ TEM video data

# publications[].label
An L1-Minimization Based Algorithm to Measure the Redundancy of State Estimators in Large Sensor Systems

# publications[].publisher
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

# publications[].label
Analysis of leading edge protection application on wind turbine performance through energy and power decomposition approaches

# publications[].label
Guidelines for placing additional sensors to improve variation diagnosis in assembly processes

# publications[].label
A kernel plus method for quantifying wind turbine performance upgrades

# publications[].label
Singularity Issue in Dimensional Variation Diagnosis of Multi-Station Assembly Processes

# publications[].label
A Mixed Integer Programming Based Recursive Variance Reduction Method for Reliability Evaluation of Linear Sensor Systems

# publications[].publisher
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

# publications[].label
Simulation of wind farm operations and maintenance using discrete event system specification

# publications[].label
Online automatic process control using observable noise factors for discrete-part manufacturing

# publications[].label
A survey of inspection strategy and sensor distribution studies in discrete-part manufacturing processes

# publications[].tags
9 Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure

# publications[].label
Optimal design of fixture layout in multistation assembly processes

# publications[].publisher
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

# publications[].label
BAYESIAN SPLINE METHOD FOR ASSESSING EXTREME LOADS ON WIND TURBINES

# publications[].label
SPATIO-TEMPORAL SHORT-TERM WIND FORECAST: A CALIBRATED REGIME-SWITCHING METHOD.

# publications[].label
A Graph-Theoretic Approach for Spatial Filtering and Its Impact on Mixed-Type Spatial Pattern Recognition in Wafer Bin Maps

# publications[].publisher
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

# publications[].label
Evaluation of alternative power production efficiency metrics for offshore wind turbines and farms

# publications[].label
Integrating simulation and optimization for wind farm operations under stochastic conditions

# publications[].label
Distributed sensing for quality and productivity improvements

# publications[].publisher
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

# publications[].label
Quantifying Nanoparticle Mixing State to Account for Both Location and Size Effects

# publications[].label
Detecting nuclear materials smuggling: using radiography to improve container inspection policies

# publications[].label
A Computable Plug-In Estimator of Minimum Volume Sets for Novelty Detection

# publications[].publisher
Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)

# publications[].label
TAKDE: Temporal Adaptive Kernel Density Estimator for Real-Time Dynamic Density Estimation.

# publications[].publisher
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

# publications[].label
BAYESIAN OBJECT CLASSIFICATION OF GOLD NANOPARTICLES

# publications[].label
Power Curve Estimation With Multivariate Environmental Factors for Inland and Offshore Wind Farms

# publications[].label
Domain Decomposition Approach for Fast Gaussian Process Regression of Large Spatial Data Sets

# publications[].publisher
Journal of Machine Learning Research - JMLR

# publications[].label
Graph-Based Clustering for Detecting Frequent Patterns in Event Log Data

# publications[].publisher
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

# publications[].label
Absent Data Generating Classifier for Imbalanced Class Sizes

# publications[].publisher
Journal of Machine Learning Research - JMLR

# publications[].label
A Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Space Approach to Functional Calibration of Computer Models

# publications[].label
Quantifying Nanoparticle Mixing State to Account for Both Particle Location and Size Effects (vol 59, pg 391, 2017)

# publications[].label
A, characterization of diagnosability conditions for variance components analysis in assembly operations

# publications[].publisher
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

# publications[].label
A multistage, semi-automated procedure for analyzing the morphology of nanoparticles

# publications[].label
Modulus prediction of buckypaper based on multi-fidelity analysis involving latent variables

# publications[].label
Unsupervised Anomaly Detection Based on Minimum Spanning Tree Approximated Distance Measures and Its Application to Hydropower Turbines

# publications[].publisher
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

# publications[].label
Quantifying the effect of vortex generator installation on wind power production: An academia-industry case study

# publications[].label
Using container inspection history to improve interdiction logistics for illicit nuclear materials

# publications[].label
A case study of space-time performance comparison of wind turbines on a wind farm

# publications[].label
Gaussian process method for form error assessment using coordinate measurements

# publications[].label
Optimal parameter selection for electronic packaging using sequential computer simulations

# publications[].label
Joint Estimation of Monotone Curves via Functional Principal Component Analysis.

# publications[].label
Challenges and Needs for Automating Nano Image Processing for Material Characterization

# publications[].publisher
SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics

# publications[].label
Diagnosability Study of Multistage Manufacturing Processes Based on Linear Mixed-Effects Models

# publications[].tags
9 Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure

# publications[].label
Hybridization of Bound-and-Decompose and Mixed Integer Feasibility Checking to Measure Redundancy in Structured Linear Systems

# publications[].publisher
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

# publications[].label
Singularity issues in fixture fault diagnosis for multi-station assembly processes

# publications[].label
A model-based calibration approach for structural fault diagnosis using piezoelectric impedance measurements and a finite element model

