Dr Jay Lee is Clark Distinguished Professor and Director of Industrial AI Center in the Mechanical Engineering Deptartment of the University of Maryland College Park. He was the Founding Director of National Science Foundation (NSF) Industry/University Cooperative Research Center (I/UCRC) on Intelligent Maintenance Systems (www.imscenter.net) during 2001-2019. He also served as Vice Chairman and Board Member for Foxconn Technology Group during 2019-2022. He is a member of Global Future Council on Advanced Manufacturing and Production of the World Economics Council (WEF), a member of Board of Governors of the Manufacturing Executive Leadership Council of National Association of Manufacturers (NAM), as well as a senior advisor to McKinsey.
Previously, he served as Director for Product Development and Manufacturing at United Technologies Research Center (now Raytheon Technologies Research Center) during 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 is fellow of ASME, SME, PHM Society, ad ISEAM and currently serves as Editor-in-Chief for IOP Journal on Machine Learning: Engineering. He was selected as 30 Visionaries in Smart Manufacturing in by SME in January 2016 and 20 most influential professors in Smart Manufacturing in June 2020, and has received 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.