IEEE TRANSACTIONS
ON AUTOMATION SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
EDITORIAL BOARD, January 1, 2008
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Professor N. Viswanadham, Term starts January 1, 2008
Clinical Professor of Business and
Executive Director, Center for Global Logistics and Manufacturing Strategies
India
P:
91-40-2318-7104
U: http://www.isb.edu/glams
Primary Areas: Global Manufacturing and Service Networks; Mathematical Methods and Algorithms for Design and Evaluation of Automation Systems; Automation Technologies; Trade Logistics, Manufacturing Automation in Emerging Economies
Secondary Areas: Logistics, Supply chain management
EDITORS
Professor
Vijay Kumar, Editor, Review in September 2008
Mechanical
Engineering
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6315
P: (215) 898-3630. Department: 215-898-2770
F: (215) 573-2048
U: http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~kumar/
Primary Areas: Control/dynamics, and applications to manufacturing (especially assembly).
Secondary Areas:
Professor Deirdre R. Meldrum, Editor, Term ends May 2008
Dean,
P.O. Box 879309
Tempe, AZ 85287-9309
P: 480-965-9235
F: 480-965-8855
U: http://www.fulton.asu.edu/fulton/
Primary Areas: Biotechnology automation, Microsystems
Secondary Areas: Healthcare automation & biochemistry
Professor Yadati Narahari, Editor, Review in September 2008
Indian Institute of Science
Department of Computer Science and Automation
Bangalore - 560
012
India
P: +91-80-309-2773, 2368
F: +91-80-334-1683, 2085
U: http://lcm.csa.iisc.ernet.in/hari/
Primary Areas: Design of Smart Electronic Markets; Supply
Chain Design and Optimization; and Modeling and Optimization of Factory and
Secondary Areas:
Professor
Michael Yu Wang, Editor, Term
ends May 2008
The
Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering
Room 405,
Hong Kong
P: 011-852-2609-8487
F: 011-852-2603-6002
U: http://www.mae.cuhk.edu.hk/~yuwang/
Primary Areas: Manufacturing automation (incl. design and assembly automation); Automation in Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical Fabrication and Screening; Automation in electronics and photonics packaging
Secondary Areas:
EDITORIAL ASSISTANT
Mr. Amit Chakravarty
Indian School of Business
Hyderabad 500032
India
ASSOCIATE EDITORS
Professor Elif Akcali, Associate Editor, Checkpoint Review January 2009
Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
University of Florida
303 Weil Hall
PO Box 116595
Gainesville, FL 32611-6595
Phone: 352-392-1464 ext 2005
Fax: 352-392-3537
Email: akcali@ise.ufl.edu
URL: http://www.ise.ufl.edu/akcali
Primary Areas: Manufacturing and service operations management; Combinatorial and heuristic optimization; Simulation modeling and analysis; Reverse logistics system design and operation; Semiconductor and automotive manufacturing; Health care services.
Secondary Areas: ??
Professor
Fumihito Arai, Associate Editor, Checkpoint Review
January 2009
Department
of Bioengineering and Robotics
Tohoku
University
Aoba-Ku, Sendai,
980-8579
Japan
P: 022-795-6966
F: 022-795-6967
E: arai@imech.mech.tohoku.ac.jp
U: www.mech.tohoku.ac.jp/mech-labs/imech/
Areas
of Expertise: Micro-Nano Robotics, Application of
Micro-Nano Mechatronics to
Biomedicine, Biochips and Micro-Nano Manipulation at
Three-Dimensional Scales, Tailored Artificial Blood Vessels, Intelligent Robot
Systems and Intellectual Interface, Sensors and Actuators using New Principles
Dr.
Kumar Bhaskaran, Associate Editor, Checkpoint Review
April 2008
Applied
Business Computing & Design
PB
1233
Englewood
Cliffs
NJ
07632
P:
201-606-1709
F:
215-689-1709
U:
Primary
Areas: Business Transformation; Supply Chain Management; Business Process
Modeling, Real-time Monitoring & Performance Management; Business
Integration & Process Automation Technologies; Model-driven technologies
for business-IT alignment
Secondary
areas: Software engineering, Logistics
Professor Shalabh Bhatnagar, Associate Editor, Checkpoint Review April 2008
Indian Institute of Science
Department of Computer Science and Automation
Bangalore 560 012, INDIA.