# publications[].label
Adaptive evolutionary Monte Carlo algorithm for optimization with applications to sensor placement problems

# publications[].label
A data mining approach to study the significance of nonlinearity in multistation assembly processes

# publications[].label
DATA ANALYTICS METHODS FOR WIND ENERGY APPLICATIONS

# publications[].label
FAST DYNAMIC NONPARAMETRIC DISTRIBUTION TRACKING IN ELECTRON MICROSCOPIC DATA

# publications[].label
Tracking Dynamic Gaussian Density with a Theoretically Optimal Sliding Window Approach

# publications[].label
A production economics analysis for quantifying the efficiency of wind turbines

# publications[].label
Collaborative data reduction for energy efficient sensor networks

# publications[].publisher
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

# publications[].label
COVARIATE MATCHING METHODS FOR TESTING AND QUANTIFYING WIND TURBINE UPGRADES

# publications[].label
Design evaluation of multi-station assembly processes by using state space approach

# publications[].label
A Spatio-Temporal Track Association Algorithm Based on Marine Vessel Automatic Identification System Data

# publications[].publisher
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

# publications[].label
Phase I analysis for monitoring nonlinear profiles in manufacturing processes

# publications[].label
O-LoMST: An Online Anomaly Detection Approach And Its Application In A Hydropower Generation Plant

# publications[].label
Fault diagnosis of multistage manufacturing processes by using state space approach

# publications[].label
Optimal engineering system design guided by data-mining methods

# publications[].label
Outlier Detection for Hydropower Generation Plant

# publications[].publisher
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

# publications[].label
Robust Nanoparticles Detection From Noisy Background by Fusing Complementary Image Information.

# publications[].publisher
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

# publications[].label
A stochastic DEVS wind turbine component model for wind farm simulation

# publications[].label
Simulation of wind farm operations and maintenance using discrete event system specification

# publications[].label
Neighborhood Structure Assisted Non-negative Matrix Factorization and Its Application in Unsupervised Point-wise Anomaly Detection

# publications[].label
Augmented Equivariant Attention Networks for Microscopy Image Transformation.

# publications[].publisher
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

# publications[].label
Decision Fusion from Heterogeneous Sensors in Surveillance Sensor Systems

# publications[].publisher
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

# publications[].tags
16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

# publications[].label
A Bayesian hierarchical model to understand the effect of terrain on wind turbine power curves

# publications[].publisher
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

# publications[].label
GPLP: A Local and Parallel Computation Toolbox for Gaussian Process Regression

# publications[].publisher
Journal of Machine Learning Research - JMLR

# publications[].label
An Integer Programming Approach for Analyzing the Measurement Redundancy in Structured Linear Systems

# publications[].publisher
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

# publications[].label
Optimal sensor distribution in multi-station assembly processes for maximal variance detection capability

# publications[].label
Power Curve Estimation: Functional Estimation Imposing the Regular Ultra Passum Law

# publications[].label
Short-Term Wind Speed Forecast Using Measurements From Multiple Turbines in A Wind Farm

# publications[].label
Robust calibration for localization in clustered wireless sensor networks

# publications[].label
Pattern matching for variation-source identification in manufacturing processes in the presence of unstructured noise

# publications[].label
A stochastic DEVS wind turbine component model for wind farm simulation

# publications[].publisher
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

# publications[].label
Multi-component wind turbine modeling and simulation for wind farm operations and maintenance

# publications[].label
Optimal coordinate sensor placements for estimating mean and variance components of variation sources

# publications[].label
Editorial: Perspectives of ISE/OR researchers

# publications[].label
Spatio-temporal asymmetry of local wind fields and its impact on short-term wind forecasting.

# publications[].publisher
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

# publications[].label
Bayesian site selection for fast Gaussian process regression

# publications[].label
Effective Super-Resolution Methods for Paired Electron Microscopic Images

# publications[].publisher
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

# publications[].label
The Temporal Overfitting Problem with Applications in Wind Power Curve Modeling

# publications[].label
Gaussian Process-Aided Function Comparison Using Noisy Scattered Data

# publications[].label
Optimal sensor distribution for variation diagnosis in multistation assembly processes

# publications[].publisher
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

# researcherOn[].label
Dynamic, Data-Driven Modeling of Nanoparticle Self Assembly Processes

# researcherOn[].awardedBy.label
United States Air Force - (Arlington, Virginia, United States)

# researcherOn[].awardedBy.preferredLabel
DOD-Air Force-Office of Scientific Research

# researcherOn[].label
Structure-Aware Reliability Analysis of State Estimators in Large-Scale Sensor Systems

# researcherOn[].awardedBy.label
Qatar National Research Fund - (Doha, Qatar)

# researcherOn[].label
Dynamic, Data-Driven Modeling of Nanoparticle Self Assembly Processes

# researcherOn[].awardedBy.label
United States Air Force - (Arlington, Virginia, United States)

# researcherOn[].awardedBy.preferredLabel
DOD-Air Force-Office of Scientific Research

# researcherOn[].label
GOALI: Collaborative Research: A System-Level Framework for Operation and Maintenance: Synergizing Near and Long Term Cares for Wind Turbines

