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Thorsten Wuest, Ph.D.
Associate Professor for Smart Manufacturing
Benjamin M. Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources
Industrial & Management Systems Engineering (IMSE) Department
347 Engineering Sciences Building
Morgantown, WV 26506-6070, USA
office phone: +1 (304) 293-9439
email: thwuest [at] mail.wvu.edu
[01/11/2022]	Accepted Associate Editor position for Elsevier's Robotics & Computer-Integrated Manufacturing journal.
[01/08/2022] Accepted Editorial Board position with T&F's Production & Manufacturing Research (PMR) journal.
[01/05/2022] New paper w/ Khaled and Rodrigo on 'A DMAIC framework to improve quality and sustainability in Additive Manufacturing – a case study' published in Sustainability
[12/18/2021] Featured in PR Newswire on OAGi SME Express Pack release.
[12/08/2021] Speaker at Industry of Things World USA 2022 on Digital Supply Networks March 18, 2022, 3:30-4:00pm
[10/26-28/2021] CIRPe 2021 is LIVE!
[10/21/2021] The 2021 World Manufacturing Foundation report on 'digitally enabled circular economy' is now available!
[10/20/2021] Our edited volume in Procedia CIRP was just published w/ Khaled Medini.
[10/20/2021] Congratulations to Sathish (A Bibliometric Analysis of Physics-Based and Data-Driven Hybrid Modeling) and Milica (Image Based Quality Inspection in Smart Manufacturing Systems:A Literature Review) for their first-author papers published today!
[10/20/2021] New paper lead by Khaled on A Decision Support System to Operationalize Customer-Centric Sustainability published in Procedia CIRP.
[09/16/2021] We were awarded a 3.8 million dollar collaborative project titled 'RII Track 2 FEC: Enabling Factory to Factory (F2F) Networking for Future Manufacturing' lead by PI Dr. Harik at UofSC from NSF. (-> NSF accouncement)
[09/10/2021] Humbled to received the 2021 WVU Value Coin
[09/03/2021] Serving as opponent at Ph.D. defense of Maja Baerring (Chalmers) on 'From Data to Decision Support in Manufacturing'
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You are a talented, motivated, and dedicated future Ph.D. student, M.S. student, or Post-Doc and identify yourself with our core research area of Smart Manufacturing? You want to work in a fast paced environment and are intererested in being a part of a diverse team enaged in a variety of exciting research projects?
Please send me an email introducing yourself, your background, and your research interest and include your CV. Make sure to check our teams' recent publications and projects, and ideally provide first ideas and research questions you plan to explore in greater detail.
Dr. Thorsten Wuest in an Associate Professor at West Virginia University at the Benjamin M. Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources. His research focusses on Smart Manufacturing, Machine Learning/Data Analytics, AI/ML and Hybrid Analytics, Industry 4.0, Servitization and Product Service Systems, as well as closed-loop, item-level Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) with a focus on smart manufacturing systems. Dr. Wuest's research is funded by a variety of federal agencies (incl. NSF, NIST, CESMII/DoE), international agencies (incl. Thomas Jefferson Fund, DFG, EC, BMBF, etc.), and industry. In his research, he puts an emphasis on an interdisciplinary and holistic approach towards analysis and optimization. He is a recognized Smart Manufacturing thought leader, listed among the 20 most influential professors in smart manufacturing by SME. In addition to publishing his work in the premier academic outlets of his field, he was featured by Forbes, Futurism, IndustryWeek, the World Economic Forum, CBC Radio, and World Manufacturing Forum, etc. He is involved in several professional societies in his field, among others, he is a member of IFIP WG 5.1 & 5.7, IFAC TC 5.3, SME, a senior member of IISE, and research affiliate of the CIRP. Dr. Wuest gave invited talks in eight countries and published three award-winning books and over 150 peer-reviewed articles in international archival journals and conferences gathering over 4,600 citations to-date, and serves as a reviewer for many. He serves as Vice-Chair Americas for the IFIP WG 5.7, is a member of the Editorial Board for the Journal of Manufacturing Systems (JMSY) and Production & Manufacturing Research (PMR), and an Associate Editor for the Robotics & Computer-Integrated Manufacturing (RCIM), ASTM Journal Smart and Sustainable Manufacturing Systems (SSMS), and the International Journal of Manufacturing Research (IJMR). He is a member of the Provost's Academic Transformation Advisory Committee, the WVU Faculty Senate (2021-2024), and previously of the Strategic Core Transformation Team at WVU and the Statler College Glen H. Hiner Dean search committee 2019. He serves on the Advisory Board for several companies and startups, including Maven Machines, Veepio, Sustainment, and the WVU Industrial Extension.
Dr. Wuest was awarded his Ph.D. in Production Engineering with Summa Cum Laude by the University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany in 2014. Previously, Dr. Wuest received his Master's (German 5-year Diploma) in Industrial Engineering and Management. Additionally, he graduated top of the class in the International Business Master's program at the AUTUniversity, Auckland, New Zealand. He has worked as a research scientist for BIBA - Bremer Institut für Produktion und Logistik GmbH in Bremen since 2009. He taught undergraduate and graduate classes at the University of Bremen and supervised multiple Master and Bachelor theses as well as student research projects. In 2013/2014, Dr. Wuest received a prestigious doctoral grant from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and furthered his research for ten months at the Viterbi School of Engineering, Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles, USA. As of July 2015, he serves as Assistant Professor (tenure-track) for Smart and Advanced Manufacturing at the Industrial and Management Systems Engineering department, Benjamin M. Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources, West Virginia University, WV, USA and named inaugural J. Wayne and Kathy Richards Faculty Fellow in Engineering in 2017. In his role, Dr. Wuest is involved in research, teaching at graduate and undergraduate level as well as service activities. He received the Statler Outstanding Teacher of the Year 2019 award and in 2016 he was selected as a fellow of the IDEA Fellowship in the office of the Provost of West Virginia University to further entrepreneurship across campus and develop a new course on Product-Service Systems (IENG493A/593A), receiving outstanding student evaluations (5/5). He taught over 1,500 undergraduate and graduate students as the instructor of record at WVU to-date.
Ph.D. (Dr.-Ing.) in Production Engineering, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany.
Master of Professional Business Studies (MPBS), AUT University - Business School, Auckland, New Zealand.
Master of Science (Dipl.-Wi.-Ing.) in Industrial Engineering and Management, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany.
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