F: +91 (80) 2360-2911
P: +91 (80) 2293-2987
E: shalabh@csa.iisc.ernet.in
U: http://www.csa.iisc.ernet.in/people/faculty/data/shalabh.htm
Primary Areas: Stochastic Control and Optimization, Reinforcement learning, Markov Decision Processes, Simulation and Perturbation Analysis, Communication Networks, Stochastic Algorithms, and Information theory.
Secondary Areas: Queueing Networks, Wireless Networks, Sensor Networks, Semiconductor manufacturing systems.
Professor
Giuseppe Carlo Calafiore, Associate Editor, SMC Representative, Term ends
August 2009
Politecnico di
Torino
Dipartimento di
Automatica e Informatica
Corso Duca degli
Abruzzi, 24
10129 Torino
Italy
P:
39-011-564-7071
F: 39-011-564-7099
E: giuseppe.calafiore@polito.it
U: http://staff.polito.it/giuseppe.calafiore/
Primary Areas: Randomized algorithms, Robust control, Convex optimization, LMIs,
Secondary Areas: Pattern recognition, Robotics, Queuing systems, Finance and economic systems
Professor Frank Chen, Associate Editor, Term ends June 2009
The
Dept. of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management
Shatin, New Territories
P: (852) 2609-8310
F: (852)
2603-5505
U: http://www.se.cuhk.edu.hk/people/yhchen.html
Primary Areas: Supply Chain Coordination; Supply Chain Modeling and Optimization; Inventory Control; Real Options and Operations Risk Hedging; Dynamic Pricing and Revenue Management
Secondary Areas: Secondary Areas: Production Control; Logistics Network Design
Dr. Chen-Fu Chien, Associate Editor, Checkpoint Review January 2009
Deputy Director, Industrial Engineering Division
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC)
Hsinchu 300, Taiwan
Email: cfchiena@tsmc.com
Department of Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management
National Tsing Hua University
101 Section 2 Kuang Fu Road
Hsinchu 30013, Taiwan, R.O.C.
Phone: +886-3-5055604
Fax: +886-3-5722685
Email: cfchien@mx.nthu.edu.tw
URL: http://DALab.ie.nthu.edu.tw
Primary Areas: Development of better analytical methods (MCDM, OR, and Statistics) and solutions (in terms of IT) for high-tech companies confronted with decision problems involved in operations, technology, and manufacturing strategy that are characterized by uncertain (incomplete or massive) information and a need for tradeoff among various objectives and justification for the decision.
Secondary Areas: Data mining and empirical modeling for yield enhancement, fault detection and classification, and digital decision support.
Professor Yon-Chun Chou, Associate Editor, Term
ends January 2009
Graduate
1,
P:
886-2-3366-9501
F: 886-2-2362-5856
U: http://www.ie.ntu.edu.tw:82/dr%5Fchou/
Primary Areas: Design and planning problems in supply chains, manufacturing, and operation systems; Semiconductor manufacturing, capacity planning and investment, supply chain organization and economics, and logistic and service networks.
Secondary Area: Production and operation scheduling
Professor Yu Ding,
Associate Editor, Term ends June
2009
Department of
Industrial and Systems Engineering
P: 979-845-5448
F: 979-847-9005
U: http://ie.tamu.edu/People/faculty/ding/default.htm
Primary Areas: The
optimal utilization of complex sensing systems for
improving the quality of products, processes, and
services, including
information integration for multiple sensors,
information quantification
of a sensing system, information extraction
from measurement data, and
information system optimization
Secondary Areas:
data-mining methods, statistical process control,
applied statistics
Dr.
