INCIT is pleased to announce that Prof. Jay Lee will be the scientific advisor for our next Portfolio Project.
Dr. Jay Lee is the Clark Distinguished Professor and Director of the Industrial AI Center at the University (Univ.) Mechanical Engineering Department of Maryland College Park. His current research is focused on developing non-traditional machine learning and Industrial AI system engineering for diversified industrial systems, including advanced semiconductor manufacturing, electronics manufacturing, renewable energy, etc.
Previously, he served as an Ohio Eminent Scholar, L.W. Scott Alter Chair, and Univ. Distinguished Professor at the University of Cincinnati (UC). He was the Founding Director of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Industry/Univ. Cooperative Research Center (I/UCRC) on Intelligent Maintenance Systems (IMS) from 2001-2019. The IMS Center has developed research memberships with over 100 global companies since 2000 and was selected as the most economically impactful I/UCRC in the NSF Economic Impact Study Report in 2012.
He mentored his students and developed several start-up companies, including Predictronics, through NSF iCorps in 2013. He has developed Dominant Innovation® methodology for product and service innovation design. He was on leave from UC to serve as Vice Chairman and Board Member for the Foxconn Technology Group during 2019-2021.
He is a member of the Global Future Council on Advanced Manufacturing and Production of the World Economics Council, a member of the Board of Governors of the Manufacturing Executive Leadership Council of the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM), the Board of Trustees of MTConnect, as well as a senior advisor to McKinsey & Co. Previously, he served as Director for Product Development and Manufacturing at the United Technologies Research Center (now Raytheon Technologies Research Center) from 1998-2000, as well as Program Director for a number of programs (including ERCs, I/UCRCs, and Materials Processing and Manufacturing Programs) at NSF during 1991-1998.
He was selected as one of 30 Visionaries in Smart Manufacturing by SME in January 2016, and of one the 20 most influential professors in Smart Manufacturing in June 2020. He has received the SME Eli Whitney Productivity Award and SME/NAMRC S.M. Wu Research Implementation Award in 2022. His new book on Industrial AI was published by Springer in 2020.
