{"id":103,"date":"2024-03-13T17:51:12","date_gmt":"2024-03-13T17:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tickle.utk.edu\/ise\/?page_id=103"},"modified":"2025-07-25T10:18:01","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T14:18:01","slug":"bing-yao","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/tickle.utk.edu\/ise\/faculty\/bing-yao\/","title":{"rendered":"Bing Yao"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"profilePageTitle\">Dan Doulet Early Career Assistant Professor and Director of the RME Program<\/p>\n<p><!-- Right Column --><\/p>\n<div class=\"one-third column pull-right\">\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full profileImage wp-image-356\" src=\"https:\/\/tickle.utk.edu\/ise\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2024\/03\/Bing-Yao.jpg\" alt=\"Bing Yao\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"profilePageCard\">\n<h3 class=\"quietHeading\">Contact Information<\/h3>\n<p>513 John D. Tickle Engineering Building,<br \/>\n817 Neyland Drive,<br \/>\nKnoxville, TN 37996-2315<\/p>\n<p><b>Email<\/b><br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:byao3@utk.edu\">byao3@utk.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/view\/yaobing\/home\">Personal Website<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"quietHeading\">Research Areas<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Big data analytics for spatiotemporal complex systems<\/li>\n<li>Physics-informed machine learning<\/li>\n<li>Computer simulation and optimization<\/li>\n<li>Biomedical and health informatics<\/li>\n<li>Data mining and signal processing<\/li>\n<li>Markov decision process and sequential decision making<\/li>\n<li>Sensor-based modeling and control of additive manufacturing<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- Left Column --><\/p>\n<div class=\"two-thirds column \">\n<p><!-- Biography --><\/p>\n<h2>Biography<\/h2>\n<p>Bing Yao is an assistant professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Tennessee Knoxville. Before joining UT, she was an assistant professor in the School of Industrial Engineering and Management at Oklahoma State University from Fall 2019 to Summer 2022. She received her dual-title PhD degree in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research from the Pennsylvania State University. Her research focuses on developing innovative physical-statistical models for decision optimization in complex systems. This research has broad applications in both advanced manufacturing and healthcare.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Education --><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"quietHeading\">Education<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Dual-Title PhD,\u00a0Industrial Engineering and Operations Research,\u00a0The Pennsylvania State University, 2019<\/li>\n<li>MS, Physics, The Pennsylvania State University, 2015<\/li>\n<li>BS,\u00a0Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, 2012<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dan Doulet Early Career Assistant Professor and Director of the RME Program Contact Information 513 John D. 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