Lixin Dong, Associate Editor, Checkpoint Review
January 2009
Senior
Research Scientist
Institute
of Robotics and Intelligent Systems
Swiss
Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich
CLA
H 11.2, ETH-Zentrum
Tannenstrasse 3, CH-8092 Zürich
Switzerland
E: lixin.dong@iris.mavt.ethz.ch
U: http://www.iris.ethz.ch/msrl/people/lixin.php
P:
41 44 632 55 39
F:
41 44 632 10 78
Primary
Areas: NanoRobotics, NanoElectroMechanical
Systems (NEMS)
Secondary
Areas: Mechatronics, Nanoscale
Automation Science and Engineering
Professor Martin Fabian, Associate Editor, Checkpoint Review
April 2008
Chalmers University of Technology
Department of Signals and Systems
SE-412 96 Göteborg
Sweden
P: +46 (0)31 7723716
F: +46 (0)31 7721782
U: http://www.chalmers.se/s2/SV/kontakt/personal/fabian-martin/
Primary Areas: Synthesis and verification of discrete event
systems
control (mainly supervisory control theory approaches); Object oriented
modeling and analysis
Secondary Areas: Scheduling and optimization of discrete
event systems, mainly focusing on production system (manufacturing, as well as
batch processing)
Professor Maria Pia Fanti, Associate Editor, Term ends August 2008
Politecnico di Bari
Dipartimento di Elettrotecnica ed Elettronica
Via Re David 200 70125 BARI
Italy
P: +39-080-5963643
F: +39-080- 5963410
U: http://www-dee.poliba.it/dee-web/Personale/fanti.html
Primary Areas: Discrete event systems, Petri net and Colored Petri nets; Control and modeling of automated manufacturing systems; Control and modeling of computer integrated systems: Automatic guided vehicle systems, automated storage and retrieval systems, railway networks, urban traffic signals; Supply chain modeling and management.
Secondary Areas: Hybrid Systems; Fuzzy sets and Fuzzy Petri nets; Workflow nets; Structural properties of linear systems.
Professor Rafael Fierro, Associate Editor, Checkpoint Review January 2009
University of New Mexico
Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
MSC01 1100
Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001
Phone: 505-277-4125
Email: rfierro@ece.unm.edu
URL: http://www.ece.unm.edu/~rfierro
Primary Areas: Cooperative control, Hybrid systems, Multivehicle coordination, Distributed robot systems, Robotics
Secondary Areas: Agents and autonomous systems, Networked control systems, Mobile sensor networks, Learning and adaptive systems
Professor Paolo Fiorini, Associate Editor, Term extended to February
2008
Department of Computer Science
Ca' Vignal 2,
Strada le Grazie, 15
37134 Verona
Italy
P: (+39 045)
802-7963
F: (+39 045)
802-7068
U: http://www.sci.univr.it/~fiorini
Primary Area: Teleoperation;
Search Robots; Service Robotics, Home Automation and Domotics.
Secondary Area: Control System Theory, Intelligent Control, Robotic
Surgery, Robot Motion Planning.
Professor Zhiqiang Gao, Associate Editor, IA Representative, Checkpoint Review April 2008
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
P: 216-687-3528
F: 216-687-5405
U: http://www.csuohio.edu/ece/FacultyStaff/gao.html
Primary Areas: Emerging Control Technologies and Applications in
Manufacturing Processes, Disturbance Estimation, Active Disturbance
Rejection, Control of Nonlinear, Time-Varying, and Uncertain Systems
in real world.
Secondary Areas: Industrial Servo Mechanisms, Decoupling Control of
Multi-Input and Multi-Output Systems, biomedical and aerospace applications.
Professor
Debasish Ghose,
Associate Editor, SMC Representative, Term ends August 2009
Indian
Institute of Science
Department
of Aerospace Engineering
Bangalore 560 012
India
P: +91-80-2293-3023, +91-80-2293-2878
F: +91-80-2360-0134, +91-80-2360-1279
U: http://www.aero.iisc.ernet.in/dghose/welcome.html
Primary
Areas: Guidance of aerospace vehicles, distributed computing, multi-agent
systems, swarm intelligence and mobile robotics.
Secondary
Areas: Dynamic game theory, scheduling policies, multimedia systems
Professor
Yan-Bin Jia, Associate
Editor, Checkpoint Review January 2009
Iowa
State University
Department
of Computer Science
207
Atanasoff Hall
Ames,
IA 50011-1040
P:
(515) 294-2577
F: (515) 294-0258
Primary Areas: Modeling and grasping of deformable shapes,
tactile shape
recognition and reconstruction, impulse-based
manipulation and billiard robot,
geometric algorithms for curves and surfaces,
localization and robot sensing,
dexterous manipulation.
Secondary Areas:
Geometric modeling, computational geometry, model-based
recognition, nonlinear control and observation.
