Welcome to
Manufacturing Intelligence and Dynamic Systems Laboratory - MINDS Lab
Tony Zhongshun Shi, PhD
Assistant Professor, Industrial and Systems Engineering
Director, Manufacturing Intelligence and Dynamic Systems Laboratory
Affiliated Faculty, Machine Tool Research Center and Institute of Advanced Materials and Manufacturing
Office: 516 John D. Tickle Building Phone: 865-974-7654
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996
E-mail: tony.shi@utk.edu
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