Invited Speaker:

Dennis Lin, Smeal College of Business, The Pennsylvania State University http://www.stat.psu.edu/people/faculty/dlin.html

About the Speaker:

Dr. Lin is a Distinguished Professor of Statistics and Supply Chain Management at Pennsylvania State University. He is an elected fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA), an elected member of International Statistical Institute (ISI), a senior member of American Society of Quality (ASQ), a lifetime member of International Chinese Statistical Association (ICSA), a fellow of the Royal Statistical Society, and has received the Most Outstanding Presentation Award from SPES, ASA. He is also an adjunct professor at Department of Statistics, as well as Department of Industrial Manufacturing Engineering at Penn State. Dr. Lin's general interests focus on statistical methodology in business, industrial and government (BIG) applications. Much of his work has been in the area of data mining, experimental design, response surface methodology, quality engineering, statistical process control and reliability. He is currently working on RFID and Search Engine problems. He has published near 100 professional articles. Dr. Lin is an honorary chair professor for various institutions, including XiAn Statistical Institute, Remin University of China and National Chengchi University (Taiwan). He has received Penn State Faculty Scholar Medal for outstanding research work in 2004.