Dr. Adar Kalir, Associate Editor,
Checkpoint Review April 2008
Intel Corporation
Tactical Team Leader and Manufacturing Technology Staff Engineer
Fab28 Manufacturing Engineering
Mailstop: OC2-254
Ocotillo, AZ 85248, USA
P:
480-715-3948
F:
480-715-4653
U:
Primary Areas: Production management and control, capacity planning, design and control of advanced manufacturing systems, and in the applications of sequencing and scheduling theory.
Second Areas: Optimization, Cycle Time Management, Inspection and Quality Control
Professor Fikri Karaesmen, Associate Editor, Term ends January 2009
Department of Industrial Engineering
Rumeli Feneri
Yolu
34450 Sariyer,
Istanbul
Turkey
P: +90 (212)
338-1718
F: +90 (212)
338-1548
U: http://home.ku.edu.tr/~fkaraesmen/
Areas: Design and analysis of supply chains and service systems using stochastic models.
Secondary Areas: Queueing Theory, Stochastic Control Applications
Dr. Sathiya S. Keerthi,
Associate Editor, Term ends August 2008
Yahoo!
Research Labs
Santa Clara, CA 95054
P: (408) 349-8650
F: (626) 229-8876
URL:
Primary
Areas: Scalable data mining and machine learning for Intelligent Search and
Internet Automation such as electronic commerce, information markets, and
community personalization.
Secondary
Areas: Computer graphics and optimal control
Professor Eun Sok Kim, Associate Editor, Checkpoint Review January 2009
Department of EE-Electrophysics
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA 90089-0271
Phone: 213-740 4697
Email: eskim@usc.edu
URL: http://mems.usc.edu
Primary Areas: Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), acoustic and piezoelectric transducers, microfluidic systems, etc.
Secondary Areas: Analog and nonlinear circuits, Device physics, Electromagnetic and Acoustic Fields and Waves
Professor A. Senthil Kumar, Associate Editor, Term ends January 2008
Department of Mechanical Engineering
10,
P: (65) 6874-6800
F: (65) 6779-1459
URL: http://www.me.nus.edu.sg/people/staff.asp?staff_id=67
Primary Area: Computer Aided Fixture Design, Grasping, Virtual Design, Virtual Manufacturing, Computer Aided Process Planning, Design Automation, Collaborative Engineering
Secondary Area: Micro/Nano Manufacturing, Chemical Mechanical Planarization, Solid Modeling, Micro/Nano Assembly, Automatic Mesh Generation
Professor Kostas J. Kyriakopoulos, Associate Editor, Term ends June 2008
Mechanical Engineering Department
9 Heroon Polytechniou Str., Zografou
P: ++30-210-772-3595 (Tel.+Ans.Mach.)
F: ++30-210-772-3657 (Tel.+Fax)
U: http://users.ntua.gr/kkyria/
Primary Areas: Robotic Agents, Multi-agents Operations, Real Time
Embedded Control Systems, Automated Guided Vehicle Systems, Control
System Applications, Motion planning
Secondary Areas: Inspection Automation, Air-Traffic Management,
Microsystems
Der-Horng Lee, Associate Editor, Checkpoint Review April 2008
Department of Civil Engineering
BLK
E1A, #07-16,
Singapore 117576
P: +65-6516-2131
F: +65-6779-1635
U: http://www.eng.nus.edu.sg/civil/people/cveleedh/leedh.html
Primary Areas: Traffic simulation, Transportation network, Intelligent
transportation systems, Multi-modal transportation logistics
Secondary Areas: Airport and aviation management, Maritime and port
Management
Professor Tae-Eog Lee, Associate Editor, Term ends January 2008
KAIST
Department of Industrial Engineering
373-1 Gusung-dong, Yusung-gu
Daejon 305-701
Korea
P:
+82-42-869-3122, +82-19-687-2824,
F:
+82-42-869-3110
U: http:\\markov.kaist.ac.kr
Primary Area: Modeling, Scheduling, and Control of Discrete Event Systems; Equipment Integration; Factory Automation and Integration for Semiconductor Manufacturing; Planning and Scheduling Systems for Manufacturing Systems and Enterprises; Software Engineering for Automation Systems and Factory Integration; Factory Communication and Networks
Secondary Area: Modeling and Engineering for Business Software Systems; Supply Chain Management and Logistics Systems; System Modeling and Simulation; Product Design and Development and Knowledge-based Engineering; Automatic Identification and Ubiquitous Computing Systems; Stochastic Modeling and Risk Management
Professor Jingshan Li,
Associate Editor, Term ends June 2009
Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
453 F. Paul Anderson Tower
P: (859) 257-6262 ext. 450
Fax (859) 257-1071
U: http://www.engr.uky.edu/~jingshan/
Primary Areas:
Design, analysis and continuous improvement of manufacturing systems; lean
manufacturing systems; and integrated productivity and quality models.
