Yuehwern Yih

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Yuehwern Yih is a Taiwanese-American industrial engineer and control theorist. She is the Tompkins Professor in the Edwardson School of Industrial Engineering at Purdue University, where she directs the Smart Operations and Systems Laboratory and the LASER PULSE Consortium. [1] Her research interests include the design, modeling, and control of dynamic and complex systems, with applications including industrial and humanitarian supply chains, healthcare, and food distribution. [2] She is also a ballroom dancer and one of two head coaches of the Purdue Latin and Ballroom Dance Team. [3]

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Education and career

Yih graduated from National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan in 1984. She continued her studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where she completed her Ph.D. in 1988. [1] Her dissertation, Trace driven knowledge acquisition for expert scheduling system, was supervised by Arne Thesen. [4] [5]

She became an assistant professor at Purdue University in 1989, and was named Tompkins Professor in 2023. [6]

Recognition

Yih was a 1998 recipient of the Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award of SME. [7] She was the 2024 recipient of the IISE David F. Baker Distinguished Research Award, the first woman to receive the award. [8]

She became a Fellow of the Institute of Industrial Engineers (now the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers) in 2009. [9] She was named to the National Academy of Engineering in 2025, "for contributions to supply chain management systems in humanitarian relief efforts and health care". [10]

Personal life

Yih and her husband, software engineer Daniel Dilley, are ballroom dance competitors and coaches who have led the Purdue ballroom dance team to national competitions, [11] after founding the team in 1996. [3] She is licensed as a general adjudicator and chairperson by the World DanceSport Federation. [12]

References

  1. 1 2 "Yuehwern Yih", Our people, Purdue University Engineering, retrieved 2025-02-15
  2. ↑ "About Dr. Yuehwern Yih", Smart Operations & Systems Lab, Purdue University Engineering, retrieved 2025-02-15
  3. 1 2 "Coaches and officers", Purdue Latin and Ballroom Dance Team, retrieved 2025-02-15
  4. ↑ Yih, Yuehwern (1988), Trace driven knowledge acquisition for expert scheduling system (Ph.D. thesis), University of Wisconsin–Madison, ProQuest   303580768
  5. ↑ Yuehwern Yih at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  6. ↑ "Purdue trustees ratify faculty, staff positions; award posthumous degree; approve new degree programs, resolutions of appreciation and namings", Purdue News, Purdue University, December 8, 2023, retrieved 2025-02-15
  7. ↑ Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award Recipients (1980 to present) (PDF), SME, April 22, 2024, retrieved 2025-02-15
  8. ↑ IE's Yuehwern Yih named 2024 IISE David F Baker Distinguished Research Award Winner, Purdue University Engineering, 2024, retrieved 2025-02-15
  9. ↑ "Fellow Award", Award Winners, Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers, retrieved 2025-02-15
  10. ↑ National Academy of Engineering Elects 128 Members and 22 International Members, National Academy of Engineering, February 11, 2025, retrieved 2025-02-15
  11. ↑ Weliever, Alexandra (December 13, 2017), "Teacher by day, ballroom dancer by night: Professor leads engineers and a student dance team", Purdue Exponent, retrieved 2025-02-15
  12. ↑ Yuehwern Yih, World DanceSport Federation, retrieved 2025-02-15
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