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1.     Detailed Vitae (pdf)

2. Education

2.      Research Interests

3.      Professional Experience

4.      Professional Affiliations

5.     Teaching

6.      Publications

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.

Last update 12/26/07