Dennis K.J. Lin

Dennis K.J. Lin

Full Professor of Management Science and Statistics

PhD: University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1988

Dr. Lin's general interest focus on statistical methodology in business, industrial and government (BIG) applications. Much of his work has been in the area of experimental design, response surface methodology, quality engineering, statistical process control and reliability. These area involved with a wide varieties of well developed statistical tools, such as statistical modeling, bayesian inference, optimal design theory, optimization, time series, distribution theory, etc.

The need of new experimental design arises because designing industrial experimentation is very different from designing agriculture experimentation. Thus many classical "optimal" design is not really appropriate for many industrial applications. Dr. Lin has developed a series of small size experimental designs for various stages of industrial problems. Specifically, the area of supersaturated design which can investigate k variables in only n(P> Response surface methodology has been proved to be a powerful tool for studying manufacturing processes. Dr. Lin's interest in this area mainly focused on multiple response problems. This also has an intimate relationship with the subjects of Taguchi's parameter design (or the so-called robust design) problem. Reliability is also a well developed topic in industries. Dr. Lin's interest here is on the subjects of high quality product (with very few failures) and most likely with short life time cycle. Others research agenda of Dr. Lin includes Kalman Filter, Number Theory, Computer Experiment, and Uniform Design, etc.

Currently, Dr. Lin serves as Associate Editor for "The American Statistician", Editorial Review Board for "Journal of Quality Technology", Managing Editor for "Statistica Sinica", Steering Committee for "Quality and Productivity Research Conference", conference co-chair for "Making Statistics More Effective in Schools of Business" (1997), and Applied Statistics Committee for ASA.

Dr. Lin is recipient of "Most Outstanding Presentation Award" (SPES, ASA); "Allen Keally Outstanding Teaching Award" (CBA, University of Tennessee). He is an elected member of the International Statistical Institute, a senior member of American Society for Quality Control, a member of American Statistical Association and a lifetime member of International Chinese Statistical Association.

Representative Publications

Westfall, P.H., Young, S.S. and Lin, D.K.J. (1997) "Forward Selection Error Control in the Analysis of Supersaturated Designs" Statistica Sinica to appear.

Lin, D.K.J. (1995) Generating Systematic Supersaturated Designs Technometrics, 37, 213-225.

Lin D.K.J. and Tu, W. (1995) "Dual Response Surface Optimization" Journal of Quality Technology, 27, 34-39.

Reiser B., Guttman, I., Lin D.K.J., Guess, F. and Usher J.S. (1995) "Bayesian Inference for Masked System Life Time Data" JRSS-C (Applied Statistics), 44, 79-90.

Lin, D.K.J. (1993) "A New Class of Supersaturated Design" Technometrics, 35, 28-31.

Lin, D.K.J. (1993) "Another Look at First-Order Saturated Designs:the p-efficient Designs" Technometrics, 35, 284-292.