# researcherOn[].awardedBy.label
National Science Foundation - (Arlington, Virginia, United States)

# researcherOn[].label
Collaborative Research: Multi-Accuracy Bayesian Models for Improving Property Prediction of Nanotube Buckypaper Composites

# researcherOn[].awardedBy.label
National Science Foundation - (Arlington, Virginia, United States)

# researcherOn[].label
CPS: Medium: Real-Time Learning and Control of Stochastic Nanostructure Growth Processes Through in situ Dynamic Imaging

# researcherOn[].awardedBy.label
Directorate for Engineering - (Arlington, Virginia, United States)

# researcherOn[].label
BIGDATA: IA: Collaborative Research: From Bytes to Watts - A Data Science Solution to Improve Wind Energy Reliability and Operation

# researcherOn[].awardedBy.label
National Science Foundation - (Arlington, Virginia, United States)

# researcherOn[].label
S&AS: INT: Autonomous Experimentation Platform for Accelerating Manufacturing of Advanced Materials

# researcherOn[].awardedBy.label
National Science Foundation - (Arlington, Virginia, United States)

# researcherOn[].label
CPS: Synergy: Collaborative Research: Cybernizing Mechanical Structures through Integrated Senor-Structure Fabrication

# researcherOn[].awardedBy.label
National Science Foundation - (Arlington, Virginia, United States)

# streetAddress
Texas A&M University; Industrial and Systems Engineering; 3131 TAMU

# inTheNews[].label
Texas A&M Announces 2020 Distinguished Achievement Award Recipients

# inTheNews[].label
New Super-Resolution Method Reveals The Fine Details

# inTheNews[].label
New super-resolution method reveals fine details without constantly needing to zoom in

# inTheNews[].label
New Method Improves EM Image Quality without Compromising Samples

# etdChairOf[].label
Lawley, Jason Kriel (2018-07). Optimal Personnel Deployment Strategy for Self-Perform Maintenance on Wind Farms. Master's Thesis.

# etdChairOf[].label
Cho, Jung Jin (2009-05). On the robustness of clustered sensor networks. Doctoral Dissertation.

# etdChairOf[].label
Gupta, Abhishek (2004-09). Robust design using sequential computer experiments. Master's Thesis.

# etdChairOf[].label
Hwangbo, Hoon (2017-07). Performance Evaluation of Wind Power Systems Based on Production Economics Theory. Doctoral Dissertation.

# etdChairOf[].label
Liu, Qinyan (2005-08). Optimal coordinate sensor placements for estimating mean and variance components of variation sources. Master's Thesis.

# etdChairOf[].label
Ren, Yuan (2010-01). Adaptive Evolutionary Monte Carlo for Heuristic Optimization: With Applications to Sensor Placement Problems. Doctoral Dissertation.

# etdChairOf[].label
Park, Chiwoo (2012-10). Automated Morphology Analysis of Nanoparticles. Doctoral Dissertation.

# etdChairOf[].label
Pourhabib, Arash (2014-07). Gaussian Process Modeling and Computation in Engineering Applications. Doctoral Dissertation.

# etdChairOf[].label
Byon, Eunshin (2011-08). Simulation and Optimization of Wind Farm Operations under Stochastic Conditions. Doctoral Dissertation.

# etdChairOf[].label
Perez, David Matthew (2018-07). Exploring Key Variables In Wind Turbine Power Curve Modeling. Master's Thesis.

# etdChairOf[].label
Kim, Pansoo (2004-11). Near optimal design of fixture layouts in multi-station assembly processes. Doctoral Dissertation.

# etdChairOf[].label
Lee, Hyun Cheol (2005-11). Robust design of control charts for autocorrelated processes with model uncertainty. Doctoral Dissertation.

# etdChairOf[].label
Zhang, Feng (2005-02). Identifying nonlinear variaiton patterns in multivariate manufacturing processes. Doctoral Dissertation.

# etdChairOf[].label
Lee, Giwhyun (2013-05). Data Analytics Methods in Wind Turbine Design and Operations. Doctoral Dissertation.

# etdChairOf[].label
Xia, Haifeng (2010-01). Bayesian Hierarchical Model for Combining Two-resolution Metrology Data. Doctoral Dissertation.

# etdChairOf[].label
Chin, Chang-Ho (2005-11). Optimal filter design approaches to statistical process control for autocorrelated processes. Doctoral Dissertation.

# etdChairOf[].label
Qian, Yanjun (2018-06). Data Science Methods for Analyzing Nanomaterial Images and Videos. Doctoral Dissertation.

# etdChairOf[].label
Shrivastava, Abhishek Kumar (2011-02). Listing Unique Fractional Factorial Designs. Doctoral Dissertation.