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Education
- Ph.D. (June 2006),
Department of Industrial
Engineering and Management Sciences, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
- M.S. (December 2002), Department of Industrial
Engineering and Management Sciences, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
- B.S.
in Electronics Engineering (July 2000), Tsinghua
University, Beijing,
China.
Research Interests
- Design and analysis of
computer simulation experiments on models of semiconductor
manufacturing systems, with an emphasis on efficient experiment design to
save computational effort and performance evaluation of the system
- Application of computer
simulation in manufacturing, transportation and supply chain management.
- Design of experiment
methodology and application
- Applied statistical methods
Professional Experience
- Assistant
Professor, West Virginia University, 2006-present
- Research
Assistant, Northwestern University, 2002-2006
Professional
Affiliations
- Member, Institute for
Operations Research and Management Science (INFORMS), 2001- Present
- Member, INFORMS Simulation
Society, 2003- Present
- Judge, Student Paper
Contest, IIE 2006 Region IV Conference, West Lafayette, IN,
Feb 10-12, 2006
- Academic Co-Chair, INFORMS
Northwestern Student Chapter, 2005-2006
- Session Chair, Winter Simulation Conference, Washington, DC,
Dec 2004
Teaching
- IENG
455 Simulation by
Digital Methods
- IENG
756 Introduction to
Applied Stochastic Processes
Publications
Journal Articles
- F. Yang, Neural network
metamodeling for cycle-time based performance profiles in manufacturing,
submitted to Naval Research Logistic.
- F.Yang, J. Liu, B. L. Nelson, B. E.
Ankenman and M. Tongarlak, Metamodeling for
cycle time-throughput-product mix surfaces using progressive model fitting,
Submitted to Production
Planning and Control.
- F.
Yang, B. E. Ankenman and B. L. Nelson, Cycle time percentile curves for manufacturing
systems, INFORMS Journal on Computing, forthcoming.
- F.
Yang, B. E. Ankenman and B. L. Nelson, 2007, Efficient generation of cycle time-throughput
curves through simulation and metamodeling, Naval Research
Logistics Vol. 54, 78-93.
Book Chapter
- B. E. Ankenman, J. M.
Bekki, J. W. Fowler, G. T. Mackulak, B. L. Nelson, and F. Yang,
Simulation in production
planning, Chapter 6 in Handbook of
Production Planning, to be published by Springer.
Refereed Proceedings
- J. Xu, F. Yang and H. Wan, 2007, Controlled
sequential bifurcation for software reliability study, Proceedings
of the 2007 Winter Simulation Conference, 281-288.
- F. Yang, J. Liu, M. Tongarlak, B. E. Ankenman and B. L.
Nelson, 2007, Metamodeling for
cycle time-throughput-product mix surfaces using progressive model fitting,
Proceedings of the 2007 Winter Simulation Conference,
322-330.
- F.
Yang, B. E. Ankenman and B. L. Nelson, 2005, Estimation of
percentiles of cycle time in manufacturing simulation, Proceedings
of he 2005 Winter Simulation Conference, 475-484.
- R.
T. Johnson, F. Yang, B. E. Ankenman and B. L. Nelson, 2004, Nonlinear regression
fits for simulated cycle time vs. throughput curves for semiconductor
manufacturing, Proceedings of the 2004 Winter Simulation Conference, 1951-1955.