Yuehwern Yih Tompkins Professor, Edwardson School of Industrial Engineering Member of National Academy of Engineering Senior Member of National Academy of Inventors Former Director of USAID LASER PULSE Director of Smart Systems and Operations Laboratory Address Purdue University Edwardson School of Industrial Engineering 315 N. Grant Street West Lafayette, IN 47907-2023 Office: 241 Office Phone: +1 765 49-40826 Fax: +1 765 49-47693 E-mail: yih@purdue.edu Website

Degrees PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1988 BS, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan, 1984 Areas of Interest Human Factors Production Systems Research Interests Design, monitor, and control of complex systems Behavior-based dynamic control Process/system model, analysis, and improvement Machine learning and artificial intelligence Healthcare system re-engineering