Vice Dean for Academic Initiatives (East Asia and China)

Dr. S. Joe Qin is the Fluor Professor of Process Engineering at the Viterbi School of Engineering at University of Southern California. He obtained his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Automatic Control from Tsinghua University in Beijing, China, in 1984 and 1987, respectively, and his Ph.D. degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Maryland at College Park in 1992. He was a Principal Engineer at Fisher-Rosemount from 1992 to 1995. He was a Chang Jiang Professor affiliated with Tsinghua University by the Ministry of Education of China from 2006-2009. Prior to joining USC he held the Paul D. and Betty Robertson Meek and American Petrofina Foundation Centennial Professorship in Chemical Engineering at University of Texas at Austin.

Dr. Qin’s research interests include statistical process monitoring and fault diagnosis, model predictive control, system identification, run-to-run control, semiconductor process control, and control performance monitoring. He is a Co-Director of the Texas-Wisconsin-California Control Consortium where he has been principal investigator for 16 years. He is a recipient of the National Science Foundation CAREER Award, the 2011 Northrop Grumman Excellence in Teaching Award at Viterbi School of Engineering, the DuPont Young Professor Award, Halliburton/Brown & Root Young Faculty Excellence Award, NSF-China Outstanding Young Investigator Award, and an IFAC Best Paper Prize for the model predictive control survey paper published in Control Engineering Practice. He is currently an Associate Editor for Journal of Process Control and IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, and a Member of the Editorial Board for Journal of Chemometrics. He served as an Editor for Control Engineering Practice and an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology. He is a Fellow of IEEE.

Contact Information:
213-740-0317
sqin@usc.edu