Jianjun "Jan" Shi () is a Chinese-born American engineer and the Carolyn J. Stewart Chair and Professor in the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering. He also works at the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering at the

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. He was elected as a member into the

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in 2018 for the "development of data fusion-based quality methods and their implementation in multistage manufacturing systems"."NAE Website: NAE member Jianjun Shi; Election citation: For development of data fusion-based quality methods and their implementation in multistage manufacturing systems," NAE, accessed September 1, 201

retrieved 2019-09.01."INFORMS News: Three INFORMS members are elected to the National Academy of Engineering for 2018," INFORMS, accessed May 1, 2019

retrieved 2019-05.01.

Biography

Shi was born in

Shijiazhuang Shijiazhuang; Mandarin: ; formerly known as Shimen and romanized as Shihkiachwang is the capital and most populous city of China's Hebei Province. A prefecture-level city southwest of Beijing, it administers eight districts, three county-le ...

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, China."Famous Alumni of Shijiazhuang NO.1 High School," accessed September 1, 2019

retrieved 2019-09.01. He received his B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from

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in 1984 and 1987, and his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the

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in 1992 under the supervision of Shien-Ming (Sam) Wu. Prior to joining

in 2008, he was the G. Lawton and Louise G. Johnson Professor of Engineering at the

."University of Michigan Faculty History Project: Jianjun Shi," University of Michigan, accessed December 12, 2018

retrieved 2018-12.12.

Research and education

Dr. Shi is a pioneer in the development and application of data fusion for quality improvements. His methodologies integrate system informatics, advanced statistics, and control theory for the design and operational improvements of manufacturing and service systems by fusing engineering systems models with data science methods. Shi has advised 38 Ph.D. graduates, 26 of whom have joined an academic industrial engineering department as a faculty member."Academic Tree of Dr. Jianjun Shi", AcademicTree, accessed May 10, 2022

retrieved 2022-5.10. Among them, seven received National Science Foundation Career Awards and one received the National Science PECASE Award."Jianjun Shi biography", Georgia Institute of Technology, accessed December 12, 2019

retrieved 2019-12.30. Shi has published one book “''Stream of Variation Modeling and Analysis for Multistage Manufacturing Processes''”,"Stream of Variation Modeling and Analysis for Multistage Manufacturing," by J. Shi, CRC Press, , accessed April 19, 201

retrieved 2019-09.01. and more than 180 papers."Jianjun Shi publications," Google Scholar, accessed May 10, 2022

retrieved 2022-5.10. Shi has served as the Editor-in-Chief of the ''IISE Transactions'' (2017-2020), the flagship journal of the

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Awards and honors

* George Box Medal (2022) "ISyE Professor Shi Earns ENBIS George Box Medal," GT, accessed May 10, 2022

retrieved 2022-5.10. * Fellow of

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(SME) (2021) "2021 SME College of Fellows," SME, accessed November 15, 2021

retrieved 2021-11.15. * S.M. Wu Research Implementation Award (2021) "S.M. Wu Research Implementation Award Winners," SME, accessed May 10, 2022

retrieved 2022-5.10. * ASQ Walter

Shewhart Medal The Shewhart Medal, named in honour of Walter A. Shewhart, is awarded annually by the American Society for Quality for ''...outstanding technical leadership in the field of modern quality control, especially through the development to its theory, ...

from the

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(2021) "Jan Shi Awarded ASQ Shewhart Medal," GT, accessed April 8, 2021

retrieved 2021-4.8. * ASQ Brumbaugh Award from the

(2019) "Brumbaugh Award Winners" ASQ, accessed December 30, 2019

retrieved 2019-12.30. * Member of

(NAE) (2018) * The Horace Pops Medal Award (2018)
retrieved 2019-12.30. * IISE David F. Baker Distinguished Research Award (2016) "IISE Award Winners," IISE, accessed December 30, 2019

retrieved 2019-12.30. * Academician of the International Academy for Quality
retrieved 2019-12.30. * IISE Albert G. Holzman Distinguished Educator Award (2011) * Fellow of

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(INFORMS) (2008) * Fellow of the

(IISE) (2007) * Fellow of

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(ASME) (2007) * Monroe-Brown Foundation Research Excellence Award (2007)
retrieved 2019-12.30. *

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Career Award (1996) "CAREER: In-process Quality Improvement Methodologies and Implementation in Manufacturing", NSF, accessed December 1, 2018

retrieved 2018-12.1.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Shi, Jianjun 1963 births Living people Georgia Tech faculty Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering Engineers from Hebei People from Shijiazhuang Beijing Institute of Technology alumni University of Michigan alumni University of Michigan faculty Fellows of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers Chinese emigrants to the United States American industrial engineers