Name: Yan Jin

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Education

• Ph.D. Naval Engineering, University of Tokyo, September 1988
• M.S. Naval Architecture, Tokyo Univ of Marine Sci. & Tech., March 1985
• B.S. Engineering, Dalian Marine University, February 1982

Honors and Awards

• Fellow, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) (2010)
• Editor, AIEDAM - AI in Engineering Design, Analysis & Manufacturing (2012/1 – 2016/12)
• Member & Chair of Honors and Awards, ASME Design Engineering Division Executive Committee (2011/7 - 2014/6)
• Associate Editor, ASME Transactions – Journal of Mechanical Design (2005/6 – 2011/12)
• Editorial Board Member, International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Engineering Design, Analysis and Manufacturing, Elsevier (2003/1–Present)
• Editorial Board Member, International Journal of Advanced Engineering Informatics, Cambridge University Press (2002/1–Present)
• Editorial Board Member, Recent Patents on Mechanical Engineering, Benthan Science Publishers (2007/6—Present)
• NSF CAREER Award, National Science Foundation (1998/4)
• TRW Excellent Teaching Award, University of Southern California (2001/4)
• Conference Chair, ASME 17th International Conference on Design Theory and Methodology (2005/9)
• Program Chair, ASME 16th International Conference on Design Theory and Methodology (2004/9)
• Vice-Chair: ASME Design Theory and Methodology Committee (2001/7 – 2003/6)
• Most Viewed Paper, Journal of Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory (2005/10)
• Xerox Best Paper Award, ASME 14th International Conference on Design Theory and Methodology, Montreal, Canada (2002/9)
• Best Paper in Human-Information Systems, 5th World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics (2001/7)
• Youth Best Paper Award, Shanghai Academy of Science (1989/11)
• Selected for Inclusion, Marquis Who’s Who in America, since the 57th Edition (2002/11), and Who’s Who in the World, since 27th Edition (2002/11)
• Invited Keynote, Development of Information Technologies for Future Enterprises, 1996 National Conference of Computer Integrated Manufacturing (CIM) for Shipbuilding, Japan (1996/6)
• Monbusho Scholarship Award, Education Ministry of Japan (1983/3 – 1988/9)

Academic Experience

• Professor & Associate Chair, Dept. of Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering, 2007/5 - Present
• Associate Professor, Dept. of Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering, 1999/9 - 2007/4
• Director, USC IMPACT Laboratory, University of Southern California, 2001/3 - Present
• UPS Foundation Visiting Professor, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Stanford University, 2004/6 - 2005/10
• Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Stanford University, 2002/10 - 2004/3; 2005/10 - 2006/10
• Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, 1996/9 - 1999/8
• Associate Director, IMPACT Laboratory, University of Southern California, 1996/9 - 2001/2
• Senior Research Scientist, Dept. of Civil Engineering, Stanford University, 1995/9 - 1996/8
• Research Associate, Dept. of Civil Engineering, Stanford University, 1992/6 - 1995/8
• Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Dept. of Civil Engineering, Stanford University, 1991/6 - 1992/5
• Visiting Research Scientist, Department of Naval Architecture & Ocean Engineering, The University of Tokyo, 1990/3 - 1991/5
• Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Automatic Control, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 1989/1 - 1990/2
• Research Assistant, Department of Naval Architecture & Ocean Engineering, The University of Tokyo, 1985/4 - 1988/9
• Research Assistant, Institute of Industry Science, The University of Tokyo, 1983/4 - 1985/3

Industrial Experience

• Senior Engineer (Adjunct), RAND Corporation, 2009/4 - 2011/4
• Technical Advisor, Japan Marine Science Inc., Japan, 2007/2 - Present
• Technical Advisor, ePM LLC, Austin, Texas, 2003/4 - 2005/3
• Co-Founder, Board Director, VP, Technical Advisor, Vite Inc. Palo Alto, California, 1996/7 - 2003/3
• Invited Consultant, Japan Aeronautics & Space Development Agency, 2002/3 - 2002/6
• Invited Consultant, Intel Corporation. Chandler, Arizona, 2001/7
• Invited Consultant, AT&T Wireless, Cerritos, California, 2000/5
• Invited Consultant, John Deere (Deere & Company), Dubuque, Iowa, 1999/10
• Technical Advisor, Mitsubishi Research Institute, Tokyo, Japan, 1998/4 - 2001/3
• Technical Advisor, Japan CIMS for Shipbuilding Consortium, Tokyo, Japan, 1994/8 - 1996/12
• Invited Consultant, Design Power Inc., Cupertino, California, 1995/6 - 1995/12
• Technical Advisor, Toyota Caelum Incorporated, Nagoya, Japan, 1994/8 - 1995/9
• Invited Consultant, Mitsui Engineering and Shipbuilding Co. Ltd. Tokyo, Japan, 1994/8
• Invited Consultant, Det Norske Veritas (DNV), Oslo, Norway, 1994/4
• Technical Advisor, Mitsui Zosen System Research Inc., Tokyo, Japan, 1990/6 - 1991/5
• Technical Advisor, CIMS for Shipbuilding Consortium, Tokyo, Japan, 1990/3 - 1991/5