Jianjun Shi

Jianjun "Jan" Shi (; born August 11, 1963) is a Chinese-born American engineer and the Carolyn J. Stewart Chair and Professor in the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering. He also works at the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering for "development of data fusion-based quality methods and their implementation in multistage manufacturing systems".
Biography.
Shi was born in Shijiazhuang, Hebei, China. He received his B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Beijing Institute of Technology in 1984 and 1987, and his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Michigan in 1992 under the supervision of Shien-Ming (Sam) Wu. Prior to joining Georgia Institute of Technology in 2008, he was the G. Lawton and Louise G. Johnson Professor of Engineering at the University of Michigan.
Research and education.
Shi has advised 37 Ph.D. graduates, 26 of whom have joined an academic industrial engineering department as a faculty member. Among them, seven received National Science Foundation Career Awards and one received the National Science PECASE Award. Shi has published one book “Stream of Variation Modeling and Analysis for Multistage Manufacturing Processes” and more than 180 papers.
Awards and honors.
Shi is a Fellow of the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE), a Fellow of American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), a Fellow of Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), an elected member of the International Statistical Institute (ISI), an Academician of the International Academy for Quality, and a member of National Academy of Engineering (NAE). Shi received the ASQ Walter Shewhart Medal (2021), the ASQ Brumbaugh Award (2019), the Horace Pops Medal Award (2018), IISE David F. Baker Distinguished Research Award (2016), IISE Albert G. Holzman Distinguished Educator Award (2011), Monroe-Brown Foundation Research Excellence Award (2007), and the National Science Foundation Career Award (1996).