Address: University of Southern California Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering Los Angeles, California 90089-1453 Office: OHE 400D Tel. (213) 740-9574 Fax. (213) 740-8071 email: yjin@usc.edu website: http://inspire.usc.edu/yjin

Academic rank: Professor

Education:

1988 Ph.D, Naval Engineering, University of Tokyo
1985 MSc., Naval Architecture, Tokyo Marine University
1982 BSc., Engineering, Dalian Marine University

USC Academic Positions:

2007-: Professor, Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
2000-2006: Associate Professor, Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
1996-1999: Assistant Professor, Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
1999-: Director of IMPACT Research Laboratory

Other Professional Positions:

2009-: Senior Research Engineer (adjunct), Rand Corporation
2004-2005: UPS Foundation Visiting Professor, Dept. of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Stanford University
2002-2004: Visiting Professor, Dept. of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Stanford University
1996-2003: Co-Founder, VP, Board Director, Vite Inc. Palo Alto, California
1991-1996: Senior Research Associate, Dept. of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Stanford University

Research Interests:

Collaborative engineering, design creativity, design methods, bio-inspired cellular design, complex adaptive systems, organization modeling and project management

Selected Publications:

Y. Jin and B. Oren, "Creative Patterns and Stimulation in Conceptual Design," International Journal of Artificial Intelligence for Design, Analysis, and Manufacturing (AIEDAM) 24, pp.191-209, 2010.

Y. Jin and M. Geslin, "A Study of Argumentation Based Negotiation in Collaborative Engineering Design," International Journal of Artificial Intelligence for Design, Analysis, and Manufacturing (AIEDAM) 24, pp.35-48, 2010.

Y. Jin and W. Li, "Design Concept Generation: A Hierarchical Co-Evolutionary Approach," ASME Transactions - Journal of Mechanical Design, 129, pp.1012-1022, October 2007.

Y. Jin and P. Chusilp, "Study of Mental Iteration in Different Design Situations," Design Studies, 27, pp.25-55, 2006.

Y. Ishino and Y. Jin, "Acquiring engineering knowledge from engineering processes," J. AI in Eng. Design, Analysis and Manufacturing 16, pp. 73-91, 2002.

M. Danesh and Y. Jin, ''An agent-based decision network for concurrent engineering,'' J. of Concurrent Engineering Research and Application 9, pp. 37-47, 2001.

Y. Jin and W. Zhou, ''Agent-based knowledge management for collaborative engineering,'' in Proceedings of 19th ASME Computers in Engineering Conference, DETC99/CIE-9022, 1999.

R. E. Levitt, J. Thomsen, T. R. Christiansen, J. C. Kunz, Y. Jin, and C. Nass, ''Simulating project work processes and organizations: Toward a micro-contingency theory of organizational design,'' Management Science 45, pp. 1479-1495, 1999.

Y. Jin and S. C.-Y. Lu, ''An agent supported approach to collaborative design,'' CIRP Annals 47, pp. 107-110, 1998.

Y. Jin and R. E. Levitt, "The Virtual Design Team: A Computational Model of Project Organizations," Journal of Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory 2, No.3, pp.171-196, 1997.

Professional Societies:

American Society of Mechanical Engineers
American Association of Artificial Intelligence
Institute for Operation Research and Management Science

Honors and Awards:

2002: Xerox Best Paper Award, ASME 14th International Conference on Design Theory and Methodology
2001: Best Paper in Human-Information Systems, 5th World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics
2001: TRW Excellent Teaching Award, University of Southern California
1998: NSF Faculty CAREER Award, National Science Foundation

Courses Taught:

AME 409, Senior Design Project
AME 410, Engineering Design Theory and Methodology
AME 505, Engineering Information Modeling

Recent Professional Development Activities:

2005-: Associate Editor, ASME Transactions-Journal of Mechanical Design
2003-: Member of Editorial Board, International Journal of AI in Engineering, Design, Analysis, and Manufacturing (AIEDAM)
2002-: Member of Editorial Board, International Journal of Advanced Engineering Informatics
2002: Conference Chair Elect, ASME 17th International Conference on Design Theory and Methodology
2001-2003: Vice-Chair, ASME Design Theory and Methodology Committee

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