The mission of Manufacturing Intelligence and Dynamic Systems (MINDS) Laboratory is to establish a human-AI teaming paradigm for the research and education of systems science and engineering to accelerate scientific discovery and engineering innovation. Our approach is to perform fundamental research in systems theory and human-informed machine learning as a pathway to human-AI teaming for modeling, simulation, design, control, optimization and life-cycle management of complex systems in manufacturing and energy. 

MINDS Lab Vision: 

• Explore unknown to advance knowledge 

• Education and workforce development

• Make a difference to benefit humanity 

Research Interests:

• CNC machining, friction stir additive manufacturing, hybrid manufacturing, manufacturing systems

• Modeling, simulation, design, control, optimization and management of complex systems

• Human-informed machine learning, function approximation, statistical learning, operations research

• Human-AI teaming for scientific discovery and engineering innovation in manufacturing and energy

Biography: Dr. Tony Shi is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, and directs the MINDS Lab at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UTK) since 2020. He is an Affiliated Faculty of Machine Tool Research Center in the Department of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Biomedical Engineering, and Institute of Advanced Materials and Manufacturing at UTK. Prior to joining UTK, he was a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison from 2017 to 2019.  He received his B.S. in Pure and Applied Mathematics from China University of Geosciences (Beijing) in 2011 and his Ph.D. in Management Science and Engineering from Peking University in 2017. Dr. Shi is a member of SME, IEEE, ASME, IISE, INFORMS and iSoGO. 

The endless frontier of intelligence should be facts and love, no matter for human, machine or nature systems.     

 -Tony Shi