Pingfeng Wang

Pingfeng Wang
Pingfeng Wang
  • Professor
(217) 300-7078
310 Transportation Building

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Education

  • Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, University of Maryland, 2010
  • M.S., Applied Mathematics, Tsinghua University, China, 2006
  • B.S., Mechanical Engineering, University of Sci. & Tech. Beijing, China, 2001

Academic Positions

  • Professor, Department of Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 8/2023 - Present
  • Associate Professor, Department of Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 8/2017 - 8/2023
  • Associate Professor, Materials Research Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 8/2020 - present
  • Donald Biggar Willett Faculty Scholar, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2020-Present
  • Jerry S. Dobrovolny Faculty Scholar, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2019 - Present

Other Professional Activities

  • Board of Directors, RAMS - Reliability and Maintainability Symposium (2019 ~ present)
  • President, Quality Control and Reliability Engineering (QCRE) Division at IISE (2017- 2018: President-Elect; 2018-2019:Acting President; 2019-2020: Immediate Past President)
  • Board of Directors, Quality Control and Reliability Engineering (QCRE) Division at IISE (2014-2016)
  • Member, Design Automation Executive Committee at ASME (2017-2018: Special Session Chair, 2018-2019: Program Chair, 2019-2020: Conference Chair, 2020-2021: Committee Chair, 2021-2022: Immediate Past Chair )
  • Member, Non-Deterministic Approach (NDA) Technical Committee at AIAA (2014 ~ present)

Professional Highlights

  • Conference Chair, the 46th Design Automation Conference (DAC) at the ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (IDETC/CIE), St. Louis, MO, August 16 – 19, 2020.
  • Program Chair, IISE ANNUAL CONFERENCE and EXPO 2020, New Orleans, LA, Oct. 31 - Nov. 3, 2020.

Research Areas

  • Data Analytics
  • Decision and Control Systems
  • Design and Manufacturing

Books Authored or Co-Authored (Original Editions)

Chapters in Books

Selected Articles in Journals

Journal Editorships

  • Guest Editor, Journal of Reliability Engineering and Systems Safety, 2021-2022
  • Guest Editor, Journal of Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure, 2019 ~ 2020
  • Editorial Board Member, SME Journal of Manufacturing Systems, 2017 ~ 2019
  • Review Editor, Journal of Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization (SAMO), 2016 ~ present
  • Associate Editor, Journal of Mechanical Design, 2019 ~ 2022

Teaching Honors

  • List of Teachers Ranked As Excellent by Their Students (Fall, 2018)
  • Polished Professor Award at WSU (2014)
  • Young Faculty Scholar Award (WSU, 2013)
  • C. Raymond Knight Scholarship (U. Maryland, 2007)

Research Honors

  • ASME-DAC Best Paper Award (ASME, 2008)
  • Future Faculty Program (FFP) Fellowship (U. Maryland, 2009~2010)
  • First Award (NSF Kansas EPSCoR, 2011)
  • Strategic Engineering Research Fellowship (WSU CoE, 2011)
  • IEEE PHM Best Paper Award (IEEE Reliability Society, 2012)
  • Young Researcher Award (ISGMA, 2012)
  • ASME-DAC Best Paper Award (ASME, 2013)
  • Wallace Award for Excellence in Research (WSU, 2014)
  • NSF CAREER Award (NSF, 2014)
  • ASME Design Automation Young Investigator Award (ASME, 2016)
  • IISE Best Paper Award for QCRE Track (IISE, 2020)

Public Service Honors

  • ASME Journal of Mechanical Design Associate Editor Award, 2020

Recent Courses Taught

  • SE 298 - Manufacturing Automation
  • SE 411 - Reliability Engineering
  • SE 450 - Decision Analysis I
  • SE 598 - Data-driven Design Methods
  • SE 598 - Prognostics & Health Mgmt