Secondary areas:
Production-inventory models in supply chain management.
Professor Youfu Li, Associate Editor, Term ends June 2008
Dept of Manufacturing Engineering and Engineering Management
P: (852) 2788
8410
F: (852) 2788
8423
U: http://personal.cityu.edu.hk/~meyfli/
Primary: Robot sensing, robot vision, sensor-based control, tracking and
visually guided manipulation.
Secondary: Automation, mechatronics
Dr. Raju Mattikalli, Associate Editor, Checkpoint
Review April 2008
The Boeing Math Group
Associate Technical Fellow
Mathematical Modeling
P: 425-373-2700
C: 425-891-9130
E: raju.s.mattikalli@boeing.com
U:
Primary Areas: Design Automation, Mathematical
Modeling, Geometric Modeling, Optimization, Computational Mechanics, Physics
Based Modeling
Secondary Areas: Assembly Planning,
Fixture Planning, Sensor Planning, Communication Network Modeling, Computer
Graphics
Professor Hong Qiao, Associate Editor, Checkpoint Review April 2008
Institute of Automation
Chinese Academy of Sciences
P.O. Box 2728
Beijing 100080
China
P: 010-6257-3736
C: 135-5292-5758
U: http://www.ia.ac.cn/new/style/amethyst/Member/browse.asp?id=1693
Prmiary Areas: Intelligent Robotics, Pattern Recognition, Machine
Learning, and Data Mining.
Secondary Areas: Robotic Vision
Dr. Sreeram Ramakrishnan, Associate Editor, Checkpoint Review April 2008
IBM T J Watson Research Center
Research Staff Member
Business Performance Management Dynamics
1101 Kitchawan Road
Yorktown Heights, NY 10598
P: 914-945-2724
F:
U:
Primary Areas: Service Process Modeling and Optimization, Business Process
Automation, Service Enterprise Modeling, Developing Formalisms for Developing Control Execution Mechanisms for Service Domain Applications.
Secondary Areas: Simulation-Based Control, Distributed Simulations, Agent Based Models for Discrete Manufacturing and Financial Markets Domain, Automatic Control Software and Simulation Models Generation, Artifact-Based Modeling
Professor Laura Recalde, Associate Editor, Term ends January 2009
Universidad
de Zaragoza
Departamento
de Informatica e Ingenieria
de Sistemas
Centro
Politecnico Superior
Maria de Luna, 1.
E-50018 Zaragoza
Spain
P: +34 976 76
2338
F: +34 976 76
1914
U: http://webdiis.unizar.es/~lrecalde/
Primary Areas: Modeling and Analysis (Qualitative and Quantitative) of Discrete Event Dynamic Systems, Petri nets and concurrency models
Secondary Areas: Hybrid/Switched Systems
Professor Spyros A. Reveliotis, Associate Editor, Term ends January 2008
Georgia Institute of Technology
School of Industrial & Systems Engineering
P: (404) 894-6608
F: (404) 894-2301
E: spyros.reveliotis@isye.gatech.edu
URL: www.isye.gatech.edu/~spyros
Primary Area: Logical/Supervisory Control of Discrete Event Systems; Petri net theory and applications; Formal Modeling, Analysis, and Control of Resource Allocation
Systems and its application to Manufacturing, Transportation, and Workflow Management Systems
Secondary Area: Stochastic Processes; Markov Decision Processes; Neuro-dynamic Programming and Reinforcement Learning; Warehousing Systems; and Reverse Logistics
Dr. Bin Sai, Associate Editor, Checkpoint Review January 2009
Chief Technology Officer
Honeywell Enraf
Delftechpark 39, 2628 XJ Delft
P.O. Box 812, 2600 AV Delft
The Netherlands
P: +31 (0)15 2701
178
C: +31 (0)6 4671
8217
F: +31 (0)15 2701
197
Primary Areas: Sensor System Definition, Design and Integration; Advanced Signal Processing; Radar Technology and Electromagnetic Fields; Modeling of Microwave/Millimeter Wave Scattering; Automated Target Classification and Identification; Subsurface Detection and High-Resolution Imaging.
