Shen Yin is the DNV Endowed Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering. He earned his Dr.-Ing. and MSc degrees from the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany. He is an elected member of the Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences (NTVA) and a Fellow of the IEEE. He has been recognized as a Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate Analytics in the field of Engineering for the past eight years.
Research interests:
- Fault diagnosis, prognosis, and fault-tolerance strategies
- System and control theory
- Machine learning and data-driven approaches for optimization, diagnosis, and control
- Reliability, maintenance, safety, and security for technical processes
- Applications in cyber-physical systems, health diagnosis, medical technology, and sustainable energy.
Selected membership/board:
- IEEE Fellow (2023)
- Elected Member of the Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences (2024)
- Elected Full Member of Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Honor Society (2020)
- Member of the Fellow Evaluation Committee for the IEEE Reliability Society (2024)
- Administrative Committee (AdCom) Member of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (2024-2026, 2013-2016)
- Founder and Chair of the Technical Committee on Data-Driven Control and Monitoring within the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (2013-2016)
- Member of the IFAC (International Federation of Automatic Control) Technical Committee 6.4 on Fault Detection, Supervision, and Safety of Technical Processes (2014-)
- Technical Program/General Chair for IEEE conferences such as ISIE2014, ICICIP2016, IEEE IECON2017, IEEE ONCON2023, and more.
Selected editorial work:
- Co-Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics (IEEE) and Section Editor, Discover Artificial Intelligence (Springer Nature)
- Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems, IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Industrial Electronics, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics (2014-2023), IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics (2016-2023), IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering (2017-2020), etc.
- Guest Editor, Proceedings of the IEEE (2016), IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics (2016), Information Science (2016), IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems (2019), IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics (2023), IEEE Transactions of Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems (2023)
Selected awards/honors:
- NAMUR Award for Process Automation - Awarded by the User Association of Automation Technology in Process Industries (2012)
- Young Scientist Award, International Union of Radio Science (2014)
- Best Paper Award, IEEE Transaction on Industrial Electronics (2015)
- Highly Cited Researcher in Engineering, Clarivate Analytics (2016-2023)
- Recognized as One of the 19 Hottest Researchers, Clarivate Analytics (2017)
- Best Poster Paper Award, 11th CCA SAFEPROCESS (2019)
- Ranked in the Top 2% Scientists by Stanford University - Both in "Career" and "Single Year" Categories (2019-2023)
- China Youth Science and Technology Award (2020)
- Outstanding Paper Award, International Conference on Intelligent and Fuzzy Systems (2022)
- Elected as a Fellow of IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) for Contributions to Fault Diagnosis and Fault-Tolerant Control of Complex Systems (2023)
- Elected Member of the Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences (2024)
