Dr. Jingshan Li is an assistant professor of
Electrical Engineering and the Institute for
Sustainable Manufacturing. He is the Director of Production and Service Systems Lab and the Director of Health Care Systems Lab. He received his Bachelor degree
from Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China in 1989,
Master degree from Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China in 1992, and PhD from Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, MI, in 2000. His PhD advisor was Prof. Semyon M. Meerkov. From 2000-2006, Dr. Li worked in the Manufacturing Systems Research Lab, General Motors Research & Development Center, Warren, MI. He joined the University of Kentucky in 2006.
His research area is in system and control with applications to production and health care systems.
Dr. Li is the co-author (with Prof. S.M. Meerkov) of the textbook Production Systems Engineering (Springer, 2009), and co-edited (with Prof. P.T. Kabamba) the book Advances in Systems Theory: Control, Communication Networks, Production Systems and Rational Behavior (WingSpan Press, 2009) and has over 80 referred journal and conference publications.
He is a senior member of IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) and IIE (Institute of Industrial Engineers). He has been Associate Editors for IEEE Transactions on
Automation Science and Engineering (2006-) and Mathematical Problems in Engineering (2006, 2007), Lead Guest Editor for Special Issue of Automation Science and Engineering in Automotive Manufacturing in IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering.
He received NSF CAREER Award (2010-2015), 2009 IIE Transactions Best Application Paper Award - Design & Manufacturing, IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering Best Paper Award for year 2005, and 2006 IEEE Early Industry/Government Career Award in Robotics and Automation. He was in the finalists of best paper awards in IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (2005) and IEEE Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (2009).
Dr. Li's research has been supported by NSF (National Science Foundation), General Motors Research & Development Center, Central Baptist Hospital, University of Kentucky Chandler Hospital, University of Kentucky Research Foundation, and SME (Society of Manufacturing Engineers).
Teaching
EE 421G: Signals and Systems, Spring 2009, 2008, Fall 2009, 2008.
EE/MFS 605: Systems for Factory Information and Control, Fall 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006.
EE/ME/MFS 599: Production Systems Engineering, Spring 2009, 2007.
Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, Production Systems Engineering, Summer 2008.
Industry short course: Production Systems Engineering for Factory Floor Management, Summer 2009, 2008, 2007.
Research
Production and Service Systems Lab
Health Care Systems Lab
Publications
Dr. Li has about 80 referred journal and conference publications. For a detailed list, please click here.
Awards
NSF CAREER Award, 2010-2015.
IIE Transactions Best Application Paper Award - Design & Manufacturing, 2009.
Best Paper Award Finalist, IEEE Conference on Automation Science and Engineering, Bangalore, India, 2009.
Early Industry/Government Career Award in Robotics and Automation, IEEE Robotics and Automation Society, 2006.
Best Paper Award for Year 2005, IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, 2006.
Kayamori Best Automation Paper Award Finalist, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Barcelona, Spain, 2005.
Professional Services
Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, 2006-
Lead Guest Editor, Special Issue on Automation Science and Engineering in Automotive Manufacturing, IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, 2008-
Associate Editor, Mathematical Problems in Engineering, 2006, 2007
Associate Editor, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Kobe, Japan, 2009, Pasadena, CA, 2008, Rome, Italy, 2007.
Associate Editor, IEEE Conference on Automation Science and Engineering, Bangalore, India, 2009, Washington DC, 2008, Scottsdale, AZ, 2007.
Track Co-Chair, Green Automation, IEEE Conference on Automation Science and Engineering, Toronto, Canada, 2010.
Program Committee member, IEEE International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control, Chicago, IL, 2010.
Special Sessions Chair, IEEE Conference on Automation Science and Engineering, Bangalore, India, 2009.
International Advisory Board member, 10th International Conference on Automation Technology, Tainan, Taiwan, China, 2009.
International Program Committee member, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, Guilin, China, 2009.
Registration Chair, IEEE Conference on Automation Science and Engineering, Washington DC, 2008.
International Program Committee member, 7th World Congress on Intelligent Control and Automation, Jinan, China, 2010, Chongqing, China, 2008.
Session Chair, 7th International Conference on Stochastic Modeling in Manufacturing and Service Operations, Ostuni, Italy, 2009.
Chair and Organizer, Special Industrial Session, IEEE Conference on Automation Science and Engineering, Washington, DC, 2008.
Session Chair, IEEE Conference on Automation Science and Engineering, Bangalore, India, 2009, Washington DC, 2008, Scottsdale, AZ, 2007, Edmonton, Canada, 2005.
Session Chair, IIE Annual Research Conference, Miami, FL, 2009, Orlando, FL, 2006.
Session Chair, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Rome, Italy, 2007.
Session Chair, IFAC Youth Automation Conference, Beijing, China, 1995.
Seminar Chair, Electrical and Computer Engineering Seminar Series, University of Kentucky, 2007-.
Secretary General, China Associate of Automation, Young Scientists Working Committee, 1991-1993.
Invited Talks
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, 2009
University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, 2009
University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, 2008
Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel, 2008
Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, 2008, 2006, 2003
Tongji University, Shanghai, China, 2008
HEC School of management, Paris, France, 2007
NIST, Gaithersburg, MD, 2007
Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, China, 2006
Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, China, 2006, 2003, 1997
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 2005
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 2005, 2004, 2003
University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, 2005
University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, 2004
Virginia Polytechnical Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, 2003
Iowa State University, Ames, IA, 2003
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2002
State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, 2000
Graduate Students
David Dressman, MS, Dec., 2006 (Current employer: 3M)
Jared Reynolds, MS, May, 2007 (Current employer: GE)
Rodney Jones, MS, Dec., 2007 (Current employer: Komatsu)
Chong Wang, MS, Dec., 2007 (Current employer: Cummins)
Stuart Brenner, MS, May, 2008 (Current employer: GE)
Rochak Langer, MS, May, 2008 (Current employer: India)
Zhen Zeng, MS, Dec., 2008 (Current employer: Cummins)
Yang Liu, MS, May, 2008; PhD, Sept., 2009.
Claudia Arenas, MS, expected May, 2010
Lingbo Lu, MS, expected Dec., 2010
Junwen Wang, PhD, expected May, 2010
Yao Hu, PhD, expected May, 2011 (jointly supervise with Dr. Holloway)
Shuli Wang, PhD, expected May, 2013
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