Secondary Areas: Process Sensing Control and Automation, Tank Terminal Automation Solutions
Professor Kazuhiro
Saitou, Associate Editor, Term ends January 2008
Department of
Mechanical Engineering
3211 EECS,
P: (734) 763-0036
F: (734) 647-3170
U: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~kazu/
Primary Area: Design Automation and Optimization; Design for Manufacturing, Assembly and Disassembly; Assembly/Disassembly Planning; Assembly
Automation; and Integrated Product-Production System Design.
Secondary Area: Design Optimization; Evolutionaty Computation; Manufacturing Systems Design; Structural Optimization; Automotive Design and
Production; and Micro-Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS).
Professor Pidaparthy S. Sastry, Associate Editor, Checkpoint review April 2008
Indian Institute of Science
Department of Electrical Engineering
Bangalore - 560
012
India
P:
+91-80-2293-2934
F:
+91-80-2360-0444
URL: http://minchu.ee.iisc.ernet.in/new/people/faculty/pss/index.html
Primary Areas: Learning Systems, Neural Networks, Pattern Recognition, Data Mining, Computer Vision, and Computational Neuralscience
Secondary Areas: Image Processing, Computer Vision, and Computational Neuralscience
Dr. Jon M. Selig, Associate Editor, Term ends June 2008
Faculty of Business, Computing and Information Management
London, SE1 0AA
UK
P:
(0)20-7815-7461
F:
(0)20-7815-7499
U: http://myweb.lsbu.ac.uk/~seligjm/
Primary Areas: Geometry, in particular geometrical aspects of robotics, including kinematics, dynamics, and control.
Secondary Areas: More general mathematical and computational aspects of robotics and automation.
Professor Leyuan Shi, Associate Editor, Term ends August 2008
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Dept of Industrial & Systems Engineering
P: 608-265-5969
F: 608-262-8454
C: 608-235-4726
U: http://www.engr.wisc.edu/ie/faculty/shi_leyuan.html
Primary Areas: Large-scale optimization and simulation with applications in planning and scheduling systems and supply chain management
Secondary
Area: Discrete Event systems, optimization in healthcare systems
Professor Yu Sun, Associate Editor, Checkpoint Review January 2009
Dept. of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Inst. of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering
University of Toronto
5 King's College Road
Toronto, ON, M5S 3G8
Canada
Phone: 416-946-0549
Fax: 416-978-7753
Email: sun@mie.utoronto.ca
URL: http://amnl.mie.utoronto.ca
Primary Areas: Micro and nano-scale automation, MEMS/NEMS, microrobotic and
nanorobotic manipulation
Secondary Areas: Manipulation and characterization of biological cells and nanomaterials, cell mechanobiology, laboratory automation.
Professor Herbert G. Tanner, Associate Editor, Checkpoint Review January 2009
Department of Mechanical Engineering
MSC01 1150,
University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001
Phone: 505-277-1493
Email: tanner@unm.edu
URL: http://www.unm.edu/~tanner
Primary Areas: Multi-agent systems, sensor networks, hybrid systems, robotics
Secondary Areas: Nonlinear control, motion planning, discontinuous dynamical systems, radiation monitoring and mapping
Professor Dawn M. Tilbury, Associate Editor, Checkpoint Review January 2009
Department of Mechanical Engineering
University of Michigan
2250 G. G. Brown, 2350 Hayward St.
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2125
Phone: 734-936-2129
Email: tilbury@umich.edu
URL: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~tilbury
Primary Areas: Logic control for manufacturing systems and networked control systems.
Secondary Areas: Discrete event systems, performance management of computing systems
Professor Biagio Turchiano, Associate Editor, Checkpoint Review January 2009
Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (DEE)
Politecnico di
Bari
Via Re David 200
70125 Bari
Italy
Phone: 39-080-5963486
Fax: 39-080-5963410
Email: turchiano@deemail.poliba.it
URL: http://www-dee.poliba.it/dee-web/Personale/turchiano.html
Primary Areas: Modeling, analysis, and synthesis of concurrent systems; Formal modeling and analysis techniques for distributed systems and distributed software; discrete-event systems, supervisory control.
Secondary Areas: Manufacturing System Modeling, Analysis, Performance Evaluation; Planning, Scheduling, Coordination; Supply Chain.
Professor S. (Vish) Viswanathan, Associate Editor, Term ends January 2008
Nanyang Technological University
Singapore 639798
P: +65-6790-4798
F: +65-6794-7682
U: http://www.ntu.edu.sg/home/ASVISWA/
Primary Area: Inventory Models; Supply Chain Coordination;
Multi-echelon and Joint Replenishment Inventory Systems; Planning, Scheduling
and Coordination; Economic
Secondary Area: Manufacturing Systems; Group Technology; Forecasting; Reverse Logistics Models; System Modeling and Analysis; Design and Development of Heuristics; Vehicle Routing; E-Retail Operations.
Professor Yoke-San Wong, Associate Editor, Term ends June
2009
National University of Singapore
Department of Mechanical Engineering
9 Engineering Drive 1
Singapore 117576
P: +65-6516-2221
F: +65-6779-1459
E: mpewys@nus.edu.sg
U: http://serve.me.nus.edu.sg/wongys/index.htm
Primary Areas: manufacturing process characterization,
simulation, monitoring and
optimization; product data capture; product design, prototyping and
manufacturing
Secondary Areas: automated and integrated manufacturing system modeling, design
and control.
Professor Jing Xiao, Associate Editor, Checkpoint Review January 2009
University of North Carolina - Charlotte
Department of Computer Science
Rm 403C, Woodward Hall
Charlotte, NC 28223
Phone: 703-687-8587
Fax: 704-687-4893
Email: xiao@uncc.edu
URL: http://www.cs.uncc.edu/~xiao
Primary Areas: Robotics, geometric reasoning and computation, haptics, evolutionary computation
Secondary Areas: Planning and optimization, AI
Professor Xiaolan Xie, Associate Editor, Term ends August 2008
Ecole Nationale Superieure des Mines de Saint Etienne
Department of Health Care Systems Operation
158 Cours Fauriel 42023
France
P: 33-(0)
4-77-42-66-95
F: 33- (0)
4-77-42-02-49
E: xie@emse.fr
Primary Areas: Design and operation of healthcare systems, Modeling, performance evaluation and optimization of manufacturing systems, Supply chain design and supply chain optimization, Production planning and scheduling
Secondary Areas: Discrete event dynamic systems, Supervisory control, Petri nets, Preventive maintenance
Dr. Mike Tao Zhang, Associate Editor, Term ends June 2008
Spansion Inc.
Sunnyvale, CA,
USA
Mobile: +1 (480)
234 8461
E: mike.zhang@cal.berkeley.edu
U: http://ford.ieor.berkeley.edu/tzhang/
Primary Areas: Semiconductor Manufacturing, Lean Manufacturing,
Planning/Scheduling/Dispatching, Supply Chain Management, Computer
Integrated Manufacturing, Factory Physics, Optimization/Simulation
Application
Secondary Areas: Computer-Aided Fixture Design, Grasping,
Virtual Design, Computational Geometry, Design for Manufacturing
Dr. Mingjun Zhang, Associate Editor, Term extended to February 2008
Agilent Technologies
Life Sciences and
Chemical Analysis Division
5301 Steven Creeks Blvd
Santa Clara, CA 95051
P: (408) 553-4159
URL: http://www.stanford.edu/~mjzhang
Primary Areas:
DNA/Protein microarray fabrication; GC/MS Automation;
Automation for the
Life Sciences; Micro-/Nano-scale System Dynamics and
Control.
Secondary Area:
Bio-robotics and Mechatronics, Bio-instrumentation.
CHAIR OF THE ADVISORY BOARD
Professor Kenneth Y. Goldberg
Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
P: (510) 643-9565 | 4189 Etcheverry
U: http://www.ieor.berkeley.edu/~goldberg
RAS VP PUBLICATION ACTIVITIES AND FOUNDING EIC
Professor Peter B. Luh
Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
371 Fairfield Way, Unit 2157
Storrs, CT
06269-2157
USA
P: (860) 486-3410
F: (860) 486-5585
U: http://www.engr.uconn.edu/msl/
Primary Areas:
Computer Aided Production Management, Computer Integrated Manufacturing,
Planning and Scheduling, Mathematical Optimization
Secondary
Areas: Discrete Event Systems, Manufacturing System Design and Integration,
Manufacturing System Performance Evaluation